Thursday, May 25, 2023
Ed Ames, whose long career included hit recordings, TV stardom, and Broadway roles, died May 21 in Los Angeles at 95. No cause was given. Ames began his career in the 1950s as part of the si…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:58PMWednesday, May 3, 2023
Barbara Bryne, a British actress who worked in stage, television, and film during a decades-long career, died Tuesday at age 94. Her death was confirmed by the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:10PMSaturday, April 1, 2023
Maude Apatow has been accused of getting ahead because of her famous name. But a wall in her “Little Shop of Horrors” theater put a halt to that – at least, the head part. Apatow, the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:17PMThursday, March 23, 2023
Andrew Lloyd Webber is thanking fans for their outpouring of support in the wake of his eldest son’s diagnosis with gastric cancer. The composer issued an Instagram video and revealed th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:02PMWednesday, March 22, 2023
Lea Michele will miss upcoming performances of Funny Girl because of an unspecified “scary health issue” affecting her 2-year-old son, Ever Leo Reich. The news was announced Wednesday by…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:58PMThursday, March 9, 2023
Chaim Topol, an Israeli actor best known for his role as Tevye in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof, died Thursday at age 87 in Tel Aviv after a multi-year battle with Alzheimer’s. T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:40AMSunday, February 5, 2023
Charles Kimbrough, best known for his portrayal of network anchorman Jim Dial on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown, died Jan. 11 in Culver City, Calif. No cause was given by his son, who confirmed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:44PMFriday, February 3, 2023
It has been said that success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. Evidently, Congressman George Santos didn’t understand the memo. He once claimed he was a producer on the troubled…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:28PMWednesday, January 11, 2023
Riverdance star Michael Flatley is now at home recovering from surgery after a cancer diagnosis, his team announced Wednesday. “Dear friends, we have something personal to share, Michael …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:55PMWednesday, December 28, 2022
An unhinged and disruptive woman stopped Broadway’s “Death of a Saleman” Tuesday night, finally being escorted from the theater by police. It’s safe to say she was not well-liked by …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:05PMSunday, November 27, 2022
They were passing the hat on Broadway, but Nicole Kidman wasn’t passing on the opportunity to do some good. At a charity fundraiser held on Saturday for the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AI…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:07PMWednesday, October 12, 2022
Chris Colfer isn’t going out of his way to catch former Glee castmate Lea Michele’s appearance in Broadway’s Funny Girl. Speaking on Tuesday’s The Michelle Collins Show podcast, Col…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:34PMSaturday, September 10, 2022
Lea Michele is canceling some of her Funny Girl performances, citing early signs and symptoms of Covid-19. The Broadway star just started as Fanny Brice, the Funny Girl lead, on Sept. 6, tak…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:33PMSunday, July 31, 2022
Comedian and actress Pat Carroll, a television pioneer and an Emmy, Drama Desk and Grammy winner, died at her home on Cape Cod, Massachusetts on July 30, while recovering from pnuemonia. A f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:36PMSaturday, May 14, 2022
Calling Dr. Mark Greene. Please report to the Broadway stage. ER star Anthony Edwards made his Broadway musical debut Friday night as “Dr. Walker” in the Tony-nominated Girl From The Nor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:24PMSaturday, April 2, 2022
There will be no Daniel Craig appearances in the latest Broadway staging of Shakepeare’s Macbeth for a while. The Longacre Theater announced that the actor has tested postive for Covid-19 …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:58PMThe ill-fated run of Rocketman and Kingsman star Taron Egerton in the London play Cock has apparently come to an end. Show producers announced that Egerton has withdrawn from the starring ro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:13AMSunday, February 27, 2022
Veteran actress Patti LuPone tested positive for Covid-19 before Saturday’s Broadway matinee of Company, triggering increased testing protocols for the rest of the performers and staff. L…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:18AMFriday, January 28, 2022
From West Side Story through Bye Bye Birdie, from Chicago to Kiss of the Spider Woman, one actor has been a constant – Chita Rivera. Now, the two-time Tony winners is recapping her Broadwa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:12PMFriday, December 24, 2021
They won’t be singing “Ya Got Trouble” at the Hugh Jackman Music Man revival. At least, not on the scheduled Christmas Day and Dec. 26 shows, which have been officially canceled becaus…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:32PMSaturday, December 11, 2021
It’s a happy 90th birthday to iconic actress Rita Moreno, celebrating today the renewal of interest in one of her most famous roles, that of Anita in the 1961 version of West Side Story (s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:25PMSunday, November 28, 2021
Geoffrey Johnson, whose Johnson-Liff Casting was behind the roles for Cats, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera, Broadway’s three longest-running shows, died Friday, Nov. 26. He was…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:52PMFriday, November 26, 2021
The unexpected death today of songwriter Stephen Sondheim at his Connecticut home will no doubt catch many by surprise, given his relatively robust persona, even at age 91. But while his pas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:15PMStephen Sondheim, one of the giants of Broadway songwriting, died early Friday at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 91. Attorney F. Richard Pappas, announced the death, which he described as…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:16PMSunday, October 17, 2021
Betty Lynn, a veteran actress who was best known as the girlfriend of bumbling sheriff’s deputy Barney Fife on television classic The Andy Griffith Show, has died at age 95. She passed on …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:52PMWednesday, September 15, 2021
Mark Lin-Manuel Miranda as grateful for Broadway’s return. The creator of smash-hit musical Hamilton went all-out to welcome the returning audience, singing outside the theater and then ma…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:42PMSunday, September 12, 2021
Singer/actress Alanis Morissette said she was raped by multiple men when she was a 15-year-old Canadian pop star in a new documentary for HBO, reports the Washington Post. “It took me year…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:06PMFriday, August 6, 2021
UPDATE: Confusion among prosecutors almost led to the release of the man charged in the New York hit-and-run death of actress Lisa Banes, who appeared in the films Gone Girl and Cocktail, as…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:20PMSunday, June 6, 2021
Clarence Williams III, who was a Black power icon in the 1960s and 1970s as the cool detective “Linc Hayes” on television’s The Mod Squad, has died. Williams died in Los Angeles on Fri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:51PMSunday, April 25, 2021
Actress/singer Rita Wilson has joined the outcry against producer Scott Rudin, claiming he tried to find a way to legally fire her from a Broadway show when she was diagnosed with breast can…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:48AMSaturday, April 24, 2021
In the wake of a Thursday protest march that called for the Broadway League to take action, producer Scott Rudin has said he will resign from the trade organization. Broadway actors and Acto…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:37PM 
