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Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Cecily Strong Sets New York Stage Debut In Revival Of Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Solo Show ‘The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe’ by Greg Evans

Saturday Night Live‘s Cecily Strong will make her New York stage debut this December in an Off Broadway production of The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Jane Wagner�…

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Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s ‘Lackawanna Blues’ Extends Broadway Run by Greg Evans

Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s critically acclaimed Lackawanna Blues is extending its limited Broadway engagement by a week, making up for recent performances canceled due to the star’s back in…

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Monday, October 11, 2021

‘Is This A Room’ Broadway Review: The Unnerving Interrogation Of Reality Winner As Impeccable Drama by Greg Evans

If only she had paused to consider the consequences. If only she had plotted more carefully. If only she had asked for a lawyer. Throughout the course of its taut 70 minutes, the remarkable …

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Sunday, October 10, 2021

‘Chicken & Biscuits’ Broadway Review: New Comedy Serves Up Reheated Leftovers by Greg Evans

The dish that gives this play its title was, we’re told more than once, a specialty of the late patriarch whose death has occasioned a very rocky family reunion, a get-together where the o…

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Friday, October 8, 2021

Ralph Fiennes To Play NYC Power Broker Robert Moses In London World Premiere Of David Hare’s ‘Straight Line Crazy’ by Greg Evans

Ralph Fiennes will lead the cast as New York City power broker Robert Moses in the world premiere of David Hare’s Straight Line Crazy at London’s The Bridge theater this spring. Nicholas…

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‘Lackawanna Blues’ Canceled Opening Night Performance Due To Ruben Santiago-Hudson Back Injury by Greg Evans

Lackawanna Blues received excellent opening night reviews, even without an opening night. Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s solo play was set to resume performances at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedma…

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‘American Buffalo’ Broadway Revival With Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell & Darren Criss Coming In Spring by Greg Evans

The Broadway revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss – postponed from 2020 due to the Covid shutdown – will open at Circle …

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Thursday, October 7, 2021

‘Lackawanna Blues’ Broadway Review: Ruben Santiago-Hudson Honors The Saints And Sinners Who Made Him by Greg Evans

Ruben Santiago-Hudson summons a world of ghosts, or at least as many as will fill a couple boarding houses and a lifetime of gratitude, in his affectionate Lackawanna Blues, the one-man auto…

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Kennedy Center Union Authorizes Strike Over Pay Cuts & Staffing, Setting Stage For ‘Hadestown’ Pickets by Greg Evans

With the Tony-winning Hadestown set to make its Washington D.C. debut at the Kennedy Center next week, stagehands at the celebrated venue have authorized a strike vote over what it calls “…

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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Cynthia Harris Dies: ‘Mad About You’ Actress Was 87 by Greg Evans

Cynthia Harris, who appeared in numerous Broadway and Off Broadway productions and is most widely known for playing the mother of star Paul Reiser’s character on the sitcom Mad About You, …

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Jane Lynch To Join Beanie Feldstein In Broadway’s ‘Funny Girl’ Revival; Ramin Karimloo, Jared Grimes Also Cast by Greg Evans

Jane Lynch, Ramin Karimloo and Jared Grimes will join the previously announced Beanie Feldstein  in the upcoming Broadway revival of Funny Girl, the Michael Mayer-directed production set to…

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Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Jeremy O. Harris Announces Plan To Pull ‘Slave Play’ L.A. Run Over Scarcity Of Female Playwrights by Greg Evans

UPDATED with CTG response: Playwright Jeremy O. Harris said Tuesday that he intends to pull his Tony-nominated Slave Play from the upcoming lineup at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles due …

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Lenka Peterson Dies: Tony-Nominated Broadway Actress, Mother Of Glynnis O’Connor Was 95 by Greg Evans

Lenka Peterson, whose Broadway performances included a 1984 Tony-nominated turn in the musical Quilters, co-starring roles with Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish and Colleen Dewhurst in plays wi…

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Disney ‘Princess Concert’ Tour Cancels Fall Dates Due To Covid Concerns, Plans To Reschedule Next Year by Greg Evans

Disney Concerts has canceled the fall dates for its Disney Princess – The Concert tour due to concerns over Covid, with plans to reschedule the shows next year. The national concert tour h…

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Monday, October 4, 2021

John Legend & Partners Join Producing Team Of Broadway’s ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ Temptations Musical by Greg Evans

John Legend’s smooth-as-silk Tony-night performance with the cast of Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations should have tipped us off: The multiple-Grammy winner, alon…

