The Mamma Mia! revival became one of the top five earners on Broadway last week, with the ABBA musical selling out and grossing $1,573,128 for seven previews at the Winter Garden. That figur…
Following extended runs in Boston and London's West End, the new musical comedy Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) will open on Broadway this fall, with previews beginning…
An open letter penned by actor BD Wong condemning the Maybe Happy Ending casting of a white actor in a role originally filled by an actor of Filipino descent has garnered more than 2,400 sig…
Tony Award-winning producer and entertainment industry leader Jack W. Batman died of pancreatic cancer on Friday, August 1, in hospice care at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey. …
EXCLUSIVE: The acclaimed Off Broadway cast of Bess Wohl's Liberation will follow the play to Broadway this October, producers announced today. The 14-week limited engagement Broadway product…
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) will star as Geneviève in a rare revival of the Joseph Stein-Stephen Schwartz 1976 musical The Baker's Wife this fall at Off Broadway…
The world premiere of Let's Love!, a trio of one-act comedy plays written by Academy Award winner Ethan Coen (Fargo) will debut Off Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company this fall with a …
While most of Broadway saw box office slips last week, new arrival Mamma Mia! got off to a fine start: The musical revival sold out its first preview at the Winter Garden Theatre, grossing $…
EXCLUSIVE: The Theatrical division of International Literary Properties (ILP), the global company that invests in, acquires, and manages literary estates, has announced a strategic par…
EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Tony winner Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza, Kimberly Akimbo) has joined the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club's Punch, the James Graham play set to open on Broadway…
Someone upstairs must have been keeping an eye out for Josh Gad, who appeared to make a miraculous recovery in time for Saturday's Jesus Christ Superstar performance at Hollywood Bowl. After…
As Cynthia Erivo channels the Christian Messiah, her Judas is coming to her defense. Ahead of this weekend's star-studded Jesus Christ Superstar concert at Hollywood Bowl, Adam Lambert defen…
On Friday night, the Ford Theater will transform into a living, breathing tribute to the city in which it resides for Get Lit's multimedia production If I Awaken In Los Angeles. The intentio…
EXCLUSIVE: 44 " The Musical, a satirical comedy about "the rise and presidency of Barack Obama, as well as the eccentric political characters he met along the way," will follow up sold-out, …
With a new leading man taking over Broadway's Maybe Happy Ending, the South Korean musical's creators are responding to discourse around the casting of Andrew Barth Feldman. After Darren Cri…
John Stamos is sliding into the golden slippers of King Herod just hours before the curtain comes up on Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl. Stamos' last minute casting comes after …
Robert Wilson, the experimental theater stage director, playwright and choreographer whose career spanned decades of collaborations with such equally visionary artists as Phillip Glass, Lou …
The Roundabout Theatre Company production of Liberation, the critically acclaimed new play by Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl directed by Tony Award nominee Whitney White, will begin previews o…
EXCLUSIVE: And Then We Were No More, a new play by actor-author Tim Blake Nelson, will star Homeland's Elizabeth Marvel when is begins performances in September at Off Broadway's La MaMa. Pr…
Following his casting news as King Herod in the Hollywood Bowl's upcoming Jesus Christ Superstar concert, Josh Gad has dropped out of the show after coming down with Covid. With opening nigh…
New York City Center has announced additional casting for its annual gala presentation Bat Boy: The Musical, the cult hit last seen Off Broadway in 2001. Andrew Durand (Dead Outlaw), Alex Ne…
Kelli O'Hara, the Broadway actress who can currently be seen on HBO's The Gilded Age, will join Tom Hanks in his Off Broadway play This World Of Tomorrow this fall. O'Hara is among the new c…
EXCLUSIVE: In a tribute shared exclusively with Deadline, musical theater impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh has remembered Tom Lehrer, the musical comedy legend, who has died at the age of 9…
Not long after GOP Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.) introduced a bill to designate the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as the "Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts," JFK…
Maybe Happy Ending won Best Musical at the Tony Awards last month, and it's getting a new lead actor after Labor Day. Andrew Barth Feldman will take over as Oliver starting September 2. Feld…