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Saturday, December 7, 2024

Breaking Baz: UK Panto King Michael Harrison On How Andrew Lloyd Webber Put His Name In Lights, And William & Kate’s Family Night At Palladium by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: It’s quite something when Andrew Lloyd Webber, the West End’s biggest theater owner, taps you on the shoulder and says he has something to tell you. Even more so when he leads…

SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AM
Friday, November 29, 2024

Breaking Baz: Emma Thompson’s Child-Minding Witch ‘Nanny McPhee’ Stage Musical Aims For London’s West End In 2026 by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: The Emma Thompson-penned musical adaptation of fantasy movie Nanny McPhee, about a witch who possesses magical powers wielded through her walking stick, is being primed to hit Lo…

SOURCE: Deadline at 05:16AM
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Breaking Baz: Beloved Jennifer Garner Rom-Com ‘13 Going On 30’ Adapted As Stage Musical Set For 2025 UK Opening With Hopes For West End & Broa by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: Remember when geeky tween Jenna Fink was magically transformed into glamorous Jennifer Garner in the classic rom-com 13 Going on 30? That was two decades ago. Now that role’s b…

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Breaking Baz: Jared Harris Aboard As Treacherous Uncle In ‘Hamlet’ For Royal Shakespeare Company, Says Play Was A Favorite Of Dad Richard Harris by Baz Bamigboye

Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown, Mad Men) is going full circle and returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in 34 years to play Claudius, the treacherous uncle in Ha…

SOURCE: Deadline at 07:59PM
Monday, October 28, 2024

Breaking Baz: Andrew Lloyd Webber Conjures New West End & Broadway Musical ‘The Illusionist’; ‘Sunset Boulevard’s Jamie Lloyd Directing by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Lloyd Webber has unveiled his new West End and Broadway musical: a magical romance called The Illusionist, directed by Sunset Boulevard’s Jamie Lloyd. During a privat…

SOURCE: Deadline at 10:31AM
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Breaking Baz: Gary Oldman, ‘Slow Horses’ Star & Oscar Winner, Will Return To British Stage After 4-Decade Absence In 2025 by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: Slow Horses star Gary Oldman is stepping back on stage in April 2025 for the first time after an absence of nearly four decades to star in Samuel Beckett’s celebrated one-man …

SOURCE: Deadline at 11:15PM
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Breaking Baz: Barbara Broccoli Gets Ready To Transfer Off Broadway ‘Sing Street’ Musical To London Stage In Summer 2025 by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: Barbara Broccoli, with her theater hat on, is transferring the Sing Street musical to London. The play is based on John Carney’s charming 2016 coming-of-age movie about a group…

SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM
Friday, October 4, 2024

Emma Corrin And Kodi Smit-McPhee Joining Cate Blanchett’s ‘The Seagull’, Which Soars Onto London Stage In 2025 by Baz Bamigboye

Emma Corrin, hot from playing villainous Cassandra Nova in Deadpool & Wolverine, will join Cate Blanchett in the eagerly awaited new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull at Lo…

SOURCE: Deadline at 04:59AM
Friday, September 27, 2024

Breaking Baz: Maggie Smith “Could Make Grown Men Cry” Because She Was A Perfectionist And Giant Of The Stage – In “Top Tier” With Judi Dench by Baz Bamigboye

Maggie Smith was a constant in the life of producer Robert Fox for half a century. She could “make grown men cry,” says Fox, because “if you weren’t 100 percent on top of your game, …

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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Rosamund Pike Set For National Theatre Debut In New Legal Drama From Suzie Miller, Who Created ‘Prima Facie’ For Jodie Comer by Baz Bamigboye

Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn, Wheel of Time) will make her debut at London’s National Theatre in 2025, and they’ve given her the starring role in the world premiere…

