Monday, November 12, 2018
Bryan Cranston arrived on Broadway to two full houses last week, as the much-anticipated Network played a couple previews at the Belasco Theater and contributed $293,220 to Broadway’s…
Linked From Deadline at 05:51PMSunday, November 11, 2018
Maybe you could quibble with the title of Mike Birbiglia’s latest one-man show. The New One, opening tonight on Broadway at the Cort Theatre, is the same one he debuted last summer Of…
Linked From Deadline at 10:00PMThursday, November 8, 2018
Eighth wonder of the world? King Kong probably isn’t even the eighth wonder of Broadway – those kids in The Ferryman aren’t giving up their spots anytime soon – but…
Linked From Deadline at 08:09PMWednesday, November 7, 2018
Alec Baldwin, Cecily Strong, Rachel Dratch and Susan Lucci are among the stars heading to Broadway for a four-night stand of Celebrity Autobiography, the comedy in which celebrities read t…
Linked From Deadline at 12:00PMMonday, November 5, 2018
Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird joins this week’s Broadway box office roster, taking in $520,357 for three preview – and sold-ou…
Linked From Deadline at 04:59PMSunday, November 4, 2018
Kerry Washington carries the weight of a nation on her back in American Son, and I’m tempted to say this fine actress makes it look easy. But that would be glib and wrong: Easy is nowh…
Linked From Deadline at 10:00PMFriday, November 2, 2018
A two-CD Springsteen On Broadway soundtrack will be released Dec. 14, two days before the Netflix launch of a filmed performance of the sold-out Broadway show.
Springsteen has released a sin…
Linked From Deadline at 11:20AMThursday, November 1, 2018
Harvey Fierstein’s glorious voice, that frog with a human stuck in it, remains so powerful you might swear you still hear it, loud and, well, loud in a Torch Song that can often only …
Linked From Deadline at 08:00PMWednesday, October 31, 2018
The Broadway-bound Hillary and Clinton has completed its casting, tapping Broadway vet Peter Francis James as “Barack” and Wet Hot American Summer‘s Zak Orth as Hillary&#…
Linked From Deadline at 12:14PMMonday, October 29, 2018
Two new productions – Mike Birbiglia’s The New One and musical The Prom – joined the Broadway roster but couldn’t keep overall box office from slipping: Grosses for B…
Linked From Deadline at 04:13PMBroadway’s mighty King Kong is taking this Wednesday afternoon off. Producers announced today that the Oct. 31 matinee has been cancelled to allow for “final adjustments” p…
Linked From Deadline at 11:00AMThursday, October 25, 2018
Kenneth Lonergan, along with his Manchester by the Sea discovery Lucas Hedges and Lobby Hero star Michael Cera, team with the astonishing Elaine May and Joan Allen for The Waverly Gallery, …
Linked From Deadline at 08:00PMMonday, October 22, 2018
Broadway box office continued apace as fall settled on the theater district, with a raft of recent arrivals helping to push grosses up a slight 3% over last week to $34,344,693. Attendance f…
Linked From Deadline at 04:23PMSunday, October 21, 2018
When the banshees of the past come calling in Jez Butterworth's fearsome The Ferryman, you can bet their shrieking will be blood curdling. Directed by Sam Mendes (Skyfall) and opening tonig…
Linked From Deadline at 10:00PMFriday, October 19, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: UK-based Eon Productions has hired theater, film and TV producer Patrick Daly to oversee production and development of the company’s theatrical projects.
Eon, best known in …
Linked From Deadline at 04:51PMThursday, October 18, 2018
Is there such a thing as just a little fake news? Or is that like being just a little comatose? Broadway’s The Lifespan of a Fact, a new based-on-reality play starring a totally-commit…
Linked From Deadline at 09:20PMJoe Mantello’s recent Broadway staging of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band will be eligible for a 2019 Tony Award – no surprise there – but theater trivia buffs …
Linked From Deadline at 03:59PMAmerican Idol rivals Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken will reunite on Broadway for a limited engagement holiday show of Christmas songs and comedy sketches. Ruben & Clay’s Christmas S…
Linked From Deadline at 12:19PMThe 73rd Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast live on CBS on Sunday, June 9, 2019 from Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall. The announcement was made today by The Broadway League and the…
Linked From Deadline at 11:11AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
So maybe Joan of Arc plays second fiddle to few saints in history, but on stage even she’s no match for Glenn Close. As the title character in Mother of the Maid, Jane Anderson’s…
Linked From Deadline at 10:00PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
An apologia, playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell reminds us in his play so titled, is a defense, not an apology. With that in mind, would any play need an apologia beyond the words “Stockar…
Linked From Deadline at 10:00PMBroadway box office held steady as the fall season settled in, with a batch of recently arriving productions joined by Torch Song, last year’s Off Broadway hit taking up a limited enga…
Linked From Deadline at 02:46PMAlec Baldwin will host the Arthur Miller Foundation’s inaugural honors gala in New York celebrating the work of HBO Documentary Films and playwright Tony Kushner.
The inaugural Arthur…
Linked From Deadline at 12:46PMFriday, October 12, 2018
Carol Hall, the composer and lyricist for Broadway’s long-running The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and one of the musical forces behind Marlo Thomas’ classic 1974 TV special …
Linked From Deadline at 04:18PMJonny Lee Miller and two-time Olivier Award winner Bertie Carvel will star in the spring Broadway production of Ink, James Graham’s play about a young Rupert Murdoch and the “r…
Linked From Deadline at 12:00PMThursday, October 11, 2018
John Larroquette will star in Nantucket Sleigh Ride, a new play by John Guare directed by Jerry Zaks and heading to Lincoln Center Theater’s Off Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in …
Linked From Deadline at 01:31PMWednesday, October 10, 2018
Sleepwalk or wake-walk with Mike Birbiglia for a couple miles Friday and you might get a free ticket to his upcoming Broadway show The New One.
The publicity stunt – hey, it worked …
Linked From Deadline at 01:17PMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Three of the most anticipated Broadway productions of the fall season – King Kong, The Ferryman and American Son – began previews last week, helping to boost total box office by …
Linked From Deadline at 04:33PMThe New Group’s upcoming Off Broadway Clueless, The Musical – with Dove Cameron in the lead role of Cher – has announced the rest of its cast. Among the players: Dave Thoma…
Linked From Deadline at 02:57PMMonday, October 8, 2018
Nearly 10 years ago, Billy Crystal and writer Quinton Peeples started work on a screenplay they’d eventually call Have A Nice Day. Not terribly long in Hollywood development years, but…
Linked From Deadline at 09:04PMEXCLUSIVE: Dove Cameron, a 2018 Daytime Emmy winner for Disney Channel’s Liv and Maddie, will take the lead in the upcoming Off Broadway production of Clueless: The Musical.
Cameron, s…
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