Thursday, December 12, 2019
Returning to Broadway, Harry Connick Jr. chooses his muse wisely and well, taking the stage in an attractively modern, multi-media setting to celebrate that most sophisticated of the America…
Linked From Deadline at 08:00PMA stage musical about pioneering Chicano rock & roller Richie Valens is in the works, with Los Lobos’ Louie Pérez and David Hidalgo on board to provide original music alongside Valens…
Linked From Deadline at 01:24PMFrozen‘s Caissie Levy, The Band’s Visit‘s John Cariani and stage veteran Chip Zien will join the previously announced Sharon D. Clarke in the upcoming Broadway revival of the Tony Kush…
Linked From Deadline at 01:00PMWednesday, December 11, 2019
Tony Award-winning actor Richard Easton, who broke a 30-year break from Broadway to make an acclaimed performance in Tom Stoppard’s 2001 play The Invention of Love, died Dec. 2 at age 86…
Linked From Deadline at 03:07PMRashidra Scott (Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations) has been cast in the role of Susan for Marianne Elliott’s upcoming Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim/Geo…
Linked From Deadline at 10:28AMTuesday, December 10, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Tony- and Golden Globe-winning production company Playground (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Wolf Hall) is expanding into immersive theatre with a financial investment in Witn…
Linked From Deadline at 02:00PMFull casting for the upcoming Off Broadway world premiere production of Duncan Sheik’s Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice musical has been completed, with Michael Zegen (The Marvelous M…
Linked From Deadline at 12:56PMMonday, December 9, 2019
Producers of Broadway’s Tony-nominated Beetlejuice said Monday that the comedic musical based on Tim Burton’s 1988 cult movie will play its final performance at the Winter Garden Theatre…
Linked From Deadline at 05:57PMTony Goldwyn, last seen on the New York stage co-starring with Bryan Cranston in Network, will make a four-month return to Broadway when he joins the cast of Matthew Lopez’ The Inheritance…
Linked From Deadline at 09:45AMFriday, December 6, 2019
Ron Leibman, who won a Tony Award for his role as Roy Cohn in 1993’s Angels In America: Millennium Approaches, and co-starred with Sally Field in the 1979 Oscar-winner Norma Rae, has died …
Linked From Deadline at 06:21PMEXCLUSIVE: A project to develop a biographical stage musical about 1970s singer-songwriter Harry Chapin has gotten the support of Chapin’s wife Sandy and brothers Tom Chapin and Steve Chap…
Linked From Deadline at 11:30AMThursday, December 5, 2019
In Jagged Little Pill, a record album gets its own jukebox musical, though there’s none of the Wikipedia-style rat-a-tat biographical highlights (airbrushed or otherwise) that accompanied …
Linked From Deadline at 09:00PMWednesday, December 4, 2019
Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of Richard Greenberg’s The Perplexed has completed its cast with Gregg Edelman (City of Angels, Into the Woods) and Eric William Morris (King Kong…
Linked From Deadline at 03:01PMDownton Abbey‘s Dan Stevens and Game of Thrones‘ Mark Addy will head up the Broadway production of Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy Hangmen, arriving at the Golden Theatre Friday, Feb. 28…
Linked From Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, December 3, 2019
Jordan Fisher, who played Mark in Fox’s Rent Live TV special and made his Broadway debut in Hamilton, will take over the title role of Dear Evan Hansen in January. A star of Disney’s Liv…
Linked From Deadline at 12:23PMTony Award-winner Beth Leavel has been cast in the pre-Broadway production of The Devil Wears Prada as tyrannical fashion editor Miranda Priestly, while Taylor Iman Jones (Broadway’s Head …
Linked From Deadline at 11:44AMMonday, December 2, 2019
Broadway’s Thanksgiving Weekend was a trip to bountiful, with Tina and Beetlejuice breaking house records, David Byrne joining the Million Dollar Club and total box office for the 35 produ…
Linked From Deadline at 05:36PMSaturday, November 30, 2019
A star from the musical Hamilton is singing the blues because his group of friends wasn’t hearing the blues. Giles Terera said a London bar barred entry to his party of eight fellow actors…
Linked From Deadline at 02:51PMFriday, November 29, 2019
Stage director Marion McClinton, who staged for Broadway two of August Wilson’s plays and Regina Taylor’s Drowning Crow, died yesterday in St. Paul, Minn. He was 65. The New York Times r…
Linked From Deadline at 09:45AMWednesday, November 27, 2019
The national tour for Disney’s Frozen musical is opening next week just over the hill from the studio that created the animated versions. Frozen starts performances on at the Hollywood P…
Linked From Deadline at 09:44PMA new stage musical version of the 1993 Tom Hanks comedy Sleepless in Seattle is set for a London world premiere next spring. Sleepless, a Musical Romance will begin previews March 21 at Lon…
Linked From Deadline at 11:28AMTuesday, November 26, 2019
Nederlander National Markets LLC, a stand-alone company that’s part of Broadway heavyweight Nederlander Organization, and Chicago-based theater presenter Jam Theatricals have combined to c…
Linked From Deadline at 03:00PMMonday, November 25, 2019
Broadway box office mostly held steady last week, even as many shows might not have overmuch to cheer about during the pre-holiday week. In all, the 35 productions took in $32,015,929, down …
Linked From Deadline at 04:15PMAnnie McNamara, currently starring in Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play on Broadway, has signed with CESD Talent Agency. In a critically lauded performance, McNamara plays Alana, a sexually fru…
Linked From Deadline at 03:03PMJohn Simon, whose biting, sometimes personal New York Magazine theater reviews drew devoted readers and withering criticism of their own, died yesterday at a hospital in Valhalla, New York. …
Linked From Deadline at 02:15PMThe Tony Award-winning actress Katrina Lenk (The Band’s Visit) has been cast in a recurring role in CBS’ upcoming midseason drama series Tommy as a sports agent. Tommy stars Edie Falco …
Linked From Deadline at 10:23AMThursday, November 21, 2019
Broadway has found its Michael Jackson: Tony-nominated Ain’t Too Proud star Ephraim Sykes will take the title role in the upcoming MJ The Musical, producers announced today. The musical, l…
Linked From Deadline at 10:24AMWednesday, November 20, 2019
There’s an abundance of treats offered by director Matthew Warchus’ staging of A Christmas Carol – like Andrea Martin dressed as a Victorian caroler mingling with the audience at Broad…
Linked From Deadline at 10:00PMThe Grammys took a fairly expansive sweep with this morning’s nominations for Best Musical Theater Album, The Motown sound, Rodgers & Hammerstein, the folk-rock music of Anaïs Mitchel…
Linked From Deadline at 10:28AMTuesday, November 19, 2019
Nickelodeon will simulcast The SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage! across Nickelodeon, TeenNick and Nicktoons next month, Nickelodeon said today, also noting that veteran SpongeBob SquarePants…
Linked From Deadline at 12:25PMMonday, November 18, 2019
Broadway box office took a step back last week, with most shows reporting receipt drops from the prior week (which included Veterans Day Weekend, perhaps boosting tourist money). In all, the…
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