Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Broadway will dim its marquee lights next week to honor the late, great Chita Rivera, the two-time Tony-winning star of the original West Side Story who died January 30 at the age of 91. The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:01PMBroadway said goodbye last week to two well-regarded but underperforming productions, with both Harmony and Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch posting better-…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:32PMTom Holland will tackle the Bard this spring when he plays Romeo in director Jamie Lloyd’s West End production of Romeo & Juliet. Lloyd and Holland made the announcement this morning. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:36AMFriday, February 2, 2024
Waitress composer Sara Bareilles and Pulitzer finalist playwright Sarah Ruhl are teaming up on a stage musical adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s bestselling 2013 novel The Interestings. Bareill…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:24AMWednesday, January 31, 2024
The Roundabout Theatre Company tonight renamed its Broadway venue – a 104-year-old building that began as the Selwyn and most recently went by the prosaic American Airlines Theatre – to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PMTuesday, January 30, 2024
Hinton Battle, a three-time Tony Award winning actor who originated the role of Scarecrow in Broadway’s The Wiz, died yesterday. He was 67. His death was confirmed by his friend, the actor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:56PMChita Rivera, the beloved Broadway star of West Side Story, Chicago and Kiss of the Spider Woman, died today in New York following a brief illness. She was 91. Her death was announced by her…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:29PMBroadway box office held fairly steady last week, with Sweeney Todd‘s post-Groban slide at least partially offset by gains from most other shows. In all, the 25 productions grossed $24,615…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:35PMEXCLUSIVE: British award-winning writer and director Robert Icke has signed with CAA. Icke, who has worked in theater, television, and film, won the Olivier Award in 2016 for his production …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMMonday, January 29, 2024
Gutenberg! The Musical! ended its Broadway run last night, but not before recouping its initial $6.75 million investment, producers have announced. The musical starring Josh Gad and Andrew R…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMSunday, January 28, 2024
It’s easy to feel a bit smug early on in Days of Wine and Roses, as we know so much more – or at least have so much greater vocabularies – when it comes to things like toxic relationsh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMThursday, January 25, 2024
The Obie Awards, the venerable honors for outstanding Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions, is doing away with its annual ceremony and will instead use the funds to provide winners …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:25PMWednesday, January 24, 2024
The Lost Boys, the previously announced, in-development stage musical adaptation of 1987 horror classic, has set an invitation-only industry presentation for next month, with Frozen‘s Cais…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMTuesday, January 23, 2024
Broadway box office took a slide last week as receipts for Sweeney Todd fell by more than $1 million with the departures of Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford (and before the February 9 arriv…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:19PMMonday, January 22, 2024
Peter Morgan’s play Patriots, the drama about the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s fall, will transfer from a celebrated London run to Broadway this spring, with previews beginning April …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:15AMHow to Dance in Ohio, the musical that made Broadway history by featuring a cast of seven autistic actors in its leading roles, will end its run at the Belasco Theatre on Sunday, February 11…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:26AMWednesday, January 17, 2024
Martin McCallum, a British theatrical producer whose work on more than 500 Broadway and West End shows saw his participation in some of the most successful stage productions in modern theate…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:38PMStereophonic, the critically lauded play by David Adjmi that struck a chord with Off Broadway audiences last year with its very Fleetwood Mac-esque tale of music-making and ’70s-style exce…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:21AMEXCLUSIVE: Composer-actor Shaina Taub will lead the Broadway cast of her musical Suffs, reprising the role she played in the original, sold-out 2022 Off Broadway production. The casting make…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, January 16, 2024
Harmony, the Barry Manilow/Bruce Sussman musical that opened in November to good reviews that never translated to big audiences, will play its final performance at the Barrymore Theatre on S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:52PMWinter doldrums and a closing night be damned: Shucked just had a very good week, with news of a planned movie adaptation and its best-ever Broadway gross of $1,111,038. The Brandy Clark-Sha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:38PMCharlotte St. Martin, whose 18-year leadership of the Broadway League has included both good times – record-setting revenue – and bad – the historic 18-month Covid shutdown – will st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:55AMA new musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby starring Smash‘s Jeremy Jordan and Hadestown‘s Eva Noblezada will open on Broadway this spring, producers announced today. The musical begins…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:35AMComplete casting for the upcoming The Heart of Rock and Roll featuring the songs of Huey Lewis has been announced: Newsies‘ Corey Cott and Wicked‘s McKenzie Kurtz will play the leads, a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:35AMTuesday, January 9, 2024
Recent events in Gaza could lead some to view Joshua Harmon’s blistering, funny and heartbreaking Prayer for the French Republic as uncannily prophetic, but let’s not give the playwright…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMBroadway box office was back on earth last week following the previous week’s unusual double-holiday surge, when both Christmas and New Year’s Eve fell within the same theatrical window.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:46PMDaniel Dae Kim will return to Broadway this fall in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of David Henry Hwang’s comedy Yellow Face, to be directed by Tony Award nominee Leigh Silv…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PMLola Tung, best known for her role as Belly in Amazon Prime’s The Summer I Turned Pretty, will make her Broadway debut next month in a Hadestown limited engagement. Tung will take over the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:31PMMonday, January 8, 2024
Sarah Rice, who performed the pivotal role of the endangered Johanna in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, died Saturday…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:28PMPurple Rain, Prince’s smash 1984 music-packed film, is being developed for the stage by a Broadway producer, with a book by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and dire…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMFriday, January 5, 2024
Kimberly Akimbo, winner of five 2023 Tony Awards including Best Musical, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, April 28, producers announced today. Remarkably for Broadway, the…
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