Thursday, 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 11:57AMWednesday, January 26, 2022
In the most cramped of times – days as economically and emotionally pinched as the ones we’re living through now, and the ones we survived (or didn’t) in 2008 – theater can remind us…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMEXCLUSIVE: The long-in-coming return of the musical based on Jerry Lewis’ The Nutty Professor, and a new musical adaptation of the Richard Dreyfuss 1995 film Mr. Holland’s Opus, will rec…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMBroadway continued its winter freeze last week, with box office dropping 11% to a slim $16,494,289 for its meager 21-show roster. Attendance for the week ending Jan. 23 was 152,135, a slip o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:38AMTuesday, January 25, 2022
The Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, directed and choreographed by Camille A. Brown, has postponed its opening …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:36AMSunday, January 23, 2022
James Snyder, who has played the title character of Broadway’s recently retooled Harry Potter and the Cursed Child since the show returned from the pandemic shutdown, has been fired by pro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:46PMThursday, January 20, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: A new musical stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning 1959 film Black Orpheus is being readied for a Broadway premiere next season, producers said today. The production will feature…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMTuesday, January 18, 2022
Broadway box office stayed slim last week, with a total gross of $18,496,689 holding even with the previous week, and total attendance of 162,566 rising a small 4%. Granted, the totals refle…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:43PMBroadway theaters will dim their marquee lights tomorrow night in honor of the late Sidney Poitier. Poitier, who made his Broadway debut in 1946’s Lysistrata and earned a Tony Award nomina…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:49PMPlaywright Matthew Spangler’s stage adaptation of The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling book-turned-movie, will make its Broadway premiere this summer. The play, which debuted …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:47AMThe Broadway premiere of Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer-Prize winning musical A Strange Loop will begin previews at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre on Wednesday, April 6, with an opening night …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMThursday, January 13, 2022
John Earl Jelks, currently appearing in the HBO Max series Love Life, has joined the previously announced Debra Messing and Enrico Colantoni in the cast of the upcoming Broadway production o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:50PMRobert Allan Ackerman, the director whose television work scored five Emmy nominations and who directed acclaimed Broadway productions including Bent and Extremities, died Jan. 10 of kidney …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:44PMWednesday, January 12, 2022
The closing notice and possible return for Broadway’s Girl From The North Country was barely cold before a second major production announced its own hiatus: To Kill a Mockingbird will clos…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:36PMThe acclaimed Bob Dylan musical Girl From The North Country will play its final Broadway performance at The Belasco Theatre on Jan. 23, with producers saying they’re in advanced conversati…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:41PMShoshana Bean has joined the cast of Billy Crystal’s upcoming Broadway musical Mr. Saturday Night, producers announced today. Also announced were new preview and opening dates: The musical…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMTuesday, January 11, 2022
After 10 seasons at the pressure cooker of Saturday Night Live, Cecily Strong comes well prepared, much loved and properly steeled to her New York stage debut as the solo star in an Off Broa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMVincent J. Sainato, a visual designer whose ad campaigns for Rent and Avenue Q helped launch those musicals as long-running Broadway stalwarts, died Jan. 8 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, follow…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PMJack Viertel, whose 34 years with Broadway’s Jujamcyn Theaters included stints as both the Creative Director and, more recently, Senior Vice President, announced his retirement today, effe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:34PMBroadway’s traditional post-holiday January doldrums teamed up with a slate of show closings and a national skyrocketing surge in Omicron cases to send box office tumbling by nearly a thir…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:18PMMonday, January 10, 2022
Broadway’s mask and Covid vaccination requirements for audiences and theater workers has been extended through April 30, with the rules expanding to include children ages 5- to 11-years-ol…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:22AMWednesday, January 5, 2022
The foundation created by Cabaret lyricist Fred Ebb has awarded a record-setting $2.6 million to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The gift is the single largest in Broadway Cares history. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:55PMEXCLUSIVE: A newly launched financial grant program called The 1/52 Project will offer $15,000 grants to theater designers, with a mission to encourage early career designers from historical…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMTuesday, January 4, 2022
Flying Over Sunset will end its limited engagement Broadway run three weeks earlier than planned, producer Lincoln Center Theater announced today. The musical, which imagines a meeting of th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:47PMJoan Copeland, an actress whose Broadway career began in the 1940s and would include acclaimed performances in a 1976 revival of Pal Joey and in the 1980 premiere of The America Clock, writt…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:45PMBroadway box office receipts rebounded by a significant margin last week, climbing to $26 million from Christmas Week’s grim, Covid-decimated $14 million estimate. That’s an overall, wee…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PMParadise Square, the musical from producer Garth H. Drabinsky set during the history-making New York Draft Riots of the 1860s, has postponed its Broadway arrival by three weeks due to the r…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PMMonday, January 3, 2022
The Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway production of Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew starring Phylicia Rashad has canceled performances through Sunday, Jan. 9, due to breakthrough Cov…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:42PMSaturday, January 1, 2022
Allan Larson, father of Jonathan Larson and a dedicated caretaker of the Rent playwright’s legacy, has died. His death was announced last night on Twitter by Lin-Manuel Miranda, director o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:59AMFriday, December 31, 2021
With the recent Broadway cancellations and Omicron knocking New York City for a holiday loop, it’s easy to forget that Broadway’s fall season was, artistically speaking, stellar, with a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:19PMMonday, December 27, 2021
David Byrne will present a revised version of his American Utopia Broadway show beginning Tuesday, due to several breakthrough Covid cases among his onstage band. In an Instagram video today…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:02PM 
