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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Jean Smart Welcomes In The New Broadway Season With The Remarkable ‘Call Me Izzy’ – Review by Greg Evans

The great Jean Smart is in full control of her every last Designing Women sitcom skill and Mare of Easttown drama chop as she delivers a tour de force in Broadway’s Call Me Izzy, a one-per…

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Harris Yulin Dies: Star Of Broadway, TV & Film Was 88 by Greg Evans

Harris Yulin, the acclaimed actor who starred in such Broadway productions as Hedda Gabler, The Price, The Visit and Watch on the Rhine and in the films Scarface, Clear and Present Danger, G…

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The Phantom Of The Opera Is Back In NYC: Immersive ‘Masquerade’ Hints At Imminent Opening by Greg Evans

For months, cryptic messages have appeared on the social media of one Andrew Lloyd Webber about the pending return to New York City of The Phantom Of The Opera, or at least a Phantom-like ex…

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Tony-Winning ‘MJ’ Star Myles Frost Signs With Echo Lake Entertainment by Greg Evans

Actor Myles Frost, winner of the 2022 Tony Award for Best Actor in a musical for his performance as Michael Jackson in Broadway’s MJ The Musical, has signed with Echo Lake Entertainment. J…

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025

‘Smash’ Sets Broadway Closing After Tony Award Shut-Out by Greg Evans

Smash has become the first Broadway show to close following a 2025 Tony Award shut out. The musical will play its final performance on Sunday, June 22, after 32 previews and 84 regular perfo…

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‘Good Night, And Good Luck’ & ‘Othello’ Go Out On High Notes; ‘Call Me Izzy’ With Jean Smart Takes $416,759 – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

Of course it’s too soon to determine what impact Sunday’s Tony Awards will have on Broadway box office – we’ll get a better sense of that with next Tuesday’s numbers covering the f…

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New York City Center Encores! Season To Include All-Black ‘La Cage Aux Folles’ Starring Billy Porter by Greg Evans

New York City Center today announced that its musical theater programming for the 2025–2026 Season will include an Encores! presentation of an all-Black production of La Cage Aux Folles st…

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Monday, June 9, 2025

Tony Awards 2025: The Musical Performances by Greg Evans

Last night’s 78th Annual Tony Awards featured some wonderful musical performances, a nice summation of the 2024-2025 Broadway season. We’ve compiled them, so take a look and decide for…

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Keanu Reeves ‘won the Tonys’ say fans after Jonathan Groff straddles him in viral moment by Greg Evans

The ‘Matrix Resurrections’ co-stars briefly reunited for the intimate moment

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Friday, June 6, 2025

Tony Awards Predictions 2025: Who Will Win? Who Should Win? by Greg Evans

Broadway’s history books might remember the 2024-2025 season as the year Hollywood stars – George Clooney, Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook – sent box off…

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Off Broadway Hit ‘Kowalski’ Aims For Broadway Transfer by Greg Evans

The hit Off Broadway production of Gregg Ostrin’s comedy Kowalski is aiming for a Broadway transfer this fall, producers have announced. They’re on the lookout for a venue. Directed by C…

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Thursday, June 5, 2025

Broadway’s Inaugural Group Marquee Dimming To Honor Gene Hackman, Linda Lavin, Helen Gallagher, Others by Greg Evans

Broadway’s inaugural group marquee dimming to honor multiple artists and industry members who have passed away will pay tribute to such luminaries as Gene Hackman, Linda Lavin, Helen Galla…

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Director Jamie Lloyd On How ‘Sunset Blvd.’ Goes For The Jugular, ‘Evita’ Rocks And ‘Godot’ Was Keanu Reeves’ Midnight Dream – The Dead by Greg Evans

Director Jamie Lloyd is, to say the least, very busy these days. In four days his radical, magnificent Broadway reworking of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Blvd. will be competing for seven …

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Tom Felton Returning To Role Of Harry Potter’s Draco Malfoy For Broadway’s ‘The Cursed Child’ by Greg Evans

Tom Felton, who played young Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter movie franchise, is reprising the role as an adult in Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The play is set 19 years a…

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Jon Bernthal & Ebon Moss-Bachrach To Make Broadway Debuts In ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Next Year by Greg Evans

Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach will make their Broadway debuts next year in Dog Day Afternoon, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis (Between Riverside and Crazy) bas…

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Kara Young Makes Tony Award History And Finds ‘Purpose’ In Broadway – The Deadline Q&A by Greg Evans

Before she sets foot in Radio City Music Hall this Sunday, actor Kara Young will have already made Tony Award history by becoming the first Black person to receive Tony acting nominations in…

