Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Blame it on the rain? Broadway box office dropped by 11% last week as New York suffered a decidedly soggy Nor’easter weekend. All but three of the 26 productions on the boards last week sa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:10PM[SHARE]A “heartbroken” Wayne Brady has withdrawn from the upcoming Off Broadway production of Ms. Blakk For President due to a vocal polyp and the need for vocal rest as ordered by his doctor, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:04PM[SHARE]Cobra Kai and Blue Beetle star Xolo Maridueña will make his Broadway debut when he joins Buena Vista Social Club for seven weeks beginning Tuesday, November 17. Maridueña will assume the r…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:41AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Beat Street, the Broadway-bound musical based on the groundbreaking 1984 film, has assembled its principal creative team, with The Wiz‘s Schele Williams, Hell’s Kitchen‘s Kr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2026
The battle lines are drawn early and definitively in Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play. The cruelties come fast and cut deep in this Ghana school lunch room wher…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PM[SHARE]Friday, September 25, 2026
This season’s Tony Awards Nominating Committee will include, among others, Kimberly Akimbo actor Victoria Clark, playwrights Migdalia Cruz and James Ijames, performer Lorna Luft and former…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2026
With their box office spiking, Bowen Yang and Reece Weaver have extended their Broadway runs in, respectively, Oh, Mary! and Chicago. Ticket sales have been very strong for both shows with t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Rachel Dratch will portray Patty (the non-Peppermint one) and Jeff Hiller will be the piano-playing Schroeder in the upcoming City Center Encores! production of You’re A Good Man, Charlie …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:54PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Blue Man Group, the lapis lazuli-shaded performance troupe who drummed its way into Off Broadway history, will make its long-in-coming Broadway debut this holiday season. Blue Man…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Broadway enjoyed a crisp upturn last week as autumn peeked around the corner, with a few shows benefiting from popular new cast members and one production seeing a final-week boost from last…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:34PM[SHARE]Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Daphne Rubin-Vega and other cast members of Jonathan Larson’s Rent will take part in a one-night-only 30th anniversary benefit concert to be livest…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Rachel Zegler will be joined in Broadway’s Evita by her London co-stars Diego Rodriguez and James Olivas when the musical revival arrives in New York in February. The casting was announced…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 19, 2026
Enjoying the show? Then please put away your cellphone. That was the message delivered by Cate Blachett from the London stage of National Theatre’s Lyttelton Theatre after the curtain call…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:41PM[SHARE]Anthony Page, the prolific British stage, film and TV director who won a Tony Award for his 1997 Broadway production of A Doll’s House and was twice Emmy-nominated for acclaimed TV movies …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:11AM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2026
Lea Michele, who gained her first major fame as a cast member of Broadway’s Spring Awakening, paid tribute to the musical’s late composer Duncan Sheik today, remembering their first meet…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:42PM[SHARE]Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter whose song “Barely Breathing” was a era-defining hit in the 1990s and who composed the Tony-winning Broadway hit Spring Awakening, died Thursday, Sept…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:53AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The Book of Mormon original cast members Nikki M. James and Rory O’Malley will return to the Broadway production at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre for a strictly limited 12-week e…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2026
J. Harrison Ghee, a 2023 Tony Award winner for their performance in Some Like It Hot, will take a two-month leave of absence from the national tour of Oh, Mary! on the recommendation of thei…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Duncan Sheik, the singer and composer whose new musical Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen is set to begin performances Off Broadway later this month and whose 2006 Broadway musical Spring Awakeni…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:56PM[SHARE]Triple-Tony winner Patti LuPone is returning to the New York stage to portray iconic fashion editor Diana Vreeland in the one-woman Off Broadway play Full Gallop. The production, directed by…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:05AM[SHARE]Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), the modest, two-person musical that charmed critics last season and scored eight Tony Award nominations, will play its final performance on Sund…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:55AM[SHARE]The upcoming New York revival of Spring Awakening has set its principal cast, with many of the roles going to Off Broadway newcomers. The musical revival, which begins performances at Studio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:10AM[SHARE]Rosie O’Donnell is headed back to Broadway, however briefly: She’ll join The Rocky Horror Show for two weeks in October as the “Narrator” while current star Rachel Dratch takes a sho…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Could Reece Weaver, breakout star of the Netflix series America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, be following in Whitney Leavitt’s tap-dancing shoes in bringing crowds to Broa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:18PM[SHARE]Cue all the “sun will come out” references: Annie, the beloved Tony-winning musical that gave us the song “Tomorrow” and provided generations of child actors the chance to play pluck…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:25AM[SHARE]Monday, September 14, 2026
Andrew Scott will star in a new feature film version of Simon Stephens’ Sea Wall, a play that the actor originally performed in 2008 at the Bush Theatre in London and that was later staged…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 10, 2026
A live capture of Oh, Mary!, the hit, award-winning Broadway and West End stage comedy written by and starring Cole Escola will debut on HBO in 2027, the network announced today. The program…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Billy Porter, Billy Zane and Jessica Vosk will star in an unusual one-night-only Broadway musical being produced by the financial technology company Ramp as a promotion for the company’s b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:48PM[SHARE]Sacha Baron Cohen will star in an upcoming West End production of Quentin Tarantino’s stage play The Popinjay Cavalier, Deadline hears. According to sources close to the project, Cohen wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:06AM[SHARE]Ted Lasso‘s Nick Mohammed will host The Traitors – Acts of Betrayal, a new West End stage adaptation of the hit BBC One-iPlayer competition series. The announcement from producers Studio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:42AM[SHARE]Following engagements in Australia, Singapore and London’s West End, Now You See Me Live, the stage show inspired by the Lionsgate film franchise, will run on Broadway this holiday season.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]& Juliet, the Broadway dance-pop jukebox musical that imagines Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet if Juliet hadn’t ended it all after Romeo, will play its final performance on Sunday, Ja…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Adrienne Warren is set to star in the previously announced Off Broadway musical adaptation of Imitation of Life, the Fannie Hurst novel that spawned two classic Hollywood films. Warren will …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody, Dylan MarcAurele’s buzzy Off Broadway show that began performances at the smallish The Culture Club venue last May, has recouped its initia…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Broadway held steady as the summer season came to a close with the Labor Day holiday, with the 25 productions grossing a total $26,258,361 for the week ending September 6. The total reps a s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:10PM[SHARE]Julia Roberts, Paul Rudd and Sarah Paulson will return to Broadway this winter in a production of Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds. Joe Mantello will direct with Scott Rudin and Barry Diller…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:24AM[SHARE]Downstate, Bruce Norris’ controversial play about a group home housing convicted sex offenders, will, as expected, get a Broadway staging this fall, and far from shying away from its hot-b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:57AM[SHARE]Talk show host Sherri Shepherd will make a rare Broadway appearance as the Genie in Disney’s Aladdin when she begins a limited run in the musical on Friday, October 16. Shepherd, who gave …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 5, 2026
Although the recently opened Paranormal Activity offered up a fine and spooky soft launch for Broadway’s 2026 Fall Season, the usual autumn crunch of new productions is still some weeks of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2026
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s sell-out stage production in Stratford-upon-Avon of Game of Thrones: The Mad King will transfer to London next year, the company and George R. R. Martin ann…
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