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Thursday, January 25, 2024

Off Broadway Obie Awards To Ditch Annual Ceremony In Favor Of Winner Grants, Ending 68-Year Tradition by Greg Evans

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 …

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

‘The Lost Boys’ Musical Sets Industry Reading With Caissie Levy, Nathan Levy & Lorna Courtney by Greg Evans

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…

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

‘Sweeney Todd’ Stumbles Post-Groban & Ashford, Pre-Tveit & Foster – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

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…

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Monday, January 22, 2024

‘Patriots’ By ‘The Crown’ Creator Peter Morgan Sets Spring Broadway Opening by Greg Evans

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 …

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‘How To Dance In Ohio’ To Close On Broadway by Greg Evans

How 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…

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Martin McCallum Dies: Broadway & West End Producer Who Worked With Cameron Mackintosh On ‘Cats’, ‘Les Miz’ And ‘Phantom’ Was 73 by Greg Evans

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…

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David Adjmi’s Acclaimed ‘Stereophonic’ Sets Spring Broadway Opening, Laying Rumors To Rest by Greg Evans

Stereophonic, the critically lauded play by David Adjmi that struck a chord with Off Broadway audiences last year with its very Fleetwood Mac-esque tale of music-making and ’70s-style exce…

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Shaina Taub To Lead Cast Of Her Musical ‘Suffs’ In A Rare Broadway Feat by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Composer-actor Shaina Taub will lead the Broadway cast of her musical Suffs, reprising the role she played in the original, sold-out 2022 Off Broadway production. The casting make…

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Barry Manilow-Bruce Sussman Musical ‘Harmony’ To Close After Four-Month Broadway Run by Greg Evans

Harmony, the Barry Manilow/Bruce Sussman musical that opened in November to good reviews that never translated to big audiences, will play its final performance at the Barrymore Theatre on S…

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‘Shucked’ Scores Best-Ever $1.1M Gross In Final Week – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

Winter doldrums and a closing night be damned: Shucked just had a very good week, with news of a planned movie adaptation and its best-ever Broadway gross of $1,111,038. The Brandy Clark-Sha…

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Charlotte St. Martin To Retire As President Of Broadway League After 18 Years by Greg Evans

Charlotte St. Martin, whose 18-year leadership of the Broadway League has included both good times – record-setting revenue – and bad – the historic 18-month Covid shutdown – will st…

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‘The Great Gatsby’ Musical With Jeremy Jordan And Eva Noblezada Sets Spring Broadway Opening by Greg Evans

A new musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby starring Smash‘s Jeremy Jordan and Hadestown‘s Eva Noblezada will open on Broadway this spring, producers announced today. The musical begins…

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Huey Lewis Broadway Musical Finds Its Rock & Roll Hearts In Corey Cott And McKenzie Kurtz by Greg Evans

Complete casting for the upcoming The Heart of Rock and Roll featuring the songs of Huey Lewis has been announced: Newsies‘ Corey Cott and Wicked‘s McKenzie Kurtz will play the leads, a …

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

‘Prayer For The French Republic’ Broadway Review: The Sweep Of History, The Intimacy Of Family by Greg Evans

Recent events in Gaza could lead some to view Joshua Harmon’s blistering, funny and heartbreaking Prayer for the French Republic as uncannily prophetic, but let’s not give the playwright…

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Broadway Box Office Drops 35% After Holiday Surge by Greg Evans

Broadway box office was back on earth last week following the previous week’s unusual double-holiday surge, when both Christmas and New Year’s Eve fell within the same theatrical window.…

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Daniel Dae Kim Returning To Broadway In David Henry Hwang’s ‘Yellow Face’ by Greg Evans

Daniel Dae Kim will return to Broadway this fall in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of David Henry Hwang’s comedy Yellow Face, to be directed by Tony Award nominee Leigh Silv…

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‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Star Lola Tung To Make Broadway Debut In ‘Hadestown’ by Greg Evans

Lola Tung, best known for her role as Belly in Amazon Prime’s The Summer I Turned Pretty, will make her Broadway debut next month in a Hadestown limited engagement. Tung will take over the…

