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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Tony Awards Nominations Predictions 2025: Will Hollywood Rule The Day? by Greg Evans

Forty-two productions are eligible for Tony Award nominations this year – the announcements come Thursday morning – making many of the categories very, very competitive. Will the movie a…

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‘Vanya’ With Andrew Scott Recoups Off Broadway Investment by Greg Evans

Vanya, starring Olivier Award winner Andrew Scott playing all the play’s characters, has recouped its initial investment, producers announced today. The production opened on March 18 at th…

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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Broadway Box Office Settles At $47M After Record-Breaking Week; ‘Good Night, And Good Luck’ Top Earner At $3.9M by Greg Evans

Broadway box office stayed strong last week, slipping a bit – about 8% – from the previous week’s record-setting tally of $51 million, settling in at $46,949,262 for the 40 productions…

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Celia Keenan-Bolger To Receive 2025 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award For Advocacy Work by Greg Evans

Actor-singer Celia Keenan-Bolger will receive the 2025 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for what the Tony Administration Committee calls her “unwavering dedication to advocacy work through…

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Monday, April 28, 2025

Nicole Scherzinger ‘Sunset Blvd.’ Viral Video Bullhorn Auctioned For Charity by Greg Evans

The bullhorn used by Sunset Blvd. star Nicole Scherzinger last week when a matinee performance of the Broadway musical was canceled due to a sound system glitch was put to further good use o…

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Tony Awards Announce Special Honors For PBS ‘Great Performances’, NY Performing Arts Library, Others by Greg Evans

PBS’ Great Performances, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Goodspeed Musicals former executive director Michael Price, and cultural non-profit New 42 will receive this y…

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Taye Diggs And Wayne Brady To Join Broadway’s ‘Moulin Rouge!’ For Limited Summer Engagement by Greg Evans

Taye Diggs and Wayne Brady will return to Broadway this summer in the long-running, Tony-winning Moulin Rouge! The Musical, with Brady playing Harold Zidler and Diggs as The Duke of Monroth.…

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Sunday, April 27, 2025

‘Real Women Have Curves’ But The Musical Is Thin – Broadway Review by Greg Evans

In the second act of Real Women Have Curves: The Musical, opening tonight on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre, the women working in a hot, small, ramshackle California dress factory …

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‘Dead Outlaw’ Review: A Corpse Walks Off With A Glorious Broadway Season Send-Off by Greg Evans

The indignities of the grave pale in comparison to the indignities of having your preserved corpse put on display as a sideshow attraction, wax museum exhibit, or amusement park horror ride …

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Saturday, April 26, 2025

‘Just In Time’ Broadway Review: Jonathan Groff Plays Bobby Darin – And Two Stars Ignite by Greg Evans

Just In Time, the Bobby Darin jukebox musical starring Jonathan Groff opening tonight at a wonderfully dressed Circle in the Square on Broadway, does some serious and genuine starmaking, twi…

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Friday, April 25, 2025

‘Death Becomes Her’ Broadway Musical Leads Outer Critics Circle Award Nominees – Complete List by Greg Evans

The hit Broadway musical Death Becomes Her starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard leads the list of nominations for this year’s Outer Critics Circle Awards, the organization announced th…

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Thursday, April 24, 2025

‘Pirates! The Penzance Musical’ Broadway Review: David Hyde Pierce Is The Very Model Of A Musical-Comedy Charmer by Greg Evans

Gilbert & Sullivan sticklers might need about 20 minutes to fall under the spell of Roundabout’s Pirates! The Penzance Musical, opening tonight on Broadway at the Todd Haimes Theatre, …

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Michael Patrick Thornton Joins Keanu Reeves-Alex Winter “Waiting For Godot’ On Broadway by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Patrick Thornton, last on the New York stage opposite Jessica Chastain in 2023’s A Doll’s House, will return to Broadway in this fall’s much anticipated staging of W…

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

‘10 Things I Hate About You’ Stage Musical Adaptation In Works With Creative Team Including Carly Rae Jepsen & Lena Dunham by Greg Evans

A new stage musical adaptation of the popular 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You is being developed for Broadway, with Carly Rae Jepsen and Ethan Gruska collaborating on the score and Lena…

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‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Broadway Review: Ripping Thriller Shows How Hell Broke Loose by Greg Evans

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…

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Broadway Box Office Smashes Records With $51M Gross As ‘Good Night, And Good Luck’, ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’, ‘Othello’, ‘Wicked’, ‘Str by Greg Evans

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…

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Tony Awards: Sarah Paulson & Wendell Pierce Will Announce Nominations May 1 by Greg Evans

This 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…

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Roastmaster Jeff Ross Plans Broadway Stand For One-Man Show Following Summer Tour by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: 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…

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Monday, April 21, 2025

‘Floyd Collins’ Broadway Review: Jeremy Jordan Gives Life To Dark Tale Unearthed From History by Greg Evans

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…

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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Andrew Lloyd Webber Teases ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ New York Return In “Better Area” Than Broadway by Greg Evans

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…

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‘Cult Of Love’ Movie In Works Based On Leslye Headland Broadway Play With Will Ferrell And Jessica Elbaum Producing by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: 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…

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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Joy Behar Play ‘My First Ex-Husband’ Plans National Tour Following Closing Off Broadway Next Month by Greg Evans

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 …

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Time 100 Most Influential People Includes Demi Moore, Snoop Dogg, Lorne Michaels, Ted Sarandos, Nicole Scherzinger & Other Showbiz Figures by Greg Evans

Time 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, …

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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

TLC Musical ‘CrazySexyCool’ Aims For Broadway by Greg Evans

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. …

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George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, And Good Luck’ Breaks Own Record With $3.7 Million Weekly Gross – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

Good 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…

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Broadway’s Montego Glover Signs With Buchwald by Greg Evans

Exclusive: 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…

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Monday, April 14, 2025

‘John Proctor Is The Villain’ Broadway Review: Sadie Sink Works Magic In Riveting New Play by Greg Evans

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…

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Leslie Odom, Jr. Returning To Broadway’s ‘Hamilton’ This Fall by Greg Evans

Leslie 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…

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Keanu Reeves-Alex Winter ‘Waiting For Godot’ Sets Broadway Venue, Opening Night by Greg Evans

The 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…

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Friday, April 11, 2025

Broadway’s ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Boasts Bob Odenkirk, Kieran Culkin & Bill Burr But Has No Leading Actor, Tony Committee Says by Greg Evans

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…

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Thursday, April 10, 2025

‘Smash’ Broadway Review: Scratching A 13-Year Itch by Greg Evans

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…

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre