Thursday, August 10, 2023
There's at least one shark that's not showing up in New York City these days: Bruce, the famous mechanical predator of Steven Spielberg's sea horror classic Jaws, is the Godot-like presence …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Casting for Broadway's upcoming Spamalot revival is well underway, with James Monroe Iglehart, Michael Urie, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Jimmy Smagula and Nik Walker set to reprise their roles…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has signed on as a lead producer of the Broadway-bound musical adaptation of The Outsiders, the producing team announced today. Based on the 1967 novel b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Parade, winner of this year's Tony Award for Best Musical Revival, ended its Broadway run on a very high note Sunday, grossing a big $1,814,013 and selling out its special nine-performance w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:25PM[SHARE]Monday, August 7, 2023
Broadway Across America, a leading presenter of first-class touring productions in North America, has announced a new executive team, with current co-CEO Rich Jaffe named sole CEO. Also as p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:28PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Billy Porter has joined the producing team of the Broadway-aimed Billy Strayhorn: Something to Live, a new musical about jazz great Strayhorn set to make its world debut next mont…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:44AM[SHARE]Funny Girl, the Broadway revival with one of the strangest casting histories in recent theatrical memory, has recouped its $16.5 million capitalization, producers announced today. The musica…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2023
Mark Margolis, a veteran actor with hundreds of credits dating back to the 1970s but perhaps best known for his Emmy-nominated portrayal of Hector "Tio" Salamanca on TV's Breaking Bad and Be…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:29PM[SHARE]Casting will be announced at a later date.
The 1996 novel has sold millions of copies & adapted into a hit 2004 film.
The critically-acclaimed musical adaptation starring Tony winner M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 3, 2023
Back To The Future: The Musical made me very nostalgic for that great time-traveling '80s movie, but Peggy Sue Got Married isn't available on any of my streaming services. That's not to disp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Clifton Oliver, a stage actor who appeared on Broadway in The Lion King, In The Heights and Wicked, died yesterday following a lengthy illness. His death was announced by family and friends …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:56PM[SHARE]A new stage musical adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel The Notebook will arrive on Broadway this spring, with music and lyrics by multi-platinum singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson and …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Monty Python's Spamalot is heading back to Broadway this fall. The revival, which follows a sold-out run at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., begins previews Tuesday, October 31, at th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Broadway box office held steady last week, with most shows either keeping apace with the previous week or showing some increases. In all, the 28 shows grossed $31,189,129, about the same as …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:36PM[SHARE]Monday, July 31, 2023
Theresa Rebeck's I Need That, a world premiere play starring Danny DeVito, his daughter Lucy DeVito and Ray Anthony Thomas, will begin Broadway previews at the American Airlines Theatre on F…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:26PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: A two-day, invitation only reading of the in-development musical adaptation of John Berendt's 1994 non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil will feature recent To…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 27, 2023
Julian Barry, whose 1971 Broadway play and 1974 movie, both titled Lenny and telling the story of legendary comic Lenny Bruce, died Tuesday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 92. His death…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:25PM[SHARE]Jerome Coopersmith, who wrote more than 30 installments of the classic 1960s-70s police drama Hawaii Five-O and received a Tony Award nomination for his book for the 1965 Harold Prince-direc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Emmy-winning actor Sarah Paulson will return to Broadway this fall for the first time in 13 years when she stars in the Second Stage Theater production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' darkly come…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Mark Simon, a longtime casting director for stage productions on Broadway and at Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group, died July 16 in Los Angeles. He was 70. His death was confirmed by Broadwa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 25, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment company Madison Wells Live, LaChanze and Taraji P. Henson have joined the producing team of Manhattan Theatre Club's Jaja's African Hair Braiding, a world premiere p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:45PM[SHARE]Air-conditioned Broadway held its own as New York City plunged ever deeper into a hot summer last week, with total box office receipts keeping steady at $31,520,593, a tiny increase of 2% ov…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:49PM[SHARE]Monday, July 24, 2023
Pamela Blair, who originated the role of the surgically enhanced Valerie Clark in the Broadway smash A Chorus Line, died Sunday at her home in Phoenix, Arizona, following a lengthy illness. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:43PM[SHARE]New York, New York, the John Kander & Fred Ebb musical that arrived on Broadway last spring to considerable anticipation, will play its final performance on Sunday, July 30, having playe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 20, 2023
Disco despotism isn't exactly a new genre " Cabaret hinted the way, Evita made it clear, American Psycho, in its fashion, added a variation, all in service of social horrors offset by catchy…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Friday, July 14, 2023
Actors' Equity president Kate Shindle is urging stage actors to "proactively and aggressively avoid breaking" the SAG-AFTRA strike by inadvertently accepting struck work. In a message to mem…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 13, 2023
Actors' Equity Association, the union representing stage theater actors and stage managers, expressed solidarity with the SAG-AFTRA actors strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:36PM[SHARE]Loretta Devine will step in for her old Dreamgirls co-star Jennifer Holliday in the upcoming New York City Center gala presentation of Pal Joey starring Ephraim Sykes. Holliday had been prev…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Stage actor James Beeks has been acquitted of all charges stemming from his participation in the Jan. 6th Capitol riots, with U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta concluding today at a Washingt…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:35PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award nominee Vanessa Williams has joined the lead producing team for the Broadway-aimed A Wonderful World, a bio-musical about jazz icon Louis Armstrong starring James Monro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Box office for most Broadway shows last week wilted a bit as June's Tony glow gave way to plain old New York summer heat, though a couple newcomers were among the handful bucking the downwar…
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