EXCLUSIVE: Suzan-Lori Parks, the playwright who won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for her Topdog/Underdog, will make her on-stage debut this fall in the world premiere Public Theater Off Broadway st…
Even with a Covid-shortened performance schedule, Lea Michele's star turn in Funny Girl was serious business last week, with box office for the musical revival more than doubling from the pr…
Broadway officially welcomed The James Earl Jones Theatre to its ranks yesterday, as the 110-year-old and much-renovated former Cort Theatre was renamed in a dedication ceremony attended by …
The producers of Broadway's hit musical revival The Music Man will end the show's successful run on Jan. 1, 2023, when star Hugh Jackman exits after a year a Professor Harold Hill. "I am thr…
The upcoming Broadway production of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Between Riverside And Crazy, directed by Austin Pendleton, will reunite much of the acclaimed 2015 Off B…
The Elton John-Shaina Taub stage musical adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, which recently ended a five-week engagement in Chicago, is "not ready" for subsequent stagings, John said tod…
Black Theatre United has announced the line-up for its inaugural gala next month, and it's a stellar one: Vanessa Williams, Norm Lewis, Audra McDonald, LaChanze, Capathia Jenkins, Brian Stok…
Jefferson Mays' one-man A Christmas Carol is coming to Broadway this holiday season, with a 66-performance engagement previewing at the Nederlander Theatre on Tuesday, November 8 with an off…
EXCLUSIVE: Madeleine George, playwright and writer on Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, has been newly selected as the 2021 recipient of the Hermitage Major Theater Award, a national jury…
Jaja's African Hair Braiding, a new play written by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Whitney White, will make its Broadway debut in a world premiere production by the Manhattan Theatre Club next…
EXCLUSIVE:Â The 1/52 Project, a new financial grant program founded by Tony Award-winning set designer Beowulf Boritt, has selected the first seven early-career designer recipients to bene…
As you might have heard, Lea Michele made her Funny Girl debut last night, taking the stage at Broadway's August Wilson Theatre to six standing ovations, a bouquet of white roses and through…
The Broadway hit musical revival of Into The Woods will be extended one final time, through Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023, producers announced today. The acclaimed New York City Center Encores! produ…
Four standing ovations before intermission. Sounds like Lea Michele's first night as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl is going, well, gleefully. Among those standing: Former Spring Awakening castma…
Broadway gave Billy Crystal a fine send-off last week, with the star's Mr. Saturday Night musical grossing more than $1 million during its final week of performances. That number " $1,014,61…
Will Swenson will reprise his Boston performance in A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical when the production moves to Broadway this fall, producers confirmed today. Swenson will be jo…
As widely speculated, a new Broadway production of the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler classic musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford…
EXCLUSIVE: Lea Michele will be making her public debut as Fanny Brice in Broadway's Funny Girl tonight, but don't expect reviews tomorrow. A production spokesperson tells Deadline exclusivel…
Lea Michele, who begins performances as Fanny Brice in Broadway's Funny Girl revival next week, says she believes much of the recent online vitriol and trolling against her is sexist, and sp…
Will Eisner's groundbreaking 1978 graphic novel A Contract With God is being developed into a stage musical featuring music by Sam Hollander, Lisa Loeb, Matisyahu, Ryan Miller and Jill Sobul…
Broadway's Cort Theatre will officially become the James Earl Jones Theatre in an official renaming and dedication ceremony on Monday, Sept. 12, the Shubert Organization announced today. The…
Most of the 21 Broadway productions on the boards last week showed some signs of summer doldrums, with 17 shows reporting drops in box office over the previous week. Still, with The Music Ma…
Laura Linney will return to Broadway this spring in a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn (Proof). The Manhattan Theatre Club production of Summer, 1976 will reteam the writer wit…
Actor Gabriel Byrne will bring his solo show Walking with Ghosts to Broadway this Fall, with a limited engagement of the production, directed by Lonny Price, beginning performances on Oct. 1…
A new musical written by Anna Deavere Smith and featuring music from the Ella Fitzgerald songbook is currently in development. Ella: An American Miracle will receive an Aug. 25-Sept. 21 work…