Monday, June 24, 2019
An all-star, live-streamed staged reading of the Mueller Report just might knock down the last excuse standing between you and the 448 doorstop. Beginning tonight at 9 pm ET (6 pm PT), stars…
Linked From Deadline at 09:59AMFriday, June 21, 2019
Be More Chill, the Joe Iconis musical with a road-to-Broadway story nearly as surprising as its sci-fi teen comedy plot, has posted an Aug. 11 closing notice. The musical at the Lyceum Theat…
Linked From Deadline at 10:03AMThursday, June 20, 2019
The Minutes, a 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist by Tracy Letts, will make its Broadway premiere next February, reuniting the playwright with his August: Osage County director Anna D. Shapiro, p…
Linked From Deadline at 03:05PMJelani Alladin, a star of the Broadway musical Frozen, will take on the title role in this summer’s new stage adaptation of Disney’s Hercules, with Roger Bart (Broadway’s The Producers…
Linked From Deadline at 02:51PMIan McKellen has announced a return to Broadway – for charity and one night only. The self-explanatory Ian McKellen On Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others …And You!, directed by Sea…
Linked From Deadline at 10:33AMWednesday, June 19, 2019
The Prom, the gutsy little show that won Broadway’s heart, gave the nation something to talk about over Thanksgiving turkey and is heading for the road and Netflix, will play its last Broa…
Linked From Deadline at 09:41PMFreestyle Love Supreme, the hip hop theatrical improv show co-created by Lin-Manuel Miranda in 2004 and staged intermittently since, will make its Broadway debut in September, producers – …
Linked From Deadline at 09:43AMMonday, June 17, 2019
While Gary and Hillary announced their Broadway leave-taking amidst the post-Tonys fallout, a greater number of productions saw their fortunes burnished in the afterglow of the nationwide tr…
Linked From Deadline at 07:07PMThe producers and creative team behind Broadway’s upcoming musical adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook say they are “encouraged” by the author’s “strong statement of supp…
Linked From Deadline at 05:44PMBroadway’s The Prom has a date with the road: The Tony-nominated musical will launch a first national tour in February 2021 in Providence, Rhode Island. The tour was announced today by pro…
Linked From Deadline at 03:09PMDebra Messing will return to Broadway next year in a spring production of playwright Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles. The Roundabout Theatre Company production will mark the New York premie…
Linked From Deadline at 03:00PMHillary And Clinton, Lucas Hnath’s Broadway play starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow, will plays its final performance on Sunday, June 23, producer Scott Rudin announced today. The cr…
Linked From Deadline at 01:03PMThe Notebook author Nicholas Sparks has released a lengthy, 500-word-plus statement in which he expresses “regret” and apologizes for his words that “have potentially hurt young people…
Linked From Deadline at 11:44AMGary Busey will play God in new pop-rock musical Only Human opening Off Broadway this fall, producers announced today. The musical, with a book by Jess Carson, music and lyrics by Mike Squil…
Linked From Deadline at 10:11AMFriday, June 14, 2019
Beatles tribute band Rain has canceled its week-long Broadway residence, producers announced today. “The tour of Rain was scheduled to conclude its Summer engagement in Sioux Falls and is …
Linked From Deadline at 11:24AMWestworld actor Ed Harris will succeed the departing Jeff Daniels in Broadway’s record-breaking To Kill A Mockingbird in November. Though an announcement from producers has not been made, …
Linked From Deadline at 09:35AMThursday, June 13, 2019
For the second time in recent months, real-world controversy has visited the make-believe world of Broadway musicals. Nicholas Sparks, whose 1996 novel The Notebook is being turned into a Br…
Linked From Deadline at 07:22PMDiana DeGarmo and Ace Young, the real-life couple and American Idol veterans, will star in the national touring production of First Date, the 2013 Broadway musical comedy. The tour and cast …
Linked From Deadline at 02:07PMIllusionist and two-time Olivier Award winner Derren Brown is heading to Broadway. Producers J.J. Abrams, Thomas Kail, and Jeffrey Seller announced today that the 2017 sold-out Off Broadway …
Linked From Deadline at 10:44AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Dave Chappelle will make his Broadway debut this summer as…Dave Chappelle. The comedian and actor will stage a five-show residency at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre July 9-13. Producer…
Linked From Deadline at 01:00PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
Lincoln Center’s Russell Granet has been named the new president and CEO of the New 42nd Street organization, the nonprofit announced today. The hire comes nearly a year after Cora Cahan, …
Linked From Deadline at 11:51AMTaylor Mac’s Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus will play its final Broadway performance this Sunday, June 16, becoming the first announced closing in this year’s post-Tony Award shake-o…
Linked From Deadline at 11:20AMMonday, June 10, 2019
The annual post-Tony shake-out of Broadway closings has yet to get underway, but the pre-scheduled departure of Network last week saw the Bryan Cranston starrer set a couple of records on it…
Linked From Deadline at 05:18PMUPDATE with George Salazar, Joe Iconis responses James Corden is giving some Be More Chill credit where it’s due. After drawing some online criticism for not tipping off the national Tony …
Linked From Deadline at 02:15PMThere were no big surprises or major upsets tonight at the 73rd Annual Tony Awards, as Hadestown, The Ferryman, Bryan Cranston and Elaine May took the trophies they were meant to take, overt…
Linked From Deadline at 01:34AMSunday, June 9, 2019
The 73rd Annual Tony Awards kick off tonight at 8 p.m. ET, live from Radio City Music Hall in New York, airing on CBS (delayed on the West Coast, 8 p.m. PT). James Corden is the host, with p…
Linked From Deadline at 07:45PMFriday, June 7, 2019
Call them predictions, opinions or hopes, but here are my thoughts on this year’s Tony Awards races. As usual, the roster of nominees includes a mix of consensus categories (famous last wo…
Linked From Deadline at 01:43PMThursday, June 6, 2019
The Broadway-bound Mrs. Doubtfire musical that was announced last year will premiere at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre this fall, producer Kevin McCollum announced today, with performances s…
Linked From Deadline at 03:12PMNearly 10 million people saw Camille A. Brown’s work one night last year. Let that sink in. On a single evening – Easter Sunday 2018 – Brown’s choreography for NBC’s Jesus Christ S…
Linked From Deadline at 02:00PMThe world outside New York’s theater district will get to see what all the Broadway fuss was about when this season’s musical productions get their moments in the Tony broadcast spotligh…
Linked From Deadline at 01:34PMEXCLUSIVE: Carolee Carmello, following up an acclaimed Off Broadway performance in Sweeney Todd, will be playing another musical theater icon, taking over the lead role from the departing Be…
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