Thursday, 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 11:09PMWednesday, March 22, 2023
Aaron Sorkin, whose adaptation of the musical Camelot opens on Broadway next month, has revealed that he suffered a stroke last November. “Mostly it was a loud wake-up call,” Sorkin said…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:20PMSmash is finally heading to Broadway. In an announcement long awaited by fans of the 2012 NBC series, a stage musical adaptation is planned tol arrive on Broadway during the 2024-25 season, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, March 21, 2023
Broadway’s old and new teamed up last week to boost total box office nearly 20%, with The Phantom of the Opera (the old) posting a best-ever $3 million weekly gross and The Jonas Brothers …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:14PMDanny DeVito will return to the Broadway stage this October in a new play by Theresa Rebeck called I Need That. The It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia actor will star alongside his daughter…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMMonday, March 20, 2023
Broadway’s Room stars Adrienne Warren and Ephraim Sykes, along with choreographer Galen Hooks, are speaking out on the the bizarre, last-minute “indefinite postponement” of the much an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AMSaturday, March 18, 2023
Nicholas Lloyd Webber, the eldest son of Andrew Lloyd Webber, is critically ill with gastric cancer, the Phantom of the Opera composer has announced. Nicholas’ hospitalization will necessi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:20PMThursday, March 16, 2023
Neo-nazis tend to be a noisy bunch, and it takes an extraordinary and confident work of art to drown out their loud, ugly racket. Parade, opening tonight on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMStephen Sondheim’s final, long-awaited musical Here We Are will make its world premiere this September in a strictly limited Off Broadway engagement to be directed by two-time Tony winner …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMRoom, the stage adaptation of the bestselling novel and 2015 film, will not come to Broadway this spring as planned: Producers announced today that the show has been postponed indefinitely �…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:39AMWednesday, March 15, 2023
The upcoming Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez will play its first performance at the Hudson…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:42PMEXCLUSIVE: Tony Award nominees Jennifer Simard (Company) and Adam Godley (The Lehman Trilogy) have joined the cast of Broadway’s upcoming Britney Spears musical Once Upon A One More Time. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMTuesday, March 14, 2023
A raft of Broadway’s recent arrivals led by Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street helped push the industry’s total box office last week to $28,638,821, up 13.8% from the previou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:27PMMonday, March 13, 2023
Former Saturday Night Live cast member Alex Moffat will make his Broadway debut in the upcoming comedy The Cottage, directed by Jason Alexander. Also joining the previously announced Eric Mc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:47AMSaturday, March 11, 2023
Tonight’s performance of Parade, the Broadway musical revival starring Ben Platt as Leo Frank and Micaela Diamond as wife Lucille Frank, was canceled 20 minutes after the scheduled 8 p.m. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:49PMFriday, March 10, 2023
First-look images were released today of the wildly revamped Broadway Theatre that will be transformed, at least in part, into the disco dance club home of Here Lies Love, the immersive Davi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMThursday, March 9, 2023
At more than a few points during Jamie Lloyd’s hypnotic Broadway revival of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, you could swear that stars Jessica Chastain and Succession‘s Arian Moayed are conf…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMA stage adaptation of Sufjan Stevens’ acclaimed 2005 album Illinois will make its world premiere this summer in a production by The Fisher Center at Bard where Daniel Fish’s eye-opening …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:15PMWednesday, March 8, 2023
A Doll’s House starring Jessica Chastain and Succession‘s Arian Moayed has extended its Broadway run by a week, and will now play through Saturday, June 10. The extension announced by pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:41AMTuesday, March 7, 2023
The revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne, is firmly in Broadway’s $1 million club, with receip…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:21PMAmbassador Theatre Group has announced an exclusive three-year partnership with the newly formed Bad Robot Live, the theatre division of J.J. Abrams’s Bad Robot Productions. As creative co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:07AMThursday, March 2, 2023
Funny Girl, Broadway’s riches-to-rags-to-riches smash hit, will close on Sunday, Sept. 3, with stars Lea Michele, Ramin Marmloo, Jared Grimes and Tovah Feldshuh extending their planned run…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMWednesday, March 1, 2023
Broadway’s Almost Famous star Casey Likes has landed the coveted role of Marty McFly in the upcoming Back To The Future: The Musical, joining the previously announced Roger Bart as Doc Bro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:45AMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Some recent Broadway arrivals added both star power and box office receipts to the weekly grosses reports, with both Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Parade selling out (th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:10PMEXCLUSIVE: New York’s Drama League has named Tony winner Andre DeShields, the theater district Drama Book Shop and Encores! artistic director Lear deBessonet as this year’s Special Recog…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMEXCLUSIVE: Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, John Berendt’s 1994 bestselling book and Pulitzer Prize finalist is being developed into a new musical by playwright Taylor Mac, with mu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:45AMMonday, February 27, 2023
Tony and Olivier Award winner Lea Salonga will join the Broadway cast of Here Lies Love by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim for a special guest engagement this summer. Producers of the show annou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMFriday, February 24, 2023
The Jonas Brothers have announced a five-show, limited engagement run at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre next month. Starting March 14 and running through March 18, Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:03AMTwo days after about a dozen neo-Nazis harrassed ticketholders and ticketbuyers outside the Broadway venue where Parade had begun previews, New York Mayor Eric Adams addressed an audience at…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:33AMEXCLUSIVE: A new musical based on the award-winning 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles and the life of beauty queen, socialite and TV personality Jacqueline “Jackie” Siegel is in d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMWednesday, February 22, 2023
The latest installment of Actors’ Equity Association’s annual hiring and wage report – covering the year 2021 and titled “Progress During an Atypical Year” – finds that the theat…
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