Friday, May 25, 2018
That old Broadway dictum – Never share a stage with fuchsia sea anemones – is blown to smithereens when Gavin Lee taps his way through “I’m Not A Loser,” the gl…
Linked From Deadline at 11:00AMThursday, May 24, 2018
Paul Schneider (Parks and Recreation, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) will round out the Broadway cast of Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men, joining, among othe…
Linked From Deadline at 12:47PMWednesday, May 23, 2018
The gorgeous, deceptively calming bedroom set that frames Three Tall Women at Broadway’s John Golden Theatre loses none of its beauty with the lights way up and the house empty (save f…
Linked From Deadline at 02:10PMThree-time Tony Award nominee Andy Karl, last seen on Broadway in Groundhog Day, has been cast as the male lead in the upcoming Pretty Woman: The Musical. He’ll play Edward Lewis (Rich…
Linked From Deadline at 01:00PMSaturday, May 19, 2018
Benedict Cumberbatch, Edie Falco, Hugh Dancy and Tony-nominee Tom Hollander were among the famous faces reading famous – or should-be-famous – correspondence from the past at Fri…
Linked From Deadline at 12:58PMFriday, May 18, 2018
Carousel pulled into town this year as two seasons were well underway – the first a Broadway spring crammed with Tony-worthy new plays, musicals and revivals, from the thoroughly moder…
Linked From Deadline at 12:00PMThursday, May 17, 2018
A Pittsburgh “family-friendly” community theater has canceled a production of the musical Big Fish after a dispute with the director over the inclusion of a same-sex couple as ba…
Linked From Deadline at 03:41PMThe Secret Life of Bees, a new musical based on the best-selling novel and with music by Dunan Sheik, will make its world premiere next May at the Atlantic Theater Off-Broadway. The producti…
Linked From Deadline at 09:59AMWednesday, May 16, 2018
Gloria: A Life, a new play about Gloria Steinem written by Emily Mann and directed by Diane Paulus, will debut Off Broadway this fall at the Daryl Roth Theater. Roth is producing.
Previews w…
Linked From Deadline at 05:20PMMay 25 will mark thirty years to the night when little Tommy Westphall gazed into a snow globe and revealed to nearly 23 million TV viewers that six seasons of heartbreak, joy, love, loss, e…
Linked From Deadline at 01:30PMTuesday, May 15, 2018
Disney’s Tony-nominated musical Frozen will skate across North America beginning in the fall of 2019, with an official, exclusive opening at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in Los Angel…
Linked From Deadline at 01:30PMSunday, May 13, 2018
Richard Eyre’s staging of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, starring an ideally matched Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville, unfolds on a summer home set t…
Linked From Deadline at 07:00PMFriday, May 11, 2018
The magic of Broadway’s Harry Potter and The Cursed Child can be as simple as a lightning-quick costume change, as startling as a bolt of fire sent blazing from a wizard’s wand …
Linked From Deadline at 12:00PMMean Girls and My Fair Lady are taking to the road: With the Broadway productions of the musicals up for a combined 22 Tony Awards, national tours for both shows were announced today for …
Linked From Deadline at 11:14AMThursday, May 10, 2018
Jez Butterworth’s Olivier Award-winning play The Ferryman will arrive on Broadway with most of its acclaimed London cast intact. Paddy Considine, the Olivier-winning Laura Donnelly and…
Linked From Deadline at 03:00PMWednesday, May 9, 2018
A new play by Dear Evan Hansen playwright Steven Levenson, a new musical from the creators of Red, Next to Normal and Avenue Q and a production of Christopher Shinn's Pulitzer Prize fina…
Linked From Deadline at 01:30PMIrish actress Denise Gough won her first Olivier Award in 2016 for the starring role as a recovering addict in Duncan Macmillan’s play People, Places and Things, and her second earlie…
Linked From Deadline at 12:00PMThe new Andrew Lloyd Webber bio-musical Unmasked, which had been planned for a September debut at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse, has been scuttled, for now.
The regional theater ha…
Linked From Deadline at 11:36AMA single Tony Award nomination for Children of a Lesser God wasn’t enough to keep the production going: Producer Hal Luftig says the Broadway revival will close with the Sunday, May 27…
Linked From Deadline at 10:07AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Broadway newcomers Anthony Boyle, who plays Scorpius Malfoy in Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, and Angels in America‘s Denise Gough are among this year’s Theatre World Award…
Linked From Deadline at 12:45PMFriday, May 4, 2018
Look closely at Carousel's dancing millworkers and you might see the patches. Maybe you’ll wonder whether the pipe-dreaming barflies of The Iceman Cometh scrub the collars of their thr…
Linked From Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
I suspect we’ll be seeing more than one silly and misleading “frozen out” reference in coverage of this year’s Tony Awards nominations – starting with that one …
Linked From Deadline at 12:58PMFriday, April 27, 2018
Comic and actor Mike Birbiglia’s return to Off Broadway this summer sold out within hours yesterday and is being extended by two weeks.
Mike Birbiglia: The New One begins a limited eng…
Linked From Deadline at 01:39PMBoth Erika Henningsen and Taylor Louderman of Broadway’s Mean Girls will be Tony-eligible for the leading actress in a musical award, the Tony Awards Administration Committee determine…
Linked From Deadline at 01:13PMLast week, Brian Tyree Henry was having the sort of moment his Atlanta character – the reluctant, verge-of-success rapper Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles – might observe wit…
Linked From Deadline at 12:00PMThursday, April 26, 2018
Well before Denzel Washington’s glad-handing salesman Hickey makes his fateful arrival in the dive bar of George C. Wolfe’s strong new Broadway staging of The Iceman Cometh, Euge…
Linked From Deadline at 07:30PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
Nevertheless, she persists, that maid of Orleans, and by the end of the Manhattan Theatre Club’s attractive, not flawless, Broadway revival of Shaw’s Saint Joan, starring the end…
Linked From Deadline at 10:00PMA New York Times photographer, a premiere beader of stage costumes and a drycleaning business that’s been removing opening night sweat stains since the days of George M. Cohan will rec…
Linked From Deadline at 02:01PMFrozen‘s Patti Murin missed a show last week. Not unheard of, certainly, but rare enough at the peak of this high-focus (and high-stress) Tony Awards season. And Murin stands a better-…
Linked From Deadline at 01:30PMTuesday, April 24, 2018
Tom Stoppard’s Tony-winning 1974 play Travesties, stuffed thick as a English gentleman’s armchair, its ideas on art, war, patriotism and purposeful nonsense fashioned into a nons…
Linked From Deadline at 08:00PMNick Scandalios, Executive Vice President of the Nederlander Organization, will be this year's recipient of the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, the Tony administration committee announced tod…
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