Monday, 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 09:49PMOslo and The Band’s Visit, which won the big awards at off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Awards last night, pulled off the same feat this evening as the New York Drama Critics Circl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:49PMSunday, May 7, 2017
The Middle East dominated Sunday night’s Lucille Lortel Awards, as Lincoln Center Theater’s original off-Broadway production of Oslo, and the Atlantic Theater Company’s pro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:52PMFriday, May 5, 2017
I’m sure I’m not alone in remembering my junior high school history class about Admiral Perry and the “opening” of Japan. We know that Perry and his ships arrived wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:15PMEXCLUSIVE: Deadline theater critic Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres president Jordan Roth discuss the hottest topics on the Rialto, the only precondition being: no holds barred.
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SOURCE: Deadline at 10:45AMThursday, May 4, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: The 2017 Yale Drama Series Prize has been awarded to Jacqueline Goldfinger for her play Bottle Fly. The work was chosen by London-based playwright Nicholas Wright (A Human Bein…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:50PMWhimsy took a shellacking with this week’s Tony nominations announcement. Two new musicals based on iconic film comedies – Amélie and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PMThe Broadway stand of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will open next April 22 at the Ambassador Theatre Group’s Lyric Theatre, producers Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender and Harry Pot…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:39AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Mary Beth Peil has only one number all to herself in Anastasia, but it’s a killer, and almost certainly what earned her a second Tony Award nomination 32 years after the first one. Al…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:15PMTuesday, May 2, 2017
Blame Canada: Come From Away, a long-aborning musical about the Newfoundland town that hosted some 7,000 travelers diverted there when U.S. airspace was closed in the aftermath of the 9/11 t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:15PMThe Tony nominators spread the joy to 25 of 37 eligible shows this morning, giving multiple nods to box office smashes that included the shoo-ins – Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly!, chec…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:09PMCome From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Groundhog Day and Natasha Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 will compete for the Best Musical Tony Awards, while A Doll’s House, Part 2, Oslo, Inde…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:45AMNominations for the 2017 Tony Awards are being announced today on CBS This Morning, beginning at approximately 8:30 AM ET. This is the moment producers have been losing sleep over for days.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:22AMMonday, May 1, 2017
With all shows off and running (or, in some cases, just off) by last week’s cutoff for Tony Awards nominations, to be announced tomorrow morning at 8:30 ET, Broadway attendance cooled …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:26PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee said today that, based on the recommendation by the American Theatre Critics Association, the Dallas Theater Center will receive the 2017 Regional …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:06PMEXCLUSIVE: One of the coming season’s most hotly anticipated projects – a collaboration among composer John Kander, director-choreographer Susan Stroman and writer David Thompson…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:52PMOscar-winning documentary filmmaker, book author and all-around agent provocateur Michael Moore will make his Broadway debut this summer with The Terms Of My Surrender, a solo show to be sta…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:02PMSunday, April 30, 2017
Al Pacino had to jump through hoops – including at least six screen tests – before securing the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather. Marlon Brando was so into playing Vito …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:50AMFriday, April 28, 2017
The Tribeca Film Festival conversation between Tom Hanks and Bruce Springsteen was planned long in advance but took on an unanticipated poignancy in the timing Friday afternoon, as an overfl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:43PMAnd they’re off. Eligibility for this season’s Tony Awards began last spring with the opening May 25 of Paramour, Cirque du Soleil’s first made-for-Broadway venture (it clo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:49PMThursday, April 27, 2017
The last show to open on Broadway this season turns out to be the funniest, and the sharpest play of the year, which is a pleasure to report. A Doll’s House, Part 2, which opened tonig…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today that two-time Tony Award winner and icon of stage and screen James Earl Jones will be this year's recipient of the Special Tony Award…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:40PMThe Bette Midler lovefest and a nontraditional off-Broadway staging of Eugene O’Neill’s Expressionist classic, starring Bobby Canavale, earned 10 and eight nominations, respectiv…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:28AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
The final musical of the 2016-2017 Broadway season, Bandstand opened tonight at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre with a swinging look back at 1946. It’s about the post-WWII era and the c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMKevin Spacey will star in Clarence Darrow, a one-man play about the famed “Monkey Trial” lawyer by David. W. Rintels and directed by Thea Sharrock. First presented at the Old Vic…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:39PMTuesday, April 25, 2017
When Six Degrees of Separation opened off-Broadway, and then on, late in 1990, we thought the genius of John Guare’s excoriating comedy lay in the perfect way it captured a moment in a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMBaayork Lee, a director, actress and choreographer who played Connie Wong in the original 1975 production of A Chorus Line, will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award at this year’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:18PMMonday, April 24, 2017
Noah Baumbach’s new film, The Meyerowitz Stories, stars Dustin Hoffman as the aging father of adult children. Hot on the heels of its acquiring by Netflix (reported exclusively here) a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:55PMIt’s probably inevitable that Google Maps, or a clever facsimile of Google Maps, would someday star on Broadway. And here it is in Anastasia, a sprawling expansion on the 1997 animated…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:34PMAfter the Easter holiday, Broadway returned to reality with an expected dip last week, as the last of the season’s new shows faced critics and the April 27 deadline for this seasonR…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:32PMOpening arguments were made this morning in the jury trial pitting publicist Marc Thibodeau against producers Ben Sprecher and Louise Florenza, whose unrequited attempts to mount a musical b…
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