Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PMEXCLUSIVE: The upcoming pre-Broadway world premiere engagement of A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical in Boston has cast Tony Award nominees Mark Jacoby and Robyn Hurder, and Linda P…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:19PMRobert Morse, the impish actor and singer who found early fame and success as the Tony Award-winning star of Broadway’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and enjoyed a late-…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:55AMWednesday, April 20, 2022
Director and choreographer Camille A. Brown and her cast of seven female singer-dancer-actors breathe life and vitality into Ntozake Shange’s still-potent mid-1970s touchstone for colored …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMSome Like It Hot, the stage musical adaptation of the classic 1959 Billy Wilder film comedy, will make it to Broadway next fall, following a couple pandemic-bedeviled years that saw the canc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMJulianne Hough, making her Broadway debut in the comedy POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, has tested positive for Covid and will miss several pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:50AMTuesday, April 19, 2022
In the 25 years since Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse first performed Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned To Drive, the name for the disturbing process that we witne…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMSix had its best week ever, Mrs. Doubtfire was back and several new shows joined the Broadway roster last week as box office climbed a total of 23% to $34,729,295. Compared to the previous w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:29PMSunday, April 17, 2022
Tracy Letts’ The Minutes would be one of the most thrilling new plays on Broadway this season even if recent real-life events hadn’t made it seem as uncanny as it is funny and, ultimatel…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMSaturday, April 16, 2022
The Broadway League has announced that while the owners and operators of all 41 Broadway venues will require audiences to mask up at least through May 31, many theaters will no longer check …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:41AMFriday, April 15, 2022
Jay Binder, whose more than four decades as a prominent Broadway casting director included finding just the right talent for such productions as The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Jerom…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:27PMThursday, April 14, 2022
Offstage, and sometimes on, David Mamet can be infuriating and exasperating, as anyone who has witnessed his recent nonsensical, offensive media blitz can attest, and then along comes someth…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMWednesday, April 13, 2022
Neil Patrick Harris has been cast in the upcoming New York City Encores! production of Into the Woods, replacing the previously announced Christian Borle, who is no longer available, New Yor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:03PMSeveral Broadway shows impacted by the uptick in New York City Covid cases last week are still feeling the effects this week: Plaza Suite has canceled performances at least through tomorrow,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:39AMTuesday, April 12, 2022
Broadway’s total box office tally held steady last week, with new shows and strong ongoing performers making up for the money lost when some productions canceled performances due to Covid …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:18PMEXCLUSIVE: A new stage play adaption of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is being developed with an eye toward the West End and Broadway. The Tony- and Olivier Award-winning Rob As…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMMonday, April 11, 2022
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s elegantly humble 1943 children’s novella The Little Prince is transformed into a visually spectacular, dramatically overblown meld of dance, music, video and,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMWith the high-profile, starry revival of his American Buffalo opening Thursday on Broadway, playwright David Mamet seems to be doing his best — or worst — to make headlines. The latest: …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:08PMThe Broadway productions of Macbeth, starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, and the Pulitzer-winning A Strange Loop have canceled tonight’s performances as both shows recover from recent Co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:38AMSunday, April 10, 2022
One or more manhole cover explosions in Times Square sent crowds of tourists and the exiting opening night audience of Broadway’s Birthday Candles scrambling Sunday night. According to Con…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:03PMBirthday Candles, Noah Haidle’s Broadway dramedy starring Debra Messing as a woman who, over the course of the play’s 90 minutes ages from 17 to 107, has just about all the right ingredi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMFriday, April 8, 2022
The Broadway-bound revival of the musical 1776, which begins a pre-New York engagement at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA, next month, has announced a cast comprised fully of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:19PMSome good news from Broadway: Take Me Out, the well-received revival of Richard Greenberg’s baseball play, has extended its run by two weeks at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater. The comedy-d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:07AMThursday, April 7, 2022
Tonight’s performance of Broadway’s Plaza Suite has been canceled after Sarah Jessica Parker tested positive for Covid today. A second test confirmed the diagnosis. Parker’s husband an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:27PMWednesday, April 6, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Ben Holtzman, Sammy Lopez and Fiona Howe Rudin announced today the launch of P3 Productions, describing the new venture as an artist-driven producing team dedicated to building p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, April 5, 2022
A Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer-Prize winning musical, has canceled its first Broadway preview, originally set for tomorrow, due to cases of Covid detected within the company…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:51PMBroadway’s spring season kicked into higher gear last week, with the arrival of seven previewing productions (with more to come over the next few weeks). Business overall remained robust, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:01PMMonday, April 4, 2022
If the last week in our entertainments has shown us anything, it’s that even the most ordered, traditional of ceremonies can be disrupted by an unkind explosion of id, with ramifications s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMEXCLUSIVE: Prodigal, Inc, the L.A.-based entertainment company headed by Arvind Ethan David, a producer of the Tony Award-nominated Jagged Little Pill, has hired Tarquin Pack, producer of fi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:07PMAdditional casting for the upcoming Broadway premiere of KPOP, the new musical about the global K-pop phenomenon, was announced by producers today, with Julia Abueva, Will Brill, Major Curda…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:24AMSunday, April 3, 2022
Paradise Square makes quite the reach. A musical about the build-up to New York’s horrific Draft Riots of 1863 reaches to the past to tell us about the present. It reaches across cultures …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM 
