Tuesday, October 11, 2022
New 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMFriday, October 7, 2022
Ten years ago, actor Sean Hayes and playwright David Adjmi were working together to develop a play based on the life of Oscar Levant, the actor, pianist and notorious wit of Hollywood’s Go…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:40AMThursday, October 6, 2022
Near the start of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway revival of the musical 1776, a cast made entirely of actors who identify as female, transgender and nonbinary, with multiple rep…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMEXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has secured North American, United Kingdom, and Ireland distribution rights to Broadway Rising, Amy Rice’s documentary chronicling the reopening of Broadw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:51PMOscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan will star in the first major New York revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window this February at the Brooklyn Academy of Music…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMCrystal Lucas-Perry, Fedna Jacquet, Marchánt Davis, Shannon Matesky and Ebony Marshall-Oliver will join the previously announced Jordan E. Cooper in the cast of Cooper’s upcoming Broadway…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:05AMTuesday, October 4, 2022
Broadway held fairly steady at the box office last week, with recent arrivals Leopoldstadt and The Piano Lesson leading the pack of fall newcomers with grosses of $758,988 and $704,051, resp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:31PMCharles Fuller, the groundbreaking playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for his enduring drama A Soldier’s Play, died Monday of natural causes in Toronto. He was 83. His death was…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:59PMAndrew Lloyd Webber will add several new songs and a brief word to the title of Bad Cinderella – formerly, in London, just Cinderella – when the musical opens on Broadway next spring. �…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:38AMMonday, October 3, 2022
A Pulitzer Prize can be a burden, one must assume, trumpeting expectations and pumping reputations from a distance. Martyna Majok‘s Cost of Living won the trophy in 2018, and that victory …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMSunday, October 2, 2022
The great playwright Tom Stoppard and his simpatico director Patrick Marber make a lasting gift of remembrance in the brilliant, gorgeous and devastating new play Leopoldstadt, opening tonig…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMWell, that’s that. After all the controversies and badly handled original castings and headlines and backstage bruisings and firings or resignations or whatever they were, Funny Girl is, a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:39PMFriday, September 30, 2022
Well, he didn’t rule it out. Director Baz Luhrmann, whose 2001 film Moulin Rouge! became a 2018 Broadway hit musical, says a similar path for his 2022 Elvis Presley biopic might be inevita…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:56PMEXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed three-time Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer Camille A. Brown in all areas. Brown made her Broadway directorial debut last season with the revival of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMThursday, September 29, 2022
Hocus Pocus casting its spell on Broadway? The Sanderson Sisters might be flying their brooms a bit closer to the stage after all. A long-rumored stage adaptation of the popular 1993 film st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:51AMFull casting for the upcoming Off Broadway revival of Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along starring the previously announced Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe has been firmed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, September 27, 2022
The Piano Lesson led the pack of Broadway’s recent arrivals at the box office last week, with the August Wilson revival starring Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Brook…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:46PMMonday, September 26, 2022
Rita Gardner, an original cast member of the long-running Off Broadway phenomenon The Fantasticks, died Saturday of leukemia at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. She was 87. Gardner’s death …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:42AMEXCLUSIVE: TheFrontOffice Foundation, the charitable arm of director/producer Wendy C. Goldberg’s TheFrontOffice entertainment company, announced today that it will award a $25,000+ mid-c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMFriday, September 23, 2022
Additional casting and the full creative team for the Broadway premiere of Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders were announced today, with Bryce Pinkham (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:21AMWednesday, September 21, 2022
Encouraging her fans and fellow Broadway-goers to spread the hashtag “The Majestic Is Fit For A Prince,” TV and stage icon Carol Burnett has launched a social media campaign to get Broad…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:05PMTuesday, September 20, 2022
Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & the Pool is heading to Broadway, the comic monologist announced today during a taping of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The new solo show will begi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:47PMBeetlejuice will end its Broadway run at the Marquis Theatre on Jan. 8, 2023, producers announced today, making the musical the second high-profile production in recent days to announce a po…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00PMA slate of four new productions and renewed interest in a couple of old ones pushed Broadway box office up by 20% last week, with total receipts for the 24 shows reaching $24,954,517 and att…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:20PMMonday, September 19, 2022
Marva Hicks, the singer and actor who made her Broadway debut in 1981’s Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music and most recently appeared in 2013’s Motown The Musical, died September 16 in N…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:12PMSean Hayes will return to Broadway this spring starring in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright’s new play Good Night, Oscar, in which Hayes will play Hollywood Golden Age actor, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:20AMFriday, September 16, 2022
The Phantom of the Opera, Broadway’s longest running show, will close in February following its 35th anniversary in January, sources have confirmed. The news comes as the musical, known fo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:31PMCommon, the actor, rapper and songwriter who has won Oscar, Emmy and Grammy Awards, will make his Broadway debut in the coveted role of “Junior” in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMThursday, September 15, 2022
Actor Bill Heck (Broadway’s Cabaret, Hulu’s The Old Man) will join the return Broadway engagement of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out co-starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMWednesday, September 14, 2022
The starry Off Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along featuring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez doesn’t begin previews for another two months, and already it’s got…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:05PM 
