Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Following a season that saw its Broadway transfers Into the Woods and Parade score a slew of Tony Award nominations, the New York City Center has announced what's coming next for its celebra…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:20PM[SHARE]Broadway box office overall held steady last week, even as the recent Tony Award nominations already seemed to lose some of their power to boost ticket sales. Some shows with nominations saw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 30, 2023
The use of pre-recorded tracks in the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love is pitting New York City's musicians' union against the show's producers, with the union calling the conc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:41PM[SHARE]Robin Wagner, one of Broadway's most prolific and celebrated set designers with three Tony Awards and a roster of major credits including Angels in America, Dreamgirls, A Chorus Line, The Pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:43AM[SHARE]Friday, May 26, 2023
Victoria Clark and Jessica Stone met in 1996 when both were appearing on Broadway in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying " Clark had originated the revival's role of Smitty and …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 25, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss and husband/entrepreneur Todd Tucker have joined the producing for the Broadway-bound revival of The Wiz, Deadline has learned. In a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Broadway's box office was up a bit during the final week of the 2022-23 season, with only a few productions reporting slips from the previous week, including two " Funny Girl and Grey House …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Broadway box office for the 2022-23 season " the first full season since the industry's return from the Covid closure " reached $1,577,586,897, a big increase over the last two hard-hit seas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:29PM[SHARE]The Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, will be the recipient of the 2023 Regional Theatre Tony Award, the Tony administration committee announced today. The award, based on a recomm…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:48PM[SHARE]Last night, the Broadway musical Shucked made history of a sort when cast member Alex Newell delivered a red-hot performance of the musical's barnburner "Independently Owned" on The Voice, m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 22, 2023
Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the latest stage farce from UK's acclaimed Mischief theater troupe, has extended its run on Broadway for two weeks ahead of a move to Los Angeles in August. The play no…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:43PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Neil Meron, a force behind bring live events to television including such musicals as Jesus Christ Superstar, Annie and The Sound of Music, has joined Andrew Lloyd Webber's London…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2023
Broadway's Leopoldstadt and Some Like It Hot took two of the top honors at today's 2023 Drama League Awards, the former named Best Production of a Play and the latter Best Production of a Mu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 18, 2023
Broadway will dim its marquee lights on June 1 in remembrance of the late Roundabout Theatre Company artistic director Todd Haimes, who died April 19 at age 66. "Todd Haimes was a force on B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Tony winner Lena Hall is set to star in a new Broadway-aimed musical from the & Juliet writing and directing team and featuring the hit songs of rock & roll pioneer Roy Orbison. In D…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Lea Michele has tested positive for Covid again, and will be out of Broadway's Funny Girl until Tuesday, May 23, the production announced today. Julie Benko will play the role of Fanny Brice…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:17PM[SHARE]Tony nominations seem to have given a box office boost to at least some of Broadway's shows, with Some Like It Hot, Kimberly Akimbo, Parade and Leopoldstadt reporting noticeable bumps for th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:48PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Weber, the choreographer who recently received Tony Award nominations for her work on & Juliet and KPOP, has signed with UTA for representation in all areas. Weber is…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]The Outer Critics Circle has named Some Like It Hot as the year's Best New Broadway Musical and Leopoldstadt as Best New Broadway Play, the organization announced today. The Circle, made up …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:51AM[SHARE]Monday, May 15, 2023
No decisions were reached at today's emergency meeting of the Tony Awards Management Committee, a get-together in which contingency plans were discussed in light of last week's news that the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:51PM[SHARE]MJ, the Broadway musical about Michael Jackson and featuring his many hits, has recouped its initial investment, producers announced today. The $22.5 million production began previews at the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:23AM[SHARE]Friday, May 12, 2023
Succession's Jeremy Strong will star in playwright Amy Herzog's new Broadway adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. Tony-winning director Sam Gold will direct in early 2024. Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 11, 2023
Chip Zien will reprise his Off Broadway performance in the Barry Manilow-Bruce Sussman musical Harmony when the production moves to Broadway this fall. Zien will star as "Rabbi," a role he o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:34PM[SHARE]A new stage musical based on the classic Nancy Drew adventure book series is in the works from Little Mermaid composer Alan Menken, Legally Blonde lyricist Nell Benjamin, book by two-time Os…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Bad Cinderella, Andrew Lloyd Webber's updated musical re-telling of the classic fairy tale, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, June 4. The musical, which features lyrics by …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:59PM[SHARE]Just hours after members of Actors' Equity Association joined the striking WGA picket lines outside of HBO and Amazon's New York City offices today, Kate Shindle, Equity president, suggested…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Perhaps last week's Tony Award nominations started paying off at the box office quicker than expected, at least for a few productions: Figures for last week, while down overall, indicate a n…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:09PM[SHARE]Michael R. Jackson, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of A Strange Loop, is sinking his choppers into a stage musical adaptation of the 2007 cult horror-comedy film Teeth, set for an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:16PM[SHARE]Actors' Equity Association, the union representing theater actors and stage managers, is inviting its members and allies to join the WGA picket line outside HBO and Amazon offices tomorrow. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:24PM[SHARE]Monday, May 8, 2023
Bruce Norris's Downstate and Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt were named this season's Best Play and Best Foreign Play, respectively, by the New York Drama Critics' Circle today. Downstate opened…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:52PM[SHARE]Friday, May 5, 2023
For Tony Award nominees, the next 37 days will be the usual long slog of interviews, parties, nerves and anticipation. But for producers of the ceremony's June 11 broadcast on CBS, the date …
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