SOURCE: Deadline at 05:59AM
Monday, September 16, 2024

Breaking Baz: Live Aid Musical ‘Just For One Day’ Transferring To London’s West End To Celebrate Seminal Concert Event’s 40th Anniversary by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: Irish rock knight Bob Geldof and the producers of Just For One Day, the musical about the Live Aid rock concerts in London and Philadelphia on July 13, 1985, will transfer the sh…

SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30AM
Saturday, September 14, 2024

Breaking Baz: ‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves’ Star David Oyelowo Back On Stage In London Playing ‘Coriolanus’, Says He Wants To Boost Filmmaking In Afr by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: David Oyelowo says he wants to use his star power to make more films in Africa and help boost the continent’s movie-making prowess. But he assures “there’s not going to be a…

SOURCE: Deadline at 01:57PM
Friday, August 30, 2024

Breaking Baz: Oasis’ Bitter ’90s Britpop Clash With Blur Retold In West End-Bound Show ‘The Battle’ by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE:  Back in the summer of 1995, you were either team Oasis or team Blur. There was no sitting on the fence as the rival Brit bands clashed over which group’s single would top the…

SOURCE: Deadline at 10:55AM
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Breaking Baz: New Ways To Dream For ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Director Jamie Lloyd As He Prepares To Open A Film Division With Movie-Making Plans In His by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Lloyd, director of the Broadway-bound Sunset Boulevard musical led by an incandescent Nicole Scherzinger center stage as Norma Desmond, is making a move into the world of m…

SOURCE: Deadline at 02:24PM
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Breaking Baz: Sigourney Weaver Conjures Spells For West End Debut As Prospero, Joining Tom Hiddleston & Hayley Atwell In A Season Of Shakespeare D by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: Sigourney Weaver will make her West End stage debut as storm-creating sorcerer Prospero in The Tempest and Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell will play sparring lovers Benedick an…

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Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Breaking Baz: Denzel Washington & Jake Gyllenhaal Task Up-And-Comer Molly Osborne To Make Broadway Debut As Desdemona In ‘Othello’ by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal that Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal will be joined by fast-rising West End actress Molly Osborne, who will play Desdemona opposite them, in the spring 2…

SOURCE: Deadline at 08:58AM
Friday, July 19, 2024

Breaking Baz: ‘Downton Abbey’ Star Jim Carter Goes “Wow!” When He Sees Wife Imelda Staunton Dazzle In ‘Hello, Dolly!’ At The London Pallad by Baz Bamigboye

Jim Carter, who famously played Carson the master butler on Downton Abbey, clearly was taken by the leading artist giving a terrifically moving performance as Dolly Gallagher Levi upon th…

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Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Breaking Baz: Well Hello, Imelda! ‘The Crown’s Imelda Staunton Finds Humor And Poignancy In Rollicking ‘Hello, Dolly!’ At The London Palladium by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: Imelda Staunton, swathed in glamorous red taffeta, descends a staircase on the London Palladium stage to lead a line of eager waiters in a chorus of “one of our favorite songs…

SOURCE: Deadline at 02:18PM

Breaking Baz: Broadway-Bound ‘Ali’ Musical Gets Set For A Rumble In The Windy City by Baz Bamigboye

Ali, the Broadway-bound musical about boxing titan and 20th century icon Muhammad Ali, who sought to use his fame to champion human rights, is headed for a springtime rumble in Chicago. The …

SOURCE: Deadline at 08:59AM
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Breaking Baz: ‘The West Wing’ Alum Joshua Malina Heads To London For British Stage Debut In Provocative Comedy That Says “The Unsayable” About by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: The West Wing actor Joshua Malina will make his London stage bow in the fall playing a “secular, sarcastic, anti-religious Jew” who says “the unsayable” about Israel in …

SOURCE: Deadline at 05:30AM
Friday, June 21, 2024

Breaking Baz: Tosin Cole On A Roller Coaster Ride Of Love In London’s West End & Rapman’s Game-Changing ‘Supacell’ Netflix Series by Baz Bamigboye

As far as the three young women sitting in row E at London’s Bush Theatre were concerned, the name of the character Tosin Cole was playing in Benedict Lombe’s “spicy” love story Shi…

