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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Helen Gallagher Dies: Two-Time Tony Winner & ‘Ryan’s Hope’ Matriarch Was 98 by Erik Pedersen

Helen Gallagher, who won Tony Awards for Pal Joey and No, No, Nanette before starring as Maeve Ryan for all 13 seasons of daytime soap Ryan’s Hope, died November 24. She was 98. Playbill c…

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Friday, October 18, 2024

Latine List 2024 Finalists Set: 10 Multi-Genre Scripts Selected By Black List, NALIP & Latin Tracking Board Partnership by Erik Pedersen

EXCLUSIVE: We have the finalists 2024 Latine List. The partnership between the Latin Tracking Board, NALIP and The Black List have selected 10 projects that represent some of the best rising…

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Monday, September 23, 2024

Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Sets 2025 Awards Timeline, Adds Broadway Category – Update by Erik Pedersen

UPDATED with new category: Brush up on those contenders: The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild has revealed the timeline for its 2025 MUAHS Awards, which celebrate outstanding achiev…

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Monday, September 16, 2024

‘Hamilton’ Broadway Cast Updates ‘The Election Of 1800’ For National Voter Registration Day by Erik Pedersen

The Broadway cast of Hamilton headed back to the recording booth to update the musical track “The Election of 1800” leading up to Election Day. The changed lyrics encourage voter registr…

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Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Auli’i Cravalho & Adam Lambert Set To Make Broadway Debuts As ‘Cabaret’ Leads by Erik Pedersen

The Kit-Kat Club is getting some new blood. Queen singer and American Idol alum Adam Lambert and Moana and The Power star Auli’i Cravalho will step in the respective roles of Emcee and Sal…

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Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Spencer Milligan Dies: ‘Land Of The Lost’ Star Was 86 by Erik Pedersen

Spencer Milligan, who starred in the 1970s Saturday morning series Land of the Lost from Sid & Marty Krofft and was a regular guest star on TV into the late 1980s, has died. He was 86. A…

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‘The Who’s Tommy’ Sets Broadway Closing Date by Erik Pedersen

See me, feel me — while you can. It’s nearly game over for The Who’s Tommy: The Tony-nominated musical revival will end its Broadway run next month, press agency Boneau/Bryan-Brown sai…

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Sunday, June 16, 2024

Tony Awards Winners List – Updating Live by Erik Pedersen

The 77th annual Tony Awards are being handed out tonight in Manhattan, and Deadline is posting the winners live as they are announced. See the list of winners thus far below, followed by the…

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Monday, June 3, 2024

Janis Paige Dies: Prolific Film, TV & Stage Actor Known For ‘Pajama Game’, ‘Silk Stockings’ & Soaps Was 101 by Erik Pedersen

Janis Paige, who racked up more than 100 film, TV and stage credits over six decades including The Pajama Game, Silk Stockings and Santa Barbara, died June 2 at her home in Los Angeles. She …

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Renée Elise Goldsberry Will Reveal Tony Awards Noms Next Week by Erik Pedersen

It’s been a very busy April on Broadway, and it’ll wrap with the 77th Tony Awards nominations announcement next week. And word came today that Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Golds…

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Edward Bond Dies: British Playwright Whose ‘Saved’ & ‘Early Morning’ Were Banned In UK Was 89 by Erik Pedersen

Edward Bond, the Oscar-nominated Blow-Up screenwriter and playwright whose Saved and Early Morning were banned in the UK, fueling a legal review that led to the end of stage censorship in th…

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Monday, February 19, 2024

Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: Photo Gallery & Obituaries by Erik Pedersen

Hollywood and the entertainment industry lost a number of giants during 2023, from Norman Lear, Raquel Welch, Harry Belafonte, Matthew Perry and André Braugher to Tony Bennett, Tina Turner…

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Friday, January 26, 2024
Monday, August 14, 2023

‘The Wiz’ Revival Casts Newcomer Nichelle Lewis For Broadway & National Tour by Erik Pedersen

A newcomer will be easing on down the road next year. Nichelle Lewis has been cast in the lead role of Dorothy in the Broadway revival of The Wiz, which is slated to hit the boards in the sp…

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Thursday, July 20, 2023

IATSE & Broadway League Reach Tentative Deal On Pink Contract by Erik Pedersen

IATSE has reached a tentative deal with the Broadway League and Disney Theatrical on a new “Pink Contact,” a day after talks had broken down. The agreement now goes to union members for …

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Monday, July 17, 2023

Judith James Dies: ‘Quiz Show’ & ‘Mr. Holland’s Opus’ Producer, Longtime Richard Dreyfuss Collaborator Was 86 by Erik Pedersen

