Thursday, January 16, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Ollie Mongo, the teenage post-apocalyptic skateboarding zombie who has built a devoted fanbase since his creation as a digital comic series in 2016 now has his wheels aimed for Br…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMEXCLUSIVE: Justina Machado (One Day at a Time, Broadway’s In The Heights) and Broadway newcomer Tatianna Córdoba have been cast as the leads in the upcoming Broadway production Real Women…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMWednesday, January 15, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: The Atlantic Theater Company, one of Off Broadway’s most celebrated theaters, has officially closed two new, previewing productions – Eliya Smith’s Grief Camp and Mona Pirno…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:32PMEXCLUSIVE: Masked country music star Orville Peck and two-time Tony Award nominee Eva Noblezada are set as the new Emcee and Sally Bowles of Broadway’s Cabaret at the KitKat Club, producer…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:59AMTuesday, January 14, 2025
Robert Machray, whose prolific, decades-long career as a character actor included appearances on Three’s Company, Roseanne, Suddenly Susan, The Drew Carey Show and, in a four-episode recur…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:37PMBroadway took a somewhat humbling post-holiday slip at the box office last week, with the roster of shows down by three productions and overall receipts off by about 29% from the previous we…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:38PMGracie Lawrence of The Sex Lives of College Girls and the band Lawrence will make her Broadway debut this spring opposite Jonathan Groff in the Bobby Darin musical Just In Time. She’ll pla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMMonday, January 13, 2025
Seaview, the Tony Award winning production company behind such Broadway shows as Stereophonic, Romeo + Juliet, Once Upon a Mattress and All In and recent Off Broadway stagings of Hold Onto M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:28PMAfter negotiations broke down over the weekend between Off Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the stagehands union ordered a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:50AMThursday, January 9, 2025
Jack Waddell, a former opera singer who became a beloved and revered vocal coach for such Broadway stars as Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessica Vosk and Brandon Victor Dixon, died January 1 at hi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:43PMEXCLUSIVE: The Off Broadway world premiere of The Jonathan Larson Project, a new musical featuring dozens of unheard songs, unfinished and unproduced musicals and pop songs found in files an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMWednesday, January 8, 2025
Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector’s critically acclaimed comedy about a private school in California grappling with its vaccine policy, has extended its Broadway run for the second time. Extend…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:35PMEXCLUSIVE: Stereophonic, David Adjmi’s acclaimed Tony Award-winning play about a Fleetwood Mac-like ’70s rock band, has recouped its Broadway investment and will begin a West End engagem…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, January 7, 2025
Gypsy got back on track and Wicked stayed in the stratosphere during New Year’s week, with most of Broadway’s 33 shows posting strong numbers even while dropping down from the previous (…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:35PMMonday, January 6, 2025
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Cecily Strong, J. Smith-Cameron, Javier Muñoz, Rosie Perez and Susie Essman are among the performers of the Broadway stage and screen appearing at this year’s Conce…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:16PMEXCLUSIVE: The company of the Broadway musical A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical will lead a special effort to support those affected by the horrific attack that took place in N…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMFriday, January 3, 2025
The search continues for Zelig Williams three months to the day after the Broadway dancer went missing in a heavily wooded area in his home state of South Carolina. The 28-year-old dancer, w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:51AMTuesday, December 31, 2024
Broadway had a very merry Christmas – with one big exception – as any number of shows gained big at the box office last week, breaking house records and in one case – Wicked – soarin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:48PMMonday, December 23, 2024
The Broadway season doesn’t lend itself comfortably to Best of the Calendar Year Stories — my choices for the first six months of 2024 were made and announced last June in a Tony Award p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMSunday, December 22, 2024
Last week, the Broadway play All In: Comedy About Love got very dramatic about money – weekly box office, specifically, with grosses topping $1 million, an impressive feat for any play not…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMFriday, December 20, 2024
There aren’t enough dressing rooms on Broadway to contain all the expectations for the new Gypsy, George C. Wolfe’s revival starring the great Audra McDonald. Considered by theater buff…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00AMThursday, December 19, 2024
Itamar Moses’s Dead Outlaw, the acclaimed musical that had a very successful Off Broadway run earlier this year, will open on Broadway this April, producers announced today. Featuring musi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:38AMWednesday, December 18, 2024
With Eva Noblezada departing her role as Daisy Buchanan in Broadway’s The Great Gatsby to join her former Hadestown castmates for a limited run of that musical in London, Sarah Hyland (Mod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:28PMEureka Day, the needle-sharp Manhattan Theatre Club comedy by Jonathan Spector that opened to rave reviews this week, has been extended two weeks at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:13AMTuesday, December 17, 2024
The build-up to Christmas is being very generous with Broadway. In some cases, very, very generous. Among the most impressive box office developments last week was the welcome given to All I…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:55PMEXCLUSIVE: The Jonathan Larson Project, a new musical featuring more than 20 songs that have never been part of a fully staged production – including material cut from Rent and tick, tick�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMMonday, December 16, 2024
Quick, think of something really humorous about vaccinations. No? Me neither, but playwright Jonathan Spector has done us all a favor and molded one of the most divisive, inane, grotesque an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMThursday, December 12, 2024
If the line “What shall we hang, the holly or each other?” hadn’t already been taken by The Lion In Winter, it would make a fitting quip stuffed somewhere in Leslye Headland’s deliri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMLast month, Patti LuPone appeared on The View and seemed more than a little apprehensive about seeing the new Broadway production of Sunset Blvd., the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that LuPone…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:29PMEXCLUSIVE: Famed illusionists Penn & Teller will celebrate 50 years together with a one-night-only show at New York’s Radio City Music Hall this summer. Set for Thursday August 21, the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMMartin Benson, the co-founder and longtime artistic director of the Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory regional theater in Costa Mesa, California, died November 30 of a probable heart …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:44AM 
