Tuesday, November 19, 2024
As enthralling as it is disquieting, Swept Away, opening tonight on Broadway, is a taut and captivating new folk musical featuring the gorgeous songs of the roots-rock group The Avett Brothe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00PMTammy Faye, the Elton John-Jake Shears musical about televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker that opened last week to negative reviews, will close on December 8, less than a month after its official…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:09PMSunset Blvd. had its best box office numbers yet last week, while Maybe Happy Ending showed some welcome improvement and both Elf and A Wonderful World opened to houses with 90% of seats fil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:19PMEXCLUSIVE: Ryan McCartan, the former Liv & Maddie actor who transitioned to Broadway in Heathers the Musical and Wicked, will take over the role of Jay Gatsby in the Broadway hit musical…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMPrincipal casting for the new Broadway musical Boop! The Musical was announced today, with Jasmine Amy Rogers and Faith Prince set to reprise their well-reviewed performances from last year�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMMonday, November 18, 2024
Oh, the games people play, at least in stage plays like Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, The Boys In The Band and, now, Shit. Meet. Fan., Robert O’Hara’s world premiere dark comedy ope…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30PMSunday, November 17, 2024
Elf The Musical, the cheery – very, very cheery – revival opening tonight for a limited holiday run on Broadway, is an entirely suitable gift from a hard-working cast for fans of the wel…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMFriday, November 15, 2024
The actor has faced backlash during his career for playing LGBT+ and queer characters
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:02AMThursday, November 14, 2024
If you remember Tammy Faye Bakker at all from the peak of her ’80s televangelical fame, you’ll most likely remember the scandals, the mascara, the tarantula-leg eyelashes, the big, big h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00PMWednesday, November 13, 2024
Jinkx Monsoon is among the newly announced cast members for Broadway’s upcoming and reimagined Pirates of Penzance production starring the previously announced Ramin Karimloo and David Hyd…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PMTuesday, November 12, 2024
Broadway’s hit musical revival Sunset Blvd. stayed strong last week amidst the controversy surrounding star Nicole Scherzinger’s social media post interpreted (or rather misinterpreted) …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:15PMIt takes a special type of theatrical talent, one loaded with heart and wit and insight, to imbue something that looks like an Apple MagSafe iPhone Charger with more romantic appeal than a d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMAndrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group today announced the appointment of Louise Hughes as its new Chief Operating Officer. Hughes’ appointment to the leadership team at The Really Us…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:35AMMonday, November 11, 2024
Well, hello, Louis! Add another talent to the already prodigious roster of Louis Armstrong: Jazz giant, trumpeter par excellence, great American vocal stylist and, now, the rare musical hist…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMThe acclaimed London revival of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire starring Paul Mescal, Patsy Ferran and Anjana Vasan will transfer to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for a limit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMThe View today came to the defense of Broadway’s Nicole Scherzinger against the “mob mentality” of social media, even saying the Sunset Blvd. star should not have apologized for liking…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:18PMFriday, November 8, 2024
Nicole Scherzinger, the former Pussycat Doll and X Factor judge who recently surprised the New York theater community by turning in one of the best-reviewed Broadway performances of the seas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:53PMAnother Grammy nominations clean-sweep for Broadway: For the third consecutive year, all the nominees for Best Musical Theater Album are for Broadway productions. No West End, Off Broadway, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:25PMTuesday, November 5, 2024
Death Becomes Her, the new musical adaptation of the 1992 comedy fantasy film, worked up some Broadway magic in its second week since beginning performances at the Lunt-Fontanne, grossing an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:10PMMonday, November 4, 2024
The Broadway League will no longer be involved in announcing the dimming of marquee lights to memorialize the deaths of performers, writers and other members of the Broadway community. The a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:04PMFriends and family of the late Broadway actor Gavin Creel will host a public memorial celebration at Broadway’s St. James Theatre on Monday, December 2 at 4 p.m./ET, with the tribute conti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMFriday, November 1, 2024
Broadway will dim its marquee lights for the late Dame Maggie Smith at 6:45 pm/ET on Thursday, November 7, theater owners announced today. “Maggie Smith was a singular talent, whose artist…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:04PMPatti LuPone, famously fired by Andrew Lloyd Webber from her role as Norma Desmond in the 1993 London production of Sunset Boulevard, is putting old grudges aside – kinda, sorta – and pl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:40PMAndrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, one of the most successful musicals in Broadway history when it ended its 35-year run in 2023, is coming back to North America in a tour fea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:02AMWhen Operation Mincemeat, the lauded West End musical comedy, begins previews on Broadway this February, the original London cast will be reprising their acclaimed performances for New York …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMBusy Broadway producer Ken Davenport (Oh, Mary!, the upcoming Othello, among many other credits) has another project in the wings: A stage musical adaptation of the Oscar-winning 2008 film S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMThursday, October 31, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: The Broadway revival of Othello starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal has added to the cast with Andrew Burnap (The Inheritance, Disney’s upcoming live-action Snow Whit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
The strong (well, some of them) got stronger on Broadway last week even as the overall box office trended slightly downward, with 28 productions on the 36-show roster reporting receipt dips.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMMonday, October 28, 2024
George Clooney’s Broadway debut in Good Night, and Good Luck will begin performances March 12, 2025, at the Winter Garden Theatre, with an opening date of April 3. The Winter Garden venue …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:41AMFriday, October 25, 2024
No, Stevie Nicks has not seen Stereophonic, David Adjmi’s hit Broadway play about a fictional (but very Mac-like) ’70s band recording what will become its (very Rumours-like) masterpiece…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:28AM“Man of the House,” a new song co-written and produced by Jack Antonoff and performed by Rachel Zegler in Broadway’s Romeo + Juliet opening tonight, has been released as a single. Both…
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