A slate of four new productions and renewed interest in a couple of old ones pushed Broadway box office up by 20% last week, with total receipts for the 24 shows reaching $24,954,517 and att…
Marva Hicks, the singer and actor who made her Broadway debut in 1981's Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music and most recently appeared in 2013's Motown The Musical, died September 16 in New Y…
Sean Hayes will return to Broadway this spring starring in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright's new play Good Night, Oscar, in which Hayes will play Hollywood Golden Age actor, pi…
The Phantom of the Opera, Broadway's longest running show, will close in February following its 35th anniversary in January, sources have confirmed. The news comes as the musical, known for …
Common, the actor, rapper and songwriter who has won Oscar, Emmy and Grammy Awards, will make his Broadway debut in the coveted role of "Junior" in Stephen Adly Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize-winni…
Actor Bill Heck (Broadway's Cabaret, Hulu's The Old Man) will join the return Broadway engagement of Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out co-starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams. Heck…
The starry Off Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along featuring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez doesn't begin previews for another two months, and already it's gotten …
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…