Sunday, September 3, 2023
Lea Michele, the star of Funny Girl, ends her stay today in the Broadway revival. She noted the milestone with an Instagram post that touted thhe show’s recoupment of its $16.5 million cap…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:26PMSunday, August 27, 2023
Soccer superstar Lionel Messi sure knows how to make a Broadway entrance. In a game livestreamed in New York’s Times Square, the heart of the theater district, Messi entered Saturday night…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:06PMSaturday, August 12, 2023
Tom Jones, who wrote the book and lyrics for the musical “The Fantasticks” that ran for 42 years, died on Friday at his home in Sharon, Conn. He was 95 and passed from cancer, his son sa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:16PMFriday, July 28, 2023
It’s been 38 years since the release of the film version of Back to the Future. But the cast gathered earlier this week as if no time had passed at all, joining a gala celebrating Back to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:40PMThursday, July 20, 2023
Carlin Glynn, the Tony-winning star of Broadway hit The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, died July 13 from complications of dementia and cancer. She was 83 and her death was confirmed by her…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:40PMSaturday, July 8, 2023
John Deyle, a veteran actor on Broadway and television commercials, died June 22 in Mount Kisco, NY of esophageal cancer. He was 68. Born and raised in Rochester, New York, he studied at t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:48PMWednesday, June 7, 2023
Concerts, baseball games, and flights in the East and Midwest are among the cancellations being wrought by the excessive smoke from more than 400 Canadian wildfires. The orange haze has resi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:56PMThursday, May 25, 2023
Ed Ames, whose long career included hit recordings, TV stardom, and Broadway roles, died May 21 in Los Angeles at 95. No cause was given. Ames began his career in the 1950s as part of the si…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:58PMWednesday, May 3, 2023
Barbara Bryne, a British actress who worked in stage, television, and film during a decades-long career, died Tuesday at age 94. Her death was confirmed by the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:10PMSaturday, April 1, 2023
Maude Apatow has been accused of getting ahead because of her famous name. But a wall in her “Little Shop of Horrors” theater put a halt to that – at least, the head part. Apatow, the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:17PMThursday, March 23, 2023
Andrew Lloyd Webber is thanking fans for their outpouring of support in the wake of his eldest son’s diagnosis with gastric cancer. The composer issued an Instagram video and revealed th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:02PMWednesday, March 22, 2023
Lea Michele will miss upcoming performances of Funny Girl because of an unspecified “scary health issue” affecting her 2-year-old son, Ever Leo Reich. The news was announced Wednesday by…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:58PMThursday, March 9, 2023
Chaim Topol, an Israeli actor best known for his role as Tevye in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof, died Thursday at age 87 in Tel Aviv after a multi-year battle with Alzheimer’s. T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:40AMSunday, February 5, 2023
Charles Kimbrough, best known for his portrayal of network anchorman Jim Dial on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown, died Jan. 11 in Culver City, Calif. No cause was given by his son, who confirmed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:44PMFriday, February 3, 2023
It has been said that success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. Evidently, Congressman George Santos didn’t understand the memo. He once claimed he was a producer on the troubled…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:28PMWednesday, January 11, 2023
Riverdance star Michael Flatley is now at home recovering from surgery after a cancer diagnosis, his team announced Wednesday. “Dear friends, we have something personal to share, Michael …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:55PMWednesday, December 28, 2022
An unhinged and disruptive woman stopped Broadway’s “Death of a Saleman” Tuesday night, finally being escorted from the theater by police. It’s safe to say she was not well-liked by …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:05PMSunday, November 27, 2022
They were passing the hat on Broadway, but Nicole Kidman wasn’t passing on the opportunity to do some good. At a charity fundraiser held on Saturday for the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AI…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:07PMWednesday, October 12, 2022
Chris Colfer isn’t going out of his way to catch former Glee castmate Lea Michele’s appearance in Broadway’s Funny Girl. Speaking on Tuesday’s The Michelle Collins Show podcast, Col…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:34PMSaturday, September 10, 2022
Lea Michele is canceling some of her Funny Girl performances, citing early signs and symptoms of Covid-19. The Broadway star just started as Fanny Brice, the Funny Girl lead, on Sept. 6, tak…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:33PMSunday, July 31, 2022
Comedian and actress Pat Carroll, a television pioneer and an Emmy, Drama Desk and Grammy winner, died at her home on Cape Cod, Massachusetts on July 30, while recovering from pnuemonia. A f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:36PMSaturday, May 14, 2022
Calling Dr. Mark Greene. Please report to the Broadway stage. ER star Anthony Edwards made his Broadway musical debut Friday night as “Dr. Walker” in the Tony-nominated Girl From The Nor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:24PMSaturday, April 2, 2022
There will be no Daniel Craig appearances in the latest Broadway staging of Shakepeare’s Macbeth for a while. The Longacre Theater announced that the actor has tested postive for Covid-19 …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:58PMThe ill-fated run of Rocketman and Kingsman star Taron Egerton in the London play Cock has apparently come to an end. Show producers announced that Egerton has withdrawn from the starring ro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:13AMSunday, February 27, 2022
Veteran actress Patti LuPone tested positive for Covid-19 before Saturday’s Broadway matinee of Company, triggering increased testing protocols for the rest of the performers and staff. L…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:18AMFriday, January 28, 2022
From West Side Story through Bye Bye Birdie, from Chicago to Kiss of the Spider Woman, one actor has been a constant – Chita Rivera. Now, the two-time Tony winners is recapping her Broadwa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:12PMFriday, December 24, 2021
They won’t be singing “Ya Got Trouble” at the Hugh Jackman Music Man revival. At least, not on the scheduled Christmas Day and Dec. 26 shows, which have been officially canceled becaus…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:32PMSaturday, December 11, 2021
It’s a happy 90th birthday to iconic actress Rita Moreno, celebrating today the renewal of interest in one of her most famous roles, that of Anita in the 1961 version of West Side Story (s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:25PMSunday, November 28, 2021
Geoffrey Johnson, whose Johnson-Liff Casting was behind the roles for Cats, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera, Broadway’s three longest-running shows, died Friday, Nov. 26. He was…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:52PMFriday, November 26, 2021
The unexpected death today of songwriter Stephen Sondheim at his Connecticut home will no doubt catch many by surprise, given his relatively robust persona, even at age 91. But while his pas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:15PMStephen Sondheim, one of the giants of Broadway songwriting, died early Friday at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 91. Attorney F. Richard Pappas, announced the death, which he described as…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:16PM 
