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Thursday, January 9, 2025

Jack Waddell Dies: Revered Vocal Coach Honored As “Unsung Hero Of Broadway” Was 83 by Greg Evans

Jack Waddell, a former opera singer who became a beloved and revered vocal coach for such Broadway stars as Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessica Vosk and Brandon Victor Dixon, died January 1 at hi…

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‘The Jonathan Larson Project’ World Premiere Musical Sets Cast: Taylor Iman Jones, Andy Mientus & More by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: The Off Broadway world premiere of The Jonathan Larson Project, a new musical featuring dozens of unheard songs, unfinished and unproduced musicals and pop songs found in files an…

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025

‘Eureka Day’ Extends Broadway Run For Second Time by Greg Evans

Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector’s critically acclaimed comedy about a private school in California grappling with its vaccine policy, has extended its Broadway run for the second time. Extend…

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‘Stereophonic’ Recoups Broadway Investment, Sets West End Engagement And U.S. Tour by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Stereophonic, David Adjmi’s acclaimed Tony Award-winning play about a Fleetwood Mac-like ’70s rock band, has recouped its Broadway investment and will begin a West End engagem…

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Tuesday, January 7, 2025

‘Gypsy’ Is Back And Filling Seats; ‘Wicked’ Top Earner With $3M Gross – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

Gypsy got back on track and Wicked stayed in the stratosphere during New Year’s week, with most of Broadway’s 33 shows posting strong numbers even while dropping down from the previous (…

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Monday, January 6, 2025

Broadway-Heavy Concert For America Fundraising Event Set For Inauguration Day In NYC by Greg Evans

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Cecily Strong, J. Smith-Cameron, Javier Muñoz, Rosie Perez and Susie Essman are among the performers of the Broadway stage and screen appearing at this year’s Conce…

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Broadway’s Louis Armstrong Musical ‘A Wonderful World’ Leads Fundraising Effort For Victims Of New Orleans Tragedy by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: The company of the Broadway musical A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical will lead a special effort to support those affected by the horrific attack that took place in N…

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Friday, January 3, 2025

Search Continues For Broadway Dancer Three Months After Disappearance by Greg Evans

The search continues for Zelig Williams three months to the day after the Broadway dancer went missing in a heavily wooded area in his home state of South Carolina. The 28-year-old dancer, w…

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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

‘Gypsy’ Gets Grinched As Illness Shuts Down Lucrative Christmas Week Performances; ‘Wicked’ Soars Beyond $5M – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

Broadway had a very merry Christmas – with one big exception – as any number of shows gained big at the box office last week, breaking house records and in one case – Wicked – soarin…

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Monday, December 23, 2024

Deadline’s Broadway Critic Picks The Best Of 2024 & Looks Ahead To 2025 by Greg Evans

The Broadway season doesn’t lend itself comfortably to Best of the Calendar Year Stories — my choices for the first six months of 2024 were made and announced last June in a Tony Award p…

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Sunday, December 22, 2024

‘All In: Comedy About Love’ Broadway Review: John Mulaney, Richard Kind, Fred Armisen & Renée Elise Goldsberry Give Voice To Comic Brillianc by Greg Evans

Last week, the Broadway play All In: Comedy About Love got very dramatic about money – weekly box office, specifically, with grosses topping $1 million, an impressive feat for any play not…

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Friday, December 20, 2024

‘Gypsy’ Broadway Review: Audra McDonald Takes Her Turn At Momma Rose by Greg Evans

There aren’t enough dressing rooms on Broadway to contain all the expectations for the new Gypsy, George C. Wolfe’s revival starring the great Audra McDonald. Considered by theater buff…

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Thursday, December 19, 2024

Acclaimed ‘Dead Outlaw’ Musical Sets Broadway Spring Opening by Greg Evans

Itamar Moses’s Dead Outlaw, the acclaimed musical that had a very successful Off Broadway run earlier this year, will open on Broadway this April, producers announced today. Featuring musi…

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Sarah Hyland Joins Broadway’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ As Eva Noblezada Heads To West End ‘Hadestown’ by Greg Evans

With Eva Noblezada departing her role as Daisy Buchanan in Broadway’s The Great Gatsby to join her former Hadestown castmates for a limited run of that musical in London, Sarah Hyland (Mod…

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Acclaimed ‘Eureka Day’ Extends Broadway Run Through February 2 by Greg Evans

Eureka Day, the needle-sharp Manhattan Theatre Club comedy by Jonathan Spector that opened to rave reviews this week, has been extended two weeks at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre a…

