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Thursday, October 16, 2025

‘Ragtime’ Broadway Review: Lincoln Center Reclaims A Gem by Greg Evans

Director Lear deBessonet has chosen wisely in the first production of her inaugural season as Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater, resurrecting the grand, however imperfect musical R…

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Simon Rich’s ‘All Out: Comedy About Ambition’ To Feature Rotating All-Star Broadway Cast Including Jon Stewart, Ray Romano, Cecily Strong And O by Greg Evans

The world premiere of Simon Rich’s All Out: Comedy About Ambition, with direction by Tony Award-winner Alex Timbers, will begin performances Friday, December 12, at Broadway’s Nederlande…

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Alex Brightman & Sara Chase To Star In Broadway’s ‘Schmigadoon!’ by Greg Evans

Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice) and Sara Chase (The Great Gatsby, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) will reprise their roles of Josh Skinner and Melissa Gimble in the upcoming Broadway production of S…

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‘Giant’ With John Lithgow As Roald Dahl Sets Broadway Opening Date, Cast Including Aya Cash by Greg Evans

Mark Rosenblatt’s Olivier Award-winning play Giant starring John Lithgow as iconic children’s author Roald Dahl has set its Broadway opening date for Monday, March 23, 2026, and will bri…

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Ansel Elgort To Make Professional Dance Debut In Pete Townshend’s ‘Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet’ At New York City Center by Greg Evans

Actor Ansel Elgort (Baby Driver, West Side Story) will make his professional dance debut in Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet at New York City Center next month. Directed by Rob…

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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

‘Hamilton’ Has Best Week Ever With $4M Gross; Newcomers ‘Queen Of Versailles’, ‘Ragtime’ Sell Out – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

A quartet of fall season arrivals began previews on Broadway last week, helping to boost the total 31-show gross to $39,416,736, a 25% jump over the previous week when there were 27 shows. A…

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Monday, October 13, 2025

Musicians Union Votes To Authorize Strike In Negotiations With Broadway League by Greg Evans

Broadway musicians of AFM Local 802 have “overwhelmingly” voted to authorize a strike if needed in the ongoing negotiations for a production contract with the Broadway League. The union�…

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Friday, October 10, 2025

Actors’ Equity & Broadway League “Still Very Far Apart” As Two-Day Mediation Yields No Agreement; Talks Will Resume As Union Prepares For St by Greg Evans

Talks between Actors’ Equity and The Broadway League will continue late next week after two days of mediation this week failed to produce results in the rocky quest for a new production co…

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Thursday, October 9, 2025

Members Of Congress Urge Broadway Producers & Unions To Avoid Strike; Zohran Mamdani Pledges Solidarity With Actors’ Equity & Musicians by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: With mediation between Actors’ Equity Association and the Broadway League continuing its second and final scheduled day Thursday, 31 members of Congress, including House Minorit…

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‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Will Come To Broadway In March 2026 by Greg Evans

Last season’s acclaimed Off Broadway hit Cats: The Jellicle Ball is coming to Broadway: The reimagined take on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic Cats begins previews at the Broadhurst Theatr…

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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

‘Oratorio For Living Things’ Playwright Heather Christian & Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Garrett Bradley Make 2025 MacArthur “Genius” List by Greg Evans

Heather Christian, the playwright and composer whose acclaimed, genre-defying 2022 musical Oratorio For Living Things is currently being staged in a revival Off Broadway, and Garrett Bradley…

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‘The Lost Boys’ Musical Announces Broadway Cast, Sets Opening Date by Greg Evans

The Broadway world premiere of the new musical The Lost Boys has set an April 26, 2026, opening date and a principal cast that will include Caissie Levy, LJ Benet, Ali Louis Bourzgui and Ben…

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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

‘Ragtime’ Sells Out, ‘Waiting For Godot’ Nears $1.9M & ‘Hamilton’ Again Breaks $3M – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

Ragtime was a sell-out, Waiting For Godot approached the $2 million mark and Hamilton once again broke the $3 million mark in an overall hold-steady week on Broadway. In total, the 27 Broadw…

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Michael Cerveris To Play Scrooge In Jack Thorne’s ‘Christmas Carol’ Adaptation Off Broadway by Greg Evans

Two-time Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris (Fun Home, Sweeney Todd) will play Ebenezer Scrooge in Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at New York’s Perelman Perform…

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D.C. ‘Damn Yankees’ Eyes Broadway Transfer With George Steinbrenner’s Granddaughter Producing – Report by Greg Evans

The critically lauded revival of Damn Yankees at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., is eyeing a move to Broadway, according to a report in The New York Times. The revival’s lead producer is …

