Thursday, March 4, 2021
Joan Weldon, stage actress and a Warner Bros. contract player in the 1950s who achieved lasting sci-fi fame in the creature feature giant ant classic Them!, died Feb. 11 at her home in Fort …
Linked From Deadline at 03:58PMActors’ Equity is warning members that New York City’s just-launched “Open Culture” program of outdoor performances on city streets does not meet the union’s minimum standards for …
Linked From Deadline at 10:30AMWednesday, March 3, 2021
A select number of now-dark Broadway venues will begin opening in April for a series of live- performance pop-up events that could establish the safety protocols needed for the theater indus…
Linked From Deadline at 04:01PMBill C. Davis, whose 1981 Broadway hit play Mass Appeal was adapted for a 1984 feature film starring Jack Lemmon and Željko Ivanek, died Feb. 26 following a brief illness, his family has an…
Linked From Deadline at 12:26PMFriday, February 26, 2021
Keenan Scott II’s play Thoughts of a Colored Man has officially landed a venue – the Golden Theatre – becoming the first new, non-revival show to take up Broadway residence since the i…
Linked From Deadline at 10:23AMWednesday, February 24, 2021
The Coalition of Broadway Unions & Guilds is calling for health care relief in the upcoming New York State budget, specifically urging for the updating and renewal of the state’s COBRA…
Linked From Deadline at 10:04AMTuesday, February 23, 2021
Douglas Turner Ward, the director, actor and playwright who co-founded the landmark, influential Off Broadway Black theater group the Negro Ensemble Company, died Saturday, Feb. 20, at his h…
Linked From Deadline at 12:00PMMonday, February 22, 2021
Gary Gunas, executive producer of such Broadway musicals as The Who’s Tommy, Jekyll & Hyde and Ragtime, died today of pancreatic cancer at his home in London. He was 73. His death was …
Linked From Deadline at 06:22PMMartha Stewart, an actress whose run of 1940s and ’50s era Hollywood hits included costarring roles in Daisy Kenyon opposite Joan Crawford and In a Lonely Place with Humphrey Bogart, died …
Linked From Deadline at 10:56AMWednesday, February 17, 2021
Christopher Pennock, whose long career in daytime drama is best remembered for his portrayal of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde character on ABC’s supernatural soap Dark Shadows, died Feb. 12 fo…
Linked From Deadline at 09:43AMTuesday, February 16, 2021
Whoopi Goldberg won’t be falling back into the old habit after all: The View moderator has canceled plans to appear in an upcoming London revival of Sister Act The Musical due to the produ…
Linked From Deadline at 11:39AMWednesday, February 10, 2021
Amber Ruffin has joined the Broadway-bound team of Some Like It Hot as a co-writer of the film-to-stage adaptation. The host of Peacock’s The Amber Ruffin Show will partner with Tony nomin…
Linked From Deadline at 01:15PMTuesday, February 9, 2021
Joe Allen, whose self-named restaurant on W. 46th Street in Manhattan’s theater district has been a sort of commissary-slash-clubhouse for Broadway folks – and that fans who love them …
Linked From Deadline at 10:21AMTuesday, February 2, 2021
Stars in the House, the popular YouTube series known for reuniting classic TV and Broadway casts, will be hosted every Tuesday in February by prominent members of the Black theatre community…
Linked From Deadline at 04:45PMFriday, January 29, 2021
In yet another sign that Broadway is taking its pandemic shutdown pause to re-evaluate itself, Jujamcyn Theaters announced today that it had entered into a multi-year partnership with ticket…
Linked From Deadline at 03:00PMThe curtain’s inching up on the Tony Awards: A ceremony will be held on an as-yet-undetermined date in coordination with Broadway’s eventual reopening, but voters will finally be able to…
Linked From Deadline at 01:00PMWednesday, January 27, 2021
Editors note: Earlier this week, IATSE president Matthew Loeb informed President Joe Biden that the union’s members “stand ready to help build vaccination sites across the country, or to…
Linked From Deadline at 11:30AMFriday, January 22, 2021
Bob Avian, the dancer-turned-choreographer who played an integral role in such pivotal Broadway musicals as A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls, Company, Follies and Miss Saigon, died of cardiac arre…
Linked From Deadline at 12:15PMTuesday, January 19, 2021
There’s at least one thing everyone should agree will be missed after tomorrow: Laura Benanti’s recurring appearances as Melania Trump on CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Fortu…
Linked From Deadline at 02:21PMFriday, January 15, 2021
Philip J. Smith, who as the longtime chairman of Broadway’s Shubert Organization was one of the most influential and powerful forces in American theater, died today in New York City of com…
Linked From Deadline at 02:04PMThursday, January 14, 2021
Stars of ABC’s classic daytime dramas All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital will reunite next month to present a streaming concert of their past musical performances benef…
Linked From Deadline at 01:45PMMore than 200 theater writers – playwrights, composers, lyricists, librettists – have joined a nationwide letter writing campaign urging the incoming Biden-Harris Administration to prior…
Linked From Deadline at 12:28PMMonday, January 11, 2021
Nationwide Covid surges and a disappointingly slow vaccine rollout notwithstanding, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci reiterated over the weekend his belief that live theater venues could reopen during f…
Linked From Deadline at 02:59PMMartin Markinson, a producer and theater owner who took Torch Song Trilogy to Broadway and returned the venue now known as the Hayes Theatre to theatrical use, died Thursday, January 7 at hi…
Linked From Deadline at 01:24PMThe Broadway premiere of Skeleton Crew, written by Tony Award nominee Dominique Morisseau (Ain’t Too Proud) and directed by Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson (August Wilson’s Jitney) wil…
Linked From Deadline at 11:40AMThursday, January 7, 2021
The Mean Girls musical won’t be back when Broadway reopens, producers announced today. The musical, based on Tina Fey’s 2004 film, suspended production when Broadway went dark due to the…
Linked From Deadline at 06:20PMEXCLUSIVE: David Henry Hwang, the Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly playwright currently writing the script for a live-action musical film adaptation of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame,…
Linked From Deadline at 04:34PMMarion Ramsey, an actress and singer who appeared in the 1978 hit Broadway show Eubie! but is best known for her portrayal of the sweet, squeaky-voiced Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police Ac…
Linked From Deadline at 03:33PMWednesday, January 6, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has a warrant out, in a manner of speaking, for Broadway actors. Next week’s episode features Tony-nominated Hadestown actor Eva Noblezada …
Linked From Deadline at 02:15PMMonday, January 4, 2021
The filmed London production of the David Bowie musical Lazarus starring Michael C. Hall will stream for three performances this weekend to mark both the late singer’s Jan. 8 birthday and …
Linked From Deadline at 04:30PMLee Breuer, a cofounder of New York’s groundbreaking experimental theater company Mabou Mines and writer of Broadway’s Pulitzer Prize finalist The Gospel at Colonus, died Sunday at his h…
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