Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Little Island, the new Barry Diller-funded park and arts space rising out of the Hudson River, will host a free monthlong festival of music, dance and comedy beginning August 11 and featurin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:36PMMonday, July 26, 2021
Tony Award-nominated costume and fashion designer Emilio Sosa has been elected the Chair of the American Theatre Wing, the organization announced today. Sosa succeeds current co-chairs David…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:39PMThursday, July 22, 2021
A new $100 million tax credit to encourage and support the reopening of Broadway was launched today with an announcement by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “New York is not ‘New York’ with…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:57PMNew York’s Public Theater canceled last night’s and tonight’s Free Shakespeare in the Park performances of Merry Wives after a member of the production tested positive for Covid-19. In…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:53AMTony nominee Adrienne Warren will return to her widely acclaimed starring role in Broadway’s Tina – The Tina Turner Musical when the show reopens at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Friday, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AMWednesday, July 21, 2021
Actors’ Equity Association is expanding eligibility for membership to include any actor or stage manager who can demonstrate they have worked professionally in the United States, a move th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:33AMTuesday, July 20, 2021
Lincoln Center Theater’s Flying Over Sunset will begin performances on Broadway a week later than previously announced, with previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater now set to start Thursd…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:12PMAndrew Lloyd Webber says he is “determined” to bring his on-pause (at least) Cinderella musical to London, though he can’t provide a timeline, telling a UK newspaper, “who knows when…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:58AMMonday, July 19, 2021
The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Merry Wives has postponed its opening night by nearly two weeks due to an onstage injury sustained by its leading man Jacob …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:03PMAndrew Lloyd Webber has announced the indefinite closure of his new West End musical Cinderella a day before its official opening due to what the composer angrily called “the blunt instrum…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:01PMFriday, July 16, 2021
Though Broadway as an industry has yet to definitively rule on whether Covid vaccinations will be required of audience members this fall, a second production – Lincoln Center Theater’s p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:57AMThursday, July 15, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Non-fungible tokens are about to get their Broadway opening night: Seaview, the production and media company behind such shows as Slave Play, Sea Wall/A Life and Ratatouille: The …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PMWednesday, July 14, 2021
Jujamcyn Theaters will increase wheelchair accessibility and make other improvements at its five Broadway venues as part of a lawsuit settlement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhatta…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:38AMA new play about NSA whistleblower Reality Winner and Lucas Hnath’s acclaimed Dana H. will play in rotation on Broadway this fall, producers announced today. Is This A Room, conceived and …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, July 13, 2021
UPDATE, with Leslie Odom Jr., Daveed Diggs nominations No one’s saying it will be easy, but Hamilton actors Renée Elise Goldsberry, Leslie Odom Jr. and Daveed Diggs, along with WandaVis…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:22PMEXCLUSIVE: Douglas Carter Beane’s newest play, Fairycakes, will make its world premiere this fall Off Broadway at the Greenwich House Theater in a production starring Mo Rocca, Jackie Hoff…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AMMonday, July 12, 2021
Multiple Emmy Award-winners Uzo Aduba (In Treatment, Orange is the New Black) and Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us) have been cast in Second Stage Theater’s upcoming Broadway production of Lyn…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMFriday, July 9, 2021
Paul Huntley, the celebrated wigmaker for film, stage and television who provided Dustin Hoffman with the coif that transformed the actor into Tootsie and did the same decades later for when…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:37PMTony- and Emmy Award- winning singer-actress LaChanze will return to Broadway this Fall in the starring role of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress, to be direc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMThursday, July 8, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: A new Times Square exhibit showing off dazzling costumes from numerous Broadway productions, including, to name a few, The Cher Show, Wicked and Dear Evan Hansen, TV series (The M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMWednesday, July 7, 2021
Waitress, the hit Broadway musical that played more than 1,500 performances during its 2016-2020 run, will return for a limited, four-month engagement this September, with composer Sara Bare…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, July 6, 2021
Company, Marianne Elliott’s reimagined production of the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical starring Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone, will begin Broadway performances a month earlier than…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:23AMSunday, June 27, 2021
Bruce Springsteen woke Broadway from a 15-month sleep Saturday, returning to live performance to deliver an emotional, updated rendition of his 2017 smash Springsteen on Broadway to an audie…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:09AMFriday, June 25, 2021
Springsteen on Broadway tickets generally don’t come cheap, but some fans are in for a bargain: Thirty-two seats at $75 each will be set aside each performance for winners of a digital lot…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00AMThursday, June 24, 2021
The executive producer of Harlem’s Apollo Theater, the president of John Prine’s Oh Boy Records (and widow of the late folk music icon), and ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro are among Pre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:53PMThe Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Merry Wives will begin performances next month with audience capacity at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater expanded signifi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:34PMChicken & Biscuits, a new comedy written by Black playwright Douglas Lyons, with a largely Black cast and directed by Zhailon Levingston, who at 27 becomes the youngest Black director in…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:06PMStephen Colbert and Christine Baranski couldn’t wait for Broadway’s return, so they created a little Sondheim spark of their own Wednesday night by duetting on “Side by Side by Side,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:32AMWednesday, June 23, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: For the first time in 75 years, New York’s Theatre World Awards honoring debut performances will bypass its annual awards ceremony this year – a reflection of the city’s abs…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:57AMTuesday, June 22, 2021
Steppenwolf’s production of The Minutes, the new Tracy Letts play that had begun previews on Broadway when the industry shut down in March 2020, will resume performances in March 2022, wit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PMSpecial Tony Awards will be presented in September to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, David Byrne’s American Utopia and Freestyle Love Supreme, the awards administration committee announc…
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