Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Broadway goes Upside Down with Stranger Things: The First Shadow, opening tonight at the Marquis Theatre and setting a new standard for what’s capable in high-tech spectacle on the legitim…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:41AMTuesday, April 22, 2025
Broadway had what appears to be its best non-holiday week ever last week, with major hits like Good Night, and Good Luck, Glengarry Glen Ross, Othello and longrunners The Lion King, Wicked a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:53PMThis year’s Tony Award nominations will be announced by previous Tony winners Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce on CBS Mornings on May 1. The select nominations will be broadcast live on th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:19PMEXCLUSIVE: Comedian Jeff Ross, known for his longtime role as Roastmaster for television’s infamous Celebrity Roasts, is coming to Broadway with a new theatrical one-man show called Jeff R…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:55AMMonday, April 21, 2025
In Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Floyd Collins, creators Tina Landau and Adam Guettel resurrect their touchstone project, the odd, sometimes slow but mostly beautiful musical they…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMThursday, April 17, 2025
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is doing some heavy hinting that his The Phantom of the Opera musical – or some version of it – is returning to New York two years after the show ended its 3…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:57PMEXCLUSIVE: Will Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum will produce a feature film adaptation of Cult of Love, Leslye Headland’s dark comedy play that opened to excellent reviews on Broadway in Decemb…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMWednesday, April 16, 2025
Joy Behar’s stage comedy My First Ex-Husband will play its final Off Broadway performance May 18, producers announced today, with a national tour set to begin this summer. The play, which …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:51PMTime magazine has announced its annual list of 100 most influential people in the world, and the entertainment industries are represented this year by, among others, Demi Moore, Snoop Dogg, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:17AMTuesday, April 15, 2025
CrazySexyCool, the upcoming jukebox musical about ’90s trio TLC that’s set to premiere at Arena Stage in Washington D.C. next year, is aiming for a Broadway move, sources tell Deadline. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:16PMGood Night, and Good Luck, the play about Edward R. Murrow written by George Clooney and Grant Heslov adapted from their 2005 film, grossed $3,784,200 last week at Broadway’s 1,537-seat Wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:34PMExclusive: Montego Glover, the Tony Award nominated actor and Broadway performer, has signed with Buchwald for representation. Glover recently completed the national Broadway tour of Into th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMMonday, April 14, 2025
The Salem Witch trials have, many times over, proven themselves near unbreakable as allegory, starting at least with Arthur Miller’s 1953 The Crucible, in which the goings on in Massachuse…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00PMLeslie Odom, Jr. will return to Broadway’s Hamilton this fall in a reprise of his Tony Award-winning role as Aaron Burr. An member of the original cast, Odom’s return to Hamilton comes n…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:47AMThe previously announced Broadway production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter has found a home in the Hudson Theatre, where the play will begin p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:31AMFriday, April 11, 2025
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met yesterday in the third of their four Tony eligibility meetings, and while most of the decisions where the usual determinations about what categor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:19AMThursday, April 10, 2025
When the Broadway-themed drama Smash began its two-season run on NBC in 2012, the entire theater industry, it seemed then, was entranced. The lingo, the faces, the concerns – all seemed, i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30PMThe national tour of The Who’s Tommy, the Des McAnuff-revival that played on Broadway last year, has been delayed by a year, with a new launch date of Fall 2026. Producers had previously a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:07PMThe View costars Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar will soon share a stage of an entirely different sort: Goldberg will appear for one performance only with Behar in the latter’s Off Broadway …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:53AMTuesday, April 8, 2025
With the insanely busy Broadway spring season nearing peak production – only one musical, Dead Outlaw, has yet to begin previews – most shows felt the heat of competition last week, with…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:24PMWilliam “Bill” Finn, the acclaimed writer and composer of the 1992 musical Falsettos and 2005’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, died Monday, April 7, following a lengthy il…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:23PMThursday, April 3, 2025
There are moments in Good Night, and Good Luck, the new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov opening on Broadway tonight at the Winter Garden Theatre and starring Clooney as pioneering TV…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:59PMWednesday, April 2, 2025
Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) will reprise her role as movie star Ava Gardner in the play Ava: The Secret Conversations at New York City Center this summer. The play, written by McGover…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:43AMA new stage musical based on the 1998 film comedy Waking Ned Devine is being developed with The Color Purple director John Doyle, Come From Away book writer David Hein and Oscar winning Once…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AMTuesday, April 1, 2025
Stranger Things: The First Shadow began stalking Broadway last week, selling out the first two previews of its engagement at the Marquis, grossing $433,725 for the pair of performances. Open…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:20PMSony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired worldwide rights to the film of the recent hit Tony winning musical performance Merrily We Roll Along starring Tony Award winne…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMEXCLUSIVE: A one-night 10th anniversary Off Broadway benefit reading of Ruby Rae Spiegel’s Dry Land will star Maya Hawke, Alyah Chanelle Scott, Dominic Sessa, Eden Marryshow, and Alice Kre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AMMonday, March 31, 2025
Glengarry Glen Ross Opening night: March 31, 2025Venue: Broadway’s The Palace TheatreWritten by: David MametDirected by: Patrick MarberCast: Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, Bill Burr, Mi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30PMPirates! The Penzance Musical, the Gilbert & Sullivan musical reimagined by Rupert Holmes in a New Orleans jazz-infused style, has been given a four-week Broadway extension “due to pop…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:22PMCast members of children’s musical Finn made an unexpected return to the Kennedy Center stage when rock band Guster invited the young singer-actors to join the band in a song Friday night.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:45AMFriday, March 28, 2025
The official opening night for Just In Time, the new Bobby Darin musical starring Jonathan Groff, will move Wednesday, April 23, to Saturday, April 26 at Broadway’s Circle in the Square …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:41PM 
