Thursday, July 20, 2023
Disco despotism isn’t exactly a new genre – Cabaret hinted the way, Evita made it clear, American Psycho, in its fashion, added a variation, all in service of social horrors offset by ca…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMFriday, July 14, 2023
Actors’ Equity president Kate Shindle is urging stage actors to “proactively and aggressively avoid breaking” the SAG-AFTRA strike by inadvertently accepting struck work. In a message …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:17PMThursday, July 13, 2023
Actors’ Equity Association, the union representing stage theater actors and stage managers, expressed solidarity with the SAG-AFTRA actors strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:36PMLoretta Devine will step in for her old Dreamgirls co-star Jennifer Holliday in the upcoming New York City Center gala presentation of Pal Joey starring Ephraim Sykes. Holliday had been prev…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:48PMWednesday, July 12, 2023
Stage actor James Beeks has been acquitted of all charges stemming from his participation in the Jan. 6th Capitol riots, with U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta concluding today at a Washingt…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:35PMEXCLUSIVE: Tony Award nominee Vanessa Williams has joined the lead producing team for the Broadway-aimed A Wonderful World, a bio-musical about jazz icon Louis Armstrong starring James Monro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AMTuesday, July 11, 2023
Box office for most Broadway shows last week wilted a bit as June’s Tony glow gave way to plain old New York summer heat, though a couple newcomers were among the handful bucking the downw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:57PMThe Olivier Award-winning West End revival of Cabaret is coming to Broadway: Producers announced that the acclaimed musical will begin previews at the August Wilson Theater in spring 2024. N…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMMonday, July 10, 2023
Ain’t No Mo star and playwright Jordan E. Cooper, KPOP composer Helen Park, and Ojibwe and Oneida performance artist Ty Defoe are among the new members of the Tony Award nominating committ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:27PMProducers of A Transparent Musical, the stage adaptation of the Amazon Studios series that recently completed its world premiere run at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, plan to bring the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PMThe first, star-packed Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along has extended its engagement by two months, giving ticket buyers until March 24, 2024 to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:26AMThursday, July 6, 2023
Matthew Serino, who with business partner Nancy Coyne cofounded one of Broadway’s leading advertising and marketing agencies in Serino Coyne, died June 19. He was 79. His death was confirm…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:39AMWednesday, July 5, 2023
Back To The Future: The Musical landed on Broadway last week in overdrive: The stage adaptation starring Casey Likes and Roger Bart scored a dizzying $1,035,256 with just four sold-out previ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:46PMA very cool teaser trailer for the upcoming Stranger Things stage adaptation The First Shadow doesn’t give away much by way of plot details, but we do see some clips of the TV series’ ea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:23PMTuesday, July 4, 2023
Rather than list the Broadway shows that have canceled performances due to the July 4th holiday – and the competition from the 47th annual Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks celebration, it…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:14AMFriday, June 30, 2023
In the latest example of a nationwide funding crisis for nonprofit regional theaters, Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre has announced a year-long pause in new productions a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:36PMWednesday, June 28, 2023
Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of the classic musical Camelot will ends its Broadway run on Sunday, July 23, producer Lincoln Center Theater has announced. The Tony-nominated musical revival, d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:21PMTuesday, June 27, 2023
Broadway continued on its post-Tony glow last week, with the 32 productions grossing $34,004,232, about 3% more than the previous week and 10% over the same week last season. In all, attenda…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:27PMMonday, June 26, 2023
Alex Edelman has built quite the reputation over the last few years, with sold-out comedy shows and knock-’em-dead late-night performances, honing material for a Broadway debut that does h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMA stage musical adaptation of the Fannie Hurst novel Imitation of Life and its film versions is under development at Universal Theatrical Group, with Lynn Nottage writing the book and John L…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PMFriday, June 23, 2023
Sheldon Harnick, whose lyrics for the acclaimed stage and film musical Fiddler on the Roof are some of the most recognizable and beloved in Broadway history, died today at his home in Manhat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:07AMEXCLUSIVE: Swept Away, the Broadway-aimed musical with music and lyrics by roots rock band The Avett Brothers, has announced principal cast for its fall-winter 2023 production at Arena Stage…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:50AMThursday, June 22, 2023
Bad Cinderella could have been the poison apple that killed off revisionist fairy tales once and for all, but Britney Spears and Once Upon A One More Time, the new Broadway musical opening t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMEXCLUSIVE: Reboot Studios, the production arm of the arts and culture nonprofit Reboot that’s funded in part by Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation, has join…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMJosh Gad and Andrew Rannells, who first shared a stage in The Book of Mormon, will return to Broadway together this fall in Gutenberg! The Musical!, the Scott Brown-Anthony King musical to b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:03AMWednesday, June 21, 2023
Strong showings at the June 11 Tony Awards – both in terms of trophies and on-air performances – seem to have made an equally sturdy impact at the box office, with best musical Kimberly …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, June 20, 2023
Life of Pi, Lolita Chakrabarti’s stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, July 23. The closing date was announced by prod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PMBroadway’s Prima Face, the Suzie Miller play staring Jodie Comer, has recouped its $4.1 million capitalization costs as of June 18, ten weeks after the start of performances. The recoup an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:56AMBeetlejuice‘s Alex Brightman and Chicago Med‘s Colin Donnell will portray Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider, respectively, in the upcoming Broadway making-of-Jaws comedy The Shark Is Bro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMMonday, June 19, 2023
Paxton Whitehead, the prolific and acclaimed actor whose career stretched from 17 Broadway productions, a recurring role on the hit 1990s sitcom Mad About You and a memorable turn as a snoot…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PMFriday, June 16, 2023
Actors’ Equity Association has joined with other unions of the AFL-CIO in endorsing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential campaign. “President Bid…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:15AM 
