Thursday, September 19, 2019
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, one of the biggest Broadway hits in recent seasons, will take its hits on the road next year, with tech rehearsals for the first North American tour premiering in …
Linked From Deadline at 12:01PMBroadway’s big night has been set for Sunday, June 7, 2020, when the 74th Annual Tony Awards return to New York’s iconic Radio City Music Hall, producers announced today. The televised a…
Linked From Deadline at 11:27AMEXCLUSIVE: Sea Wall/A Life, the lauded Broadway production starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge, will be recorded and released as an Audible Original production, Audible announced toda…
Linked From Deadline at 11:00AMWednesday, September 18, 2019
Seven-time Tony Award winning producers Sue Wagner and John Johnson announced today the formation of Wagner Johnson Productions, a new venture that will see the longtime collaborators produc…
Linked From Deadline at 06:12PMEXCLUSIVE: Lifetime Channel’s morning show The Balancing Act will bring back its “Broadway Balances America” segments this month for the sixth year, and has chosen touring productions …
Linked From Deadline at 02:00PMFilm and theater Producer Marc Platt and wife Julie have made a $1 million gift to MCC Theater, one of Off Broadway’s leading not-for-profit companies, for the development and production o…
Linked From Deadline at 11:32AMTuesday, September 17, 2019
The stage musical adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, with songs by Elton John and Shaina Taub and a book by Paul Rudnick, will make its pre-Broadway world premiere next summer in Chicago, …
Linked From Deadline at 04:56PMLaurence Fishburne and Sam Rockwell will return to Broadway this spring in a revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo, lead producers Jeffrey Richards, Steve Traxler and Stephanie P. McCl…
Linked From Deadline at 04:00PMMonday, September 16, 2019
A raft of newcomers and previewers on Broadway’s box office roster kept the industry tally afloat last week, with a total of 29 productions reporting a combined weekly gross of $29,092,571…
Linked From Deadline at 06:19PMSunday, September 15, 2019
Phyllis Newman, known for her Tony Award-winning role as the bath towel-clad Martha Vail in the musical Subways Are for Sleeping, has died. The star of stage and screen was 86. The news was …
Linked From Deadline at 11:14PMCritics and audiences are sworn to secrecy – well, requested politely but firmly to do so – by the masterful British magician (or take your pick: mentalist, hypnotist, “psychological i…
Linked From Deadline at 09:00PMThursday, September 12, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Enrico Colantoni, the Veronica Mars regular with a role in the upcoming Tom Hanks’ Mister Rogers film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, has been cast in the world premiere of…
Linked From Deadline at 12:49PMWednesday, September 11, 2019
Jeff Fenholt, who played the title role in the original Broadway production and subsequent tour of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Jesus Christ Superstar and later became a TV evang…
Linked From Deadline at 03:32PMRupert Everett will take over for the previously announced Eddie Izzard as George in director Joe Mantello’s upcoming Broadway staging of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? co-starring Laur…
Linked From Deadline at 09:40AMTuesday, September 10, 2019
Real-life marrieds Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker will team up for a Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite to be directed by John Benjamin Hickey. The staging will get a…
Linked From Deadline at 02:05PMBroadway’s upcoming musical Six will star the actresses who created their roles in Chicago for the North American premiere, producers announced today. Playing the six wives of Henry VIII i…
Linked From Deadline at 01:18PMMonday, September 9, 2019
Peter Nichols, the British playwright whose play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg provided Albert Finney with his 1968 Broadway debut and did the same in 2003 for Eddie Izzard, died Sept. 7 in …
Linked From Deadline at 06:54PMBroadway box office was down nearly 10% from the previous week’s Labor Day holiday tourist bulge, with the 25 productions grossing a total $25,965,471. Attendance of 224,402 was steady wit…
Linked From Deadline at 05:08PMFriday, September 6, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Tony winner and Blue Bloods star Len Cariou and UnREAL‘s Craig Bierko will co-star in Harry Townsend’s Last Stand, a new Off Broadway play set for a limited run this fall at N…
Linked From Deadline at 11:24AMActress Carol Lynley, whose popularity in the 1960s and ’70s grew with films Return to Peyton Place, Under the Yum Yum Tree and Bunny Lake is Missing, as well as TV appearances in some of …
Linked From Deadline at 10:03AMThursday, September 5, 2019
Secret love shacks, or love flats as the case may be, notwithstanding, no affair is an island built for two – there’s always at least a third person in the mix, typically considered the …
Linked From Deadline at 08:02PMAidan Quinn (CBS’ Elementary) has been cast in a lead role of Signature Theatre’s upcoming Off Broadway revival of Horton Foote’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Young Man From Atlanta. The…
Linked From Deadline at 12:54PMBroadway’s smash Dear Evan Hansen is heading to New York Comic Con. In an updated roster of panels for the Big Apple’s gathering of tribes next month, the stage production was announced …
Linked From Deadline at 10:31AMBroadway’s upcoming The Music Man revival starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster has rounded out its cast, producers announced today, with Jayne Houdyshell, Jefferson Mays, Marie Mullen a…
Linked From Deadline at 09:31AMWednesday, September 4, 2019
The Off Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors, already sold out well before its first preview on Sept. 17, has released an additional eight weeks of tickets, producers announced today. …
Linked From Deadline at 12:00PMTuesday, September 3, 2019
Ryan Murphy has unpacked a jaw-dropping, star-studded slate of excitement with his new slate of Netflix shows that was part of his mega deal with the streamer. In an interview with Time, Mur…
Linked From Deadline at 08:54PMBroadway box office was up a bit last week, despite being down a show from the previous week. With a very slight 2.4% rise, the 23 productions grossed a combined $28,652,877, with attendance…
Linked From Deadline at 04:26PMHercules, the Public Works’ stage adaptation of Disney’s so-so 1997 animated musical, improves on its source not so much on the strength of its characters or the charms of its leading ma…
Linked From Deadline at 01:13PMDirector Sam Mendes’ hit London staging of The Lehman Trilogy is heading to Broadway, with previews beginning Saturday, March 7, 2020 at the Nederlander Theatre. Opening night is Thursday,…
Linked From Deadline at 11:52AMFriday, August 30, 2019
A revival of Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical Company that played London’s West End has announced its Broadway opening on March 22, 2020, with a cast headed by Patti LuPone and Katrina Le…
Linked From Deadline at 10:48AMThursday, August 22, 2019
Slava’s Snowshow, the surreal, international theatrical presentation of clowns in winter that became a two-year Off Broadway hit in 2004 before playing a limited Broadway run four years la…
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