Friday, 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMThursday, January 4, 2024
Trey Curtis, the actor-musician whose credits include numerous roles in various productions of Hamilton, will take on the lead role in the Lin-Manuel Miranda Broadway musical this month. The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMThe original Chicago cast of the newly reimagined The Who’s Tommy will join star Ali Louis Bourzgui when the musical revival opens on Broadway in March. Producers Stephen Gabriel and Ira P…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMThe hit London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard is heading to Broadway later this year and bringing star Nicole Scherzinger and the rest of the West End principal cast wit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMWednesday, January 3, 2024
Jonathan Bennett, the Mean Girls heartthrob and star of the Hallmark Channel’s Christmas House franchise, will make his Broadway debut when he takes over the role of Spamalot‘s Sir Robin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:40PMThe national union of stage directors and choreographers has reached an agreement with producers on a new four-year pact being called a landmark for some theater workers, the groups announce…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:32AMFriday, December 29, 2023
Perhaps no single theatrical image sums up Broadway’s 2023 more effectively than Jessica Chastain’s Nora leaving her dreary, unfulfilled doll house life to exit directly into the unlimit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:09PMMonday, December 18, 2023
Pay attention to those loud, annoying cicadas – they seem to have a story to tell. At least they do in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins superb, marvelously performed Appropriate, the Second Stage pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMWednesday, December 13, 2023
Michael Blakemore, the only director in Tony Award history to win twice in one year, died Sunday, Dec. 10, following a short illness. He was 95. His death was announced by the London-based U…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:40PMThe Lost Boys, the 1987 cult classic horror-comedy about hunky teenage vampires that made stars of Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland and Coreys Feldman and Haim, is being adapted as a stage mu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMTuesday, December 12, 2023
Broadway held steady as it continued through the holiday season, with a total gross of $30,723,247 for the 26 productions up a small 4% from the previous week, and attendance of 227,099 up a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PMPat Monahan, appearing with his band Train on today’s episode of ABC’s The View, said the group is at work writing the music for a new stage adaptation of the 2013 musical-comedy film Be…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:06PMMonday, December 11, 2023
While Broadway shows are attracting a more racially diverse audience and tourism from outside the U.S. is fairly strong, the New York theater industry has been slow to recover from Covid-19:…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:16PMSunday, December 10, 2023
Not since the perfect (what other word is there?) Kimberly Akimbo first made us laugh and bent our hearts two years ago has a stageful of youthful characters so inspired our best, heartfelt …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMThursday, December 7, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Heartstopper breakout star Joe Locke will make his Broadway debut next month when he joins the cast of the hit Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMWednesday, December 6, 2023
A new production of Samm-Art Williams’ 1979 play Home, to be directed by Kenny Leon, will begin performances May 17, 2014, at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s American Airlines Theatre /…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:35PMAriana Madix, the Vanderpump Rules reality star who made it to last night’s finale round as a contestant on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, will make her Broadway debut in January as Roxie…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, December 5, 2023
Broadway box office and ticket prices fell back to earth last week following the previous week’s Thanksgiving holiday-inflated numbers, with the total gross for the 26 productions dropping…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:31PMMerrily We Roll Along, the hit Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, is extending performances through S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMAli Louis Bourzgui will reprise his acclaimed performance as the title character in The Who’s Tommy when the musical moves from Chicago to Broadway this spring. The casting was announced t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMMonday, December 4, 2023
Hell’s Kitchen, the Alicia Keys’ musical currently play a sold-out run Off Broadway, will transfer to Broadway’s Shubert Theater this spring, producers announced today. Directed by Mic…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PMVictoria Pedretti, star of the Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor and You, will make her Broadway debut opposite Succession‘s Jeremy Strong and The Sopranos‘ Michael Imperioli in A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:28AMWednesday, November 29, 2023
Luigi Caiola, who co-founded the Broadway production and investment company Caiola Productions with his sister Rose and participated in the development of more than 50 shows, died Nov. 26 at…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:23PMTuesday, November 28, 2023
Thanksgiving proved plentiful for Broadway last week, with box office – and ticket prices – up by nearly 30% over the previous week. With tourists packing New York City, theatergoers spl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:18PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
Broadway box office took a 7% slide in the week before the Thanksgiving holiday, with the 29 shows settling in at a total $27,060,113 in receipts. Attendance for the week ending Nov. 19 was …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:17PMSinger-songwriter Ani DiFranco will make her Broadway debut as ‘Persephone’ in the hit musical Hadestown, performing the role she originated on the 2010 studio-concept album by composer …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMFriday, November 17, 2023
Tammy Faye, the Olivier-nominated Elton John-Jake Shears-James Graham musical about ’80s-era televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, will premiere on Broadway during the 2024-25 Season. The music…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMThursday, November 16, 2023
Spamalot opens on Broadway tonight, and it’s safe to say the Middle Ages haven’t been this funny since, well, the last time Spamlot opened on Broadway nearly 20 years ago. Perfectly cast…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMWednesday, November 15, 2023
A stage musical adaptation of The Queen’s Gambit, Walter Tevis’ best-selling novel which became a hit series on Netflix, is in the works, with Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter Mitski at…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:26PMTuesday, November 14, 2023
Broadway began its trek into the lucrative holiday season last week at a steady clip, with the 28 shows grossing a total of $29,163,440 for the week ending November 12. That’s up about 10%…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:29PMSteve Carell will make his Broadway debut next spring in the title role of Lincoln Center Theater’s Uncle Vanya, appearing with, among others, Alison Pill as Sonya, Alfred Molina as Alexan…
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