Saturday, September 25, 2021
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!, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:59PMThe producers of Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill have hired an outside firm to investigate claims of an unsupportive workplace made yesterday by former cast member Nora Schell. “We are dee…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:08PMFriday, September 24, 2021
Actors’ Equity Association released a statement expressing deep concern over accusations made today by former Jagged Little Pill cast member Nora Schell about what the union described as �…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:31PMLackawanna Blues, the solo Broadway show written, performed, and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, has canceled its performances for tonight and over the weekend due to an off-stage back in…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:49PMTwo former cast members of Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill, including Tony-nominated featured actress Celia Rose Gooding, released statements today accusing the production of doing, as Goodi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PMI’m glad I took notes. Looking at the roster of nominees for this year’s too-long-delayed Tony Awards is all the reminder anyone could need of just how interminable Broadway’s Covid pa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PMThursday, September 23, 2021
George Ferencz, a longtime mainstay of the Off Broadway scene who directed premieres and revivals of plays by Sam Shepard, Aishah Rahman and Amiri Baraka, died Sept. 14 following a long illn…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:22PMGrammy-winning singer and actress Jennifer Nettles will take over the lead role in Broadway’s Waitress for a limited run beginning next month, producers announced today. Nettles will play …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:54AMMost of the originally-planned cast of the upcoming Broadway musical revival Caroline, or Change will be in place when the Roundabout Theatre Company production begins performances on Oct. 8…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMWednesday, September 22, 2021
Peter Palmer, who originated the title character in Broadway’s 1956 musical Li’l Abner and then reprised the role for the 1959 film adaptation, died Tuesday. He was 90. His death was ann…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:33PMProdigal Son actor Esau Pritchett has joined the cast of Broadway’s upcoming Thoughts of a Colored Man, replacing Keith David, who is leaving the production due to a private family matter.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:15AMBilly Crystal will star in a regional stage production of his new, in-development musical adaptation of his 1992 feature film comedy Mr. Saturday Night. Set to debut at the Barrington Stage …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:47AMMonday, September 20, 2021
Broadway’s Back!, the live two-hour broadcast special immediately following this Sunday’s streaming-only Tony Awards ceremony, will include appearances by Kristin Chenoweth, André De Sh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMJordan Fisher, who was playing the title role in Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway when the Covid pandemic shutdown hit in March 2020, will return to the role when the musical reopens at the Musi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:20AMSaturday, September 18, 2021
When Boston area audiences saw a pre-Broadway performance of the Alanis Morissette musical Jagged Little Pill in 2018, they saw actor Lauren Patten sing a powerful, showstopping rendition of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:23AMFriday, September 17, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Paradise Square, the new Broadway-bound musical from producer Garth H. Drabinsky set during the history-making New York Draft Riots of the 1860s, will arrive at the Barrymore Thea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMThursday, September 16, 2021
Stephen Sondheim is at work on a new musical that he hopes to stage next season, the legendary Broadway composer told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show last night. Few details were given – …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:45AMWednesday, September 15, 2021
BroadwayCon, the annual three-day fan convention that was held virtually earlier this year due to the Covid pandemic, will return to in-person programming for the 2022 edition. The 2022 Broa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:58PMTuesday, September 14, 2021
Producers of Broadway’s Company have completed casting with the hiring of Manu Narayan, who takes over the role of Theo previously filled by Kyle Dean Massey. Narayan’s Broadway credits …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:09PMEXCLUSIVE: Eugene Pack, creator of the live stage comedy show Celebrity Autobiography and writer-director of The Pack Podcast, has signed with CAA. Celebrity Autobiography, which played a li…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:40PMMonday, September 13, 2021
You just can’t keep a beloved ghost dead: Beetlejuice is coming back to haunt Broadway, with a return engagement of the increasingly popular musical taking possession of Broadway’s Marri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PMThe West End opening night of the new Back to the Future – The Musical will be without its usual Doc Brown: Actor Roger Bart has tested positive for Covid-19 and will be temporarily replac…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:12PMCandace Bushnell, the author and creater of the Sex in the City newspaper column that inspired the long-running HBO franchise, is renewing her vows with her beloved New York with a new stage…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:25AMBroadway’s big Tony Award night will be hosted by by award-winning singer/actress Audra McDonald and the equally lauded Leslie Odom Jr., with the former taking on hosting duties for the 74…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMFriday, September 10, 2021
Nkeki Obi-Melekwe, who has played the title role in the West End and Broadway productions of Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, will take over full time on Broadway Nov. 2 after Tony-nominate…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMThursday, September 9, 2021
Liz McCann, a groundbreaking Broadway producer who, as one of the first and most successful women to achieve a prominent leadership role in the theater industry – a term she hated, preferr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:10PMNetflix has released the official trailer for Diana: The Musical, director Christopher Ashley’s film of the Broadway production that premieres on the streamer Oct. 1. Filmed in 2020 at Bro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:41PMWednesday, September 8, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway Rising, a feature length documentary on the reopening of Broadway, has started production, with director Amy Rice (HBO’s By the People: The Election of Barack Obama) pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMTuesday, September 7, 2021
Broadway’s To Kill A Mockingbird has rounded out its return-to-stage cast, with Hunter Parrish, Portia, Michael Braugher and Gordon Clapp among the actors joining the previously announced …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:15PMFriday, September 3, 2021
Waitress, the Broadway hit that, along with Hadestown, brought music back to the New York stage last night after many dark months, grossed $197,878 in tickets sales today, breaking the singl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:13PMMal Z. Lawrence, whose defiantly old-school Borscht Belt stand-up comedy delighted audiences and happily surprised critics when the Catskills on Broadway revue became a hit in 1991, died Mon…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:54PM 