SOURCE: Deadline at 11:46AM
Sunday, June 16, 2024

Breaking Baz: Sam Mendes Tony-Award Winning ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Makes Fourth Return To London Stage After Hit Drama Plays To Half A Million World by Baz Bamigboye

Sam Mendes is bringing back his acclaimed, Tony Award-winning blockbuster production of The Lehman Trilogy for a fourth run in London. It’s quite a thing to bring the play, considered a …

SOURCE: Deadline at 06:59PM
Monday, June 3, 2024

Breaking Baz: David Hare, British Filmmaker & Playwright, Casts An Unsparing Eye Over The UK General Election & Reveals He Is Working On A Dra by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: David Hare, one of the UK’s foremost playwrights and a double Oscar nominee, is in an unsparing mood about the state of UK politics. This comes as leaders of the country’s tw…

SOURCE: Deadline at 04:35AM
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Breaking Baz: ‘Sherwood’s’ James Graham Hits West End With Alan Bleasdale’s ‘Boys From The Blackstuff’, Talks Europe-Set TV Thriller & by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: James Graham sets a mental timer of strictly 45 minutes for a conversation that will encompass tonight’s gala opening at London’s National Theatre — en route to a run at t…

SOURCE: Deadline at 04:58PM
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Breaking Baz: Zendaya Keeps The Spotlight On Tom Holland As He Makes His Shakespeare Debut In Modern-Dress ‘Romeo & Juliet’ In London’s West by Baz Bamigboye

Not sure that I would equate Tom Holland and Zendaya with the same level of triple-A star firepower as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, but the last time I witnessed sheer frenzied pande…

SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30PM
Monday, May 20, 2024

Breaking Baz: Morfydd Clark & Billy Howle Lead Hot Theater Productions In London Dubbed The Angry & Young Season by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: Lord of the Rings star Morfydd Clark and Under the Banner of Heaven’s Billy Howle will star in new versions of John Osborn’s Look Back In Anger and Arnold Wesker’s Roo…

SOURCE: Deadline at 11:10AM
Friday, May 10, 2024

Breaking Baz: First Preview Of Tom Holland’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Canceled Due to “Production Difficulties” by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: Wherefore art Tom Holland’s Romeo? You might well ask. Director Jamie Lloyd’s production of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet starring the Spider-Man actor and Francesca Amew…

SOURCE: Deadline at 09:12PM

Breaking Baz: Sarah Snook Signs For 2025 Broadway Run Of Her West End Hit ‘The Picture Of Dorian Gray’ by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: Succession star Sarah Snook plays her final performances Saturday night at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket in the enthralling, award-winning play The Picture of Dorian Gra…

SOURCE: Deadline at 07:27PM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Breaking Baz: ‘We Are Lady Parts’ Star Faith Omole Pens Debut Play For London Stage; Off-Broadway’s ‘Titanique’ Sets Course For West End by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: Faith Omole, one of the stars of Nida Manzoor’s Peacock/C4/Working Title punk comedy series We Are Lady Parts, will have her debut play produced on the London stage next mon…

SOURCE: Deadline at 04:59AM
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Breaking Baz: ‘My Neighbour Totoro’, Smash Stage Adaptation Of Studio Ghibli Classic, Transfers To West End, With Broadway Next by Baz Bamigboye

Following two sold-out limited seasons at London’s Barbican, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s acclaimed stage version of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli classic My Neighbour Totoro w…

SOURCE: Deadline at 06:58PM
Sunday, April 21, 2024

Breaking Baz: ‘Cruising’ Star Jane McDonald Cruises Into Lavish London Palladium ‘Robin Hood’ Panto Starring Julian Clary In Title Role by Baz Bamigboye

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian and writer Julian Clary (Julian Clary: Live – Lord of the Mince) will play the title role in this festive season’s London Palladium pantomime Robin Hood, with singer…

SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime