Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Come From Away, the Apple Original Films adaptation of the Broadway hit musical, will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on Friday, September 10 – the eve of 9/11’s 20th anniversary – with…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today that the 2020 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre – to be presented in September – will go to Fred Gallo, President of PRG …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMTuesday, August 3, 2021
Sara Bareilles won’t be the only Waitress cast member with prior stage-diner experience when the musical reopens on Broadway in September: Producers announced today that Waitress vets Drew…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:36PMMonday, August 2, 2021
Alvin Ing, a pioneering Asian American actor who appeared on Broadway in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song and Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures, and whose guest roles on num…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:37PMFriday, July 30, 2021
UPDATE, with details The Broadway League announced today that the owners and operators of all 41 Broadway theaters in New York City will require vaccinations for audience members, as well as…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:14AMThursday, July 29, 2021
Actors’ Equity Association and the Broadway League have announced an agreement on safety protocols that includes mandated vaccines and weekly testing for the Broadway workforce. “This is…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:14PMBruce, a previously announced new musical based on Jaws screenwriter Carl Gottlieb’s 1975 memoir The Jaws Log, is resurfacing: Seattle Rep will stage the world premiere next May, the regio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:45PMPatrick J. Adams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams have confirmed their return to the Broadway production of Take Me Out when the Richard Greenberg play begins performances next March…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:11PMThe Broadway cast of Hamilton will star Miguel Cervantes in the title role when the hit musical resumes performances at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on September 14. Cervantes had only recent…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:37PMGraciela Daniele, the Broadway director and choreographer whose many credits include Annie Get Your Gun, Once on This Island, Ragtime and The Goodbye Girl, will be the 2020 recipient of the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:40AMWednesday, July 28, 2021
The original principal cast of Broadway musical Six will return to the production this Fall, producers announced today. The musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss begins performances at the Br…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:56AMActress Julie Halston will receive the 2020 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, the Tony administration committee announced today. The award is presented annually to a member of the theater comm…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:43AMTuesday, July 27, 2021
Little Island, the new Barry Diller-funded park and arts space rising out of the Hudson River, will host a free monthlong festival of music, dance and comedy beginning August 11 and featurin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:36PMMonday, July 26, 2021
Tony Award-nominated costume and fashion designer Emilio Sosa has been elected the Chair of the American Theatre Wing, the organization announced today. Sosa succeeds current co-chairs David…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:39PMThursday, July 22, 2021
A new $100 million tax credit to encourage and support the reopening of Broadway was launched today with an announcement by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “New York is not ‘New York’ with…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:57PMNew York’s Public Theater canceled last night’s and tonight’s Free Shakespeare in the Park performances of Merry Wives after a member of the production tested positive for Covid-19. In…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:53AMTony nominee Adrienne Warren will return to her widely acclaimed starring role in Broadway’s Tina – The Tina Turner Musical when the show reopens at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Friday, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AMWednesday, July 21, 2021
Actors’ Equity Association is expanding eligibility for membership to include any actor or stage manager who can demonstrate they have worked professionally in the United States, a move th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:33AMTuesday, July 20, 2021
Lincoln Center Theater’s Flying Over Sunset will begin performances on Broadway a week later than previously announced, with previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater now set to start Thursd…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:12PMAndrew Lloyd Webber says he is “determined” to bring his on-pause (at least) Cinderella musical to London, though he can’t provide a timeline, telling a UK newspaper, “who knows when…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:58AMMonday, July 19, 2021
The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Merry Wives has postponed its opening night by nearly two weeks due to an onstage injury sustained by its leading man Jacob …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:03PMAndrew Lloyd Webber has announced the indefinite closure of his new West End musical Cinderella a day before its official opening due to what the composer angrily called “the blunt instrum…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:01PMFriday, July 16, 2021
Though Broadway as an industry has yet to definitively rule on whether Covid vaccinations will be required of audience members this fall, a second production – Lincoln Center Theater’s p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:57AMThursday, July 15, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Non-fungible tokens are about to get their Broadway opening night: Seaview, the production and media company behind such shows as Slave Play, Sea Wall/A Life and Ratatouille: The …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PMWednesday, July 14, 2021
Jujamcyn Theaters will increase wheelchair accessibility and make other improvements at its five Broadway venues as part of a lawsuit settlement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhatta…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:38AMA new play about NSA whistleblower Reality Winner and Lucas Hnath’s acclaimed Dana H. will play in rotation on Broadway this fall, producers announced today. Is This A Room, conceived and …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, July 13, 2021
UPDATE, with Leslie Odom Jr., Daveed Diggs nominations No one’s saying it will be easy, but Hamilton actors Renée Elise Goldsberry, Leslie Odom Jr. and Daveed Diggs, along with WandaVis…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:22PMEXCLUSIVE: Douglas Carter Beane’s newest play, Fairycakes, will make its world premiere this fall Off Broadway at the Greenwich House Theater in a production starring Mo Rocca, Jackie Hoff…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AMMonday, July 12, 2021
Multiple Emmy Award-winners Uzo Aduba (In Treatment, Orange is the New Black) and Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us) have been cast in Second Stage Theater’s upcoming Broadway production of Lyn…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMFriday, July 9, 2021
Paul Huntley, the celebrated wigmaker for film, stage and television who provided Dustin Hoffman with the coif that transformed the actor into Tootsie and did the same decades later for when…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:37PMTony- and Emmy Award- winning singer-actress LaChanze will return to Broadway this Fall in the starring role of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress, to be direc…
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