Thursday, January 23, 2025
Absolutely nothing gets lost in the translation of Sanaz Toossi’s English as the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a group of Iranians longing for the West finally makes its Broadway debut…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PMKen Wydro, who co-created, co-wrote and produced the long-running 1983 Off Broadway hit musical Mama, I Want To Sing inspired by the life of 1960s “Just One Look” singer Doris Troy, died…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:02PMEXCLUSIVE: The “Big Broadway Dream” of internet sensation Trisha Paytas just got a bit bigger: The one-night-only event at Broadway’s St. James Theatre next month will include special …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AMWednesday, January 22, 2025
Wicked is getting a new Elphaba, and she’s about to make history: Lencia Kebede will be the first Black actress to assume the role full time in the Broadway company. Kebede, who recently s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:39PMTuesday, January 21, 2025
Broadway said a few so-longs last week, with the star-studded Our Town ending its limited run and some original cast members of Oh, Mary! and The Great Gatsby giving way to replacements. Tic…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:42PMTaran Killam has dropped out of the upcoming Off Broadway production of the popular comedy Urinetown following the destruction of his home in the Pacific Palisades fires earlier this month. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:53AMDead Outlaw, the much anticipated Broadway musical coming this spring, has announced that the cast of the critically acclaimed Off Broadway cast will reprise their roles from the 2024 stagin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:21AMMonday, January 20, 2025
Lynne Taylor-Corbett, the Tony Award-nominated choreographer of Broadway’s Swing and Titanic who also left an indelible mark on Hollywood by guiding Kevin Bacon through his famed solo danc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:13AMFriday, January 17, 2025
Merle Louise, whose Broadway debut in the original cast of Gypsy launched a decades-long association with Stephen Sondheim that would include notable appearances in Company, Sweeney Todd and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:32AMThursday, January 16, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Ollie Mongo, the teenage post-apocalyptic skateboarding zombie who has built a devoted fanbase since his creation as a digital comic series in 2016 now has his wheels aimed for Br…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMEXCLUSIVE: Justina Machado (One Day at a Time, Broadway’s In The Heights) and Broadway newcomer Tatianna Córdoba have been cast as the leads in the upcoming Broadway production Real Women…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMWednesday, January 15, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: The Atlantic Theater Company, one of Off Broadway’s most celebrated theaters, has officially closed two new, previewing productions – Eliya Smith’s Grief Camp and Mona Pirno…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:32PMEXCLUSIVE: Masked country music star Orville Peck and two-time Tony Award nominee Eva Noblezada are set as the new Emcee and Sally Bowles of Broadway’s Cabaret at the KitKat Club, producer…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:59AMTuesday, January 14, 2025
Robert Machray, whose prolific, decades-long career as a character actor included appearances on Three’s Company, Roseanne, Suddenly Susan, The Drew Carey Show and, in a four-episode recur…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:37PMBroadway took a somewhat humbling post-holiday slip at the box office last week, with the roster of shows down by three productions and overall receipts off by about 29% from the previous we…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:38PMGracie Lawrence of The Sex Lives of College Girls and the band Lawrence will make her Broadway debut this spring opposite Jonathan Groff in the Bobby Darin musical Just In Time. She’ll pla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMMonday, January 13, 2025
Seaview, the Tony Award winning production company behind such Broadway shows as Stereophonic, Romeo + Juliet, Once Upon a Mattress and All In and recent Off Broadway stagings of Hold Onto M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:28PMAfter negotiations broke down over the weekend between Off Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the stagehands union ordered a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:50AMThursday, January 9, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:43PMEXCLUSIVE: 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMWednesday, January 8, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:35PMEXCLUSIVE: 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, January 7, 2025
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 (…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:35PMMonday, January 6, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:16PMEXCLUSIVE: 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMFriday, January 3, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:51AMTuesday, December 31, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:48PMMonday, December 23, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMSunday, December 22, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMFriday, December 20, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00AMThursday, December 19, 2024
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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