Monday, May 29, 2017
Eight times a week, Carlo Albán gets beaten senseless with a baseball bat. It’s been going on for two years, and even though it’s a stage fight, he has the bruises to prove just…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:48PMFriday, May 26, 2017
The first time I saw Come From Away, an early preview at the Schoenfeld Theatre, the musical had an air of optimism that set my critical faculties on alert: I had no idea how Broadway would …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:13PMThursday, May 25, 2017
Going public at Tony Awards time, when Broadway enjoys its highest national profile, casting directors are demanding union recognition by producers. They’ve hitched their wagons to Loc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:49PMWednesday, May 24, 2017
Director Jerry Zaks already owns four Tony Awards and one of the most eclectic careers on Broadway. He does musicals: Smokey Joe’s Café, La Cage aux Folles. He does plays: Six Degrees…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:08PMThe Band’s Visit, a quietly powerful one-act musical that opened off-Broadway last December and became one of the most acclaimed shows of the season, will re-open on Broadway this fall…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:59AM“Marry the man today/And change his ways tomorrow,” Adelaide advises Sarah in Guys And Dolls. That’s not good enough for Tanya, who chooses Halloween night to tell her some…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:18AMTuesday, May 23, 2017
Sara Bareilles’ stint in the title role of Waitress continues to pay dividends for the holdover from last season, which brought her a Tony nomination for the score. Last week the show …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:16PMBroadway concluded its highest-grossing season ever on Sunday, with ticket sales for the 2016-17 season totaling a record $1.45 billion, a 5.5 percent increase over 2015-16. The previous rec…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:59PMThe family of Dina Merrill Hartley confirmed Tuesday morning that the actress and philanthropist, an icon of taste and sophistication in both worlds, died at home Monday in East Hampton, NY,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:39AMMonday, May 22, 2017
The Obie Awards, founded in 1955 by the Village Voice to the nascent off-Broadway theater movement, recognized the original production of Oslo currently a contender for the best play Tony af…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMA proposed revival of Edward Albee’s landmark 1962 drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has renewed a long-simmering debate about freedom of expression and the frequently fuzzy…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:43PMSunday, May 21, 2017
Zosia Mamet, the lethally annoying Shoshanna late of Girls, has braved some challenging stage roles, none more so than Trish in the world premiere of Hamish Linklater’s The Whirligig, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:33PMThis afternoon’s performance will be the last chance Broadway audiences have to see Amélie, a sweetheart of a musical that left most critics, and most tickets, unmoved following its o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:09PMFriday, May 19, 2017
Glenda Jackson, absent from the Broadway stage since 1988, will lead a revival next spring of the late Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Three Tall Women. Producer Scott Rudin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:42AMThursday, May 18, 2017
Four-time Tony nominee Michael Greif is the rare Broadway director whose art and life are inextricably knotted. Start in 1996 with the seismic event that was Rent, Jonathan Larson’s c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:02AMPresident Trump this morning took time out from preparations for his first foreign tour and a scheduled luncheon with network news anchors to alert the country via Twitter about the appointm…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:47AMWednesday, May 17, 2017
In a hearing this morning in New York bankruptcy court, arguments were heard whether to proceed with moving from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 (liquidation). The result: A new hearing was set for …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:05PMKing Kong will take the New York stage next year, hitting the Shubert Organizations’s Broadway Theatre in the fall of 2018. Producers Global Creatures and Roy Furman announced the boo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:12AMTuesday, May 16, 2017
The New York Theatre Workshop, led by James Nicola, ranks very high among those irreplaceable off-Broadway institutions that, to use Donald Trump’s famed expression, prime the pump del…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMOn Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre stage, where The Lion King roars eight times a week, Disney arm ESPN launched its upfront presentation to advertisers with a mix of gallows humor and st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:38PMHer name was Saartjie (Sarah) Baartman, but in the years of her fame she was called the “Venus Hottentot,” much like Joseph Merrick who, some decades later, would become famous a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:29AMMonday, May 15, 2017
Showing just a 3 percent rise across the board, the Broadway box office could be seen as sluggish in the wake of the Tony nominations announced two weeks back. But the vaunted “Tony bu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:08PMFriday, May 12, 2017
Shape-shifting seamlessly from his Saturday Night Live alter-ego as pouty President Trump to Boy Scouts-loving Secretary of State designee Rex Tillerson, Alec Baldwin led an all-star cast Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:15PMHardly stopping to catch its breath after announcing the live telecast in December of A Christmas Story, Fox announced today that it’s made a deal to present Rent, the 1996 groundbreak…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:29PMHeating up further the NBC/Fox rivalry for telecasting live Broadway musicals, Fox and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television announced today that they will present A Christmas Story, the Tony…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:46PMThursday, May 11, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: The latest venture in re-selling pricey Broadway ducats promises – here’s a shocker – to lower prices, not raise them. As long as you fit a certain pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:42PMWednesday, May 10, 2017
After struggling for two days with complex definitions of “defamation,” “tortious interference” and conflicting testimony about a Broadway investor who turned out not…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:27PMDownton Abbey and Ragtime star Elizabeth McGovern will return to Broadway this fall, 27 years after playing Ophelia to Stephen Lang’s Hamlet. She’ll star in Time and the Conways,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:47AMTuesday, May 9, 2017
Alec Baldwin and Whoopi Goldberg lent more than star power to Tuesday’s announcement of plans for a 2-year celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday. Events beginning thi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00PMDirector Sam Gold’s tradition-busting Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie will close May 21, producers Scott Rudin and Lincoln Center Theater said Tuesday…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:41PMMonday, May 8, 2017
Rodgers and Hammerstein knew that audiences liked being taken to exotic places (the South Pacific, Thailand, Austria, Oklahoma!) and these days Broadway is looking like a map of the world,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:49PM 
