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 01:25PMThe 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 01:00PMBroadway 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 03:19PMPeter 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 09:26AMMartin 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 04:38PMStereophonic, 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:21AMEXCLUSIVE: 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMHarmony, 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:52PMWinter 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:38PMCharlotte 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:55AMA 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:35AMComplete 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 …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:35AMRecent 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMBroadway 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.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:46PMDaniel 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PMLola 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:31PMSarah 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:28PMPurple 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMKimberly 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMTrey 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMThe 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMThe 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMJonathan 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:40PMThe 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:32AMPerhaps 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:09PMPay 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMMichael 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:40PMThe 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMBroadway 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PMPat 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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