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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Nathan Lane & Debra Messing Will Headline Actors Fund Readings by The Deadline Team

EXCLUSIVE: The odd couple will take the podium for “Bridging The Gap And Other Short Plays By Wesley Taylor,” along with additional cast members to be announced. The event will b…

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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Obama Takes In ‘Hamilton’ Matinee On Broadway by The Deadline Team

Broadway got very presidential Saturday afternoon when President Barack Obama took in the Street’s buzziest musical "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop bio of Alexander Hami…

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Sunday, June 7, 2015

Tony Awards 2015: Backstage With The Winners by The Deadline Team

Refresh for latest …. Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron won for best score for Fun Home (Tesori for music, Kron for lyrics). It’s the first time an all-woman team won for score. ̶…

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Broadway’s Carole King Role Goes To ‘Superstar’s Mary Magdalene by The Deadline Team

Chilina Kennedy, who played Mary Magdalene in Des McAnuff’s Stratford-to-Broadway transfer of Jesus Christ Superstar, is set to take over for Tony winner Jessie Mueller in Beautiful &…

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Star-Powered ‘Love Letters’ Closing Broadway Run Sunday, Two Months Early by The Deadline Team

UPDATES with more information. The Broadway revival of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters is wrapping its run at the Brooks Atkinson on Sunday after six preview and 95 regular performances.The two-h…

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Monday, December 1, 2014

‘Doctor Zhivago’ Musical Sets Key Casting For Broadway, Opens Box Office by The Deadline Team

The big spring bow of Doctor Zhivago at the Broadway Theatre will be led by newcomer Tam Mutu in the title role and stage regular Kelli Barrett (Wicked) as the object of his affections, Lar…

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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Temptations & Four Tops Hit Broadway For Limited Holiday Run by The Deadline Team

Broadway's Palace Theatre will play host to Motown legends The Temptations and The Four Tops for a special one-week engagement December 29-January 4. Tickets from $52-$142 will go on sale to…

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Monday, November 3, 2014

Broadway’s ‘Pippin’ Revival Sets January Closing Date by The Deadline Team

Producers of the circus-influenced revival of Pippin, which won the Tony Award for best musical revival two years ago, announced that the musical will play its final performance at the Mus…

SOURCE: Deadline at 07:33PM
Friday, October 31, 2014

Ian Fraser, Emmy-Winning Music Director, Dead At 81 by The Deadline Team

The 11-time Emmy winner, Television Academy Peer Group Governor and music director for the 1995 Henry Mancini/Leslie Bricusse Broadway adaptation of Victor/Victoria died at home Friday in L…

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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Tyne Daly Back On Broadway In ‘It Shoulda Been You’ by The Deadline Team

The Tony and Emmy winner will head the cast of It Shoulda Been You, a new  musical slated for the spring that will also mark the Broadway directing debut of David Hyde Pierce. Set around an…

SOURCE: Deadline at 12:31PM

‘Aladdin’ Alights In Hamburg; Looks Like Disney’s New Global Blockbuster by The Deadline Team

Disney Theatrical Productions' Thomas Schumacher says the second stand-alone export of Aladdin will open in fall 2015 at the Stage Theatre Neue Flora in Hamburg, Germany. That will follow th…

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Monday, October 27, 2014

‘Clinton, The Musical’, Summer Hit, Seeks Coin For Commercial Move by The Deadline Team

Clinton, The Musical, a lowdown spoof of the lives and times of Bill and Hillary, was a hit at both the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2012 and this past summer's New York Musical Theater Fest…

SOURCE: Deadline at 03:03PM
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

‘Hedwig’ Producer David Binder Attaches To London Stage Fest by The Deadline Team

David Binder, lead producer of the 2014 Tony-winning best musical revival Hedwig And The Angry Inch, has joined the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) as Artistic Associate. He'…

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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Al Pacino To Star In David Mamet’s ‘China Doll’ In Broadway Return by The Deadline Team

Al Pacino is heading back to Broadway. He's set to star in David Mamet's China Doll, a play written specifically for him. Mamet describes China Doll as a “play about a wealthy man, his you…

SOURCE: Deadline at 05:19PM
Monday, September 29, 2014

UK Stage: Songbird Nicole Scherzinger Signs ‘Cats’ Clause; ‘Wolf Hall’ Sets Spring 2015 Broadway Dates by The Deadline Team

Following in the footsteps of Elaine Paige, Betty Buckley and countless Grizabellas since,  Pussycat Doll and UK X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger will sing “Memory” in her West End de…

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Angela Lansbury Hits The Road WIth ‘Blithe Spirit’ Tour by The Deadline Team

Like a top-billed trouper from time out of mind, Angela Lansbury will continue her Tony-winning, West-End-haunting run as the spirited rare medium Madame Arcati in Noel Coward's Blithe Sp…

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Emma Thompson Slings Meat Pies As ‘Sweeney Todd’ Launches Commercial Partnership With English National Opera by The Deadline Team

Emma Thompson and Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel will play Mrs. Lovett and the Demon Barber of Fleet Street this spring as the English National Opera begins a partnership with the GradeLinn…

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Friday, September 12, 2014

James Franco, Chris O’Dowd ‘Mice And Men’ Sets November 6 Telecast by The Deadline Team

November 6 has been set for the first National Theatre Live telecast of Of Mice and Men starring James Franco and Chris O'Dowd. The revival of the John Steinbeck play, which closed on Ju…

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Thursday, September 11, 2014

‘Mad’ Woman Elisabeth Moss Will Star In Broadway Revival of ‘The Heidi Chronicles’ by The Deadline Team

Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss will play the title role in a Broadway revival of  the late Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles next spring. The 1988 Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner about a…

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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Vanessa Hudgens To Star In ‘Gigi’ On Broadway by The Deadline Team

High School Musical alum Vanessa Hudgens will headline another musical — this time playing the title role in a new Broadway production of Lerner and Loewe's Gigi. The musical is set to hi…

SOURCE: Deadline at 03:15PM
Monday, September 8, 2014

Patti LuPone Joins ‘Penny Dreadful'; Pair Upped To Regular For Season 2 by The Deadline Team

Broadway icon Patti LuPone will come aboard as a guest star for Season 2 of Showtime's drama Penny Dreadful, which kicks off production this month in Dublin on 10 epiosdes to premiere next y…

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Orange Is The New Green: Schilling, Dinklage Head To ‘A Month In The Country’ by The Deadline Team

Peter Dinklage (Game Of Thrones)  and Taylor Schilling (Orange Is The New Black) will headline a revival of Ivan Turgenev's A Month In The Country, off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company ann…

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Friday, August 15, 2014

Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons Looks West For New Marketing Chief by The Deadline Team

Powerhouse nonprofit Playwrights Horizons, one of the country's most potent incubators of new plays and musicals, has named Kyle Sircus as new Director of Marketing, beginning September 22. …

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

'The Last 5 Years' Underway In NY - Deadline.com by The Deadline Team

Behind The Candelabra scribe Richard LaGravenese is writing and directing The Last 5 Years, the film adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s musical. The pic begins shooting this week in NY, wi…

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