Monday, June 17, 2024
Last night’s 77th Annual Tony Awards featured some terrific musical performances. We’ve compiled them all, so take a look and decide for yourself which shows should have taken home troph…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:21AMAndrew Rannells, walking the red (actually blue) carpet at the Tony Awards yesterday for his nominated Gutenberg! The Musical had some disappointing news for fans: Contrary to previous repor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:05AMNo awards show makes it to the end without a few surprises, and tonight’s Tony Awards on CBS had a whopper: It went off without a hitch. The Pluto TV pre-show, not so much. But more on tha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:56AMSunday, June 16, 2024
Singer-actor Nick Jonas and Tony Award-winning Tina actor Adrienne Warren will star in the first-ever Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years, a show that�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMFriday, June 14, 2024
Rap icon Nas is joining a creative team to bring a stage musical adaptation of the 1984 hip-hop film classic Beat Street to Broadway. Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, better known as Nas, made the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30PMTony Mordente, who made his mark on Broadway as a dancer and choreographer, played the hot-headed Jet named Action in the 1961 film West Side Story and later segued into a long and busy care…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:41PMRock icon Pete Townshend will not only introduce the musical performance of The Who’s Tommy cast, but will take part in it: Deadline hears that Townshend and the Tommy cast are set to perf…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:18AMRon Simons, who had a busy if low-key TV acting career before making his greatest impact producing such acclaimed Broadway plays as Thoughts of a Colored Man (2021) and the 2022 revival of f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:27AMThursday, June 13, 2024
With important discussions raised recently about whether (and which) new categories should be added to the Tony Awards competition – Hair, Wig & Makeup? Casting? Ensemble? Projections?…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMTony-winner Idina Menzel will return to Broadway next year in the new musical Redwood written and directed by Mother Play director Tina Landau, producers announced today. The musical, which …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:19AMWednesday, June 12, 2024
The Who’s Tommy composer Pete Townshend, The Outsiders producer Angelina Jolie, and the Wicked movie’s Cynthia Erivo are among the roster of Tony Award presenters announced today by prod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMStereophonic, the David Adjmi play about a 1970s rock band that prominently features the fictional band’s songs, will perform a musical number at the Tony Awards this Sunday after all. The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:36AMTuesday, June 11, 2024
Broadway is heading into its final pre-Tony weeks doing robust business, with box office for last week up 7% over the previous week, nine shows selling out (including the two most-nominated …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:41PMThree months ago, members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion made national headlines when they interrupted the Broadway staging of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People to bring a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:55AM& Juliet, the playful, pop-infused musical that gives Shakespeare’s lovestruck heroine a second chance at life, has recouped its $17 million capitalization, the first new musical of th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:33AMMonday, June 10, 2024
When Angelina Jolie announced nearly a year ago that she’d signed on as a producer of the Broadway-bound musical The Outsiders, folks in the theater community could be forgiven for assumin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMAn Enemy of The People, the Broadway revival starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, has recouped its $5.5 million capitalization, producers announced today. Nominated for five Tony Aw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:10PMFloyd Collins, the 1994 musical that has built an enduring popularity due to an Off Broadway cast recording, will finally receive a Broadway staging: The Adam Guettel-Tina Landau musical wil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:03AMThursday, June 6, 2024
The 77th Annual Tony Awards on CBS later this month will feature performances from such nominated productions as Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (with nominees Gayle Rankin and Eddie Redmayne), …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMHello, I’m Dolly, a new bio-musical about country legend Dolly Parton and featuring her music, will arrive on Broadway in 2026, with Parton writing the music, co-writing the book and servi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMWednesday, June 5, 2024
Forty-four years after Samm-Art Williams’ wonderfully affecting Home first opened on Broadway (in a Tony nominated production), the playwright and his signature play were finally about to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PMWilliam Jackson Harper has had plenty of good years in his acting career. He was Emmy-nominated in 2020 for his acclaimed performance as Chidi Anagonye in NBC’s comedy series The Good Plac…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMStereophonic, David Adjmi’s play (with music) about a fractious ’70s rock band and the making of what will become its masterpiece, has been extended for 20 weeks, a big show of confidenc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:36AMTuesday, June 4, 2024
Broadway box office held fairly steady as the industry settled into a post-Memorial Day summer, with most productions reporting some slippage from the holiday traffic highs. In all, the 35 p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:03PMJulianne Hough and Utkarsh Ambudkar will host The Tony Awards: Act One, the live pre-show airing on Pluto TV that will include exclusive content and the presentation of a first round of awar…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMThe Hills of California, the first new play by Jez Butterworth’s since his acclaimed The Ferryman in 2017, will open on Broadway this fall, reuniting the playwright with director Sam Mende…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMDirector Maria Friedman’s staging of Merrily We Roll Along, both on Broadway and its previous run Off Broadway, just might be the most unexpected success in the long, glorious career of co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMMonday, June 3, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: When John Stamos warns of a chocolaty apocalypse, pay attention. He does just than in a sneak listen of what could be a pretty delicious musical parody inspired by that hilariousl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMThursday, May 30, 2024
With eight Tony Award nominations, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate, starring Sarah Paulson, has been extended for a third and what producers say is a final time. After 26 weeks on Broa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:11PMTowards the end of Paula Vogel’s hit Broadway drama Mother Play, all dialogue comes to a halt for 12 long, mesmerizing minutes, and Jessica Lange is on stage, alone, for every second of th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PMWednesday, May 29, 2024
Six-time Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald will return to Broadway this fall in one of musical theater’s greatest roles: “Mama” Rose of Gypsy. The revival will be directed by George C. …
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