Sunday, 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:38AMWednesday, December 18, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:28PMEureka 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:13AMTuesday, December 17, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:55PMEXCLUSIVE: 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�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMMonday, December 16, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMThursday, December 12, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMLast 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:29PMEXCLUSIVE: 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMMartin 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 …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:44AMThe production was delayed for 15 minutes after the audience member returned from the bathroom
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:24AMWednesday, December 11, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:19PMHold 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:44AMWith 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:39AMTuesday, December 10, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:39PMThe 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:21AMMonday, December 9, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMLaTanya 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMUnited 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 …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:27AMFriday, December 6, 2024
Swept Away, the new musical featuring songs by The Avett Brothers to tell a shipwreck tale of survival and sacrifice, will close its Broadway run on Sunday, December 15, just a month after o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:27AMWednesday, December 4, 2024
Marvin Laird, a prolific Broadway, film and TV composer, conductor and musical director who lent his talents to projects featuring such stars as Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey, Diana Ross, Cas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:44PMT.R. Knight, Alex Breaux and Gabrielle Nevaeh will be among those joining the previously announced Louis McCartney in Broadway’s upcoming production of Stranger Things: The First Shadow. K…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMAdam Siegel, currently Managing Director of Lincoln Center Theater, has been named the new Executive Director of New York’s Second Stage Theater, taking over from Interim Executive Directo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:15AMTuesday, December 3, 2024
Broadway recorded its best attended and highest grossing Thanksgiving week in the industry’s recorded history, the Broadway League said today, with its 38 productions grossing a combined $…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:17PMProducers of the Broadway hit Stereophonic have settled a lawsuit brought by a former sound engineer and producer of Fleetwood Mac who claimed the production used material from his memoir wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:16PMCasting was announced for Broadway’s upcoming Just in Time starring Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin, with the Merrily We Roll Along Tony winner to be joined on stage in the new musical by Jo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMOh, Mary! without Cole Escola? As it turns out, yes. The Broadway hit comedy, which recently became the first production of the season to recoup its production cost, will have a new Mary Tod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMMonday, December 2, 2024
Jason Laks, who has been serving as The Broadway League’s Interim President since Charlotte St. Martin retired from the organization last February, has been appointed the organization’s …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:04PMWicked has another sales record to add to its growing list: The film soundtrack has debuted at the #2 spot on the Billboard 200 chart, the highest debut for a big-screen adaptation of a stag…
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