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Monday, January 8, 2024

Sarah Rice Dies: Original Johanna In Broadway’s First ‘Sweeney Todd’ Was 68 by Greg Evans

Sarah Rice, who performed the pivotal role of the endangered Johanna in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, died Saturday…

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‘Purple Rain’ Forecast For Broadway In Stage Adaptation By ‘Appropriate’ Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins by Greg Evans

Purple Rain, Prince’s smash 1984 music-packed film, is being developed for the stage by a Broadway producer, with a book by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and dire…

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Friday, January 5, 2024

Tony-Winning Musical ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Announces Spring Broadway Closing by Greg Evans

Kimberly Akimbo, winner of five 2023 Tony Awards including Best Musical, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, April 28, producers announced today. Remarkably for Broadway, the…

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Thursday, January 4, 2024

Trey Curtis Taking Over ‘Hamilton’ Role On Broadway by Greg Evans

Trey Curtis, the actor-musician whose credits include numerous roles in various productions of Hamilton, will take on the lead role in the Lin-Manuel Miranda Broadway musical this month. The…

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Broadway’s ‘Tommy’ Crowns Its Acid Queen And Casts The Pinball Wizard’s Family by Greg Evans

The original Chicago cast of the newly reimagined The Who’s Tommy will join star Ali Louis Bourzgui when the musical revival opens on Broadway in March. Producers Stephen Gabriel and Ira P…

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Nicole Scherzinger Confirmed To Make Broadway Debut As Norma Desmond In ‘Sunset Boulevard’ by Greg Evans

The hit London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard is heading to Broadway later this year and bringing star Nicole Scherzinger and the rest of the West End principal cast wit…

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Jonathan Bennett To Make Broadway Debut In ‘Spamalot’ As Michael Urie Moves To ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ by Greg Evans

Jonathan Bennett, the Mean Girls heartthrob and star of the Hallmark Channel’s Christmas House franchise, will make his Broadway debut when he takes over the role of Spamalot‘s Sir Robin…

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Stage Directors & Choreographers Reach Pact With Producers On Union Protections For Associates by Greg Evans

The national union of stage directors and choreographers has reached an agreement with producers on a new four-year pact being called a landmark for some theater workers, the groups announce…

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Friday, December 29, 2023

Best Of Broadway 2023: The Year’s Top 10, And What To See In 2024 by Greg Evans

Perhaps no single theatrical image sums up Broadway’s 2023 more effectively than Jessica Chastain’s Nora leaving her dreary, unfulfilled doll house life to exit directly into the unlimit…

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Monday, December 18, 2023

‘Appropriate’ Broadway Review: Sarah Paulson Rattles The Rafters Of History In Powerhouse Production by Greg Evans

Pay attention to those loud, annoying cicadas – they seem to have a story to tell. At least they do in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins superb, marvelously performed Appropriate, the Second Stage pr…

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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Michael Blakemore Dies: Acclaimed ‘Noises Off’ Director Who Won Two Tony Awards In One Year Was 95 by Greg Evans

Michael Blakemore, the only director in Tony Award history to win twice in one year, died Sunday, Dec. 10, following a short illness. He was 95. His death was announced by the London-based U…

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‘The Lost Boys’ Stage Musical In Development With ‘Sunny In Philadelphia’ Writer David Hornsby & ‘Parade’ Director Michael Arden; Patr by Greg Evans

The Lost Boys, the 1987 cult classic horror-comedy about hunky teenage vampires that made stars of Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland and Coreys Feldman and Haim, is being adapted as a stage mu…

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Broadway Box Office Cheery For Holidays But Not As Jolly As Last Year; ‘Appropriate’ With Sarah Paulson Near Sell-Out by Greg Evans

Broadway held steady as it continued through the holiday season, with a total gross of $30,723,247 for the 26 productions up a small 4% from the previous week, and attendance of 227,099 up a…

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Train Singer Pat Monahan Announces Musical Stage Adaptation of Mark Ruffalo-Keira Knightley Film ‘Begin Again’ by Greg Evans

Pat Monahan, appearing with his band Train on today’s episode of ABC’s The View, said the group is at work writing the music for a new stage adaptation of the 2013 musical-comedy film Be…

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards