Friday, May 20, 2022
New York’s Drama League named A Strange Loop as the season’s outstanding musical, with The Lehman Trilogy taking the honor for outstanding play. Among revivals, Take Me Out took the priz…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:53PMWhen Rachel Dratch makes her entrance in the Broadway, all-female ensemble farce POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, audiences respond with an ent…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMBroadway will continue requiring audiences to mask up at least through June, the Broadway League announced today. Audience masking protocols for July and beyond will be announced in June. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:36AMKimberly Akimbo, the Off Broadway musical that’s won a slew of critics awards this season, has settled on the venue for its Broadway engagement in the fall: The production will begin previ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:22AMThursday, May 19, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: A new, exclusive partnership between the prominent theatrical P.R. agency DKC/O&M and the newly formed production services outfit Built Productions was announced today, formal…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMWednesday, May 18, 2022
Broadway performers and stage managers who worked on four shows connected to producer Scott Rudin will be released from nondisclosure agreements under terms of a new settlement between the B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:49PMAs expected, A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical is heading to Broadway, with producers announcing today that previews will begin Wednesday, November 2, at the Broadhurst Theatre, wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:43AMTuesday, May 17, 2022
Last week’s Tony Award nominations translated into box office sales for at least some of the contenders, with A Strange Loop seeing the biggest boost. The musical, which topped the Tony li…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:41PMMonday, May 16, 2022
Moulin Rouge! The Musical and Lincoln Center Theater’s The Skin of Our Teeth canceled performances over the weekend due to Covid cases within their companies, another sign that the virus i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:17AMFriday, May 13, 2022
Broadway’s Mrs. Doubtfire will unplug the vacuum cleaner and hang up the apron earlier than expected: The musical, which has been posting middling box office numbers during the industry’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:35AMThursday, May 12, 2022
Samuel D. Hunter’s A Case for the Existence of God was named best play of the 2021-22 season today by the the New York Drama Critics’ Circle, with David Lindsay-Abaire’s and Jeanine Te…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:27PMThe Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, nominated for seven Tony Awards this week, has extended its engagement by t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:48PMA filmed version of the critically lauded Off Broadway production Trevor: The Musical will debut exclusively on Disney+ Friday, June 24. Produced by RadicalMedia, Trevor: The Musical follow…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:44AMWednesday, May 11, 2022
Patti LuPone and Company are doubling down on their message to Broadway theatergoers: Wear a mask. Or get the f*ck out. Ok, so the latter part goes unsaid in a new (and silent) PSA posted on…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:38PMFollowing the leak on social media of cell phone video and photos of a naked Jesse Williams, star of Broadway’s Take Me Out, the venue will install an infrared camera system facing the aud…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:41PMDarren Criss and Julianne Hough – both currently starring on Broadway, he in American Buffalo, she in POTUS -will co-host the pre-Tony Awards livestream special on Paramount+ next month. T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMTuesday, May 10, 2022
With nearly all 36 productions settling into full schedules last week, the Broadway box office tally climbed a modest 7% from the previous week, totaling $31,199,660, with attendance of 249,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:23PMEXCLUSIVE: Jeremy O. Harris, the Tony-nominated author of Slave Play, has been named the presiding playwright for the 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize, one of the theater world’s most prestigi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Since the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020, The Actors Fund, the 140-year-old organization that offers emergency financial assistance and other support service to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:27AMMonday, May 9, 2022
Fat Ham, playwright James Ijames’ comedy-drama reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, received the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama today, just days before the acclaimed play is to make its N…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:57PMSome of the biggest names in film, television and the Broadway stage won’t be making the coveted pilgrimage to Radio City Music Hall this June when the 75th annual Tony Awards are handed o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:43AMUPDATED with full list of nominees: Tony Awards nominations were announced Monday morning, and Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson’s autobiographical musical starring Jaquel Spivey, took the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:20AMFriday, May 6, 2022
An organization representing Asian American performers, a labor union for scenic designers and a popular Manhattan nightclub-cabaret are among this year’s special Tony Award honorees annou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:36AMThursday, May 5, 2022
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the last time before Monday’s nomination announcements, making some final eligibility determinations for shows including the stars of Ameri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:03PMThe red bucket brigades so long-familiar to Broadway spring audiences were back this year after a two-year pandemic absence, and the results were heartening: donations across Broadway, Off B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:49AMThe Old Vic’s production of Amy Herzog’s play 4000 Miles, which was to have featured the West End debut of Timothée Chalamet in a co-starring role opposite Dame Eileen Atkins, has been …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:49AMWednesday, May 4, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway playwright and American Rust TV writer Adam Rapp has signed with CAA in all areas. Rapp, whose many plays have been staged at regional and Off Broadway venues, made his B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMAriana DeBose will host this year’s Tony Awards, organizers announced today. DeBose, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar this year for her performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMBroadway’s Plaza Suite, the Neil Simon revival starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, announced a third extension today, citing ticket demand. The comedy will now run at the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:57AMTuesday, May 3, 2022
The Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, will close on Sunday, May 22, several months earlier than originally planne…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:01PMBroadway box office was down 15% last week, with even some of the biggest hit shows reporting slips for the week ending May 1. In all, the 36 shows grossed $29,072,410. Likely reflecting a s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:18PM 
