Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Tommy DeVito, a founding member and lead guitarist of the 1960s chart-topping vocal group The Four Seasons and the inspiration for a key character in the 2005 jukebox musical Jersey Boys and…
Linked From Deadline at 06:19PMMonday, September 21, 2020
The Emmys’ In Memoriam segment Sunday left out a number of actors we lost in 2020, but the Television Academy hasn’t entirely overlooked them. Nick Cordero, Chi Chi DeVayne, Kobe Bryant,…
Linked From Deadline at 03:23PMNick Cordero was not included in the Emmy Award’s In Memoriam segment Sunday night, and Zach Braff, the late actor’s friend and former Broadway co-star, says it wasn’t for supporters…
Linked From Deadline at 11:29AMFor only the second time in its century-plus history, Actors’ Equity Association, the union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theater, has endors…
Linked From Deadline at 10:29AMFriday, September 18, 2020
The upcoming season of Encores! at New York’s City Center will include an adaptation by Pose‘s Billy Porter of The Life, a musical last seen in New York on Broadway in 1997. Porter’s a…
Linked From Deadline at 03:09PMU.S. Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Broadway League renewed the call for dedicated federal funding for Broadway and other New York live venues today, reiterating the push for the…
Linked From Deadline at 01:42PMNick Cordero’s album Live Your Life: Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below, released posthumously yesterday on what would have been the Broadway star’s 42nd birthday, hit #1 on iTunes album cha…
Linked From Deadline at 10:30AMThursday, September 17, 2020
A filmed version of Heidi Schreck’s acclaimed, Tony-nominated Broadway play What the Constitution Means to Me will premiere Oct. 16 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, the streamer said tod…
Linked From Deadline at 02:00PMTony Tanner, the Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer of Broadway’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1982, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 88. His…
Linked From Deadline at 12:16PMWednesday, September 16, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Bob Martin, co-writer of the Tony Award-nominated book for Broadway’s The Prom and the upcoming Netflix film adaptation, has signed with Verve for representation in all areas. M…
Linked From Deadline at 04:18PMA coronavirus relief fund for New York City’s small theaters was launched today by The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, the arts service organization dedicated to supporting nonpro…
Linked From Deadline at 12:58PMTuesday, September 15, 2020
Broadway’s Roundabout Theatre Company has named Miranda Haymon as Resident Director, making the company’s resources available to develop their own work and to contribute to the overall a…
Linked From Deadline at 04:00PMAl Kasha, the Academy Award-winning composer who, along with songwriting partner Joel Hirschhorn, won Oscars for the soft rock disaster movie classics “The Morning After” and “We May N…
Linked From Deadline at 10:30AMMonday, September 14, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway’s Tony- and Grammy-nominated couple Andy Karl and Orfeh have acquired the rights to Eric Bernat’s 2016 mystery novel The Dancer. The deal marks the duo’s first coll…
Linked From Deadline at 02:00PMFriday, September 11, 2020
A COVID-19 vaccine would likely not be an immediate, complete solution to Broadway’s woes, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, who noted in an interview this week that it could take a year of reliable…
Linked From Deadline at 02:38PMThursday, September 10, 2020
With Broadway theaters and other stages shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic, the Pulitzer Prize board has amended its rules of drama prize eligibility to include online productions and sho…
Linked From Deadline at 03:29PMBen Brantley, the influential New York Times theater critic, will leave the job next month. “This pandemic pause in the great, energizing party that is the theater seemed to me like a goo…
Linked From Deadline at 10:37AMWednesday, September 9, 2020
EXCLUSIVE With a roster of Broadway actors from such recent or on-pause productions as Waitress, Hadestown, The Play That Goes Wrong and Moulin Rouge!, a new musical inspired by A Christmas …
Linked From Deadline at 01:34PMTuesday, September 8, 2020
Veteran Broadway general manager Nathan Gehan is opening his own New York City general management firm, ShowTown Theatricals, with a roster of clients including the international musical pro…
Linked From Deadline at 01:32PMThursday, September 3, 2020
Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre has indefinitely postponed its world premiere stage adaptation of the 2005 George Clooney-co-written film Good Night, and Good Luck, a project that had genera…
Linked From Deadline at 10:30AMWednesday, September 2, 2020
Timothy Graphenreed, a longtime musical and dance arranger who composed two numbers for the beloved Broadway musical The Wiz, died March 1 at New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital. He was 68. Gra…
Linked From Deadline at 04:02PMThe recently formed Costume Industry Coalition has launched a pandemic emergency relief campaign for New York City’s pattern makers, cutters, stitchers, tailors, milliners, hand finishers …
Linked From Deadline at 11:55AMMonday, August 31, 2020
Producer Ryan Murphy drew the curtain back on the cast of Netflix’s The Prom, sharing a first-look photo of the “icon-packed” group on Instagram. See the entire photo below. “Meet th…
Linked From Deadline at 06:21PMBroadway’s Second Stage Theater has hired Khady Kamara, the managing director of Arena Stage in Washington D.C., as the New York company’s new executive director. Kamara will join Second…
Linked From Deadline at 12:00PMFriday, August 28, 2020
Eighteen Broadway productions will be eligible for this year’s Tony Awards competition, an awards committee confirmed today. The figure is significantly lower than last year’s pre-pandem…
Linked From Deadline at 11:51AMWednesday, August 26, 2020
In a lawsuit that offers a glimpse of COVID-19’s economic threat to the Broadway industry, Jujamcyn Theaters, owner of five major Broadway venues, is suing its insurance companies after th…
Linked From Deadline at 01:43PMEXCLUSIVE: Broadway and TV writers, actors and directors Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse have signed with ICM Partners for literary representation across all media. Taylor is best known for perf…
Linked From Deadline at 10:52AMTuesday, August 25, 2020
Castmates of the late Nick Cordero from such stage productions as A Bronx Tale, Bullets Over Broadway, The Toxic Avenger, Rock of Ages and Waitress will take part in a special memorial tribu…
Linked From Deadline at 11:32AMMonday, August 24, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award-winning playwright, actor and producer Sarah Jones has signed with UTA for worldwide representation in all areas. Jones, who won a Special Tony Award in 2006 for her on…
Linked From Deadline at 04:30PMThe Broadway future of the acclaimed David Byrne’s American Utopia is unclear, but the date with HBO is certain: Spike Lee’s film adaptation of the theatrical concert is set for Oct. 17,…
Linked From Deadline at 01:45PMIn an impassioned defense of his beloved and beleaguered New York City, comedian Jerry Seinfeld has some harsh words for a Manhattan comedy club owner who bolted for Florida and recently cla…
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