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Will Ferrell Developing ‘Eurovision’ Stage Musical Based On His 2020 Netflix Film by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: A stage musical based on the 2020 Netflix movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is under development with Will Ferrell, Harper Steele and Anthony King writing the …

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Tuesday, June 3, 2025

‘Good Night, And Good Luck’ Could Tour And “Might” Go To London, George Clooney Tells Seth Meyers by Greg Evans

George Clooney dropped by Late Night With Seth Meyers last night to plug this Saturday’s live broadcast of his Broadway play Good Night, And Good Luck when he let slip what might be a bit …

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Countdown To Broadway’s Tony Night: How Are The Nominees Doing At The Box Office? by Greg Evans

Broadway began its new season last week with a negligible dip at the box office, understandable given that the previous week had the included the tourist-friendly Memorial Day weekend holida…

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Tony Awards Announce Presenter Line-Up: Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter Part Of Excellent Adventure by Greg Evans

Tony Award Productions announced today the lineup of stars set to present at this Sunday’s 78th Annual Tony Awards, a roster that includes Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter of the upcoming Wait…

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Second Stage Theater Sets New Broadway Season With Pulitzer Finalists ‘Marjorie Prime’ & ‘Becky Shaw’ by Greg Evans

Jordan Harrison’s play Marjorie Prime and Gina Gionfriddo’s comedy Becky Shaw – both Pulitzer Prize finalists – will be presented on Broadway as part of Second Stage Theater’s 2025…

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Mia Farrow Explains Why ‘The Roommate’ Worked And Why She Sobbed When Learning Of Her Tony Nominaton by Greg Evans

One of the more surprising team-ups of this Broadway season was surely Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone, the stars of Jen Silverman’s two-character comedy-drama that had a limited run last fall…

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‘Beetlejuice The Musical’ Returning To Broadway This Fall For Limited 13-Week “Resurrection” by Greg Evans

Beetlejuice The Musical will return to Broadway for the third time when the First National Tour of the international hit musical comedy begins performances Wednesday, October 8 at The Palace…

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Monday, June 2, 2025

Whoopi Goldberg’s ‘The Whoopi Monologues’ (Without Whoopi) And Acclaimed ‘Kyoto’ Join ‘Ragtime’ In Upcoming Lincoln Center Theater Seaso by Greg Evans

Lincoln Center Theater’s 2025-2026 season both on Broadway and Off Off Broadway has some surprises in store: Among the productions joining the previously announced Broadway revival of the …

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Performances At Tony Awards To Include Every Nominated Musical & Musical Revival, More – See List by Greg Evans

The 78th Annual Tony Awards has set the performances by casts of the current crop of Tony-nominated musicals and musical revivals for the awards ceremony this Sunday. Performances will inclu…

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Darren Criss Could Have A Bunch Of Maybe Happy Endings On Tony Awards Night – The Deadline Q&A by Greg Evans

SPOILER ALERT: The final paragraphs of the following interview contain details about the ending of Maybe Happy Ending TV has been good to Darren Criss. He found fame on Glee and critical ac…

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Saturday, May 31, 2025

Patti LuPone Apologizes For Comments About Kecia Lewis And Audra McDonald by Greg Evans

Patti LuPone has publicly apologized to fellow Broadway actors Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald for comments she made in a recent New Yorker article, writing in an Instagram post, “For as lo…

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Friday, May 30, 2025

Five Hundred Theater Artists Sign Open Letter Condemning Patti LuPone Comments On Audra McDonald & Kecia Lewis by Greg Evans

An open letter circulating on social media and sent to various news organizations, including Deadline, is calling on The Broadway League, The American Theatre Wing and “the greater theatre…

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Thursday, May 29, 2025

Original ‘Hamilton’ Cast To Reunite At Tony Awards by Greg Evans

The original Broadway cast of Hamilton will reunite at this year’s Tony Awards to mark the 10th anniversary of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking musical. Participating in the reunion p…

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Broadway 2024-2025 Season And George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, And Good Luck’ Break All-Time Box Office Records by Greg Evans

Broadway’s 2024-2025 season is officially the highest-grossing in the industry’s history, with total grosses of $1.89 billion surpassing the previous – and pre-Covid – record-holding…

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Darren Criss And Renée Elise Goldsberry To Host Tony Awards Pre-Show On Pluto TV by Greg Evans

First-time Tony Award nominee Darren Criss and Tony and Tony Award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry will host The Tony Awards: Act One, the live pre-show on Pluto TV June 8. The pre-show will …

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