Friday, February 23, 2024
Broadway in Hollywood at the Pantages Theatre has announced its 2024-25 season, with offerings including the Los Angeles premieres of Tony-winning musical Kimberly Akimbo, the stage adaptati…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMThursday, February 22, 2024
Broadway’s A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical will play its final performance on Sunday, June 30, before launching a national tour this fall, producers announced today. The musica…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMWednesday, February 21, 2024
Ella Beatty, currently appearing in the FX series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, will make her Broadway debut in Appropriate when the hit Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play transfers to the Belasco Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, February 20, 2024
The Presidents Day Weekend was like a little Christmas gift for Broadway, with grosses for the 23 productions posting a hefty 27% increase over the previous week, topping out at $26,946,864.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:09PMMonday, February 19, 2024
Elton’s Prada has found its Devil: Vanessa Williams has been cast as Miranda Priestly in the upcoming West End production of the Elton John-Shaina Taub stage musical adaptation of The Devi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:22PMThursday, February 15, 2024
Production is officially underway for Obsessed, a new, Broadway-bound Diane Warren bio-musical: Producers announced today that licensing deals are set for songs that will be featured in the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:38PMWednesday, February 14, 2024
Actors’ Equity will hand out leaflets outside a workshop of the Broadway-bound Smash musical this week, “warning of the possibility of a strike” in light of ongoing negotiations with t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:33PMTuesday, February 13, 2024
Winter had a chilling effect on Broadway last week, with most shows reporting at least some downturn at the box office and overall receipts dropping nearly 10% from the previous week. In all…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:52PMThousands of Tom Holland fans hoping to witness the actor’s West End return might be wondering where for art all the tickets went. The Spider-Man actor’s limited engagement in Jamie Lloy…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:41PMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins’ critically acclaimed play Appropriate, starring Sarah Paulson and Corey Stoll, will extend its limited engagement by 13 weeks with a transfer from its current home …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:21AMThursday, February 8, 2024
My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?), playwright/performer Rob Madge’s acclaimed West End play, has canceled its imminent Broadway run. Producers say that the production will open on …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:10PMWednesday, February 7, 2024
The acclaimed Off Broadway cast of the Alicia Keys musical Hell’s Kitchen will make the move to Broadway when the show begins previews next month, producers announced today. Starring in th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, February 6, 2024
Tyne Daly was unexpectedly hospitalized on Friday and has withdrawn from her starring role in the Broadway revival of Doubt. She’ll be replaced by Amy Ryan. The news was announced this aft…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:13PMPurple Rain, the stage musical adaptation of the classic Prince album and film, will make its pre-Broadway premiere next year in Prince’s hometown of Minneapolis, producers announced today…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PMBroadway will dim its marquee lights next week to honor the late, great Chita Rivera, the two-time Tony-winning star of the original West Side Story who died January 30 at the age of 91. The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:01PMBroadway said goodbye last week to two well-regarded but underperforming productions, with both Harmony and Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch posting better-…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:32PMTom Holland will tackle the Bard this spring when he plays Romeo in director Jamie Lloyd’s West End production of Romeo & Juliet. Lloyd and Holland made the announcement this morning. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:36AMFriday, February 2, 2024
Waitress composer Sara Bareilles and Pulitzer finalist playwright Sarah Ruhl are teaming up on a stage musical adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s bestselling 2013 novel The Interestings. Bareill…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:24AMWednesday, January 31, 2024
The Roundabout Theatre Company tonight renamed its Broadway venue – a 104-year-old building that began as the Selwyn and most recently went by the prosaic American Airlines Theatre – to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PMTuesday, January 30, 2024
Hinton Battle, a three-time Tony Award winning actor who originated the role of Scarecrow in Broadway’s The Wiz, died yesterday. He was 67. His death was confirmed by his friend, the actor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:56PMChita Rivera, the beloved Broadway star of West Side Story, Chicago and Kiss of the Spider Woman, died today in New York following a brief illness. She was 91. Her death was announced by her…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:29PMBroadway box office held fairly steady last week, with Sweeney Todd‘s post-Groban slide at least partially offset by gains from most other shows. In all, the 25 productions grossed $24,615…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:35PMEXCLUSIVE: British award-winning writer and director Robert Icke has signed with CAA. Icke, who has worked in theater, television, and film, won the Olivier Award in 2016 for his production …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMMonday, January 29, 2024
Gutenberg! The Musical! ended its Broadway run last night, but not before recouping its initial $6.75 million investment, producers have announced. The musical starring Josh Gad and Andrew R…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMSunday, January 28, 2024
It’s easy to feel a bit smug early on in Days of Wine and Roses, as we know so much more – or at least have so much greater vocabularies – when it comes to things like toxic relationsh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMThursday, January 25, 2024
The Obie Awards, the venerable honors for outstanding Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions, is doing away with its annual ceremony and will instead use the funds to provide winners …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:25PMWednesday, January 24, 2024
The Lost Boys, the previously announced, in-development stage musical adaptation of 1987 horror classic, has set an invitation-only industry presentation for next month, with Frozen‘s Cais…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMTuesday, January 23, 2024
Broadway box office took a slide last week as receipts for Sweeney Todd fell by more than $1 million with the departures of Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford (and before the February 9 arriv…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:19PMMonday, January 22, 2024
Peter Morgan’s play Patriots, the drama about the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s fall, will transfer from a celebrated London run to Broadway this spring, with previews beginning April …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:15AMHow to Dance in Ohio, the musical that made Broadway history by featuring a cast of seven autistic actors in its leading roles, will end its run at the Belasco Theatre on Sunday, February 11…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:26AMWednesday, January 17, 2024
Martin McCallum, a British theatrical producer whose work on more than 500 Broadway and West End shows saw his participation in some of the most successful stage productions in modern theate…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:38PM 
