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Thursday, June 5, 2025

Broadway’s Inaugural Group Marquee Dimming To Honor Gene Hackman, Linda Lavin, Helen Gallagher, Others by Greg Evans

Broadway’s inaugural group marquee dimming to honor multiple artists and industry members who have passed away will pay tribute to such luminaries as Gene Hackman, Linda Lavin, Helen Galla…

SOURCE: Deadline at 04:58PM

Director Jamie Lloyd On How ‘Sunset Blvd.’ Goes For The Jugular, ‘Evita’ Rocks And ‘Godot’ Was Keanu Reeves’ Midnight Dream – The Dead by Greg Evans

Director Jamie Lloyd is, to say the least, very busy these days. In four days his radical, magnificent Broadway reworking of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Blvd. will be competing for seven …

SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM

Tom Felton Returning To Role Of Harry Potter’s Draco Malfoy For Broadway’s ‘The Cursed Child’ by Greg Evans

Tom Felton, who played young Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter movie franchise, is reprising the role as an adult in Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The play is set 19 years a…

SOURCE: Deadline at 10:51AM
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Jon Bernthal & Ebon Moss-Bachrach To Make Broadway Debuts In ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Next Year by Greg Evans

Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach will make their Broadway debuts next year in Dog Day Afternoon, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis (Between Riverside and Crazy) bas…

SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PM

Kara Young Makes Tony Award History And Finds ‘Purpose’ In Broadway – The Deadline Q&A by Greg Evans

Before she sets foot in Radio City Music Hall this Sunday, actor Kara Young will have already made Tony Award history by becoming the first Black person to receive Tony acting nominations in…

SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM

Will Ferrell Developing ‘Eurovision’ Stage Musical Based On His 2020 Netflix Film by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: A stage musical based on the 2020 Netflix movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is under development with Will Ferrell, Harper Steele and Anthony King writing the …

SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

‘Good Night, And Good Luck’ Could Tour And “Might” Go To London, George Clooney Tells Seth Meyers by Greg Evans

George Clooney dropped by Late Night With Seth Meyers last night to plug this Saturday’s live broadcast of his Broadway play Good Night, And Good Luck when he let slip what might be a bit …

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Countdown To Broadway’s Tony Night: How Are The Nominees Doing At The Box Office? by Greg Evans

Broadway began its new season last week with a negligible dip at the box office, understandable given that the previous week had the included the tourist-friendly Memorial Day weekend holida…

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Tony Awards Announce Presenter Line-Up: Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter Part Of Excellent Adventure by Greg Evans

Tony Award Productions announced today the lineup of stars set to present at this Sunday’s 78th Annual Tony Awards, a roster that includes Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter of the upcoming Wait…

SOURCE: Deadline at 12:22PM

Second Stage Theater Sets New Broadway Season With Pulitzer Finalists ‘Marjorie Prime’ & ‘Becky Shaw’ by Greg Evans

Jordan Harrison’s play Marjorie Prime and Gina Gionfriddo’s comedy Becky Shaw – both Pulitzer Prize finalists – will be presented on Broadway as part of Second Stage Theater’s 2025…

SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM

Mia Farrow Explains Why ‘The Roommate’ Worked And Why She Sobbed When Learning Of Her Tony Nominaton by Greg Evans

One of the more surprising team-ups of this Broadway season was surely Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone, the stars of Jen Silverman’s two-character comedy-drama that had a limited run last fall…

SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM

‘Beetlejuice The Musical’ Returning To Broadway This Fall For Limited 13-Week “Resurrection” by Greg Evans

Beetlejuice The Musical will return to Broadway for the third time when the First National Tour of the international hit musical comedy begins performances Wednesday, October 8 at The Palace…

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Monday, June 2, 2025

Whoopi Goldberg’s ‘The Whoopi Monologues’ (Without Whoopi) And Acclaimed ‘Kyoto’ Join ‘Ragtime’ In Upcoming Lincoln Center Theater Seaso by Greg Evans

Lincoln Center Theater’s 2025-2026 season both on Broadway and Off Off Broadway has some surprises in store: Among the productions joining the previously announced Broadway revival of the …

SOURCE: Deadline at 03:29PM

Performances At Tony Awards To Include Every Nominated Musical & Musical Revival, More – See List by Greg Evans

The 78th Annual Tony Awards has set the performances by casts of the current crop of Tony-nominated musicals and musical revivals for the awards ceremony this Sunday. Performances will inclu…

SOURCE: Deadline at 12:30PM

Darren Criss Could Have A Bunch Of Maybe Happy Endings On Tony Awards Night – The Deadline Q&A by Greg Evans

SPOILER ALERT: The final paragraphs of the following interview contain details about the ending of Maybe Happy Ending TV has been good to Darren Criss. He found fame on Glee and critical ac…

SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Patti LuPone Apologizes For Comments About Kecia Lewis And Audra McDonald by Greg Evans