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Simon Rich Comedy ‘All In’ Starring John Mulaney Sells Out First Week; ‘Elf’ Scores $2M – Broadway Box Office by Greg Evans

The build-up to Christmas is being very generous with Broadway. In some cases, very, very generous. Among the most impressive box office developments last week was the welcome given to All I…

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World Premiere Set For New Jonathan Larson Musical Featuring Unearthed Songs And Music Cut From ‘Rent’ And ‘tick, tick… BOOM!’ by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: The Jonathan Larson Project, a new musical featuring more than 20 songs that have never been part of a fully staged production – including material cut from Rent and tick, tick�…

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Monday, December 16, 2024

‘Eureka Day’ Broadway Review: Who Says Vaccines Are No Laughing Matter? by Greg Evans

Quick, think of something really humorous about vaccinations. No? Me neither, but playwright Jonathan Spector has done us all a favor and molded one of the most divisive, inane, grotesque an…

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Thursday, December 12, 2024

‘Cult Of Love’ Broadway Review: Merry Christmas, Like It Or Not by Greg Evans

If the line “What shall we hang, the holly or each other?” hadn’t already been taken by The Lion In Winter, it would make a fitting quip stuffed somewhere in Leslye Headland’s deliri…

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Trepidatious Patti LuPone Raves About Broadway’s New ‘Sunset Blvd.’ by Greg Evans

Last month, Patti LuPone appeared on The View and seemed more than a little apprehensive about seeing the new Broadway production of Sunset Blvd., the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that LuPone…

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Penn & Teller To Mark 50th Anniversary With One-Night-Only Radio City Music Hall Appearance by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Famed illusionists Penn & Teller will celebrate 50 years together with a one-night-only show at New York’s Radio City Music Hall this summer. Set for Thursday August 21, the…

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Martin Benson Dies: Co-Founder Of Tony-Winning South Coast Rep Was 87 by Greg Evans

Martin Benson, the co-founder and longtime artistic director of the Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory regional theater in Costa Mesa, California, died November 30 of a probable heart …

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David Tennant’s Macbeth disrupted by angry theatregoer by Greg Evans

The production was delayed for 15 minutes after the audience member returned from the bathroom

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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

YouTube Star Trisha Paytas To Make Broadway Debut In One-Night-Only Benefit Show by Greg Evans

Just days after making a surprise cameo in a Saturday Night Live sketch alongside Paul Mescal, YouTube star Trisha Paytas announced that she’ll cross off another bucket-list item: Broadway…

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‘Hold On To Me Darling’ Starring Adam Driver Recoups Off Broadway Investment by Greg Evans

Hold On To Me Darling, the Kenneth Lonergan comedy-drama starring Adam Driver, has recouped its initial Off Broadway investment, producers announced today. The $1.8 million production opened…

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Jamie Lloyd-Directed ‘Evita’ Set For West End Revival This Summer At The London Palladium by Greg Evans

With his revival of Sunset Blvd. enjoying a buzzy run on Broadway, director Jamie Lloyd has set another Andrew Lloyd Webber classic as his next project: Evita will begin West End performance…

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Tuesday, December 10, 2024

‘Wicked’ Leads Broadway Box Office Again With $2.8M; ‘Death Becomes Her’ Scores Best-Yet $1.4M by Greg Evans

Broadway settled back down to some post-Thanksgiving normalcy last week, dropping about 9% to $42,021,721 from the holiday high of the previous week. Attendance held strong at 309,802 for th…

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‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Broadway Revival Sets March Opening Date, Venue by Greg Evans

The starry Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross will begin previews at the Palace Theatre on Monday, March 10, with an official opening night on Monday, March 31. The en…

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Monday, December 9, 2024

ATG Entertainment Hires Lori Hotz As North American CEO by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: ATG Entertainment, which owns, operates, or programs 64 iconic venues across the UK, the US, and Germany and presents more than 15,000 live performances every year, has hired Lori…

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Broadway Casting For Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ‘Purpose’ To Include LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Tony-Winner Kara Young, More by Greg Evans

LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young are among the complete cast announced today for the Broadway transfer of Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ pla…

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson To Make One-Night-Only Broadway Debut In ‘& Juliet’, Fulfilling Lifelong Dream by Greg Evans

United States Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will make her Broadway debut – you read that right – with a one-night-only walk-on role in & Juliet, the hit musical comedy …

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All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace 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
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime