Well, poppets, Mrs. Doubtfire is the latest Broadway returnee: Producers of the musical adaptation announced today that the show will begin previews on Oct. 21 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatr…
The Broadway League has hired its first Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Gennean Scott, most recently holding a related position at Omaha Performing Arts, starts her new job on …
Second Stage Theater has confirmed the post-shutdown Broadway productions of Lynn Nottage's Clyde's, Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out and Stephen Adly Guirgis' Between Riverside and Crazy, wi…
EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Brosnahan's Scrap Paper Pictures will co-produce an Off Broadway limited benefit engagement of The Great Filter, a new one-act play that will star Brosnahan's newly announc…
Chicago will return to Broadway just in time for its 25th anniversary: The musical is set to reopen at the Ambassador Theatre on Tuesday, September 14. The Kander-Ebb-Fosse musical becomes t…
Count Six as Number 2 " the second Broadway musical in as many days to announce a reopening date: The crowd-pleasing contemporary-pop take on the wives of Henry VIII will begin performances …
The Phantom of the Opera, at 33 years old the longest-running show in Broadway history, is the first post-Covid production to make it official: The musical will resume performances on Friday…
UPDATE, with Broadway League comment New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced that Broadway will reopen on Sept. 14, with some tickets going on sale beginning tomorrow. Theaters will be open…
Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's play Pass Over, which received the 2019 Lortel Award for Outstanding Play for its Off Broadway run, will open at Broadway's August Wilson Theatre for a limited e…
Billie Hayes, whose portrayal of the flamboyantly and comically wicked witch Witchiepoo on the 1969-70 Saturday morning live-action children's classic H.R. Pufnstuf, died of natural causes A…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that all state-mandated capacity restrictions in New York City will be lifted May 19, including Broadway theaters. While acknowledging that a M…
Revolution Rent, a documentary that follows director/actor Andy Señor Jr. to Cuba as he stages a production of Jonathan Larson's Rent that marks the first American company of a Broadway m…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said today that he expects the city to be back "full strength" from the yearlong Covid shutdown in July " not including Broadway. "Broadway takes time beca…
EXCLUSIVE: A group of prominent Broadway theater producers, whose shows include The Band's Visit, MJ: The Musical, Waitress and August: Osage County to name a few, are teaming with the Black…
A new stage musical adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald masterpiece The Great Gatsby is headed for Broadway, with music by Florence + the Machine's Florence Welch and Oscar-nominated "Myst…
The Broadway League has confirmed that producer Scott Rudin has resigned from its ranks, a move that could have colossal ramifications on the Broadway landscape now and in the foreseeable fu…
Michael Chabon, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2000 novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and worked for years with producer Scott Rudin on an unrealized film adaptation, has…
Add New York State's summerlong arts festival NY PopsUp to the roster of projects from which producer Scott Rudin has stepped back. Deadline has confirmed that Rudin, under fire for allegati…
Arthur T. Birsh, whose job titles during his 50-year career at Playbill, the nation's most recognizable theater program, included publisher, president, chairman, and most recently chairman e…
Actors' Equity Association told members today that it will not place producer Scott Rudin on its "Do Not Work" list, explaining that the union utilizes the list to alert members about the st…
Hugh Jackman, star of the upcoming Broadway revival of The Music Man produced by Scott Rudin, said today that the company is "rebuilding the Music Man team" in the wake of Rudin's decision t…
Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Magnificent Seven) will direct and produce a film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof based on the 2008 Broadway production featurin…
UPDATE, with Bonnie Tyler tribute Jim Steinman, the composer and lyricist whose roster of hit records included the huge Bonnie Tyler hit "Total Eclipse of the Heart," was remembered by the s…
Broadway's Beauty and the Beast stage director Rob Roth has resigned from the Disney show's upcoming U.K. and Ireland tour after the text of an email he either sent or intended to send prais…
Anthony Powell, a three-time Oscar winner whose costume designs helped bring Indiana Jones to rugged life and Broadway's Norma Desmond to extravagant excess, died Sunday. He was 85. The Cost…