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Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Maya Rudolph Boosts ‘Oh, Mary!’ To Best-Ever $1.5M; ‘Chicago’ Nabs $1.7M For Whitney Leavitt’s Final Week – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

Forget Tony season for a minute. Last week’s most impressive Broadway box office number was scored by none other than the two-year-old Oh, Mary!, freshened up for the spring with the arriv…

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Tony Awards Snubs & Surprises: Screen Star Shut-Out With No Noms For Adrien Brody, Keanu Reeves, Lea Michele, Jon Bernthal, Ayo Edebiri, Jean Smar by Greg Evans

If last year was Broadway’s Season of the Hollywood Stars – with George Clooney, Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal and Kieran Culkin leading Spring 2025 to steep box office heights (and…

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Monday, May 4, 2026

‘Celebrity Autobiography’ To Launch New Broadway Season With Rotating Cast Of Stars Including Kenan Thompson, Andrea Martin, Kathy Griffin, Many O by Greg Evans

Celebrity Autobiography, the international hit comedy created by Eugene Pack in which celebrities act out the “unintentionally hilarious autobiographies” of other celebrities, will make …

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Bess Wohl’s ‘Liberation’ Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama On Day Before Tony Nominations; Soon-To-Be Movie ‘Angel Down’ Named Best Fiction Book by Greg Evans

Bess Wohl’s acclaimed Broadway play Liberation has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, with the announcement coming just a day before the season’s Tony Award nominations are revealed.…

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Dolly Parton Cancels Las Vegas Residency Due To Ongoing Health Issues; Work On Broadway Musical Continues For Fall/Early Winter Opening by Greg Evans

A chipper sounding Dolly Parton has shared a health update on Instagram, reassuring fans she’s “responding really well to meds and treatments” but that she nonetheless will have to can…

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Broadway’s ‘Book Of Mormon’ Assessing Fire Damage, Possible Performance Cancellations by Greg Evans

The producers of Broadway’s The Book of Mormon and the owner of the Eugene O’Neill Theatre are assessing today’s fire damage to the venue and will announce performance schedule disrupt…

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Three-Alarm Fire Breaks Out At Broadway’s ‘Book Of Mormon’ Theater by Greg Evans

A 3-alarm fire is burning at the Broadway theater that houses the long-running hit The Book of Mormon. The venue, the Eugene O’Neill Theatre on West 49th Street, has been cleared of all em…

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Friday, May 1, 2026

‘Titanìque’ And ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ Extend Broadway Engagements Into Fall by Greg Evans

With Tony nominations around the corner, the musicals Titanìque and The Rocky Horror Show have extended their limited Broadway engagements into the fall, with Titanìque now continuing perf…

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Thursday, April 30, 2026

New York Critics Give Awards To Scott Rudin Productions ‘Little Bear Ridge Road’ & ‘Death Of A Salesman’; Alden Ehrenreich Takes Top Perfo by Greg Evans

Samuel D. Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road was named Best Play of the 2025-2026 season by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle tonight for the Broadway staging starring Laurie Metcalf and M…

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Tony Awards Lifetime Achievement Honors Announced by Greg Evans

Andre Bishop, artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater from 1992 to 2025; pioneering Broadway lighting designer Jules Fisher; and playwright, director and frequent Stephen Sondheim collab…

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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Laurie Metcalf Tony-Eligible As Featured Actress For ‘Death Of A Salesman’, Committee Rules by Greg Evans

Broadway’s Death of a Salesman will not get a Tony nomination in the leading actress category, it turns out. The Tony Awards Administration Committee ruled today that the production’s La…

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Broadway Hit ‘Ragtime’ To Launch North American Tour Fall 2027 by Greg Evans

Lincoln Center Theater’s hit Broadway musical revival Ragtime will launch a North American tour in fall of 2027, producers announced today. Directed by Lear deBessonet, the artistic direct…

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‘Evita’ Starring Rachel Zegler Coming To Broadway In Spring 2027 by Greg Evans

Director/producer Jamie Lloyd’s Evita revival starring Rachel Zegler will come to Broadway in spring 2027, producers announced today. The announcement confirms recent speculation fueled by…

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New York City Center Announces Revivals Of ‘In The Heights’, ‘Kiss Of The Spider Woman’, ‘You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown’ and ‘Halle by Greg Evans

New York City Center has set three musical revivals – You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Hallelujah, Baby! and Kiss of the Spider Woman – for its 2026-2027 Encores! season, along with a…

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Tuesday, April 28, 2026

‘Moulin Rouge!’ With Megan Thee Stallion, ‘Rocky Horror Show’ & ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Pack ‘Em In; ‘Beaches’ Struggling To S by Greg Evans

The final batch of Broadway’s spring 2026 arrivals opened last week, and while press previews and opening night comps took their toll on some of the week’s grosses, a clearer picture of …

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Darren Criss & Uzo Aduba To Announce Tony Award Nominations May 5 by Greg Evans

