77 stories by "Dade Hayes"
EXCLUSIVE: Streaming of theater productions has existed for years now, and it became a crucial way for talent and fans to keep the heartbeat of the medium alive during the depths of Covid. B…
Sarah Snook, who won a Tony Award for Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Play for The Picture of Dorian Gray, is stumped about how it would ever be turned into a film. That's the aim…
George Clooney, Bob Odenkirk, Mia Farrow, Audra McDonald, Tom Francis, Daniel Dae Kim, Jamie Lloyd, Louis McCartney are among those saying thank you following news of their nominations for t…
EXCLUSIVE: The American Play Company, most recently led by Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas and his business partner, Mark Shankman, is being acquired by the theatrical division of Intern…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she has made an "aggressive" effort to reassure film and TV production executives and the Broadway theater community that the state ardently supports their in…
EXCLUSIVE: Peyton and Eli Manning have won Super Bowls, Emmys and countless other trophies. But their mantel lacks a Tony Award " for now, anyway. In an elaborate promo for the fourth season…
EXCLUSIVE: Following a Tony season in which it collected 28 nominations and a number of notable wins, UTA has upped Patrick Herold and Rachel Viola to co-heads of its theater practice. Based…
Lupita Nyong'o, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sandra Oh have been cast in Shakespeare in the Park's summer 2025 production of Twelfth Night. The show will mark the return of the P…
UTA has added veteran lit agent Max Grossman to its expanding theater department. Grossman comes to UTA from A3, where he served as co-head of the theater division and co-ran day-to-day oper…
Lin-Manuel Miranda wants to keep directing movies, but don't look for him to mount any large-scale spectacles. "My responsibility as a filmmaker " and I really hope to make more movies " is …
While she was ebullient about Leopoldstadt's Tony Awards wins, including a crowning one for Best Play, producer Sonia Friedman offered some sobering thoughts about plays of its scale and cos…
Alex Newell of Shucked and J. Harrison Ghee of Some Like It Hot broke ground Sunday night as the first openly nonbinary Tony Award winners. Newell won for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a …
After A Strange Loop capped the Tony Awards by taking the Best Musical prize, playwright Michael R. Jackson offered his main takeaway from the show's unlikely path to the top: "It's OK to be…
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who won a Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Take Me Out, said the leaking of a naked photo of cast member Jesse Williams from a performan…
Dazzling in a bright white topcoat and pants, Tony Awards host Ariana DeBose trumpeted progress on Broadway in a high-energy opening number and monologue. (See video clip below.) The West…
Lin-Manuel Miranda promises that Tony Awards host Ariana DeBose, an original cast member in Hamilton before her Oscar win for West Side Story will have "a doozy of an opening number" kicking…
Reactions are coming in to Monday morning's Tony Awards nominations, an event that feels like a reassuringly familiar sign of springtime after two-plus years of Covid upheaval on Broadway. P…
New York City has rolled back its strictest anti-Covid measures, including vaccine mandates for indoor spaces. Public school children from kindergarten through 12th grade will also no longer…
Moulin Rouge! The Musical producers Bill Damaschke and Carmen Pavlovic reflected during tonight's Tony Awards on how differently the show plays in 2021 than it did before the onset of Covid-…
Kenny Leon, director of A Soldier's Play, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, expanded backstage on his acceptance-speech call for greater diversity in the theater. "We've b…
Mary-Louise Parker, a Tony winner for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, offered a sense in a backstage interview of what it felt like to attend tonight's show. "It's really am…
Danny Burstein, after seven Tony Award nominations, finally took home the trophy tonight for best featured performance in Moulin Rouge! The Musical. While he said he hasn't obsessed about wi…
EXCLUSIVE: Miroma SET, a new branding and marketing firm, has been established through the integration of several companies previously managed by London-based Reach4Entertainment. Marc Boyan…
NY PopsUp, a months-long festival starting February 20 that is billed by organizers as a model for how live performances can return amid Covid-19, has set details for its high-profile inaugu…
Tourism " a critical part of New York City's economy and a lifeblood for industries like Broadway theater " may not return to pre-COVID-19 levels until 2025, according to a new forecast from…