Monday, May 19, 2025
This June, Jonathan Groff will have the rare chance to win Tony Awards in two consecutive years. If he repeats last year’s triumph for Merrily We Roll Along with one for this year’s Just…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PMLincoln Center for the Performing Arts today announced the preliminary design for a $335 million transformation of the west side of its Manhattan campus, a project that will include the crea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:50PMFriday, May 16, 2025
The New York Drama League has named Nicole Scherzinger winner of its annual Distinguished Performance Award for her performance in Broadway’s Sunset Blvd., while Cole Escola’s hit comedy…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:56PMThursday, May 15, 2025
Charles Strouse, the musical composer for such Broadway hits as Bye Bye Birdie, Applause and Annie, films including Bonnie and Clyde (1967) The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968) and All Do…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:35PMJasmine Amy Rogers grew up feeling like a cartoon character. “My voice for a kid my age was a little lower than all the rest of the girls,” she says, “but it was also very, very raspy …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PMWednesday, May 14, 2025
The world premiere production of The Balusters by Kimberly Akimbo writer David Lindsay-Abaire has been added to Manhattan Theatre Club’s 2025-2026 season, joining the previously announced …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:32PMEXCLUSIVE: The upcoming Off Broadway revival of Heathers The Musical has announced the casting of its title trio: McKenzie Kurtz (Broadway’s Frozen and The Heart of Rock and Roll) will pla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, May 13, 2025
Broadway reached a major post-pandemic milestone last week, with season-to-date box office receipts of $1,801,023,860 for the 2024-2025 season surpassing the same week of the record-setting …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:33PMGlengarry Glen Ross, the hit Broadway revival of the David Mamet play starring Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk, has recouped its investment, producers announced today. Financial de…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:19AMMonday, May 12, 2025
Louis – he pronounces it Louie – McCartney had only recently learned the name of the young actor who, 28 years before McCartney was born in Nothern Ireland, won the Tony Award for Best A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PMThe musical formerly known as Gun & Powder will be rebranded to the new title Wanted for its Broadway bow in 2026, producers said today. The production also announced the addition of Tra…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:59AMGood Night, and Good Luck, the new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov directed by David Cromer, has announced that it has recouped its initial investment of $9.5 million in only 7…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:40AMThursday, May 8, 2025
Concord, considered to be the world’s leading independent music company, has acquired Broadway Licensing Global and its imprints Broadway Licensing, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:57PMRichard Grenell, the Kennedy Center’s interim director appointed by President Donald Trump, is blasting what he calls politically intolerant entertainers who won’t perform at the Kennedy…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:59AMWednesday, May 7, 2025
Some cast members of the Kennedy Center performance of Les Misérables plan to skip the show on June 11 when President Donald Trump is in attendance, according to an exclusive CNN report. Ac…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:29PMThe producers of Broadway’s Maybe Happy Ending and Buena Vista Social Club have announced national tours for the shows to launch in 2026. Both shows were nominated for 10 Tony Awards last …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:20PMEXCLUSIVE: Playbill Inc. has named Jolie Schaffzin as Publisher of Playbill magazine, the theater magazine and guide. A veteran of the publication with 27 years of service, Schaffzin becomes…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:24AMA new musical with music and lyrics by “Chandelier” performer Sia is planned for fall 2025 at the prestigious Off Broadway venue New York Theatre Workshop. The musical, titled Saturday C…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, May 6, 2025
Maybe Happy Ending, the Will Aronson-Hue Park Broadway musical starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shen as life-like “helper-bots’ who, despite all their wiring, find romance, and Branden …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:32PMLincoln Center Theater has announced today that incoming Artistic Director Lear deBessonet’s inaugural season will open with a new production of her acclaimed New York City Center Gala rev…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:15AMGood Night, and Good Luck, the new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and directed by David Cromer, has broken its own all-time record for highest grossing play in Broadway histo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:37AMMonday, May 5, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Dolly Parton has announced the trio of actors who will play her in this summer’s pre-Broadway world premiere of Dolly: An Original Musical in Nashville. Katie Rose Clarke, Carri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:55AMAdam Lambert will join Cynthia Erivo in Jesus Christ Superstar this summer for three nights Aug 1-3 at the Hollywood Bowl, with Lambert playing Judas to Erivo’s Jesus. The role Mary Magdal…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:03AMFriday, May 2, 2025
Redwood, the Broadway musical starring Idina Menzel, will close on Sunday, May 18, producers announced one day after the production failed to receive a single Tony Award nomination. “While…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:34AMThursday, May 1, 2025
Othello might have been shut out from today’s Tony Award nominations, but this news probably takes away a bit of the sting: The Broadway revival starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:08PMWell, big weekly grosses and even bigger stars can’t guarantee a Tony Awards nomination. Broadway does what Broadway wants, so no Best Play nominations (or anything else) for huge moneymak…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:24PMWednesday, April 30, 2025
Forty-two productions are eligible for Tony Award nominations this year – the announcements come Thursday morning – making many of the categories very, very competitive. Will the movie a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMVanya, starring Olivier Award winner Andrew Scott playing all the play’s characters, has recouped its initial investment, producers announced today. The production opened on March 18 at th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:53AMTuesday, April 29, 2025
Broadway box office stayed strong last week, slipping a bit – about 8% – from the previous week’s record-setting tally of $51 million, settling in at $46,949,262 for the 40 productions…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:58PMActor-singer Celia Keenan-Bolger will receive the 2025 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for what the Tony Administration Committee calls her “unwavering dedication to advocacy work through…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:21AMMonday, April 28, 2025
The bullhorn used by Sunset Blvd. star Nicole Scherzinger last week when a matinee performance of the Broadway musical was canceled due to a sound system glitch was put to further good use o…
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