Wednesday, July 8, 2020
The Obie Awards, Off Broadway’s most prestigious honor, has rescheduled its prerecorded 65th annual award ceremony for July 14 on YouTube. The original premiere date of June 4 was scratche…
Linked From Deadline at 01:13PMTuesday, July 7, 2020
We certainly don’t need another reason to wish the coronavirus gone and Broadway back in business, but here’s one anyway: Ben Platt wants to return to the stage. “Hankering,” is the …
Linked From Deadline at 02:00PMFriday, July 3, 2020
Stage actor and writer Sidney DuPont (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Trevor: The Musical) has gathered a group of Broadway and Off Broadway performers to launch “The Walkout Project,…
Linked From Deadline at 03:23PMThursday, July 2, 2020
Amanda Kloots, the wife of Broadway actor Nick Cordero, told CBS This Morning today that her husband will likely need a double lung transplant in his long recovery from COVID-19. “We think…
Linked From Deadline at 10:16AMWednesday, July 1, 2020
Producers of Broadway’s Take Me Out starring Patrick J. Adams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams have set an opening date of April 22, 2021, with previews beginning March 22. The Sec…
Linked From Deadline at 12:00PMTuesday, June 30, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Producer Scott Rudin will bring actor Dustin Hoffman to Broadway in a 2021 staging of Our Town, to be directed by Bartlett Sher. Hoffman will play the role of the Stage Manager in…
Linked From Deadline at 05:59PMEXCLUSIVE: As the much-anticipated Hamilton film debuts on Disney+ Friday and Hulu’s We Are Freestyle Love Supreme gets a July 17 premiere date, actor Christopher Jackson has signed with C…
Linked From Deadline at 02:30PMMonday, June 29, 2020
With thousands of out-of-work theater professionals likely to become ineligible for their union insurance over the next six months as the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown continues, The Actors Fun…
Linked From Deadline at 01:09PMAs expected, Broadway will remain dark through 2020, with the Broadway League announcing today that theater owners will refund or exchange all tickets purchased for productions through Jan. …
Linked From Deadline at 12:31PMFriday, June 26, 2020
The Broadway revival of the Tony Kushner-Jeanine Tesori musical Caroline, or Change and the New York premiere of Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles starring Debra Messing are the latest produc…
Linked From Deadline at 11:00AMThursday, June 25, 2020
The Broadway revival of American Buffalo, orignally set to star Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss, and the Steppenwolf production of Tracy Letts’ The Minutes are targeting …
Linked From Deadline at 02:00PMWednesday, June 24, 2020
Marlo Thomas will join Stars In The House creators and hosts Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley Friday on their YouTube series to celebrate the actress’ groundbreaking 1970s TV special Free To…
Linked From Deadline at 01:10PMLincoln Center Theater will postpone until Spring 2021 two productions it had planned for this Fall, including the James Lapine-directed Broadway musical Flying Over Sunset, due to the ongoi…
Linked From Deadline at 10:41AMMonday, June 22, 2020
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Disney Animation are at work on an animated musical set in Colombia, the Hamilton creator teased in an interview on ABC’s Good Morning America today. “I’m actual…
Linked From Deadline at 01:21PMFriday, June 19, 2020
Audra McDonald, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical and its star Adrienne Warren, LaChanze, Aziza Barnes’ play BLKS and the Off Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Ha…
Linked From Deadline at 09:29PM“There is only before this moment,” says Adrienne Warren, star of Broadway’s Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, “and after this moment.” In a remarkable series of big, first steps i…
Linked From Deadline at 02:31PMPhilip J. Smith, Chairman and Co-CEO of The Shubert Organization, has announced his retirement, effective June 30, after 63 years with Broadway’s largest theater owner and producer. A majo…
Linked From Deadline at 11:55AMThursday, June 18, 2020
Lin-Manuel Miranda has weighed in on John Bolton’s lift of a Hamilton lyric for use as the title of his memoir The Room Where It Happened. Since the former national security adviser announ…
Linked From Deadline at 03:34PMEXCLUSIVE: Isaac Powell, who originated the lead role of Tony in Ivo van Howe’s Broadway revival of West Side Story, has signed with CAA. For his critically acclaimed performance, which in…
Linked From Deadline at 02:30PMBroadway actor Nick Cordero could face months more in the hospital and then as much as a year in a rehabilitation facility, his wife Amanda Kloots said in an Instagram Story last night. “W…
Linked From Deadline at 11:56AMBroadway’s Moulin Rouge! The Musical and The Inheritance were named outstanding musical and play of the 2019-20 theater season by New York’s Drama League, the organization announced toda…
Linked From Deadline at 10:11AMWednesday, June 17, 2020
Blasting the British government for what he says has been “no tangible practical support,” producer Cameron Mackintosh says his company’s West End productions of Hamilton, The Phantom …
Linked From Deadline at 02:48PMFriday, June 12, 2020
The producer and creators of Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen has donated $100,000 to organizations fighting racism in the theater industry, including $50,000 to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition…
Linked From Deadline at 10:04AMThursday, June 11, 2020
Mel Winkler, a character actor with numerous TV, film and stage credits as well as being a recognizable voice behind characters on the animated series The New Batman Adventures and Oswald, d…
Linked From Deadline at 03:39PMWednesday, June 10, 2020
The first annual Antonyo Awards honoring black Broadway and Off Broadway theater artists is set for streaming on June 19 (aka Juneteenth, the date commemorating the end of slavery in America…
Linked From Deadline at 02:49PMMonday, June 8, 2020
The pre-recorded 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards, postponed due to the Black Lives Matter protests in New York, has been rescheduled for streaming on Saturday, June 13, at 7:30pm ET. The speci…
Linked From Deadline at 04:21PMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS today announced $125,000 in immediate grants to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition and three other anti-racism organizations. The grants include a $50,000 comm…
Linked From Deadline at 10:33AMFriday, June 5, 2020
The Broadway Advocacy Coalition, a group founded by theater producers and actors to promote the use of the arts for social change, will host a three-day online forum June 10-12 to examine an…
Linked From Deadline at 04:39PMThursday, June 4, 2020
The creative team and producers of Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play have donated $10,000 to the National Bailout Fund in support of Black Lives Matter, and have challenged others in the theate…
Linked From Deadline at 06:32PMWednesday, June 3, 2020
A social media campaign encouraging shutdown New York City theaters to open their lobbies – and restrooms – to protesters is gaining traction among Manhattan’s Off Broadway venues and …
Linked From Deadline at 06:51PMTuesday, June 2, 2020
Editors’ Note: Colman Domingo, playwright, director and actor, was researching his musical (with co-author Patricia McGregor) about the iconic Nat King Cole when he realized the great sing…
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