Monday, March 7, 2022
Pamela Anderson will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the long-running musical ‘Chicago’ this spring, producers announced today. The former Baywatch and Home Improvement star wil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:10PMMary Badham, Hollywood’s original Scout Finch in the 1962 film of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, has been cast in the touring stage production of Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation. This t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:49AMFriday, March 4, 2022
Broadway’s mask-and-vaccine policy will remain in effect at least through April despite New York City’s just-announced easing of Covid rules. Broadway leaders will revisit the issue on A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:44AMThe Tony-nominated actor Will Swenson has been cast as Neil Diamond in the Broadway-bound musical about the “Sweet Caroline” singer-songwriter, producers announced today. Swenson will pl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:45AMWednesday, March 2, 2022
The great stage, film and TV actor James Earl Jones will once again see his name up in lights: Broadway’s 110-year-old Cort Theater is being renamed in Jones’ honor. The Shubert Organiza…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, March 1, 2022
Broadway continued its 2022 rebound last week, with 92% of available seats filled and box office receipts climbing 5% over the previous week to $23,004,259. Total attendance for the 19 Broad…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:11PMRachel Dratch, Lilli Cooper, Lea DeLaria, Julianne Hough, Suzy Nakamura, Julie White and Vanessa Williams will star in the just-announced Broadway comedy POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:39PMMonday, February 28, 2022
The Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, directed and choreographed by Tony Award nominee Camille A. Brown (Once On…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMFriday, February 25, 2022
The critically lauded hit Off Broadway musical Kimberly Akimbo will transfer to Broadway in the fall, producers announced today. Previews will begin Oct. 12 at a Shubert Theater to be announ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AMWednesday, February 23, 2022
Broadway box office was up 15% last week, hitting $21,835,116 as average ticket prices climbed 11% over the previous week to $126. With attendance up only 4% over the previous week (to 173,1…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:49PMTuesday, February 22, 2022
The large ensemble cast of Lincoln Center Theater’s upcoming revival of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Skin of Our Teeth will include Priscilla Lopez (In The Height…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:07PMFriday, February 18, 2022
Margaret Styne, the widow of Broadway composer Jule Styne who oversaw an estate and legacy that includes the much anticipated upcoming revival of Funny Girl, has died. A longtime presence in…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:42PMMrs. Doubtfire will return to Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Thursday, April 14, a month later than originally planned. Producers announced the new date today. The musical adaptati…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:27PMTuesday, February 15, 2022
Broadway box office continued its climb back from the early-winter Omicron surge, with 19 productions grossing a total $18,939,840 for the week ending Feb. 13, a 12% jump over the previous w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:58PMMonday, February 14, 2022
Broadway’s upcoming Macbeth, starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, has completed its cast, with Hadestown‘s Amber Gray, Billions‘ Asia Kate Dillon and Phillip James Brannon from M. Nig…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMDavid Byrne’s American Utopia has extended its Broadway run for the final time and now will conclude performances on Sunday, April 3 at the St. James Theatre. The production had previously…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:33AMThursday, February 10, 2022
When people who dislike musicals talk about the musicals they dislike, there’s a decent chance they’re talking about musicals like The Music Man – whether they’ve ever actually ever …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:04PMThe spring return of Broadway’s Beetlejuice will feature much of the cast that was in place prior to the March 2020 pandemic shutdown, producers announced today. Joining the previously ann…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AMWednesday, February 9, 2022
Broadway’s mask-and-vax policy will remain in effect at least through April, regardless of New York State’s plan to ease up on mask mandates. With Broadway box office finally showing som…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:22PMApparently fans have been saying his name three times: Alex Brightman will return as Broadway’s favorite ghost when Beetlejuice resumes performances this spring. As previously announced, t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AMTuesday, February 8, 2022
Broadway box office showed some improvement last week, with business for the 19 productions rising 12% from the previous week to a total $16,909,848. Paid attendance was up a commensurate 9%…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:25PMMonday, February 7, 2022
Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker will be joined in Broadway’s upcoming revival of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite by Danny Bolero (In The Heights), Molly Ranson (Prayer for the Frenc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:26AMEXCLUSIVE: The strange, true-life story of Elmer McCurdy, a turn-of-the-20th Century train robber whose corpse became a carnival attraction and unwitting stage prop well into the 1970s, will…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMBroadway’s upcoming revival of Funny Girl, starring Beanie Feldstein, Jane Lynch, Ramin Karimloo and Jared Grimes has completed casting, with Peter Francis James, Ephie Aardema, Debra Card…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:37AMTuesday, February 1, 2022
Has any Broadway production in recent (or even not so recent) memory arrived with as much emotional baggage – or carried it as lightly – as the visually and sonically ravishing MJ? The M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PMBroadway’s ongoing, twice-annual 2-for-1 ticket special seems to have help stave off what might otherwise have been a more precipitous drop in attendance last week as box office receipts d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:27PMThe Broadway production of Tracy Letts’ The Minutes is delaying its performance dates by two weeks this spring. The play, starring Schitt’s Creek actor Noah Reid, Letts, Blair Brown, Jes…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:38AMHangmen, Martin McDonagh’s Olivier Award-winning comedy that became (seemingly) an early casualty of Broadway’s 2020 Covid shutdown, has gotten a reprieve: The play will begin previews a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMMonday, January 31, 2022
Broadway’s pre-Omicron autumn might best be described using a song lyric sung on stage every night by American Utopia‘s David Byrne: “Same as it ever was.” As disappointing but hardl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:57PMFriday, January 28, 2022
In a break with Broadway custom of recent decades, producers of The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster are not inviting critics to pre-opening night previews. Instead, critics…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:48PMThursday, January 27, 2022
The international stage musical adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince will arrive on Broadway this spring a month later than previously expected, the latest productio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:57AM 
