Freddie Hendricks accepts the 2026 Excellence in Theatre Education Award at the 79th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday June 7, 2026 presented by Carnegie Mellon University. -- The 79th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7, 2026 -…
Most of Broadway’s Tony-nominated productions saw box office jumps in the week leading up to Sunday’s awards ceremony, with Cats: The Jellicle Ball, The Lost Boys, Schmigadoon!, Titaniqu…
Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the stage prequel to the hit Netflix horror/sci-fi series, will close out its engagements on both Broadway and London’s West End this holiday season, pro…
Lincoln Center Theater’s Broadway revival of Ragtime, winner of the Best Musical Revival Tony Award on Sunday, has announced a final final two-week extension. The musical, directed by Lear…
Death of a Salesman walked away with the most Tony Award wins from the 79th annual ceremony, netting six trophies. The Lost Boys, Ragtime and Schmigadoon! followed closely behind, each tied …
John Lithgow reached a Tony Awards milestone on Sunday, becoming the oldest winner in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play category for Giant. Along with that accompl…
Schmigadoon officially made Apple TV an EGOT at Sunday’s Tony Awards, crowning the achievement by winning Best Musical. The show led the field with 12 nomination and came away with four wi…
As expected, P!nk soared into her Tony Awards hosting gig on flying wires – dressed as Peter Pan. Ok the costume wasn’t expected, but former host Neil Patrick Harris quickly put a stop t…
That’s one for the history books: Qween Jean, whose costume design for Cats: The Jellicle Ball just won a Tony Award, is the first openly trans woman to every win a Tony Award. While sever…
Stars like Jeremy Pope, Sarah Paulson, Billy Crystal, Bernadette Peters, June Squibb, Darren Criss, Qween Jean, Melissa Barrera, Shaggy, Sting and many others walked the Tony Awards carpet t…
Welcome to Deadline’s coverage of the 79th annual Tony Awards. Both the ceremony, broadcasting live from New York’s Radio City Music Hall, and the 90-minute pre-show called The Tony Awar…
EXCLUSIVE: Executive producers Margaret Cho and Lilly Wachowski have wrapped production on transgender comedian Nina Nguyen’s debut stand-up special. Directed by Nicole Blaine, Margaret Ch…
Purpose, the play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins directed by Phylicia Rashad that won both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize last year, has officially recouped its $5.25 million capitalization, m…
Rachel Zegler, who will return to Broadway in Evita next spring, will deliver a special tribute to A Chorus Line at the upcoming Tony Awards ceremony, and Tony winner Leslie Odom, Jr. will p…
Second Stage Theater, coming off a successful season with acclaimed productions of Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime and Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw, will anchor its upcoming 48th season…
Awards predictions are never easy – especially when it comes to nitpicking among the top contenders – but this year’s Tony Awards is especially tricky. With one or two possible excepti…
Actors Mary Beth Hurt, Jennifer Harmon and Sondra Lee are among the late members of the Broadway community who will be honored with a group marquee dimming next week. The group dimming, whic…
Mariska Hargitay, making her Broadway debut taking over from Daniel Radcliffe as the star of Every Brilliant Thing, proved quite the draw in her first week on the job: Attendance at the Huds…
The Broadway cast of thriller Paranormal Activity has been announced, with much of the ensemble recruited from previous stagings of the play who will be making their Broadway debuts. The Bro…
EXCLUSIVE: Marla Mindelle is riding the iceberg all the way to the Tony Awards with three nominations for Titanique, including Lead Actress, Book, and Best Musical. “I’m the first woman …
EXCLUSIVE: The Tony Award-winning Buena Vista Social Club musical kicking up a glorious storm on Broadway is heading to London’s West End in 2027, lead producer Orin Wolf tells Deadline.…
If anyone last fall had made predictions about what would provide the upcoming Broadway season with its biggest guffaws, the answers might have focused on a waterlogged Celine Dion, or maybe…
The Tony Awards will pay tribute to the 30th anniversary of Broadway’s Chicago with special performances by stars associated with the musical including Queen Latifah, Julianne Hough, Whitn…
Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets’ landmark 1935 drama, will be revived on Broadway this winter in a Manhattan Theatre Club production starring Tony winner Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge!, Mar…
The 79th annual Tony Awards will kick off summer during the first weekend of June, ushering more Broadway thespians into the winner’s circle at Radio City Music Hall. Hollywood names to lo…
