Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Broadway’s upcoming revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street starring the previously announced Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford has added to its cast with Dear Evan Hanse…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:51PMTuesday, December 13, 2022
The holiday spirit – at least the kind measured at the box office – seemed to arrive on Broadway last week, for some shows anyway. Obvious case in point: A Christmas Carol, starring Jeff…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:43PMAin’t No Mo’, the Broadway debut of author and star Jordan E. Cooper, opened at the Belasco Theatre on Dec. 1 to the sort of reviews producers and playwrights dream about. Even the few c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PMBroadway’s oft-stated efforts to reach beyond traditional audiences and its own mid-town environs seems evident in the choice of location for the 2023 Tony Awards: Rather than the usual th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMSunday, December 11, 2022
Next to the jukebox musical, the Broadway genre getting and usually deserving the least amount of respect is that woebegon Frankenstein that starts life on the big screen only to have its pa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMSaturday, December 10, 2022
For the second time in a week, Broadway is losing a worthy production that attempted to find an audience that encompassed but reached beyond the usual white, middle-aged demographic: Jordan …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:09AMThursday, December 8, 2022
Many decades after her brilliant and unsettling plays became seen Off Broadway, at regional theaters or, sometimes, not at all, the great playwright Adrienne Kennedy is making her Broadway d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30PMLeopoldstadt, the critically acclaimed hit Broadway play, will run nearly four months longer than initially planned: Producers announced today the the show will run through July 2, 2023, at …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:36AMWednesday, December 7, 2022
Jay-Z’s Roc Nation entertainment agency is betting that Times Square needs a Caesars Palace casino, and has joined Caesars Entertainment and Manhattan realty company SL Green in their bid …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:50PMCarolee Carmello (1776, Finding Neverland), Grace McLean (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) and Jordan Dobson (A Beautiful Noise) will be among the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AMTuesday, December 6, 2022
KPOP, the history-making Broadway musical depicting and celebrating the Korean pop genre phenomenon of the title, will play its final performance this Sunday after a struggle at the box offi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:42PMA Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical took in more than $1 million at the box office in the week leading up to, and including, its opening night on Sunday. Filling 91% of seats at the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:26PMStomp, the percussive Off Broadway staple that has drawn tourists and locals to its East Village theater for nearly 30 years, will close on January 8, 2023, producers announced today. The sh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:01AMMonday, December 5, 2022
Pop superstar and songwriter Neil Diamond, who retired from touring in 2018 after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, surprised the opening night audience of A Beautiful Noise Sunday…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:19PMA new stage musical based on the life of Grammy- and Emmy-winning songwriter Diane Warren is in development, with Tony winners Joe DiPietro and Kathleen Marshall attached to write and direct…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:06PMPlaywright James Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Fat Ham, a take-off of Hamlet set at a Southern Black family’s cook-out, will make its Broadway debut this spring, beginning previe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMSunday, December 4, 2022
Two new productions opened on Broadway within the last few days, demonstrating that Broadway, at the very least, can accommodate works of remarkable diversity – a diversity in levels of am…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMFriday, December 2, 2022
Quentin Oliver Lee, a New York stage and opera performer who most recently appeared earlier this year in the acclaimed, award-winning Off Broadway production of Heather Christian’s Oratori…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:51AMThe new Britney Spears jukebox musical Once Upon A One More Time has finalized its Broadway plans: The production will begin previews Saturday, May 13, 2023, at the Marquis Theatre, with an …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMThursday, December 1, 2022
Actors’ Equity Association, the national union representing actors and stage managers, has reached a new, three-year collective bargaining agreement with The Broadway League, the national …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:20PMThe beloved musical The Wiz will return to Broadway next season in an “entirely reimagined revival” directed by Schele Williams and featuring additional material by Amber Ruffin. The pro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:15AMWednesday, November 30, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: A new stage musical based on the life and career of Ol’ Blue Eyes himself, the legendary Frank Sinatra, is in the works, with a book by Memphis and Diana writer Joe DiPietro and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMEXCLUSIVE: Slave Play author Jeremy O. Harris and New York Jets tight end CJ Uzomah are the latest high-profile names to sign on as co-producers of a currently running Broadway production: T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:12PMTuesday, November 29, 2022
Even with one fewer show on the Broadway boards, and overall attendance at the 33 productions down a smidge from the previous week, Broadway box office was up 22% during Thanksgiving week, s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30PMBroadway’s long-running The Phantom of the Opera, which has enjoyed a big box office upswing since announcing in September that it would close in February, won’t be making its exit quite…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AMA Doll’s House, the upcoming Broadway revival starring Jessica Chastain, will begin its 16-week limited engagement with previews at the Hudson Theatre on Monday, February 13, 2023 ahead of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:20AMMonday, November 28, 2022
Mariah Carey has signed on as a co-producer of the new musical comedy Some Like It Hot, becoming the latest in a trend of celebrities lending their clout and popularity to support Broadway p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:03PMComposer Andrew Lloyd Webber and international producer and longtime collaborator Michael Harrison announced today the creation of a new musical theater partnership to find and develop new m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:59PMFriday, November 25, 2022
Agatha Christie’s stage thriller The Mousetrap, a London theater staple for 70 years, is finally ready for Broadway: The murder mystery will unfold at as yet undisclosed Broadway venue som…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:45AMTuesday, November 22, 2022
Jinkx Monsoon, a two-time winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, will make her Broadway debut this January as Matron ‘Mama’ Morton in the long-running Chicago. Monsoon’s eight-week engagement…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:32PMMonday, November 21, 2022
There are more than the usual number of miracles to be observed with the latest version of A Christmas Carol to hit Broadway. The usual suspects are here, all the ghosts and spirits and flig…
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