Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Three major contributors to The New York Times culture section have left the paper. The most recent is Charles Isherwood, the No. 2 theater critic since 2004, when he jumped from the top c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:32PMMonday, February 6, 2017
Every Broadway show but two – Goliath Hamilton and David Dear Evan Hansen – dipped or dived last week as the Street continued its mid-winter contraction. But the sunrise of Glen…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PMActress and model Jamie Brewer (American Horror Story: Murder House) has been cast in the title role of Amy And The Orphans, a new play by Lindsey Ferrentino (Ugly Lies The Bone) that will h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:13PMThursday, February 2, 2017
An acclaimed UK stage adaptation of 1984, George Orwell’s chilling 1949 novel about a war-ravaged world ruled by Big Brother and the unwitting rebel Winston Smith, will follow the limi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:49PMWilliam Ivey Long, the costume designer every female stage star longs to be dressed by, and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage (Ruined) will be honored May 7 at this year’s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:35AMRepeating a scene that’s been unfolding with some frequency since the end of her run for the White House, Hillary Clinton appeared last night at (not in, but one can dream) a Broadway …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:19AMWednesday, February 1, 2017
UPDATE 1 P.M. with more information.
Frank Pellegrino Sr., an actor who appeared in The Sopranos and Goodfellas and ran Harlem’s legendary — and famously exclusive — Rao&…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PMTuesday, January 31, 2017
If you’ve seen Manchester By The Sea (of course you have), you already know that Lucas Hedges has the seething sullen-teen thing down. This gifted young actor raises the stakes to Ja…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMEXCLUSIVE: Tony Award-winning Schuyler sister Renée Elise Goldsberry has signed with UTA on the eve her appearance at Sunday’s Super Bowl LI in Houston.
Goldsberry won last year’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:16PMMonday, January 30, 2017
Broadway had a ho-hum week typical of January — save for one new show that’s performing at a Hamilton-ian level in terms of ticket sales and bodies in seats. That would be Dear E…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:34PMClive Owen is set to star this fall in the first Broadway revival of the 1988 Tony best play M. Butterfly, with Julie Taymor (The Lion King, Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark) directing.
Last s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:30AMSunday, January 29, 2017
Delivering on a vow made last June, Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller confirmed Sunday that the Broadway production will double the number of $10 seats available via lottery for each perform…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:17PMThursday, January 26, 2017
Give the pie a gold medal: Waitress, the musical that marked the Broadway debut of singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, has recouped its $12 million capitalization after less than 10 months, pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:59AMWednesday, January 25, 2017
Val Day, a former ICM Partners agent in the theatrical literary department, has been named artistic director of 59E59 Theaters, effective May 7. The highly regarded, 3-theater off-Broad…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:49PMMary Tyler Moore, the iconic TV figure who starred in two of the most influential television series of all time, has died. She was 80 years old and had battled diabetes for decades.
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SOURCE: Deadline at 02:45PMMonday, January 23, 2017
An unlikely media sensation gets caught up in the Twitter-enhanced mythology that distorts his true nature as he becomes a national hero: Donald Trump? Evan Hansen? Both had big weeks in da…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:06PMSaturday, January 21, 2017
The Broadway stars came out to shine Friday afternoon at “Concert For America: Stand Up, Sing Out!” at Town Hall, the storied venue for protest and politicking. A visit from actr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:56AMThursday, January 19, 2017
Among the achievements of the American theater over the last century, August Wilson’s work ranks comfortably with the best. Any one of the plays he wrote — one for each decade of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:30PMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Broadway’s bleak mid-winter wasn’t too bleak after all, despite an overall drop at the box office last week. Several hits still did hit-show business and a smaller roster, as lo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:24PMSaturday, January 14, 2017
As a swivel-hipped rock and roller, Conrad Birdie had a lot of living to do, the unknown actor Dick Gautier sang in the 1960 Broadway smash Bye Bye Birdie. At first a reluctant leading man,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:32PMFriday, January 13, 2017
New York City has named 11 nonprofit cultural organizations as recipients of $2 million in funding to develop a more diverse workforce on the management side of the performing arts. The mone…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:21PMMartha Swope, who photographed Broadway stars and prima ballerinas onstage and in mufti during a career that began in the late 1950s and extended into the 1990s, died Thursday in New York. T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:53AMThursday, January 12, 2017
The 71st annual Tony Awards will return to Radio City Music Hall this spring, after detour uptown to the smaller Beacon Theatre last year. CBS, which has presented the Broadway awards since …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:42PMThe fever dream that is Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is born again with the reconstituted New York City Opera, along with the happy delirium that is the hallmark of Harold Prince’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:43AMWednesday, January 11, 2017
Casually removing her bra or tying a pink ribbon into a perfect bow atop her head, Cate Blanchett makes erotic art of the inconspicuous act. That’s a neat trick and a handy gift for …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:18PMMonday, January 9, 2017
January and February are the times that try Broadway producers’ souls, as tourists head home, winter twofer sales set in and weak shows are culled from the herd. The box office fell sh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:54PMProducer Scott Rudin announced today that The Front Page recouped its entire $4.875 million capitalization during the week ending New Year’s Day. Having recouped in under 15 weeks…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:41PMThursday, January 5, 2017
The marquees of Broadway theaters will be dimmed for one minute tomorrow at 7:45 P.M.in memory of Carrie Fisher, who died December 27 at age 60, and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, who died the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:29PMTuesday, January 3, 2017
Every show on the Broadway roster saw ticket sales soar during the final week of 2o16. Many of them broke their own house records while helping to lift the entire Street to an all-time hig…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:48PMTuesday, December 27, 2016
Christmas Week is always a Santa’s bag of goodies for Broadway, even with some shows cutting back to seven performances; it’s all made up with hiked prices. Hamilton played all e…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:53PMGeorge S, Irving, a fearless comic actor whose signature smile could turn into a smirk with the perfectly timed arch of an eyebrow, died December 26. Born George Irving Shelasky in Springfie…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:42PM 
