Wednesday, September 20, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Blackstone, who won a 2022 Emmy Award for his music direction of the memorable hip-hop Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show featuring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and others, has join…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:38AMEXCLUSIVE: Broadway producer Dale A. Mott (A Strange Loop, The Piano Lesson, Thoughts of a Colored Man) and real estate investor/philanthropist Charles D. Urstadt have formed Edgewood Entert…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMTuesday, September 19, 2023
A trio of new shows joined Broadway last week to mostly decent box office figures as the fall season begins to take shape. Most impressive was Gutenberg! The Musical! starring Josh Gad and A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:01PMThursday, September 14, 2023
A Broadway revival of Anton Chekhov’s classic Uncle Vanya, with a new translation by playwright Heidi Schreck, will be staged this spring by Lincoln Center Theater. Lila Neugebauer (The Wa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:25AMWednesday, September 13, 2023
Days of Wine and Roses, a musical adaptation of the classic 1958 teleplay and 1962 feature film about a married couple struggling to come to grips with alcoholism, will open on Broadway in J…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:49AMTuesday, September 12, 2023
The upcoming Broadway production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play Appropriate starring Sarah Paulson will also feature Corey Stoll (House of Cards, Billions), Natalie Gold (Succession) and …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:31PMWith Funny Girl off the boards last week and the impact of the 2-for-1 ticket prices of the Broadway Week promotion, Broadway box office receipts for the week ending Sept. 10 took an 18% tum…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:07PMEXCLUSIVE: Actor-rapper Common and hip-hop artist MC Lyte have signed on as co-producers in the all-new, Broadway-bound production of The Wiz, producers announced today. The musical revival,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AMWater For Elephants, the new stage musical adapted from the acclaimed 2006 novel by Sara Gruen to be directed by Kimberly Akimbo director Jessica Stone, will open on Broadway this spring, pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMMonday, September 11, 2023
A new Thursday matinee seems to be paying off for the Neil Diamond Broadway bio-musical A Beautiful Noise: Last week the show grossed more than $1 million, a nine-month high attributable at …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:15PMOscar nominee Rachel McAdams (Spotlight) will star in the Broadway premiere of Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane in a spring production directed by Anne Kauffman (The Sign in Sydney Brustein’s Wind…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:06PMThursday, September 7, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Nashville’s famed Bluebird Cafe, the renowned songwriter-friendly venue that gave an early musical home to Taylor Swift, Garth Brooks, Faith Hill and many other country and pop …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMWednesday, September 6, 2023
Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger will star on Broadway this spring in a world premiere production of Paula Vogel’s new Mother Play, to be directed by Tina Landau. The Sec…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMTituss Burgess will return to Broadway for a stint in Moulin Rouge! The Musical, playing the role of club owner “Harold Zidler” from Tuesday, October 10 through Sunday, December 17. Eric…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMTuesday, September 5, 2023
Lea Michele treated the final-night audience of Broadway’s Funny Girl to an extra song Sunday, performing “My Man,” popularized by Fanny Brice in 1921 but not included in the musical�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PMThe stage musical adaptation of the 1992 film comedy Death Becomes Her will make its pre-Broadway debut in Chicago this spring, producers announced today. Starring Tony nominees Megan Hilty …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:58PMFranne Lee, a Tony-winning costumer and set designer who joined the fledgling Saturday Night Live and created the looks of some of the NBC’s late-night show’s most iconic characters, inc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AMFriday, September 1, 2023
Thursday night’s audience at Broadway’s Here Lies Love got a surprise bonus performance when DJ Fatboy Slim, who co-wrote the musical with David Byrne, took to the stage and spun a one-n…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:27PMThursday, August 31, 2023
A Broadway fundraising concert next month for President Joe Biden will feature some of theater’s biggest stars, including Josh Groban, Ben Platt, Sara Bareilles, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Cynthi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PMEighteen performing arts physical therapists, athletic trainers, and massage therapists employed on various live theatrical tours such as The Lion King, Wicked, and Moulin Rouge! have voted …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:11PMTuesday, August 29, 2023
Good Night, Oscar, the Oscar Levant bio-play starring Sean Hayes, and El Mago Pop, the Broadway debut of Spanish illusionist Antonio Díaz, ended their limited Broadway engagements on upswin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:53PMTina Howe, the celebrated playwright whose works included the oft-staged Painting Churches and Coastal Disturbances, died yesterday of natural causes after a short illness due to complicatio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:18PMThursday, August 24, 2023
Original cast members of the Broadway and Off Broadway hit Avenue Q will reunite tonight for a Stars In The House sing-through of the musical to benefit victims, both human and non-human, of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:02PMEXCLUSIVE: Andrew Lloyd Webber and his The Really Useful Group have signed with CAA. The signing of the mega-successful theater composer, whose scores include The Phantom of the Opera, Evita…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMWednesday, August 23, 2023
Producers of the struggling A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical are hoping for better attendance by breaking with a long-held Broadway tradition: Beginning next month, the musical wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:57PMLauren Pazienza, who deliberately and randomly shoved 87-year-old Broadway vocal coach Barbara Gustern to the ground on a Manhattan sidewalk in 2022 causing the elderly woman’s death, chan…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:52PMCovid seems to be making a return engagement on Broadway, even if in a limited capacity compared to the post-shutdown era of 2021 and 2022. Both Josh Groban and, now, Annaleigh Ashford, the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:10AMTuesday, August 22, 2023
Once Upon A One More Time, the revisionist fairy tale Broadway musical set to the hits of Britney Spears, continued its downward slide at the box office last week, with the latest figures su…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:02PMMonday, August 21, 2023
Once Upon a One More Time, the Broadway musical that uses Britney Spears hits to re-tell and revise various fairy tales and opened in June to mixed reviews, has announced an early closing. I…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:57PMThe musical adaptation of the S.E. Hinton’s classic 1967 teen novel (and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film) The Outsiders will begin Broadway previews at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:20AMThursday, August 10, 2023
There’s at least one shark that’s not showing up in New York City these days: Bruce, the famous mechanical predator of Steven Spielberg’s sea horror classic Jaws, is the Godot-like pre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM 
