Friday, June 17, 2016
Less than a week after winning 11 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Hamilton is facing changes as its Tony-nominated company members announce their departures. The latest is Phillipa Soo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:16PMThursday, June 16, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda this morning confirmed that Javier Muñoz, his alternate since the beginning of the journey Hamilton has taken from workshop to off-Broadway to Sunday’s 11-Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:09PMEXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at Chronically Metropolitan, having its world premiere next week at the Nantucket Film Festival. Directed by Xavier Manrique (Hope Springs) and written b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMIf Bill Clinton was America’s first black president, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah quipped at an event Wednesday evening, Donald Trump might just be “our first African presiden…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:17AMWednesday, June 15, 2016
Fred Caruso, who produced the irreverent off-Broadway shows The Big Gay Musical and Newsical The Musical, died Monday on Las Vegas, an apparent suicide. Caruso, who also produced the film ad…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:52PMOscar winner Robert De Niro and multiple Tony winner Jerry Zaks will co-direct a musical adaption of Chazz Palminteri’s autobiographical play-turned-film A Bronx Tale, slated to open…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:36PMBroadway Records president Van Dean, SiriusXM Radio host Seth Rudetsky and producer James Wesley today announced the fundraising initiative Broadway for Orlando and an all-star roster of t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:04PMThe Roundabout Theatre Company’s lauded Broadway revival of the musical She Loves Me will be telecast live on June 30, bringing Broadway a step closer in line with popular pay-per-view…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:59AMTuesday, June 14, 2016
Producer Joey Parnes today announced that Bright Star, the new musical from 2016 Tony Award nominees Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, June …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PMIn her first stage appearance since exchanging the boards for the sound stage as Julianna Margulies’ smart sidekick on the final season of The Good Wife, Cush Jumbo grumps, groans, gri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:04PMCondola Rashad, whose shimmering stage performances in Ruined, Stick Fly, Romeo and Juliet and The Trip To Bountiful made the daughter of Phylicia Rashad one of the most sought-after young…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:06PMBroadway theater marquees will be dimmed for one minute on Thursday at 6:45 PM to honor the memory of two-time Tony Award winner Peter Shaffer. The Amadeus and Equus playwright died June 6 i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMValerie Jarrett, President Obama’s senior advisor and chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, is slated to give the keynote this morning at the day-long “United Stat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:57AMMonday, June 13, 2016
Broadway’s Week 3 of the new season coincided with the Belmont Stakes, the endurance test of the Triple Crown, and both ended with a pair of noses at the wire. In the horse race, Creat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:58PMMihaly “Michu” Meszaros, the Hungarian-born performer who segued from life with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to semi-fame as the sometime-star of the TV sitc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:50PMThe record 12-Tony sweep by The Producers in 2001 remained unbroken, but that hardly dimmed the enthusiasm for Sunday night’s big winner at the 70th annual Antoinette Perry Awards. Ha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:45AMSunday, June 12, 2016
Film and theater costume designer William Ivey Long, a multiple Tony Award winner and chairman of Tony co-presenter the American Theatre Wing, designed a ribbon that was quickly mass produc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:57PMAn anti-gun group will gather this evening outside the Beacon Theatre on New York’s Upper West Side, where the CBS broadcast of the Tony Awards begins at 8 PM, hoping to draw attention…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:19PMResponding to what is being called the worst mass slaughter in U.S. history, the shooting deaths last night of 50 patrons at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida frequented by members of the LGBT…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:41AMFriday, June 10, 2016
Today’s the day of reckoning for the 846 Tony voters: Our ballots must be received at the firm Grant Thornton LLP by 6 PM New York time. Below are the nominees in the order they appear…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:02PMThursday, June 9, 2016
Jeffrey Seller, one of the three lead producers of Hamilton, announced this week that beginning in January, certain tickets to the Broadway juggernaut will be priced at $849. Also this week …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:55PMA starry list of stage and screen vets, several with marquee-quality drawing power from roles on popular TV shows, have joined the cast of The Front Page, the Scott Rudin-mounted revival wit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:58AMWednesday, June 8, 2016
We have five senses but only rarely do we experience the gift of having them heightened to a point of ecstasy. A Broadway musical, with its controlled delirium of sight and sound, can do tha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:30AMMonday, June 6, 2016
They paved paradise and put up a Hard Rock Hotel.
A block of West 48th Street in Manhattan once known as Mecca for musicians of every stripe but especially rockers, will soon be home to New …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:13PMAmerican Psycho, its box office comatose for weeks since opening this spring, went out with a bang last week, posting a sales boost of $180K at the Shubert Organization’s Schoenfeld Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:22PMSally Field (Hello, My Name Is Doris) will play Amanda Wingfield, one of the American theater’s most resonant leading roles, in a Broadway revival next season of Tennessee WilliamsR…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:26PMFriday, June 3, 2016
UPDATE with Rudin quote: Five-time Tony winner Angela Lansbury is heading back to Broadway this season to star in a revival of Enid Bagnold’s 1955 play The Chalk Garden. This is a Sc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:16PMWho is Laura Benanti? Who isn’t she? might be the better question: Segueing from Nashville‘s rising C&W starlet-turned-victim Sadie Stone to Supergirl’s doomed-but-wise…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMThursday, June 2, 2016
Broadway actor Javier Muñoz may have just gotten the best news of the increasingly frenetic Tony Awards run-up: Hamilton conceiver-author-composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda is planni…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:59PMWednesday, June 1, 2016
Responding to increasing reports of anti-Semitic and racist campaigns in social media aimed at journalists covering the presidential election, the Anti-Defamation League today announced the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:13PMAlthough she hardly needs the publicity to promote her upcoming concert tour, Barbra Streisand will make her first appearance on the Tony Awards since the Nixon administration. CBS said toda…
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