Fresh off his first Tony Award nomination, Ali Louis Bourzgui is reaching new heights… quite literally. The star of Broadway’s The Lost Boys spends eight performances a week flying above…
Marking the late president’s 109th birthday, John F. Kennedy’s family is celebrating a judge’s recent decision to preserve his namesake memorial performing arts building. Following a f…
Lesley Manville might just be a prime candidate for a new Mandela Effect: Surely many of us would bet the going equivalent of a farm in our certainty that the great stage actor has a long an…
Tony Award nominees The Lost Boys and Cats: The Jellicle Ball have extended their Broadway engagements, releasing blocks of tickets into the new year. The Michael Arden-directed The Lost Boy…
EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Matthew Miele is currently directing a new feature documentary on the life, career, and theatrical legacy of three-time Emmy and three-time Tony Award-winning actor Nath…
Broadway ended the 2025-2026 season on an upswing last week, with the 40 productions grossing a total $40,707,260, up 7% from the previous week but down 8% from the same week last year. Atte…
Broadway shows grossed nearly $2 billion for the 2025-2026 season, according to figures just released by The Broadway League. Specifically, the season grosses total was $1.91 billion, with t…
Charles Cioffi, a prolific character actor in TV, film and the Broadway stage perhaps best known for memorable turns as Tom Cruise’s blue-collar dad in All The Right Moves and a sadistic k…
Chess, the Broadway musical revival, will close June 21, three months earlier than expected and the final performance of star Lea Michele. The show, which also stars Aaron Tveit and Nicholas…
EXCLUSIVE: Arise Artists Agency, headquartered in Los Angeles, is officially becoming bicoastal. The agency is expanding to New York with the launch of an East Coast office and the addition …
Winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Play and, for Whitney White, Best Direction of a Play, Bess Wohl’s Liberation was one of the …
Albert Wolsky, a two-time Academy Award winning and Tony nominated costume designer whose many high-profile credits include his Oscar-taking work on All That Jazz (1979) and Bugsy (1991)…
Julia Louis-Dreyfus will make her Broadway debut alongside Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery and Lily Rabe in the first Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s Tony Award-winning play Oth…
The previously announced Broadway revival of Evita starring Rachel Zegler will begin performances Saturday, February 27, 2027, at the Winter Garden Theatre, with an opening night of Thursday…
Jeffrey Lane, an Emmy-winning writer and producer with TV credits spanning the sitcom Mad About You, the dramas Cagney & Lacey and Lou Grant, soap opera Ryan’s Hope as well as Tony Awa…
The Tony-nominated musical Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) will tour North America beginning in the fall of 2027, producers announced today, launching at Providence Performing A…
All seven Tony Award nominees in the Best Musical and Best Musical Revival categories will perform at the 79th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7 at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, the…
No small part of the power in Richard Thomas’ Tony-nominated performance in the current production of David Lindsay-Abaire’s subtly scalding play The Balusters might, in fact, be somethi…
Boneau/Bryan-Brown, for more than 30 years one of Broadway’s busiest preeminent press agencies representing hundreds of shows with campaigns garnering 254 Tony Awards, is soon to have new …
Schmigadoon!, the most Tony Award nominated production of the 2025-2026 Broadway season, will launch a North American Tour in September 2027, producers announced today. The tour will premier…
ATG Entertainment, the British and Broadway theater operator whose venues house such major productions as The Book of Mormon, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Titanique, is, according t…
EXCLUSIVE: Well, peachy fuckin’ keen! Darren Stein’s 1999 teen cult classic Jawbreaker is getting the stage musical treatment this fall in Los Angeles. Debuting in September at Hollywood…
Laura Benanti and Tituss Burgess will host The Tony Awards: Act One, the live pre-show on Pluto TV that kicks off Broadway’s big Tony night next month. Act One will be available to viewers…
The ebb tide is nigh for Broadway’s Beaches. The musical based on the 1988 Garry Marshall movie has set an early closing date after getting blanked at the Tony Awards nominations a couple …
Bess Wohl’s Liberation, the Tony nominated play and 2026 Pulitzer Prize winner, will be produced in London next year, producers announced today. Producers Daryl Roth, Eva Price, and Rachel…
On the night of July 4th, as the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States is commemorated, there will be a modest gathering at the Kennedy Center, its rooftop terrace offering …
