Wednesday, October 26, 2022
The new Kander & Ebb stage musical New York, New York, inspired by the 1977 Martin Scorsese film starring Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro, will begin performances Friday, March 24, 2…
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Broadway box office held steady last week, with impressive attendance for recent arrivals Almost Famous and Kimberly Akimbo, and Leopoldstadt again setting a house record at the Longacre wit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:33PMNathan Lane, Danny Burstein and Zoë Wanamaker, three of the theater’s most acclaimed artists, will return to the New York stage this January in the Broadway premiere of Pictures From Home…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AMEXCLUSIVE: A five-part video and podcast series celebrating the life and career of Broadway composer Lucy Simon – one of the final projects the sister of Carly Simon worked on prior to her…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMMonday, October 24, 2022
Chet Walker, a Broadway dancer and choreographer who created the Tony-winning 1999 hit musical Fosse, died October 21 at his home in Cornelius, NC, from a glioblastoma tumor. He was 68. His …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:17PMLolita Chakrabarti’s stage adaption of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel Life of Pi will premiere at Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre with performances beginning Thursday, March 9, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMSunday, October 23, 2022
Pop superstar Carly Simon paid tribute to her sisters – opera singer Joanna Simon and Broadway composer Lucy Simon – who each died of cancer last week within one day of the other. In a s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:27AMFriday, October 21, 2022
Lucy Simon, the Tony Award-nominated composer of Broadway’s 1991 musical The Secret Garden and sister of singer Carly Simon, died of breast cancer Thursday at her home in Piedmont, New Yor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:45AMBroadway is going Back to the Future this summer when the Olivier Award-winning musical stage adaptation of the 1985 film begins previews at the Winter Garden Theatre. Making the trip states…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMThursday, October 20, 2022
Twenty years after it first arrived to shake up a complacent Broadway and make a Pulitzer Prize winner of its author Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog has lost none of its vitality and power…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMSusan L. Schulman, a longtime Broadway publicist whose five-decade career included such theater milestones as Applause starring Lauren Bacall, Death of a Salesman with George C. Scott and Bo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:48PMThree months after his hoped-for Broadway comeback Paradise Square closed amidst bad box office, legal battles, a Covid outbreak and allegations of a toxic work environment, producer Garth D…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:26PMCovid isn’t done with New York’s theater scene just yet. At least four Broadway and major Off Broadway productions have either canceled or postponed performances or temporarily replaced …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:04PMTimes Square, the heart of New York City’s Broadway district, could possibly – possibly being the operative word – gain a glitzy new attraction in the years ahead: The owners of Caesar…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:58AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
Stage, film and musical icon Lena Horne will officially become the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named for her when The Nederlander Organization rechristens the Brooks Atkinso…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, October 18, 2022
Broadway box office held steady at $28,621,480 last week as a slate of new productions began or continued previews (Almost Famous and Kimberly Akimbo filled more than 90% of their seats), MJ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:45PMBroadway star Patti LuPone is offering additional details on her decision to leave the Actors’ Equity union after completing her run in Company last summer. “They accepted my resignation…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:54PMA Sign of the Times, a new musical featuring the songs of Petula Clark and other hit-makers of the 1960s, is being developed and will have a reading in New York later this month. The musical…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:15PMKrysta Rodriguez (Into The Woods, Spring Awakening) and Erik Jensen (The Exonerated, Coal Country) will complete the cast of the upcoming Broadway production of Anthony McCarten’s The Coll…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:06AMMonday, October 17, 2022
Triple Tony winner and stage icon Patti LuPone says she’s given up her Actors’ Equity card, a move that could signal an end to her celebrated Broadway stage career. “Quite a week on Br…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:18PMMJ, the hit Broadway musical about Michael Jackson and featuring many of his most popular songs, will open in London in March 2024, producers announced today. The announcement comes as the m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:17AMFriday, October 14, 2022
The Hadestown audience member with hearing loss who was reprimanded from the stage by Lillias White when the Broadway actress mistook a captioning device for a recording device is urging soc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:10PMMax Woodward, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts executive and producer who oversaw the production of its theater programming for years before his retirement in 2016, died to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:20PMThursday, October 13, 2022
There’s abundant magic still in The Piano Lesson, August Wilson’s grand, 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning tale of a Black family torn between legacy and ambition, the past and the future, and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMBroadway will honor the legendary Angela Lansbury with the traditional dimming of marquee lights this Saturday evening. “Angela Lansbury was without a doubt one of Broadway’s most endear…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:40PMThe producers of Broadway’s Hadestown and Jujamcyn Theaters have apologized to an audience member with hearing loss whose use of a captioning device drew repeated onstage reprimands from o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:19PMA Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved and acclaimed children’s book classic, is being developed as a stage musical, producers announced today. The adaptation will feature musi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:42PMTuesday, October 11, 2022
A Strange Loop, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Broadway musical, will plays its final performance on January 15, 2023, producers announced today. Michael R. Jackson’s acclaimed musica…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:24PMThe Broadway production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Between Riverside And Crazy starring Common will be simulcast during its final two weeks in February, producer Second Stage Theatre announc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:53PMNew York City Mayor Eric Adams today signed a bill to to designate Times Square a so-called gun-free zone. “Millions of New Yorkers and tourists flock to Times Square to see Broadway shows…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:07AMSunday, October 9, 2022
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy of the American Dream gone sour, is revitalized and given room to encompass the Black experience in director Miranda Cromwell’s intri…
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