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Monday, June 2, 2025

Performances At Tony Awards To Include Every Nominated Musical & Musical Revival, More – See List by Greg Evans

The 78th Annual Tony Awards has set the performances by casts of the current crop of Tony-nominated musicals and musical revivals for the awards ceremony this Sunday. Performances will inclu…

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Darren Criss Could Have A Bunch Of Maybe Happy Endings On Tony Awards Night – The Deadline Q&A by Greg Evans

SPOILER ALERT: The final paragraphs of the following interview contain details about the ending of Maybe Happy Ending TV has been good to Darren Criss. He found fame on Glee and critical ac…

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Saturday, May 31, 2025

Patti LuPone Apologizes For Comments About Kecia Lewis And Audra McDonald by Greg Evans

Patti LuPone has publicly apologized to fellow Broadway actors Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald for comments she made in a recent New Yorker article, writing in an Instagram post, “For as lo…

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Friday, May 30, 2025

Five Hundred Theater Artists Sign Open Letter Condemning Patti LuPone Comments On Audra McDonald & Kecia Lewis by Greg Evans

An open letter circulating on social media and sent to various news organizations, including Deadline, is calling on The Broadway League, The American Theatre Wing and “the greater theatre…

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Thursday, May 29, 2025

Original ‘Hamilton’ Cast To Reunite At Tony Awards by Greg Evans

The original Broadway cast of Hamilton will reunite at this year’s Tony Awards to mark the 10th anniversary of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking musical. Participating in the reunion p…

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Broadway 2024-2025 Season And George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, And Good Luck’ Break All-Time Box Office Records by Greg Evans

Broadway’s 2024-2025 season is officially the highest-grossing in the industry’s history, with total grosses of $1.89 billion surpassing the previous – and pre-Covid – record-holding…

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Darren Criss And Renée Elise Goldsberry To Host Tony Awards Pre-Show On Pluto TV by Greg Evans

First-time Tony Award nominee Darren Criss and Tony and Tony Award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry will host The Tony Awards: Act One, the live pre-show on Pluto TV June 8. The pre-show will …

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‘Chess’ Broadway Revival With Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit & Nicholas Christopher Set For Fall Season by Greg Evans

The first Broadway revival of Chess will arrive this fall with Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher in the starring roles. The production will open fall 2025 at a Shubert theate…

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Colin Donnell, Shaina Taub Join Cast Of Broadway’s ‘Ragtime’ Revival by Greg Evans

Colin Donnell (Chicago Med) and Shaina Taub (Suffs) will join the cast of Ragtime on Broadway this fall, Lincoln Center Theater announced today. The two, along with Nichelle Lewis (The Wiz),…

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Monday, May 26, 2025

‘Eureka Day’ Playwright Jonathan Spector Talks Vaccines, Getting Canceled By Trump And A Possible Film Adaptation Of His Newly Controversial Comed by Greg Evans

When Jonathan Spector first staged his now-Tony-nominated play Eureka Day in 2017, he couldn’t have known just how timely it would be eight years later. The Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broa…

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Friday, May 23, 2025

Tony-Nominated Sadie Sink Talks ‘John Proctor Is The Villain’, ‘Stranger Things’ And Joining The Marvel Universe – Deadline Q&A by Greg Evans

There are so many startling, perspective-shifting scenes in Kimberly Belflower’s Tony Award-nominated play John Proctor Is The Villain that two people discussing the plot can easily make i…

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Thursday, May 22, 2025

Bobby Cannavale, James Corden And Neil Patrick Harris To Star In Fall Broadway Revival Of Yasmina Reza’s ‘Art’ by Greg Evans

Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris will return to Broadway this fall in the first-ever Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning Art by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christ…

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Broadway’s ‘The Last Five Years’ Adds One-Night-Only Performance To Give Standbys The Spotlight by Greg Evans

Producers of Broadway’s The Last Five Years – the Jason Robert Brown musical starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren – have taken an unusual step as a way to honor the industry’s all…

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Tom Hanks To Star In Off-Broadway Play ‘This World Of Tomorrow’ Based On His Short Stories by Greg Evans

Tom Hanks will star in the Off Broadway world premiere this fall of This World of Tomorrow, a new play the actor co-wrote with playwright James Glossman based on short stories written by Han…

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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

The Ups And Downs Of Tony Award Nominations – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

Heading into the final stretches of Tony season – the awards are June 8 – it’s interesting to see what contender shows have benefitted from their nominations the most, the least and ho…

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Monday, May 19, 2025

Kennedy Center To Include Non-Equity Theater Productions Following Donald Trump Complaints by Greg Evans

