Tuesday, December 27, 2016
George 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 02:42PMSaturday, December 24, 2016
Willa Kim, a two-time Tony winning costume designer who crowned chorines with longhorns and draped Duke Ellington’s hoofers in ermine and feather boas, has died in Los Angeles. She was…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:47PMFriday, December 23, 2016
David Berry, whose play The Whales Of August, about two elderly sisters living on the coast of Maine became a 1987 film vehicle for Lillian Gish and Bette Davis, died December 16 at his home…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:59PMMonday, December 19, 2016
Dick Latessa, the veteran song-and-dance man who stole hearts as Wilbur Turnblad in the original Broadway production of Hairspray, has died. His death at 87 was announced by the Broadway Lea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:49PMCate Blanchett sold out the first preview of The Present, the Aussie import marking the star’s Broadway (though not NYC) stage debut. And Ben Platt is looking like a freshly minted m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:59PMLooking back on a year that offered an extraordinary range of shows, from intimate (Heisenberg, Blackbird) to spectacular (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812), it’s the perf…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:40PMFriday, December 16, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: On a clear day, you can see Times Square: Tony-winning The Producers director-choreographer Susan Stroman and writer John Lahr (Elaine Stritch: At Liberty) are developing a new m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:52PMThursday, December 15, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Talk about a plum project. In a pitch sold to Amblin Partners, Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig are attached to develop an original musical based on the book Everything Is Coming Up …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:31PMWednesday, December 14, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: The latest twist in the Alex Timbers/Disney saga is news that the acclaimed Broadway director/writer and co-creator of Amazon’s Mozart In The Jungle is negotiating to direc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:01PMTuesday, December 13, 2016
Jake Gyllenhaal will open on Broadway this spring, inaugurating the newest house on the Street — but not in the show originally announced. The extensively refurbished Hudson Theatre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:09PMMonday, December 12, 2016
David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig bring exceptional technical skill and at times riveting commitment to the roles of Othello and Iago in the off-Broadway revival of the Shakespeare tragedy…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:45PMIt wasn’t just Hamilton‘s week to post ticket sales in the $2 million range. As Broadway took off into the holiday hypersphere, theater goers — overwhelmingly tourists R…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:27PMSunday, December 11, 2016
The first preview of Subways Are For Sleeping, Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green’s musical about homeless people finding a kind of salvation in the underground, took place…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:39PMThursday, December 8, 2016
Some shows are so full of heart and so overflowing with integrity — of talent, of skill and of purpose – that a critic is torn between singing its praises from the rooftops and w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMWednesday, December 7, 2016
Harold Prince’s long-gestating career retrospective Prince Of Broadway will open in August at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s flagship Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The show, featurin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:02PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
The Broadway wing of the Grammy Awards nominees announced this morning included five-time winner Steve Martin and five-time nominee Sarah Bareilles. Also in the mix: Kinky Boots (produced by…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:11AMMonday, December 5, 2016
Josh Radnor (Liberal Arts, Mercy Street) and Elizabeth Reaser (The Twilight Saga, Hello My Name Is Doris) play a writer and his student in Richard Greenberg’s new drama The Babylon Li…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:49PMAfter a record-breaking $35 million Thanksgiving week — inflated by Hamilton‘s $998 top ticket price and $3.2 million haul — Broadway sank back into something like norma…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:06PMSweat, the acclaimed drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, will transfer in March to Studio 54, the Broadway house owned by the non-profit Roundabout Theatre Company. The …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:02PMSunday, December 4, 2016
The exquisite new musical Dear Evan Hansen opened Sunday on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre, following runs at Arena Stage in Washington D.C. and, last spring, at off-Broadway’s S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMFriday, December 2, 2016
An old-fashioned party line connects Belmont Avenue in the Bronx with Times Square, where a gaggle of Broadway talent has been phoning it in for the musical version of Chazz Palminteri̵…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:49PMThursday, December 1, 2016
The Richard Rodgers Theatre, home for the foreseeable future to the blockbuster musical Hamilton, was packed Thursday afternoon with fans and press to hear live performances of songs from th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:50PMUPDATE, 1:30 PM with more information throughout: Paramour, the first show developed by the Montreal-based behemoth Cirque du Soleil specifically for Broadway, will shutter April 16 at the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30PMStephen Karam’s one-act drama The Humans will conclude the New York leg of its remarkable journey on January 15, a week shy of its one-year anniversary on Broadway. Producers Scott Rud…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:27PMMonday, November 28, 2016
With its seasonal top price of $998, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s historico-musico rap blockbuster registered $3.26 million in ticket sales last week, the first of the expected Thanksgiving-to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:11PMFritz Weaver, an actor who transmitted an air of patrician assurance in roles that took him from a regular presence in Golden Age television dramas to Broadway stardom, prominent characters …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:31AMMonday, November 21, 2016
Following its sold-out and critically acclaimed run last spring at off-Broadway’s Second Stage, Dear Evan Hansen took off in its first week of Broadway previews. The musical — ab…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:43PMSunday, November 20, 2016
If your heart doesn’t break a little for Charity Hope Valentine, you might consider a transplant. As embodied in (another) career-making performance by Sutton Foster, this taxi dancer…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PMEXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred.
GERARD: Vice President-elec…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:19PMSaturday, November 19, 2016
Refresh for updates President-elect Donald J. Trump wasn’t in the room where it happened but he nevertheless was quick to Tweet his displeasure over Mike Pence’s raucous receptio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:45PMFriday, November 18, 2016
Jason Sudeikis has enough mischief in his eyes to make John Keating a credible non-conformist hero in Dead Poets Society. You’ve heard of this secret club of pubescent prep-school pis…
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