Wednesday, August 20, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: The chaotic, massively influential early era of Saturday Night Live has been portrayed in narrative film and documentaries. Now, the stage gets it turn: new play Not Ready For Pri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMFriday, August 15, 2025
Dan Ziskie, a prolific TV character actor whose abundant credits stretch from 1980 episodes of The Edge of Night to central roles on HBO’s Treme and Netflix’s House of Cards, died July 2…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:32PMPatricia White, the long-time company manager of Woodie King, Jr.’s New Federal Theatre and a well-known figure in New York City’s Black Theatre community, died August 10 after a brief i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:39AMThursday, August 14, 2025
If you love Mamma Mia!, you’re gonna love Mamma Mia! With the touring production of the hit ABBA musical making a six-month stop on Broadway, the flawed, fun-loving show returns to the ven…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMEXCLUSIVE: Scott Bakula will star opposite Ariana DeBose in this fall’s Off Broadway presentation of the storied musical The Baker’s Wife, producer Classic Stage Company announced today.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMWednesday, August 13, 2025
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group today announced a name-change – as expected it’s now LW Entertainment – and a line-up of projects, confirming a Spring 2026 Broadway transfe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:28PMTuesday, August 12, 2025
This fall’s world premiere in Minneapolis of the stage musical Purple Rain will star an up-and-coming musician-songwriter named Kris Kollins in the main role of The Kid, made famous in the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMThe Mamma Mia! revival became one of the top five earners on Broadway last week, with the ABBA musical selling out and grossing $1,573,128 for seven previews at the Winter Garden. That figur…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:54PMFollowing extended runs in Boston and London’s West End, the new musical comedy Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) will open on Broadway this fall, with previews beginning Sa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:55AMMonday, August 11, 2025
An open letter penned by actor BD Wong condemning the Maybe Happy Ending casting of a white actor in a role originally filled by an actor of Filipino descent has garnered more than 2,400 sig…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:33PMTony Award-winning producer and entertainment industry leader Jack W. Batman died of pancreatic cancer on Friday, August 1, in hospice care at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:21PMEXCLUSIVE: The acclaimed Off Broadway cast of Bess Wohl’s Liberation will follow the play to Broadway this October, producers announced today. The 14-week limited engagement Broadway produ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMFriday, August 8, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) will star as Geneviève in a rare revival of the Joseph Stein-Stephen Schwartz 1976 musical The Baker’s Wife this fall at Off Broadw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMThursday, August 7, 2025
The world premiere of Let’s Love!, a trio of one-act comedy plays written by Academy Award winner Ethan Coen (Fargo) will debut Off Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company this fall with …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMTuesday, August 5, 2025
While most of Broadway saw box office slips last week, new arrival Mamma Mia! got off to a fine start: The musical revival sold out its first preview at the Winter Garden Theatre, grossing $…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PMEXCLUSIVE: The Theatrical division of International Literary Properties (ILP), the global company that invests in, acquires, and manages literary estates, has announced a strategic partner…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMMonday, August 4, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Tony winner Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza, Kimberly Akimbo) has joined the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club’s Punch, the James Graham play set to open on Broadw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMFriday, August 1, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: 44 – The Musical, a satirical comedy about “the rise and presidency of Barack Obama, as well as the eccentric political characters he met along the way,” will follow up sold…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMThursday, July 31, 2025
Robert Wilson, the experimental theater stage director, playwright and choreographer whose career spanned decades of collaborations with such equally visionary artists as Phillip Glass, Lou …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:55PMThe Roundabout Theatre Company production of Liberation, the critically acclaimed new play by Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl directed by Tony Award nominee Whitney White, will begin previews o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:15AMEXCLUSIVE: And Then We Were No More, a new play by actor-author Tim Blake Nelson, will star Homeland‘s Elizabeth Marvel when is begins performances in September at Off Broadway’s La MaMa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:52AMWednesday, July 30, 2025
New York City Center has announced additional casting for its annual gala presentation Bat Boy: The Musical, the cult hit last seen Off Broadway in 2001. Andrew Durand (Dead Outlaw), Alex Ne…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:28PMKelli O’Hara, the Broadway actress who can currently be seen on HBO’s The Gilded Age, will join Tom Hanks in his Off Broadway play This World Of Tomorrow this fall. O’Hara is among the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:42AMThursday, July 24, 2025
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Sunset Blvd. went out on a high note Sunday, packing the St. James Theatre and handily breaking a couple of that venue’s house records with a weekly gross of $2,481,018. With its final wee…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:17PMMonday, July 21, 2025
The hit Broadway play John Proctor is the Villain will extend for a third and final time by one week, with the new closing date now Sunday, September 7. The announcement was made today by p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:29AMThursday, July 17, 2025
A tax credit program that played a crucial role in helping revitalize theatrical productions in New York City during and in the years after the Covid-19 pandemic and shutdown is nearly deple…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:18PMEXCLUSIVE: Marisha Wallace, the two-time Olivier Award nominee about to take over the role of Sally Bowles in Broadway’s Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, has signed with Amplified for US repre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:36PMJean Smart will return to her acclaimed performance in Broadway’s Call Me Izzy on on Tuesday, July 22, following a two-week leave of absence due to a knee injury. Producers also announced …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:37AMWednesday, July 16, 2025
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that Merrily We Roll Along, the live filmed version of the four-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:45PMKumail Nanjiani (Marvel’s Eternals, The Big Sick) and Michael Urie (Apple TV’s Shrinking, Broadway’s Once Upon a Mattress) will join the Broadway cast of Oh, Mary! alongside the previo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:51AM 
