Tuesday, January 19, 2021
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state’s budget for 2021 includes $130 million for what he calls a Pandemic Recovery and Restoration Program to support arts and entertainment, hotel…
Linked From Deadline at 06:41PMThere’s at least one thing everyone should agree will be missed after tomorrow: Laura Benanti’s recurring appearances as Melania Trump on CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Fortu…
Linked From Deadline at 02:21PMFriday, January 15, 2021
Philip J. Smith, who as the longtime chairman of Broadway’s Shubert Organization was one of the most influential and powerful forces in American theater, died today in New York City of com…
Linked From Deadline at 02:04PMThursday, January 14, 2021
Peter Mark Richman, a star of Broadway, film and television who had guest starring roles on more than 500 TV shows, including a recurring role as Rev. Snow on the classic sitcom Three’s Co…
Linked From Deadline at 07:37PMStars of ABC’s classic daytime dramas All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital will reunite next month to present a streaming concert of their past musical performances benef…
Linked From Deadline at 01:45PMMore than 200 theater writers – playwrights, composers, lyricists, librettists – have joined a nationwide letter writing campaign urging the incoming Biden-Harris Administration to prior…
Linked From Deadline at 12:28PMMonday, January 11, 2021
Nationwide Covid surges and a disappointingly slow vaccine rollout notwithstanding, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci reiterated over the weekend his belief that live theater venues could reopen during f…
Linked From Deadline at 02:59PMMartin Markinson, a producer and theater owner who took Torch Song Trilogy to Broadway and returned the venue now known as the Hayes Theatre to theatrical use, died Thursday, January 7 at hi…
Linked From Deadline at 01:24PMThe Broadway premiere of Skeleton Crew, written by Tony Award nominee Dominique Morisseau (Ain’t Too Proud) and directed by Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson (August Wilson’s Jitney) wil…
Linked From Deadline at 11:40AMThursday, January 7, 2021
The Mean Girls musical won’t be back when Broadway reopens, producers announced today. The musical, based on Tina Fey’s 2004 film, suspended production when Broadway went dark due to the…
Linked From Deadline at 06:20PMEXCLUSIVE: David Henry Hwang, the Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly playwright currently writing the script for a live-action musical film adaptation of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame,…
Linked From Deadline at 04:34PMMarion Ramsey, an actress and singer who appeared in the 1978 hit Broadway show Eubie! but is best known for her portrayal of the sweet, squeaky-voiced Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police Ac…
Linked From Deadline at 03:33PMWednesday, January 6, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has a warrant out, in a manner of speaking, for Broadway actors. Next week’s episode features Tony-nominated Hadestown actor Eva Noblezada …
Linked From Deadline at 02:15PMMonday, January 4, 2021
The filmed London production of the David Bowie musical Lazarus starring Michael C. Hall will stream for three performances this weekend to mark both the late singer’s Jan. 8 birthday and …
Linked From Deadline at 04:30PMLee Breuer, a cofounder of New York’s groundbreaking experimental theater company Mabou Mines and writer of Broadway’s Pulitzer Prize finalist The Gospel at Colonus, died Sunday at his h…
Linked From Deadline at 03:24PMGeorge Gerdes, a prolific character actor whose many credits stretch from Miami Vice and Seinfeld to Bosch and Broadway’s A Few Good Men, died Jan. 1 of a brain aneurysm suffered the day b…
Linked From Deadline at 12:29PMSaturday, January 2, 2021
Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, a virtual Broadway performance that has come together through the power of social media, has raised more than $1 million in premiere night ticket sales to be…
Linked From Deadline at 06:45PMFriday, January 1, 2021
With no Tony Awards this year to honor those Broadway stars and workers who have passed away, a new In Memoriam video directed by actor Raúl Esparza is picking up the mantle. The eight-minu…
Linked From Deadline at 12:46PMWhen Broadway producer Greg Noble heard Gayle King singing the words to “Ode To Remy” on The Morning Show some weeks ago, he knew a sort of leap had been taken. “I thought this thing t…
Linked From Deadline at 12:00PMThursday, December 31, 2020
As we finally turn the calendar on the Cruelest Year, let’s take a moment to reflect on some of the memorable people we lost from the world of entertainment. Click through the photo galler…
Linked From Deadline at 06:52PMWednesday, December 30, 2020
Last spring, in the early days of Broadway’s Covid-19 pandemic shutdown, news reports and industry chatter referred to an eventual (and, it seemed, imminent) reopening as if a light switch…
Linked From Deadline at 10:30AMTuesday, December 29, 2020
Marcus D’Amico, the actor best known for originating the role Michael ‘Mouse’ Tolliver in the 1993 limited TV series Tales of the City, died Dec. 16 of pneumonia at his home in Oxfords…
Linked From Deadline at 02:19PMMonday, December 28, 2020
Arthur P. Siccardi, a longtime Broadway production supervisor whose five-decade career included work on such notable original and revival stagings as Sweeney Todd, Whose Life is it Anyway?, …
Linked From Deadline at 12:56PMRatatouille: The TikTok Musical will have an all-star cast for its one-time-only streaming performance, a line-up that includes Wayne Brady, Kevin Chamberlin, Adam Lambert and André De Shie…
Linked From Deadline at 11:59AMFriday, December 25, 2020
Roger Berlind, the 25-time Tony-winning producer of more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals ranging from Amadeus, City of Angels and Doubt to The Book of Mormon, Dear Evan Hansen and M…
Linked From Deadline at 03:18PMThursday, December 24, 2020
Lee Wallace, who starred in several Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, died Dec. 20 in New York after along illness. Born Leo Melis in Brooklyn, he moved with his family to the Lower East Side…
Linked From Deadline at 09:14PMAmanda Kloots has shared a video today of a ring that incorporates some of her late husband Nick Cordero’s ashes. “Something very special arrived yesterday,” she captioned the post. …
Linked From Deadline at 06:32PMWednesday, December 23, 2020
Rebecca Luker, a three-time Tony Award nominee and one of Broadway’s most acclaimed and popular musical actresses, died today at a New York City hospital following a nearly yearlong battle…
Linked From Deadline at 01:38PMSaturday, December 19, 2020
Peg Murray, who won a 1967 Tony Award for portrayal of Fräulein Kost in Cabaret and later recurred for 13 years on ABC’s daytime drama All My Children, died Nov. 29. A resident in recent…
Linked From Deadline at 05:17PMWednesday, December 16, 2020
Dr. Pamela Newkirk, a journalist, scholar and author of Diversity Inc.: The Failed Promise of Billion-Dollar Business, has been appointed to the Shubert Organization’s board of director. N…
Linked From Deadline at 04:00PMThe new eight-acre Manhattan West mixed-use development complex in New York City will add a 10,000-square-foot entertainment and restaurant space in 2021, including an intimate, 160-seat the…
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