Tuesday, May 10, 2022
With nearly all 36 productions settling into full schedules last week, the Broadway box office tally climbed a modest 7% from the previous week, totaling $31,199,660, with attendance of 249,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:23PMEXCLUSIVE: Jeremy O. Harris, the Tony-nominated author of Slave Play, has been named the presiding playwright for the 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize, one of the theater world’s most prestigi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Since the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020, The Actors Fund, the 140-year-old organization that offers emergency financial assistance and other support service to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:27AMMonday, May 9, 2022
Fat Ham, playwright James Ijames’ comedy-drama reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, received the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama today, just days before the acclaimed play is to make its N…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:57PMSome of the biggest names in film, television and the Broadway stage won’t be making the coveted pilgrimage to Radio City Music Hall this June when the 75th annual Tony Awards are handed o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:43AMUPDATED with full list of nominees: Tony Awards nominations were announced Monday morning, and Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson’s autobiographical musical starring Jaquel Spivey, took the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:20AMFriday, May 6, 2022
An organization representing Asian American performers, a labor union for scenic designers and a popular Manhattan nightclub-cabaret are among this year’s special Tony Award honorees annou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:36AMThursday, May 5, 2022
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the last time before Monday’s nomination announcements, making some final eligibility determinations for shows including the stars of Ameri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:03PMThe red bucket brigades so long-familiar to Broadway spring audiences were back this year after a two-year pandemic absence, and the results were heartening: donations across Broadway, Off B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:49AMThe Old Vic’s production of Amy Herzog’s play 4000 Miles, which was to have featured the West End debut of Timothée Chalamet in a co-starring role opposite Dame Eileen Atkins, has been …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:49AMWednesday, May 4, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway playwright and American Rust TV writer Adam Rapp has signed with CAA in all areas. Rapp, whose many plays have been staged at regional and Off Broadway venues, made his B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMAriana DeBose will host this year’s Tony Awards, organizers announced today. DeBose, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar this year for her performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMBroadway’s Plaza Suite, the Neil Simon revival starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, announced a third extension today, citing ticket demand. The comedy will now run at the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:57AMTuesday, May 3, 2022
The Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, will close on Sunday, May 22, several months earlier than originally planne…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:01PMBroadway box office was down 15% last week, with even some of the biggest hit shows reporting slips for the week ending May 1. In all, the 36 shows grossed $29,072,410. Likely reflecting a s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:18PMEXCLUSIVE Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss and husband/executive producer Todd Tucker have joined the producing team of Broadway’s upcoming The Piano Lesson revival starring S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMThe critically acclaimed West End revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman starring Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke will be produced on Broadway next season, producers have announ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:47AMDavid Birney, an actor who found early success on Broadway before landing the co-starring role on a 1972 sitcom, Bridget Loves Bernie, that would be one of the most controversial TV shows …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:07AMFriday, April 29, 2022
A very busy Broadway season comes to a close with its final production, and Sam Gold’s staging of Macbeth starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga is nothing if not a dynamic attempt to cap an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:03PMAlmost Famous, the stage musical adaptation of Cameron Crowe’s rock & roll film of 2000, has announced a Broadway arrival for 2022. With the current spring season just about over, that…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:45AMThursday, April 28, 2022
Ramin Karimloo, the male lead of Broadway’s Funny Girl, will be out of the show temporarily after testing positive for Covid just four day’s after the musical revival’s opening night. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:19PMCost of Living, Martyna Majok’s play that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, will be get its Broadway premiere this fall, the Manhattan Theatre Club announced today. The announcement f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:44AMWednesday, April 27, 2022
You might feel like you’ve already seen Mr. Saturday Night the musical even if you’ve never seen Mr. Saturday Night the movie, and whether you find that comforting – Billy Crystal cert…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMLike some strange brew blend of VEEP, Noises Off and one of the late Charles Ludlam’s outrageously vulgar (and still sorely missed) Ridiculous Theatrical Company follies, Selina Fillinger�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
Allow Usher, the central – only? – character of Michael R. Jackson’s scathingly funny and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop, to introduce himself. He is, he tells us, “a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMBroadway box office held steady last week as the production roster reached its full, 35-show season maximum: Though some productions remained in previews, everything that’s going to open b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:21PMEXCLUSIVE: Trai Byers, Ray Fisher, April Matthis and Michael Potts have joined Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Brooks and John David Washington in the cast of Broadway’s upcoming revival of Au…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMMonday, April 25, 2022
A Brontosaurus and a Woolly Mammoth taking up residence among the mid-century modern trappings of a middle-class New Jersey household will now and forever make a theatrical impact – that, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMAdrienne Warren and Joshua Henry will announce the 75th Annual Tony Award nominations on Monday, May 9, Tony organizers said today. “We couldn’t be more thrilled to kick off our 75th Ann…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:57PMFriday, April 22, 2022
The announcement of Tony Award nominations will be delayed by a week, and award eligibility extended by a week, due to what producers say are “the challenges that Broadway has faced in rec…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:31PMThursday, April 21, 2022
Sneaky, menacing and funny are descriptions that come up more than once in Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen, but not one of the three words quite does justice to this irresistibly pitch-black com…
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