Two non-Equity national theatrical tours – Mrs. Doubtfire and Chicago – are on the 2026 schedule of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., marking a majo…

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Real ‘Dead Outlaw’ Elmer McCurdy Finds Fame As Broadway Musical Fans Leave Tributes At Gravesite by Greg Evans

A cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma, is seeing an unusual increase in foot traffic lately, ever since real-life dead outlaw Elmer McCurdy has become Broadway’s most famous corpse. McCurdy’s …

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Jonathan Groff, Bobby Darin And The Art Of Doing It All – Deadline Tony Award Q&A by Greg Evans

This June, Jonathan Groff will have the rare chance to win Tony Awards in two consecutive years. If he repeats last year’s triumph for Merrily We Roll Along with one for this year’s Just…

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Lincoln Center Unveils Renderings For $335 Million Project That Includes New Outdoor Theater And Removal Of Much-Hated Block-Length Wall by Greg Evans

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts today announced the preliminary design for a $335 million transformation of the west side of its Manhattan campus, a project that will include the crea…

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Friday, May 16, 2025

Nicole Scherzinger, ‘Oh, Mary!’ And ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Win Big At New Drama League Awards by Greg Evans

The New York Drama League has named Nicole Scherzinger winner of its annual Distinguished Performance Award for her performance in Broadway’s Sunset Blvd., while Cole Escola’s hit comedy…

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Thursday, May 15, 2025

Charles Strouse Dies: Prolific Composer Of Broadway’s ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ Film’s ‘Bonnie & Clyde’ And TV’s ‘All In The Family’ The by Greg Evans

Charles Strouse, the musical composer for such Broadway hits as Bye Bye Birdie, Applause and Annie, films including Bonnie and Clyde (1967) The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968) and All Do…

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Jasmine Amy Rogers Is The Life Of The Cartoon Party In ‘Boop! The Musical’ – Deadline Q&A by Greg Evans

Jasmine Amy Rogers grew up feeling like a cartoon character. “My voice for a kid my age was a little lower than all the rest of the girls,” she says, “but it was also very, very raspy …

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Manhattan Theatre Club Adds David Lindsay-Abaire Play ‘The Balusters’ To Upcoming Broadway Line-Up by Greg Evans

The world premiere production of The Balusters by Kimberly Akimbo writer David Lindsay-Abaire has been added to Manhattan Theatre Club’s 2025-2026 season, joining the previously announced …

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‘Heathers The Musical’ Finds Its Off Broadway Heathers by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: The upcoming Off Broadway revival of Heathers The Musical has announced the casting of its title trio: McKenzie Kurtz (Broadway’s Frozen and The Heart of Rock and Roll) will pla…

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Broadway Box Office For 2024-2025 Season Surpasses Pre-Pandemic Record by Greg Evans

Broadway reached a major post-pandemic milestone last week, with season-to-date box office receipts of $1,801,023,860 for the 2024-2025 season surpassing the same week of the record-setting …

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‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Recoups Broadway Investment by Greg Evans

Glengarry Glen Ross, the hit Broadway revival of the David Mamet play starring Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk, has recouped its investment, producers announced today. Financial de…

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Monday, May 12, 2025

Levitation, Murder, Mind Flayers And Tenderness – All In A Day’s Work On ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ – Tony-Watch Q&A With Louis by Greg Evans

Louis – he pronounces it Louie – McCartney had only recently learned the name of the young actor who, 28 years before McCartney was born in Nothern Ireland, won the Tony Award for Best A…

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Rebranded Western Musical ‘Wanted’ To Make Broadway Bow in 2026 by Greg Evans

The musical formerly known as Gun & Powder will be rebranded to the new title Wanted for its Broadway bow in 2026, producers said today. The production also announced the addition of Tra…

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‘Good Night, And Good Luck’ Starring George Clooney Recoups $9.5 Million Broadway Investment by Greg Evans

Good Night, and Good Luck, the new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov directed by David Cromer, has announced that it has recouped its initial investment of $9.5 million in only 7…

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Thursday, May 8, 2025

Concord Theatricals Acquires Major Competitor Broadway Licensing Global by Greg Evans

Concord, considered to be the world’s leading independent music company, has acquired Broadway Licensing Global and its imprints Broadway Licensing, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, a…

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Kennedy Center’s Richard Grenell Slams “Vapid And Intolerant” ‘Les Miz’ Actors, Says “Shame” On ‘American Idol’ For Hiring Lin-Manue by Greg Evans

Richard Grenell, the Kennedy Center’s interim director appointed by President Donald Trump, is blasting what he calls politically intolerant entertainers who won’t perform at the Kennedy…

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