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‘Thoughts Of A Colored Man’ Moves Up Broadway Opening To Oct. 13 by Greg Evans

Thoughts of a Colored Man, the new Broadway play by Keenan Scott II and directed by Steve Broadnax III, is moving up its official Broadway opening by more than two weeks, with the new openin…

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‘Pal Joey’ Broadway-Bound With Directors Tony Goldwyn & Savion Glover, New Book, More Rodgers & Hart Songs by Greg Evans

Pal Joey, the notoriously tricky Rodgers and Hart musical with a score as lovely as its lead characters are thorny, is heading back to Broadway next year in a newly revised version to be co-…

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Sunday, October 3, 2021

‘Six’ Broadway Review: Lively Pop Musical Crowns King Henry’s Wives With A Royal Treatment by Greg Evans

Gallows humor – and after the last 18 months, can there be any other kind? – is in exuberant form at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where the terrific new musical Six just had its…

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Friday, October 1, 2021

Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ Cancels Broadway Performances For 10 Days Due To Covid by Greg Evans

Disney’s beleaguered Broadway production of Aladdin is canceling performances yet again as additional breakthrough Covid cases were detected within the company today. All performances of t…

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Broadway Extends Covid Vaccine & Mask Requirements Through End Of 2021 by Greg Evans

All 41 Broadway theaters will continue to require Covid vaccinations for audience members, performers, backstage crew and venue staff at least through the end of the year, the Broadway Leagu…

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‘Stars In The House’ Helped Broadway Through The Dark, And Now Seth Rudetsky Steps Back Into A Spotlight Of His Own – Deadline Q&A by Greg Evans

With Seth Rudetsky resuming his Off Broadway solo show and also returning this Sunday to his acclaimed series of livestream special-guest concerts, one is tempted to begin an article like th…

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Stage Director-Choreographer Chase Brock Signs With Verve by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE Stage director and choreographer Chase Brock, who choreographed the Broadway productions of Be More Chill and Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark, has signed with Verve for representatio…

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Thursday, September 30, 2021

Aaron Sorkin Says Scott Rudin “Got What He Deserves”, Hopes “He Gets Better” – Report by Greg Evans

Aaron Sorkin, whose stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird resumes performances on Broadway next week, says in a new interview that Scott Rudin, the show’s former produce…

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Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ Cancels Broadway Performance Due To Breakthrough Covid Cases On Second Night Back by Greg Evans

Disney’s Aladdin on Broadway canceled tonight’s performance – the show’s first since reopening last night – after breakthrough Covid cases were detected within the musical’s comp…

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Nick Jonas & Priyanka Chopra Jonas Join Producing Team Of Broadway’s ‘Chicken & Biscuits’ by Greg Evans

Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas have joined the producing team of Douglas Lyons’ Broadway comedy Chicken & Biscuits, currently in previews at Circle in the Square Theatre. On Sund…

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Daniel Craig And Ruth Negga Heading To Broadway In ‘Macbeth’ by Greg Evans

Daniel Craig will return to Broadway next spring in the starring role of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, with Ruth Negga taking on Lady Macbeth in an all-new, 15-week production to be directed by T…

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Monday, September 27, 2021

Thornton Wilder Classic ‘The Skin Of Our Teeth’ To Get Broadway Revival by Greg Evans

The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder’s 1943 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-drama, will return to Broadway next spring in a Lincoln Center Theater production directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz…

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‘Slave Play’ Sets Broadway Return Despite Tony Award Shut-Out by Greg Evans

Slave Play, the incendiary Jeremy O. Harris play that went rejected by Tony Award voters Sunday night two years after dazzling critics and helping start theater’s conversation about race, …

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Tony Awards Review: Broadway Teaches TV A Lesson With Livestream-Broadcast Hybrid by Greg Evans

Broadway, you might have heard, is back, and, miracle of miracles, it seems to have figured out how to present a truly excellent television awards show. Splitting the traditional three hours…

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Sunday, September 26, 2021

Tony Awards – The Winners List (Updating Live) by Greg Evans

The 74th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Audra McDonald, will be livestreamed tonight at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, exclusively on Paramount+. The presentation will honor the outstanding shows, perf…

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Saturday, September 25, 2021

How To Watch The Tony Awards On TV, Streaming & Demand by Greg Evans

The 74th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Audra McDonald, will be livestreamed Sunday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, exclusively on Paramount+. The Tony Awards Present: Broadway’s Back!, …

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