Friday, 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 10:02PMWednesday, December 22, 2021
Broadway’s recent and ongoing surge in Covid cancellations is one of those shocking but not surprising things – New Yorkers knew instinctively since theaters reopened in September that d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PMCandace Bushnell’s solo Off Broadway show Is There Still Sex in the City? has closed due to the writer-star’s breakthrough Covid. Bushnell tested positive Tuesday night just before she w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:35PMTuesday, December 21, 2021
Broadway box office tumbled last week, dropping 26% from the previous week to a combined tally of $22,511,627 for the 31 productions. Attendance for the week ending Dec. 19 – a week marked…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:50PMMonday, December 20, 2021
Jagged Little Pill, the Broadway musical of Alanis Morissette songs, will not reopen at the Broadhurst Theater following its current Covid suspension, producers announced tonight. With the a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:40PMStars in the House, the YouTube and streaming talk and performance series hosted by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley since the March 2020 Broadway shutdown, will feature a special episode toni…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:56PMMichael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer-Prize winning musical A Strange Loop will open at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre in spring 2022, producers announced. Casting, dates and ticket information will …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMDisney’s Aladdin, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Jagged Little Pill joined Broadway’s Covid cancellation roster over the weekend, bringing the number of productions missing the we…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:14PMFriday, December 17, 2021
More Broadway cancellation updates: Tina – The Tina Turner Musical has paused performances through Monday, with the show now set to resume on Tuesday Dec. 21, and Hamilton, which had alrea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:59PMIn what might be the harshest of the Covid Broadway cancellations, MJ, the new Michael Jackson musical, will not return to Broadway’s Neil Simon Theatre until Monday, Dec. 27, an announcem…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:28PMMoulin Rouge!, the Broadway musical, has canceled tonight’s performance due to the detective of positive Covid test results within the company that prompted the evacuation of the theater j…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:11AMThursday, December 16, 2021
Today’s matinee of MJ, the Michael Jackson musical, has been canceled “due to the detection of a limited number of positive covid test results within the Broadway company,” producers a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PMNext spring’s buzzy production of Macbeth starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga will have a larger Broadway home than previously expected, courtesy of the Princess Diana musical. Macbeth ha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:14PMWednesday, December 15, 2021
Several additional Broadway productions have canceled performances due to breakthrough Covid cases, including Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Ain’t …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:38AMTuesday, December 14, 2021
Broadway box office rebounded last week from the previous week’s post-Thanksgiving dive, with the fattened roster of 32 shows taking in a total of $30,533,809 for the week ending Dec. 12. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:04PMMonday, December 13, 2021
Aldous Huxley, Cary Grant and Clare Boothe Luce – a grouping that might sound more like the set-up for a joke than the premise of a musical – were, in real life, proponents of lysergic a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMBroadway’s Freestyle Love Supreme offered up some bad news-good news today, with the improvisational hip-hop revue canceling tonight’s performance due to Covid (the bad news) but reveali…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:02PMLeonard Soloway, whose six-decade career as a stage general manager and producer included 59 Broadway shows that won more than 40 Tony Awards, died Saturday in Palm Springs, California. He w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:36PMBroadway’s Freestyle Love Supreme and Off Broadway’s Little Shop of Horrors canceled at least some of their weekend performances due to Covid, joining, as previously reported, Mrs. Doubt…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:42AMSaturday, December 11, 2021
The Broadway production of Diana, The Musical will play its final performance on Sunday, Dec. 19, producers have announced. The musical began previews at the Longacre Theatre on Nov. 2 and o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:57AMThursday, December 9, 2021
If there’s a better, more vital way to honor the late, incomparable Stephen Sondheim than Marianne Elliott’s superb production of Company, Broadway hasn’t invented it. This gorgeous re…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMThe sextet of queens of Six and each of the three Lehman Brothers – or rather the performers in the Broadway roles – may compete in the Tony Awards’ lead acting categories this year, T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:21AMFollowing sold-out runs in Paris, Sydney, and Dubai, a stage musical adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince will arrive on Broadway this spring, with performances set …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:46AMWednesday, December 8, 2021
Broadway’s Covid vaccine mandate will soon extend to children between the ages of 5 and 11, the Broadway League announced today. The expanded policy will take effect Tuesday, Dec. 14. The …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:56AMBroadway box office settled back to its pre-Thanksgiving levels last week, with grosses for the 29 shows totaling $26,214,735, a 19% drop from the previous week’s holiday take. Attendance …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AMTuesday, December 7, 2021
Actors’ Equity has reached a new agreement with the Michigan regional theater founded in 1991 by actor Jeff Daniels that recently saw the resignation of its longtime artistic director Guy …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:55PMThe life of actor and activist Sidney Poitier will be told in a Broadway-targeted play to be written by Charles Randolph-Wright and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, producers announced tod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:42AMMonday, December 6, 2021
The Broadway production of Wicked canceled three performances over the weekend due to positive Covid tests within the company. The announcement also noted scheduled absences contributed to t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:04AMSunday, December 5, 2021
Barely 15 minutes of Mrs. Doubtfire has passed before the wife of the manic, cloying man-child at the center of the developing farce demands a divorce, and we can only puzzle over what took …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMFriday, December 3, 2021
Patti LuPone will miss this weekend’s performances of Broadway’s Company due to a non-Covid-related illness. Press had been invited to both of Saturday’s performances – matinee and e…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:45PM 
