Friday, April 21, 2023
Actors’ 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 09:30PMSummer, 1976, the new play by Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn starring Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht, has received a two-week extension prior to its April 25 Broadway opening at the Samu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:31PMWednesday, April 19, 2023
Todd Haimes, who built New York’s Roundabout Theater Company into one of the city’s – and country’s- leading nonprofit theaters, died today at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering H…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:03PMAll’s right in the world when Peter Pan Goes Wrong. The latest impeccable demonstration of disaster-farce concocted and performed by Britain’s gift-to-the-world Mischief Theatre, Peter P…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMEXCLUSIVE: Thompson Turner Productions, the Broadway and touring general management and producing office whose clients include The Book of Mormon, Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt and the upcom…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMTuesday, April 18, 2023
Micaela Diamond, currently costarring in Broadway’s hit musical revival Parade, has signed with CAA. After graduating from New York City’s performing arts school Fiorello H. LaGuardia Hi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:52PMThe Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical that closed its Broadway run on Sunday after 35 years, went out on a very high note: Box office receipts for the show’s final week…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:48PMFriday, April 14, 2023
A coalition of Broadway theater owners and producers, midtown Manhattan community and tenant organizations, and such well-known theater-district restaurants as Sardi’s and Joe Allen are am…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PMThursday, April 13, 2023
What’s a Camelot without a little magic? Aaron Sorkin works up an answer to that question in the new Lincoln Center Theater production of the 1960 Lerner & Loewe musical, and the resul…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PMActors’ Equity Association and The Broadway League have reached a tentative agreement on a new touring contract, the organizations announced today. The new, three-year collective bargainin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:28PMWednesday, April 12, 2023
Like that relative who picks through the chicken parts at a family picnic to find the leg or the breast or the thigh with just the right amount of crisp, playwright James Ijames has no reluc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMAriana DeBose will return to host this year’s Tony Awards, the ceremony’s producers announced today. DeBose, an Oscar winner (West Side Story) and Tony nominee (Summer: The Donna Summer …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMTuesday, April 11, 2023
Broadway showed signs of a spring blossoming last week, with box office receipts and ticket prices taking their traditional climb during the tourist-bumped week leading up to Easter. In all,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:17PMA musical stage adaptation of the hit 1992 Robert Zemeckis film Death Becomes Her will take another step in its development this week when Universal Theatrical Group hosts a private reading …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:39AMMonday, April 10, 2023
Kimberly Akimbo, the acclaimed David Lindsay-Abaire-Jeanine Tesori Broadway musical, will launch a 75-week, 60-city North American tour in September 2024, producers announced today. The tour…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:23PMWednesday, April 5, 2023
Obie Award-winning writer and performer Alex Edelman will bring his solo show Just For Us to Broadway this summer following critically acclaimed engagements Off Broadway and in London, Edinb…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:44AMTuesday, April 4, 2023
Puns grow knee-high – and in bawdier moments a bit higher – in Shucked, the new musical comedy that combines the winking hayseed humor of Green Acres and Hee Haw with the decidedly urban…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMWith two weeks left in its 35-year Broadway run, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera posted a huge box office gross last week of $3,247,106, nearly 10% of Broadway’s total tak…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:57PMEXCLUSIVE: Broadway casting director Benton Whitley announced today the creation of Whitley Theatrical, a New York City-based casting and producing office for theater, film, and television. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMOscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan are heading to Broadway later this month in Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, producers announced today. The production, which o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30AMMonday, April 3, 2023
Neil Patrick Harris will take to the Broadway stage as a special guest star in Peter Pan Goes Wrong, producers announced today. Harris will appear in the comedy from Tuesday, April 11 throug…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:02PMEXCLUSIVE: Broadway casting director Duncan Stewart, whose big-name clients include the Tony-winning Hadestown, the new Life of Pi and the acclaimed The Great Comet of 1812, is dissolving hi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:29AMThursday, March 30, 2023
When a character promises a life story so inspirational it’ll make a believer of an atheist, the tale better come through on some big-time convincing. Life of Pi, Lolita Chakrabarti’s st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMEXCLUSIVE: Actor Laurence Fishburne will present a workshop of his new solo stage show Like They Do In The Movies this July as part of the New York Stage and Film Summer Season at Marist Col…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
Broadway’s The Phantom of the Opera had yet another smashing, down-to-the-wire week at the Majestic, grossing more than $3 million for the second consecutive week as the countdown to its A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:19PMBack to the Future: The Musical will launch a North American tour in the summer of 2024, producers announced today. The tour will start less than a year after the show’s Broadway opening, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:17AMMonday, March 27, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Antonio Díaz, one of Europe’s highest grossing illusionists, will bring his El Mago Pop show to Broadway this summer, with a limited two-week engagement set for August. El Mago…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMSunday, March 26, 2023
In a Broadway season that might be remembered for a lovely, pared-down minimalism – the intriguing starkness of A Doll’s House with Jessica Chastain, the less-is-more near-concert-style …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMFriday, March 24, 2023
Lea Michele will be back as Fanny Brice in Broadway’s Funny Girl this weekend after missing shows this week due as unspecified health issue that that required the hospitalization of her tw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:36PMThursday, March 23, 2023
Your first thought after seeing Bad Cinderella, the latest musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, is, well, she isn’t that bad. For better and worse. The musical, energetically directed by Lauren…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:09PM 
