Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Ariana DeBose will return as host of this year’s Tony Awards, marking her third consecutive year fronting Broadway’s biggest night. The 77th Annual Tony Awards airs live nationwide (8 pm…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMTuesday, March 26, 2024
Broadway’s first salvo of spring newcomers was more than holding its own last week, with recent arrivals drawing strong audiences. Two shows had their opening nights during the week ending…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:09PMMonday, March 25, 2024
Jamie Lloyd’s acclaimed London production of Sunset Boulevard starring Nicole Scherzinger will open on Broadway this fall at the St. James Theatre, producers announced today. Previews begi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMFriday, March 22, 2024
Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher will star in Left On Tenth, a new play by Delia Ephron based on her bestselling memoir that’s set to open on Broadway in the fall. The announcement w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:50PMTammy Faye, the Elton John-Jake Shears-James Graham musical about televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, will open at Broadway’s newly refurbished Palace Theater this fall with Katie Br…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMAlicia Keys has released her own version of an original song, “Kaleidoscope,” from her Broadway musical Hell’s Kitchen. The recording also features vocals by Maleah Joi Moon, who portr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00AMThursday, March 21, 2024
Water For Elephants, the musical opening tonight at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre, is perhaps best viewed as a redemptive attempt to adapt Sara Gruen’s popular 2006 historical romance nove…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMJennifer Hudson, who guest starred on NBC’s Smash, is now joining the producing team of its upcoming stage musical adaptation. Hudson, a Grammy, Oscar, Tony, and Emmy winner, announced her…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMWednesday, March 20, 2024
Merrily We Roll Along, the hit Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, has recouped its $12 million capita…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AMTuesday, March 19, 2024
Broadway’s insanely busy spring doesn’t really kick into full gear until next month when 14 new shows have their official openings, but with March as a sort of sign of things to come –…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:53PMIllinoise, the acclaimed dance-musical stage adaptation of Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 concept album Illinois, will transfer from Off Broadway’s Park Avenue Armory to Broadway’s St. James The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMMonday, March 18, 2024
Whether or not the climate activists who interrupted a critics preview of Broadway’s An Enemy of the People last week persuasively made their “water’s coming for us all” message isn�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMBen Platt will play an exclusive, 18-performance concert residency at Broadway’s recently refurbished Palace Theatre early this summer to celebrate the release of his upcoming third album …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMThursday, March 14, 2024
Climate activists disrupted tonight’s Broadway performance of An Enemy Of The People, bringing the production starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli to a brief halt as protesters sho…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:39PMTo say The Notebook had a devoted, built-in audience before it sang so much as a note on Broadway would be an understatement this romantic tear-jerker never attempts. Based on Nicholas Spark…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMWednesday, March 13, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Tovah Feldshuh, the multiple Emmy and Tony Award nominee who recently co-starred on Broadway with Lea Michele in the hit musical revival Funny Girl, has signed with Stewart Talent…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:11AMTuesday, March 12, 2024
A slate of Broadway newcomers drew strong audience figures last week, with several – An Enemy of the People, The Notebook and The Who’s Tommy filling every seat and then some. Of the rec…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:02PMAs expected, Broadway’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will end its run this spring when stars Aaron Tveit and Sutton Foster conclude their limited 12-week engagements. Tve…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:45PMAn invitation-only industry presentation of You Hateful Things, a new play by Will Arbery directed by Simon Stone, will be held this week in New York, with a cast including Christian Slat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:48AMFriday, March 8, 2024
Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the London stage adaptation of the hit Netflix series, is aiming for a 2025 Broadway opening, according to casting notices posted Thursday. News of a plann…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:39PMThursday, March 7, 2024
Time has tipped the scales a bit in the did-he-or-didn’t-he question at the heart of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2004 play Doubt: A Parable, opening tonight in a Rounda…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMSteve Lawrence, the singer who teamed with his wife Eydie Gormé to form one of the most popular nightclub and concert duos of their generation, died of complications from Alzheimer’s dise…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:43PMWednesday, March 6, 2024
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal will star in a 2025 Broadway revival of William Shakespeare’s Othello, producer Brian Anthony Moreland announced today. The production, to be directed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:48AMThe Broadway engagement of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable, starring Amy Ryan and Liev Schreiber, has been extended by a week, with a closing date now set for Sunday, April 21. The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMDays of Wine and Roses, the critically acclaimed musical adaptation of the 1962 film, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, March 31, just about two months after its January 28…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:26AMTuesday, March 5, 2024
The Broadway revival of Monty Python’s Spamalot will play its final performance on Sunday, April 7, completing a 24-week run at the St. James Theatre. The production, which opened to favor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:31PMAn Enemy of the People, director Sam Gold’s Broadway revival of the Ibsen classic starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, is off to a great start, grossing more than $1M last week an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:14PMFriday, March 1, 2024
Special “Black Out” performances of Jeremy O. Harris’ stage production Slave Play were well-received by the Broadway community in 2019 when producers of the controversial, acclaimed an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:40PMBroadway will honor the late actor, dancer and singer Hinton Battle with the traditional dimming of marquee lights on March 12. The lights will dim at Broadway’s Shubert, Marquis, St. Jame…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:26AMThursday, February 29, 2024
Gerard Alessandrini’s longtime Off Broadway satirical revue Forbidden Broadway will make its long-in-coming Broadway debut this summer, producers announced today. The new iteration – ful…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:54PMPlaywright Christopher Durang has been named the recipient of The Dramatists Guild of America’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award, joining a prestigious roster of such past awardees as John …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:22PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
New York’s Tectonic Theater Project and its founding artistic director Moisés Kaufman are speaking out against a recent decision by a Texas high school board to cancel a student productio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:45PMFollowing well-received runs in New Orleans and Chicago, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical starring Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart (Disney’s Aladdin) as the jazz icon…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMTuesday, February 27, 2024
Netflix is about to make its Broadway producing debut, joining the team of Peter Morgan’s upcoming play Patriots. The play from the creator of the Netflix signature series The Crown arrive…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:14PMGrey’s Anatomy and Quiz Lady actor Sandra Oh will star in the Off Broadway American premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin this summer. The American Theater Company production begins pre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:39PMBroadway box office held its own following the Presidents Day holiday highs, slipping only about 3% in overall receipts and keeping steady with a total attendance for 24 shows at 205,020 (ab…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:56PMTanya Grubich, a pioneering marketer of Broadway and touring productions whose clients included the musicals Grand Hotel, Smokey Joe’s Cafe and Mamma Mia!, died February 16 of Early Onset …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:48PMTina Fey and Amy Poehler are New York City record-breakers: The duo’s Restless Leg comedy tour broke the record for most consecutive shows by any comedian at the famed Beacon Theatre, sell…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:41AMGame of Thrones star Kit Harington will return to the London stage in the upcoming production of Jeremy O. Harris’ acclaimed and controversial Slave Play. Despite the star casting, Slave P…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMLynda Gravátt, a mainstay of the New York stage, a seminal figure in the Washington D.C. theater community and a familiar presence on television through appearances in the Law & Order f…
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