Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat will be the subject of a new Broadway-bound musical composed by Jon Batiste, bandleader and musical director of CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Th…
Linked From Deadline at 11:03AMThe golden gods are coming to Broadway: Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe’s 2000 semi-autographical film about a young journalist interviewing and befriending a notorious rock band and its …
Linked From Deadline at 10:20AMShonda Rhimes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Gabrielle Union-Wade and Dwyane Wade have added their names to the co-producers team for Broadway’s upcoming American Son starring Kerry Washington a…
Linked From Deadline at 10:00AMMonday, September 24, 2018
Daniel Radcliffe, Cherry Jones and Bobby Cannavale arrived on Broadway this week in The Lifespan of a Fact, pulling in solid box office for four preview performances during a week that saw m…
Linked From Deadline at 04:35PMBroadway’s beast is offering a peek at its beauty: Check out the photo below of King Kong‘s Christiani Pitts, seen in costume and with the big ape for the first time.
Pitts (A Br…
Linked From Deadline at 03:15PMDebra Jo Rupp will re-team with her This Is Us producer Bekah Brunstetter for Off Broadway’s The Cake at Manhattan Theatre Club next spring.
Rupp, who has guested on NBC’s hit f…
Linked From Deadline at 02:18PMThursday, September 20, 2018
Annette Bening and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts will star in director Gregory Mosher’s Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's classic 1947 drama All My Sons. The Roundabout Theatre Comp…
Linked From Deadline at 04:00PMMother of the Maid, the new Off Broadway play teaming Glenn Close with her The Wife screenwriter Jane Anderson, begins previews next week and has already gotten a three-week extension.
The P…
Linked From Deadline at 03:31PMTuesday, September 18, 2018
Audible’s two-night live reading of Billy Crystal’s new play Have a Nice Day has rounded out its Off Broadway cast, with Keegan-Michael Key, Darrell Hammond and Dick Cavett amon…
Linked From Deadline at 10:45AMFriday, September 14, 2018
Michael Mayer’s West End production of Funny Girl starring Olivier Award winner Sheridan Smith will be broadcast in cinemas globally on Wednesday October 24. A trailer was released to…
Linked From Deadline at 08:00AMThursday, September 13, 2018
Broadway actress and three-time Tony nominee Marin Mazzie died this morning in New York. She was 57.
Her death was announced by her husband, actor Jason Danieley. Mazzie had been fighting ov…
Linked From Deadline at 04:24PMAndrew Lloyd Webber is developing a contemporary musical stage version of Cinderella, Deadline has confirmed. The prolific composer is collaborating with playwright/screenwriter Tom MacRae a…
Linked From Deadline at 09:24AMWednesday, September 12, 2018
The Affair‘s Ruth Wilson, Game of Thrones‘ Pedro Pascal and Tony Award-winner Jayne Houdyshell will join Glenda Jackson in Broadway’s upcoming King Lear – starring, …
Linked From Deadline at 09:34AMTuesday, September 11, 2018
Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin are heading back to Broadway next spring in the world premiere of Taylor Mac’s Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus. George C. Wolfe will direct, with prev…
Linked From Deadline at 11:10AMMonday, September 10, 2018
Bernhardt/Hamlet and The Nap braved the summer heat with Broadway previews last week as overall box office dropped about 8% to $29.5 million. Attendance for the 31 productions running durin…
Linked From Deadline at 04:52PMOrphan Black star Tatiana Maslany will make her Broadway debut this November opposite Bryan Cranston in Network, director Ivo Van Hove’s take on Paddy Chayefsky’s great Oscar-wi…
Linked From Deadline at 04:00PMThursday, September 6, 2018
Beetlejuice will begin haunting Broadway in March 2019 at the Winter Garden Theatre, producers said today. The official opening will follow in April.
The premiere dates and venue were announ…
Linked From Deadline at 03:00PMJoe Iconis’ Be More Chill – the musical that sold-out its 10-week Off Broadway run after a 2015 cast album went viral – will get its anticipated Broadway run. Performances…
Linked From Deadline at 11:00AMFriday, August 24, 2018
A musical about the great Temptations is headed to Broadway. Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations, directed by Des McAnuff and produced by Ira Pittelman and To…
Linked From Deadline at 09:41AMThursday, August 23, 2018
Tony Award winner Laura Benanti will take over as Eliza Doolittle in Broadway’s My Fair Lady, replacing the departing Lauren Ambrose. As reported exclusively by Deadline yesterday, A…
Linked From Deadline at 11:05AMA filmed performance of the Tony-winning Lincoln Center Theater production of The King and I, currently on stage in London’s West End, will screen in cinemas globally for two nights on…
Linked From Deadline at 05:30AMWednesday, August 22, 2018
Complete casting for the pre-Broadway production of Beetlejuice The Musical is set, with Tony Award nominees Kerry Butler (Mean Girls) and Rob McClure (Something Rotten!) nabbing the ghostly…
Linked From Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, August 21, 2018
Stage actor and director Brian Murray, who arrived in New York in 1964 with the Royal Shakespeare Company touring production of King Lear and would go on to earn three Tony Award nominations…
Linked From Deadline at 05:19PMActress Barbara Harris, who capped Robert Altman’s masterpiece Nashville with a strangely haunting musical performance, won a Tony Award for 1967’s The Apple Tree and co-founded …
Linked From Deadline at 04:37PMBroadway’s The Play That Goes Wrong has recouped its $4 million investment, producers announced today. The comedy followed its hit London run with a Broadway opening on April 2, 2017, …
Linked From Deadline at 12:53PMMonday, August 20, 2018
Broadway box office wilted a tad in the summer NYC heat, slipping to $35,465,012 for Week 12 of the season. That’s a 5% drop from the previous week.
Some of the slip during the week en…
Linked From Deadline at 04:16PMThursday, August 16, 2018
I might not be the target audience for Pretty Woman – The Musical, seeing as how I was never a fan of Pretty Woman – The Movie. Just never thought it was cute, funny or charming …
Linked From Deadline at 09:01PMThe pre-Broadway Beetlejuice has found its ghost and the teenager who summons him: Alex Brightman (School of Rock) will play the title character, and Sophia Anne Caruso, who knocked ’…
Linked From Deadline at 10:00AMWednesday, August 15, 2018
The Americans‘ Keri Russell will join the previously announced Adam Driver in Michael Mayer’s Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, producer David Binder announced to…
Linked From Deadline at 03:00PMComposer, actress and accordion player Shaina Taub will hang up her squeezebox – temporarily, rest assured – this Sunday when her acclaimed Shakespeare in the Park musical adapta…
Linked From Deadline at 12:00PMHollywood’s Dolby Theatre, home to the Academy Awards, America’s Got Talent, movie premieres and concerts, will begin hosting Broadway touring productions in 2020, the venue̵…
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