Tony Award nominee Uzo Aduba and Tony Award winner Darren Criss will announce the nominations for the 79th Annual Tony Awards next Tuesday. The nominations will be announced live on Tuesday,…

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Broadway’s Spring 2026 Season: All Of Deadline’s Reviews From ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ To ‘The Lost Boys’ by Greg Evans

With Tony Award nominations for the 2025-2026 season a week away (announcements are on Tuesday, May 5), now might be a good time to refresh your memory of what Deadline had to say about the …

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Cryptic Signs & Messages Suggest ‘Evita’ Starring Rachel Zegler Is Broadway Bound by Greg Evans

In the weeks before Andrew Lloyd Webber announced the New York staging of his The Phantom of the Opera reboot Masquerade last year, cryptic messages and clues began popping up, not least bei…

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‘Trading Places’ Musical Sets Pre-Broadway Workshops With Bryce Pinkham & Ephraim Sykes by Greg Evans

Trading Places, the John Landis-directed 1983 hit comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy, is being developed as a Broadway-bound stage musical with a book by Reno 911‘s Thomas Lenno…

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Laura Linney Returning To Broadway In David Hare’s ‘Montauk’; World Premiere Set For Spring 2027 by Greg Evans

Laura Linney will return to Broadway in a spring 2027 world premiere of David Hare’s Montauk, the Manhattan Theatre Club announced today. Daniel Sullivan will direct. The play will debut n…

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Monday, April 27, 2026

Laurie Metcalf Talks Scott Rudin, Roseanne Barr And Falling Out With Steppenwolf In New Yorker Profile by Greg Evans

Laurie Metcalf, currently starring in the hit Broadway revival Death of a Salesman co-starring Nathan Lane, speaks emotionally about the show’s producer (and her frequent collaborator) Sco…

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Sunday, April 26, 2026

‘The Lost Boys’ Broadway Review: A Film-To-Stage Adaptation That Doesn’t Suck by Greg Evans

Broadway’s Curse of the Vampire Musicals might be taking a stake through the heart right about now. The Lost Boys, the Michael Arden-directed stage adaptation of the 1987 movie about teena…

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Saturday, April 25, 2026

‘Joe Turner’s Come And Gone’ Broadway Review: Taraji P. Henson & Cedric The Entertainer Shine In August Wilson Revival by Greg Evans

Rare is the Broadway season that hasn’t been bettered by an August Wilson revival, and this very busy spring is no exception. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, lovingly and astutely directed b…

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Thursday, April 23, 2026

‘The Rocky Horror Show’ Broadway Review: A Much Needed Time Warp With Luke Evans & Rachel Dratch In Vivacious Revival by Greg Evans

The Rocky Horror Show opens on Broadway tonight amidst a cultural landscape much changed – or maybe not so much – from the ’70s midnight movie circuit era that gave asshole (audience s…

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‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Recoups $7M Capitalization Two Years After Broadway Closing by Greg Evans

Nearly two years to the day after the Tony-winning Kimberly Akimbo closed on Broadway – and just ahead of the production’s final stop on a national tour – the musical has recouped its …

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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

‘Beaches’ Broadway Review: ’80s Tearjerker Washes Out As Stage Musical by Greg Evans

Beaches, that tearjerking ’80s tale of female friendship beloved by some, snubbed by others and mostly remembered for Bette Midler’s rendition of the soaring theme song “Wind Beneath M…

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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

‘The Balusters’ Broadway Review: Richard Thomas And Anika Noni Rose Battle Thy Neighbor In David Lindsay-Abaire Comedy by Greg Evans

Hell hath no fury like a well-intentioned self-appointed watchdog challenged, as David Lindsay-Abaire’s new ensemble comedy The Balusters reminds us. We’ve seen this group dynamic before…

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‘Proof’, ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ & ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Fill Seats During Springtime Crunch – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

Broadway box office sagged a bit last week, possibly as the previous week’s Easter vacationers and spring-breakers returned home and a crowded, 40-show production slate with lots of newcom…

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Broadway’s Nichelle Lewis Signs With Rebel Creative Group For Management by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Nichelle Lewis, a star of Broadway’s hit musical revival Ragtime, has signed with Rebel Creative Group for management. Lewis is currently starring as Sarah in Ragtime. She made …

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‘Cat On A Hot Tin Roof’ Set For 2027 Broadway Revival With Sam Gold Directing by Greg Evans

Tony winner Sam Gold (Fun Home, Romeo + Juliet, An Enemy of the People) is attached to direct a Broadway revival of the Tennessee Williams masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for spring 2027, …

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Monday, April 20, 2026

‘Schmigadoon!’ Broadway Review: TV Series Leaps To The Stage With Corn Puddin’ For Everyone by Greg Evans

Titaníque is more outlandish (and funnier), Something Rotten! was sharper (and funnier) and Smash, well, Smash was none of those. Taking a comfortable, crowd-satisfying spot somewhere in th…

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2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off