Patti LuPone has publicly apologized to fellow Broadway actors Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald for comments she made in a recent New Yorker article, writing in an Instagram post, “For as lo…

SOURCE: Deadline at 04:46PM
Friday, May 30, 2025

Five Hundred Theater Artists Sign Open Letter Condemning Patti LuPone Comments On Audra McDonald & Kecia Lewis by Greg Evans

An open letter circulating on social media and sent to various news organizations, including Deadline, is calling on The Broadway League, The American Theatre Wing and “the greater theatre…

SOURCE: Deadline at 06:31PM
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Original ‘Hamilton’ Cast To Reunite At Tony Awards by Greg Evans

The original Broadway cast of Hamilton will reunite at this year’s Tony Awards to mark the 10th anniversary of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking musical. Participating in the reunion p…

SOURCE: Deadline at 09:33AM
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Broadway 2024-2025 Season And George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, And Good Luck’ Break All-Time Box Office Records by Greg Evans

Broadway’s 2024-2025 season is officially the highest-grossing in the industry’s history, with total grosses of $1.89 billion surpassing the previous – and pre-Covid – record-holding…

SOURCE: Deadline at 04:44PM

Darren Criss And Renée Elise Goldsberry To Host Tony Awards Pre-Show On Pluto TV by Greg Evans

First-time Tony Award nominee Darren Criss and Tony and Tony Award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry will host The Tony Awards: Act One, the live pre-show on Pluto TV June 8. The pre-show will …

SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM

‘Chess’ Broadway Revival With Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit & Nicholas Christopher Set For Fall Season by Greg Evans

The first Broadway revival of Chess will arrive this fall with Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher in the starring roles. The production will open fall 2025 at a Shubert theate…

SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM

Colin Donnell, Shaina Taub Join Cast Of Broadway’s ‘Ragtime’ Revival by Greg Evans

Colin Donnell (Chicago Med) and Shaina Taub (Suffs) will join the cast of Ragtime on Broadway this fall, Lincoln Center Theater announced today. The two, along with Nichelle Lewis (The Wiz),…

SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM
Monday, May 26, 2025

‘Eureka Day’ Playwright Jonathan Spector Talks Vaccines, Getting Canceled By Trump And A Possible Film Adaptation Of His Newly Controversial Comed by Greg Evans

When Jonathan Spector first staged his now-Tony-nominated play Eureka Day in 2017, he couldn’t have known just how timely it would be eight years later. The Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broa…

SOURCE: Deadline at 02:39PM
Friday, May 23, 2025

Tony-Nominated Sadie Sink Talks ‘John Proctor Is The Villain’, ‘Stranger Things’ And Joining The Marvel Universe – Deadline Q&A by Greg Evans

There are so many startling, perspective-shifting scenes in Kimberly Belflower’s Tony Award-nominated play John Proctor Is The Villain that two people discussing the plot can easily make i…

SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Bobby Cannavale, James Corden And Neil Patrick Harris To Star In Fall Broadway Revival Of Yasmina Reza’s ‘Art’ by Greg Evans

Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris will return to Broadway this fall in the first-ever Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning Art by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christ…

SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30PM
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Broadway’s ‘The Last Five Years’ Adds One-Night-Only Performance To Give Standbys The Spotlight by Greg Evans

Producers of Broadway’s The Last Five Years – the Jason Robert Brown musical starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren – have taken an unusual step as a way to honor the industry’s all…

SOURCE: Deadline at 03:50PM

Tom Hanks To Star In Off-Broadway Play ‘This World Of Tomorrow’ Based On His Short Stories by Greg Evans

Tom Hanks will star in the Off Broadway world premiere this fall of This World of Tomorrow, a new play the actor co-wrote with playwright James Glossman based on short stories written by Han…

SOURCE: Deadline at 12:32PM
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

The Ups And Downs Of Tony Award Nominations – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

Heading into the final stretches of Tony season – the awards are June 8 – it’s interesting to see what contender shows have benefitted from their nominations the most, the least and ho…

SOURCE: Deadline at 03:35PM
Monday, May 19, 2025

Kennedy Center To Include Non-Equity Theater Productions Following Donald Trump Complaints by Greg Evans

Two non-Equity national theatrical tours – Mrs. Doubtfire and Chicago – are on the 2026 schedule of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., marking a majo…

SOURCE: Deadline at 06:09PM

Real ‘Dead Outlaw’ Elmer McCurdy Finds Fame As Broadway Musical Fans Leave Tributes At Gravesite by Greg Evans

A cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma, is seeing an unusual increase in foot traffic lately, ever since real-life dead outlaw Elmer McCurdy has become Broadway’s most famous corpse. McCurdy’s …

SOURCE: Deadline at 04:37PM

Jonathan Groff, Bobby Darin And The Art Of Doing It All – Deadline Tony Award Q&A by Greg Evans

This June, Jonathan Groff will have the rare chance to win Tony Awards in two consecutive years. If he repeats last year’s triumph for Merrily We Roll Along with one for this year’s Just…

SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PM