Wednesday, July 9, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran Broadway actor Emily Skinner will join Bridgerton star Luke Newton in the upcoming Off Broadway production House of McQueen, a new play about the late, famed fashion desig…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:52AMTuesday, July 8, 2025
Broadway wilted a bit in last week’s summer heat, with 23 of 30 shows taking a hit at the box office, some significantly. No doubt playing a part in Broadway’s overall decline last week …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:56PMJean Smart is out of her solo Broadway play Call Me Izzy this week due to a knee injury. An Instagram message on the show’s official page says, “We look forward to having her back on sta…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:56PMEXCLUSIVE: Bridgerton star Luke Newton will play the late fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen in a new Off Broadway play starting next month. Darrah Cloud’s House of McQueen will begin …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMEXCLUSIVE: International Literary Properties’ theatrical division (ILP) has entered into a strategic partnership with The University of the South for ILP to assume an active management rol…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMMonday, July 7, 2025
Producers Scott Rudin and Barry Diller announced today that Samuel D. Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road will premiere on Broadway for a limited 18-week run this fall in a production starring…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:22AMWednesday, July 2, 2025
The Picture of Dorian Gray has officially recouped its investment, producers announced. The play starring Succession‘s Sarah Snook in a solo performance was reportedly capitalized at more…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:37PMRomy & Michele: The Musical will debut Off Broadway this fall, producers announced today. Based on the 1997 cult film classic Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion that starred Mira…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:29AMTuesday, July 1, 2025
Broadway thinned its summer roster a bit last week, with five shows playing their final performances (and each one posting significant box office gains as last-chancers bought up seats). Thr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:49PMMonday, June 30, 2025
Karl E. Held, a longtime arts advocate who was a producer on the Tony Award-nominated 2009 Broadway production of Ragtime and most recently on the Off Broadway hit Kowalski, died of a heart …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:56PMThe six-week preview period for Masquerade, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s immersive spin-off of The Phantom of the Opera, sold out with three hours of going on sale this morning. Due to the respon…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:28PMMark Brokaw, a prolific director of Off Broadway, Broadway and regional stage productions who beginning in the 1990s worked with some of the brightest emerging playwrights including Douglas …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:16AMTaraji P. Henson and Cedric “The Entertainer” will star in a new production of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone on Broadway next spring, producer Brian Anthony Moreland a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:33AMFriday, June 27, 2025
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Masquerade, the immersive spin-off of The Phantom of the Opera, will begin previews in New York on July 31, producers announced today, with a large cast that includes…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PMThursday, June 26, 2025
Diane Paulus, a 2013 Tony Award winner for her direction of Pippin whose other Broadway credits include Waitress, Jagged Little Pill and Real Women Have Curves, is directing Masquerade, Andr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:02PMEmmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony-winning songwriting duo Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, two-time Tony winning director Alex Timbers and Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller have joined the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:10PMLynne Meadow, whose 53-year run as artistic director of the highly influential Manhattan Theatre Club included guiding shows by such playwrights as Christopher Durang, John Guare, Beth Henle…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:29PMWednesday, June 25, 2025
Boop! The Musical will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, July 13, producers announced today. The show will have played 25 previews and 112 regular performances. The musical is t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:39PMSupporters and opponents of a proposed Caesars Palace casino in the Broadway theater district will step out into New York City’s heat wave this week with two separate rallies in Times Squa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:44AMTuesday, June 24, 2025
Chess, the first-ever Broadway revival of the Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & Tim Rice musical that will star Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher, will begin previews at …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:07PMSeveral Broadway shows – Smash, Floyd Collins and The Last Five Years – went out on high notes last week, with last-chancers boosting box office for all three productions. Smash, the mus…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:44PMCaesars Palace Times Square, the bid from SL Green, Caesars Entertainment, and Roc Nation to bring a casino to 1515 Broadway in Times Square, announced today a $5 million commitment to suppo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:41AMOedipus, the West End hit starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, will begin its 14-week engagement at Broadway’s Studio 54 on Thursday, October 30, with an opening night set for Thursda…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:21AMMonday, June 23, 2025
Five Democratic senators will host an invitation-only Pride concert at the Kennedy Center Monday as a protest against President Donald Trump’s takeover of the Washington D.C. arts institut…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:49PMTickets for a six-week New York summer run of Masquerade, the immersive Phantom of the Opera spin-off production from Andrew Lloyd Webber, will go on sale June 30 with access granted to anyo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:17PMFriday, June 20, 2025
Dead Outlaw will play its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, June 29, producers announced today. The critically lauded musical, nominated for seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:35PMWednesday, June 18, 2025
Michelle Williams will star as the title character in an Off Broadway revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie this fall opposite Mike Faist in a production directed by Hamilton‘s Tho…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:46PMBroadway’s Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club will close on Sunday, October 19, producers announced today, ending a 14-week run that was spotty at the box office and will almost certainly leave i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:32PMJinkx Monsoon will take over the role of Mary Todd Lincoln in Broadway’s smash hit comedy Oh, Mary! for an eight-week engagement beginning in August, producers announced. Also today, produ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:57AMEmmy-nominated comedian Jeff Ross will bring his new theatrical solo show to Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre this August. While a Broadway run was previously announced, the venue and openin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:24AMTuesday, June 17, 2025
With the star-driven megahits Good Night, And Good Luck (George Clooney) and Othello (Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal) having exited the stage, Broadway saw a drop of nearly 15% at the bo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:11PM 