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Monday, October 6, 2025

John Woodvine Dies: British Stage Actor Who Appeared In ‘An American Werewolf In London’ & ‘The Crown’ Was 96 by Greg Evans

John Woodvine, the prolific Olivier Award-winning British stage actor who appeared in more than 70 stage productions at the Old Vic, the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company and ma…

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Ben Lewis Dies: West End ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Actor Was 46 by Greg Evans

Ben Lewis, the Australian actor who played the title role in The Phantom of the Opera in London’s West End, died today in Sydney, Australia, of bowel cancer. He was 46. His death was annou…

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Kandi Burruss Joins Producing Team For Broadway’s ‘Joe Turner’s Come And Gone’ by Greg Evans

Kandi Burruss, the producer, singer and TV personality, has joined the producing team of Broadway’s upcoming revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone starring Taraji P. He…

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Thursday, October 2, 2025

Broadway Break-Out Casey Likes Sets Delfine Paolini’s ‘Sky, Zyprexa, Night’ As Upcoming Film Project by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Casey Likes, who recently starred on Broadway in Back To The Future and Almost Famous, will star in writer-director Delfine Paolini’s sophomore feature Sky, Zyprexa, Night, whic…

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Broadway Performers Pledge Support For Actors’ Equity As Possibility Of Strike Looms by Greg Evans

More than 1,000 actors have signed a letter expressing solidarity with Actors’ Equity in its ongoing negotiations with the Broadway League as the union demands significant increases in hea…

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John Malkovich To Play ‘The Hunger Games’ President Coriolanus Snow On Screen In London Stage Adaptation by Greg Evans

John Malkovich will appear on screen as President Coriolanus Snow in the first-ever stage adaptation of The Hunger Games when the production begins performances in London later this month. A…

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Dolly Parton Broadway Musical Won’t Be Impacted By Singer’s Health Challenges by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Development of the upcoming Broadway-bound Dolly Parton bio-musical Dolly: A True Original Musical is continuing as planned and will not be impacted by the singer’s recently dis…

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Broadway’s ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ With Jon Bernthal & Ebon Moss-Bachrach Sets Opening Date, Venue by Greg Evans

Dog Day Afternoon, the new Stephen Adly Guirgis play based on the classic 1975 movie and starring Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, will begin Broadway previews on Tuesday, March 10, 2026…

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Ethan Slater’s Marcel Marceau Play Sets Premiere Date For Off Broadway Engagement by Greg Evans

Marcel on the Train, the new play by Ethan Slater and Marshall Pailet, will make its world premiere at Classic Stage Company Off Broadway this February, with Slater starring as mime Marcel M…

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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

‘Ragtime’ Sells Out First Previews; ‘Hamilton’ Hits $3.8M – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

Ragtime, Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of the Stephen Flaherty-Lynn Ahrens-Terrence McNally musical, began previews last week and filled every seat at the Vivian Beaumont Theater for th…

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‘Schmigadoon!’ Musical Heads To Broadway This Spring For Limited Engagement by Greg Evans

Schmigadoon!, a new musical based on the popular Apple Original series from Universal Television, will head to Broadway for a limited engagement this spring after a successful run at The Ken…

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Monday, September 29, 2025

‘Punch’ Broadway Review: When Violence Meets Forgiveness by Greg Evans

The arrival of James Graham’s Punch on Broadway at this particular moment in time would seem thoroughly in keeping with horrific real-life events and the gut-wrenching zeitgeisty fictions …

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Sunday, September 28, 2025

‘Waiting For Godot’ Broadway Review: Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter’s Existential Adventure by Greg Evans

Of course it works. Two old friends known for their clownish escapades, always wanting to get back to somewhere they were – anywhere but here, really – all the while using ever so odd ve…

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Friday, September 26, 2025

John Christopher Jones Dies: Actor Who Appeared On Broadway In ‘Hurlyburly’, ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Was 77 by Greg Evans

John Christopher Jones, an actor whose more than a dozen Broadway credits include David Rabe’s Hurlyburly, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and the 1993 musical adaptation of The Goodbye G…

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Thursday, September 25, 2025

Manhattan Theater Club Names Nicki Hunter Its First New Artistic Director in 53 Years by Greg Evans

New York’s venerable Manhattan Theatre Club has selected Associate Artistic Director Nicki Hunter to take over as Artistic Director when Lynne Meadow steps aside on December 1. Meadow has …

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‘Waiting For Godot’ With Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter Has Another Sell-Out Week; ‘Hamilton’ & Leslie Odom Jr. Gross $3.6M – Broadway B by Greg Evans

Waiting For Godot (starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) and a supercharged Hamilton (with newly returned star Leslie Odom, Jr., reprising his role as Aaron Burr) were among Broadway’s to…

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