Judith James, a film, TV and Broadway producer who was Richard Dreyfuss’ producing partner for many years and worked on such projects as Quiz Show, Mr. Holland’s Opus and Eleanor: In Her…

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Sunday, June 11, 2023

Tony Awards Live Blog: Keep Up With All The Latest On Broadway’s Big Night by Erik Pedersen

Like live theater itself, the Tony Awards has had ample opportunity of late to accustom itself to curve balls, upsets and all sorts of real-world intrusions onto Broadway’s rarified and be…

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Tony Awards Winners List – Updating Live by Erik Pedersen

The 76th annual Tony Awards preshow is under way before tonight’s televised ceremony tonight in New York, and Deadline is updating the winners list as they are announced. Have a look below…

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Monday, June 5, 2023

Michael Lamont Dies: Broadway Actor Who Became A Studio & Theater Photographer Was 76 by Erik Pedersen

Michael Lamont, who went from acting in Bye Bye Birdie and Oliver! on Broadway to a career as photographer for studios, theaters and actors, has died. He was 76. According to Patty Onagan, p…

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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Broadway In Hollywood Sets 2023-24 Season At The Pantages by Erik Pedersen

Broadway in Hollywood has tuned up the slate of musicals for its 2023-24 season. Headed to the Pantages Theatre stage starting late this year are the touring productions of MJ The Musical, T…

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Michael Butler Dies: Producer Of Broadway’s ‘Hair’ & Its Film Version Was 95 by Erik Pedersen

Michael Butler, the Tony-winning producer who brought Hair to Broadway in 1968 and later produced the film adaptation and many other productions of the show, died Monday in Santa Barbara. He…

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Angela Lansbury Tributes Roll In From Across Showbiz World: “She, My Darlings, Was Everything!” by Erik Pedersen

One of the world’s most popular and enduring actresses died today, and tributes to Dame Angela Lansbury are raining down like a closing-night curtain call. Here is just a sampling that spa…

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Thursday, August 18, 2022

‘Take Me Out’ Gets Another Broadway At-Bat Starting In October; Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Jesse WIlliams Return To Lineup by Erik Pedersen

Tony winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson and nominee Jesse Williams are suiting up again as stars of the baseball-themed Take Me Out, which is set to return to Broadway in the fall. The hit revival…

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

‘The Little Prince’ Ending Broadway Run Three Months Early by Erik Pedersen

It’ll be a shorter-than-planned reign for The Little Prince on Broadway. Producers said today that the show based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novella will end its limited engagement…

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Friday, April 15, 2022

Liz Sheridan Dies: ‘Seinfeld’ Mom & ‘ALF’ Actress Was 93 by Erik Pedersen

Liz Sheridan, the veteran actress best known for playing Jerry Seinfeld’s mother on Seinfeld and also recurred on ALF and appeared in several Broadway shows, died today in New York City. S…

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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Hugh Jackman Tests Positive For Covid; Broadway’s ‘Music Man’ Goes Dark Through January 1 by Erik Pedersen

We got trouble, my friends, right there in New York City. It’s trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with C, and that stands for … Covid. Broadway’s revival of The Music Man has ca…

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Broadway’s ‘MJ’ Has A New Michael Jackson As Myles Frost Replaces Ephraim Sykes by Erik Pedersen

As Broadway gets ready to rock with you once again, there’s a new man in the mirror for the Michael Jackson musical. The producers said today that Myles Frost will play the King of Pop in …

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Thursday, December 31, 2020

Hollywood & Entertainment Industry Deaths In 2020 – Photo Gallery by Erik Pedersen

As we finally turn the calendar on the Cruelest Year, let’s take a moment to reflect on some of the memorable people we lost from the world of entertainment. Click through the photo galler…

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Friday, December 25, 2020

Roger Berlind Dies: 25-Time Tony-Winning Broadway Producer Of ‘Amadeus’, ‘Book Of Mormon’, ‘Mean Girls’ & 100-Plus Others Was 90 by Erik Pedersen

Roger Berlind, the 25-time Tony-winning producer of more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals ranging from Amadeus, City of Angels and Doubt to The Book of Mormon, Dear Evan Hansen and M…

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Monday, December 14, 2020

Ann Reinking Dies: Original Broadway ‘Chicago’ Star & ‘Annie’, ‘All That Jazz’ Actress Was 71 by Erik Pedersen

Ann Reinking, a Broadway veteran who starred in the original production of Chicago, won a Tony Award as its choreographer and also co-starred in the films Annie and All That Jazz, has died…

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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Tony Awards Nominations – Watch The Livestream by Erik Pedersen

Broadway has been dark since mid-March, but its 2019-20 season already was winding down. In fact, there were 31 shows on the Main Stem boards when the coronavirus made this the cruelest of y…

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All that Chat

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 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime