Thursday, May 11, 2023
A new stage musical based on the classic Nancy Drew adventure book series is in the works from Little Mermaid composer Alan Menken, Legally Blonde lyricist Nell Benjamin, book by two-time Os…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMWednesday, May 10, 2023
Bad Cinderella, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s updated musical re-telling of the classic fairy tale, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, June 4. The musical, which features lyrics b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:59PMJust hours after members of Actors’ Equity Association joined the striking WGA picket lines outside of HBO and Amazon’s New York City offices today, Kate Shindle, Equity president, sugge…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:03PMTuesday, May 9, 2023
Perhaps last week’s Tony Award nominations started paying off at the box office quicker than expected, at least for a few productions: Figures for last week, while down overall, indicate a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:09PMMichael R. Jackson, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of A Strange Loop, is sinking his choppers into a stage musical adaptation of the 2007 cult horror-comedy film Teeth, set for an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:16PMActors’ Equity Association, the union representing theater actors and stage managers, is inviting its members and allies to join the WGA picket line outside HBO and Amazon offices tomorrow…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:24PMMonday, May 8, 2023
Bruce Norris’s Downstate and Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt were named this season’s Best Play and Best Foreign Play, respectively, by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle today. Downstat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:52PMFriday, May 5, 2023
For Tony Award nominees, the next 37 days will be the usual long slog of interviews, parties, nerves and anticipation. But for producers of the ceremony’s June 11 broadcast on CBS, the dat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:41PMWednesday, May 3, 2023
Actor Joel Grey and composer John Kander will each receive the 2023 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today “We…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:34PMTuesday, May 2, 2023
The Broadway box office report won’t register the impact of this morning’s Tony Award nominations for a week or two, but today’s news certainly comes as welcome and promising signs for…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:12PMBroadway’s first post-Tony-nomination casualty has arrived: the shut-out Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ will play its final performance on Sunday, May 14. Producer Joey Parnes made the announceme…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:30PMAdam Brace, the British playwright and director who was set to make his Broadway debut this summer with longtime collaborator Alex Edelman, died Saturday following a short illness. He was 43…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:58PMRefresh for updates: Tony Award nominees were celebrating today, with the stars, producers and creative teams of Parade, Kimberly Akimbo, Shucked and The Piano Lesson among those reacting to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:20PMSome of the biggest names of Broadway (and Hollywood) won’t be receiving those phone calls of congratulations today as this morning’s Tony Awards nominations included more than a few sur…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:14AMREFRESH FOR UDPATES: The nominations for the 76th Annual Tony Awards will be announced on CBS Mornings today by Funny Girl star Lea Michele and MJ‘s Tony Award winner Myles Frost. The comp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:34AMFriday, April 28, 2023
Aaron Sorkin, whose adaptation of the classic Lerner & Loewe musical Camelot opened on Broadway earlier this month, will be eligible for Tony consideration in the Best Book of a Musical …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:34PMAt 20 years old, Gaten Matarazzo is already something of a Broadway veteran. The New Jersey native was only 9 when he made his debut in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, a few years older when …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AMHarmony, the Barry Manilow-Bruce Sussman musical that played a sold-out run at New York’s National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene last spring, will move to Broadway this fall, producers announ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:16AMThursday, April 27, 2023
Prima Facie, the well-reviewed solo drama starring Killing Eve‘s Jodie Comer, has extended its Broadway run by two weeks, producers announced today. The production will now run through thr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:16AMWednesday, April 26, 2023
Imagine a New York where construction workers tap dance on steel girders high above the city, sorta like that famous photograph you’ve seen a million times, and where kindly landladies who…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMTuesday, April 25, 2023
Broadway can be a loud place, with belters belting and orchestras swelling and actors playing to rafters in the theater across the street, so it’s both comforting and mesmerizing to see a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMA Phantom-less Broadway took a hit at the box office last week, dropping about 18% in total receipts (to $31,558,171) from the previous week when Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masked singer had co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:16PMCBS and Pluto TV will partner to present The Tony Awards: Act One, a pre-show of live, exclusive content leading into the 76th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 11. Hosts and further detail…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMRobert Patrick, a pioneering playwright in the Off Off Broadway movement who later won wider acclaim for the 1975 Broadway staging of his play Kennedy’s Children, died in his sleep at home…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:29AMThe Shark Is Broken, the Olivier Award-nominated stage comedy that goes behind-the-scenes of Jaws, will arrive on Broadway this summer with co-writer Ian Shaw playing his father Robert Shaw,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMMonday, April 24, 2023
If ever a play had good reason to front-load itself with exposition, Good Night, Oscar is it. Once among America’s premiere wits and raconteurs, Oscar Levant has gone the way of many anoth…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMFunny Girl star Lea Michele and Tony-winning MJ actor Myles Frost will announce the 76th Annual Tony Award nominations on Tuesday, May 2. A selection of the nominations will be announced liv…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:33PMSunday, April 23, 2023
Killing Eve star Jodie Comer claims Broadway as her own in her tour de force performance of Prima Facie, a scalding indictment of the law and its limits opening tonight at the Golden Theatre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMFriday, April 21, 2023
The current Broadway season schedule seemed done and dusted at the start of this month: With an opening night of April 26, the new Kander & Ebb musical New York, New York would be the fi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMActors’ Equity Association has filed an amicus brief in Tennessee opposing that state’s new law – the first in the nation – intended to limit or ban some drag shows. In a brief filed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:54AMThursday, April 20, 2023
Eight years is pretty close to eternity when it comes to sell-by dates for topical humor, which might be one reason that the jokes in Larissa FastHorse’s Broadway comedy The Thanksgiving P…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PM 
