Wednesday, March 20, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Chicago’s long-running #DateMe: An OkCupid Experiment is finally making a date with New York City: The offbeat blend of improv, scripted comedy and musical theater will begin pe…
Linked From Deadline at 03:01PMTuesday, March 19, 2019
A re-imagining of the 1997 Broadway musical Jekyll and Hyde will be the first project under Birdman screenwriter Alexander Dinelaris’ Lexicon and Richard Saperstein's Bluestone Entertainme…
Linked From Deadline at 01:30PMCalling President Donald Trump’s proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts “short-sighted at best,” Actors’ Equity Association has vowed to continue fighting what h…
Linked From Deadline at 11:10AMJames Corden, host of CBS’ The Late Late Show, will host the 73rd annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 9, the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards have announced.
The gig marks Corden's secon…
Linked From Deadline at 10:37AMLots of Broadway shows have digital lotteries for specially priced tickets – Oklahoma! just announced one for $40 seats – but Beetlejuice is combining its lottery with some attempted buz…
Linked From Deadline at 08:30AMMonday, March 18, 2019
Another slate of high-profile Broadway arrivals hit the street last week, with much anticipated productions like Burn This, Hillary and Clinton, What the Constitution Means to Me and Gary: A…
Linked From Deadline at 04:58PMRock n' Roll Hall-of-Famer Dion DiMucci – best known simply as Dion for his hits including “Runaround Sue” and “The Wanderer” – is the latest classic rocker to get the jukebox mu…
Linked From Deadline at 12:07PMThe recently announced “In Residence On Broadway” series has named its first star: Yanni. The multi-instrumentalist and composer will take the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre stage with Pure Yanni…
Linked From Deadline at 11:30AMThursday, March 14, 2019
Like last season’s Lincoln Center production of My Fair Lady, the Roundabout Theatre Company’s current Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate, directed by Scott Ellis and opening tonight at S…
Linked From Deadline at 09:00PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
The Broadway-bound The Devil Wears Prada, with music by Elton John, has found its director: Anna D. Shapiro, Tony Award-winner in 2008 for August: Osage County, was announced today by produc…
Linked From Deadline at 11:00AMHugh Jackman will return to Broadway in a 2020 revival of Meredith Willson's 1957 classic musical The Music Man, producer Scott Rudin confirmed today.
Directed by Jerry Zaks, with choreograp…
Linked From Deadline at 09:36AMTuesday, March 12, 2019
A musical comedy featuring the songs of Britney Spears will fill the slot at the Chicago theater left vacant when producers of the upcoming Michael Jackson bio-musical scotched its own pre-B…
Linked From Deadline at 10:50AMMonday, March 11, 2019
With recent arrivals Kiss Me, Kate, Be More Chill, Ain’t Too Proud and King Lear adding to the till, Broadway box office last week took an 11% hike over the previous week, hitting $30,252,…
Linked From Deadline at 04:37PMComposer Danny Elfman will contribute original music to Broadway’s Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, the latest surprise for the show that begins previews tonight.
Elfman’s arrival was…
Linked From Deadline at 02:20PMBruce Springsteen may have set an unbeatable bar for Broadway solo shows with his 2017-18 box office record-breaker Springsteen on Broadway, but as last week’s announcement of an upcoming …
Linked From Deadline at 11:30AMSunday, March 10, 2019
To quote a song from the tenacious – and tenaciously enjoyable – Be More Chill, the Joe Iconis-Joe Tracz musical arrives on Broadway with just enough of an “upgrade” from last summer…
Linked From Deadline at 09:00PMWednesday, March 6, 2019
Network, the Broadway production starring Bryan Cranston as the imploding newsman Howard Beale, has recouped its reported $7 million investment just 15 weeks into its limited engagement.
One…
Linked From Deadline at 01:46PMTuesday, March 5, 2019
On nights when Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal perform the two monologues that make up the Public Theatre’s critically acclaimed Off Broadway double bill Sea Wall/A Life, the British hal…
Linked From Deadline at 04:00PMTony-winning actress Kelli O’Hara, playwright Taylor Mac and Beetlejuice director Alex Timbers will receive special honors at the upcoming Drama League Awards. The three recipients, along …
Linked From Deadline at 02:53PMBroadway producer Scott Delman has acquired live theatrical rights to Nashville, the country music-themed series that spanned six seasons on ABC, CMT and Hulu, and will team with Lionsgate t…
Linked From Deadline at 12:00PMMonday, March 4, 2019
When Glenda Jackson’s King Lear and the new Temptations jukebox musical arrive on Broadway in the same week, the fledgling spring season has officially kicked into gear. Still, box office …
Linked From Deadline at 04:30PMAndrea Martin has dropped out of the upcoming Broadway production Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus after breaking four ribs in a recent accident during rehearsals, producer Scott Rudin ann…
Linked From Deadline at 12:32PMAlec Baldwin and Anne Heche will bring back Twentieth Century for a one-night-only benefit reading next month at Broadway’s Studio 54: The two actors will reprise their roles from a 2004 R…
Linked From Deadline at 08:30AMFriday, March 1, 2019
UPDATE, with response After some community theaters were forced to cancel planned productions of a 1991 version of To Kill A Mockingbird following litigation threats by Broadway producer Sco…
Linked From Deadline at 03:39PMThursday, February 28, 2019
Daniel Craig, the once and future James Bond, will star in a one-night-only benefit reading next month of Caryl Churchill's A Number as part of New York Theatre Workshop’s 40th anniversary…
Linked From Deadline at 10:44AMMonday, February 25, 2019
Broadway box office held fairly steady for the theater season’s Week 39 (ending February 24), with most shows reporting some slippage. Total receipts for the 29 productions was $29.9 milli…
Linked From Deadline at 04:32PMFriday, February 22, 2019
Broadway’s upcoming revival of Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune starring Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon has a home and opening date: The production directed b…
Linked From Deadline at 10:00AMThursday, February 21, 2019
Mark Bramble, the Tony Award-nominated librettist of Broadway’s hit musicals 42nd Street and Barnum, died Wednesday at a Baltimore hospital of complications related to cardiovascular hyper…
Linked From Deadline at 02:31PMWednesday, February 20, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: New musical Broadway Bounty Hunter from Be More Chill composer Joe Iconis will get its New York premiere Off Broadway this summer with Orange is the New Black actress Annie Golden…
Linked From Deadline at 02:30PMBroadway’s Network starring Bryan Cranston as newsman on the verge of a nervous breakdown Howard Beale has extended its run for the second and final time: The play will now run through Sat…
Linked From Deadline at 08:00AMTuesday, February 19, 2019
Be More Chill arrived on Broadway to a big welcome, beginning previews and breaking the seven-performance house record at the Lyceum Theatre with a gross of $738,384, a virtual sell-out with…
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