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EXCLUSIVE: Composer-actor Shaina Taub will lead the Broadway cast of her musical Suffs, reprising the role she played in the original, sold-out 2022 Off Broadway production. The casting make…
Harmony, the Barry Manilow/Bruce Sussman musical that opened in November to good reviews that never translated to big audiences, will play its final performance at the Barrymore Theatre on S…
Winter doldrums and a closing night be damned: Shucked just had a very good week, with news of a planned movie adaptation and its best-ever Broadway gross of $1,111,038. The Brandy Clark-Sha…
Charlotte St. Martin, whose 18-year leadership of the Broadway League has included both good times " record-setting revenue " and bad " the historic 18-month Covid shutdown " will step down …
A new musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby starring Smash's Jeremy Jordan and Hadestown's Eva Noblezada will open on Broadway this spring, producers announced today. The musical begins pre…
Complete casting for the upcoming The Heart of Rock and Roll featuring the songs of Huey Lewis has been announced: Newsies' Corey Cott and Wicked's McKenzie Kurtz will play the leads, a will…
Recent events in Gaza could lead some to view Joshua Harmon's blistering, funny and heartbreaking Prayer for the French Republic as uncannily prophetic, but let's not give the playwright ove…
Broadway box office was back on earth last week following the previous week's unusual double-holiday surge, when both Christmas and New Year's Eve fell within the same theatrical window. For…
Daniel Dae Kim will return to Broadway this fall in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of David Henry Hwang's comedy Yellow Face, to be directed by Tony Award nominee Leigh Silverma…
Lola Tung, best known for her role as Belly in Amazon Prime's The Summer I Turned Pretty, will make her Broadway debut next month in a Hadestown limited engagement. Tung will take over the r…
Sarah Rice, who performed the pivotal role of the endangered Johanna in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, died Saturday o…
Purple Rain, Prince's smash 1984 music-packed film, is being developed for the stage by a Broadway producer, with a book by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and direct…
Kimberly Akimbo, winner of five 2023 Tony Awards including Best Musical, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, April 28, producers announced today. Remarkably for Broadway, the…
Trey Curtis, the actor-musician whose credits include numerous roles in various productions of Hamilton, will take on the lead role in the Lin-Manuel Miranda Broadway musical this month. The…
The hit London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard is heading to Broadway later this year and bringing star Nicole Scherzinger and the rest of the West End principal cast with …
The original Chicago cast of the newly reimagined The Who's Tommy will join star Ali Louis Bourzgui when the musical revival opens on Broadway in March. Producers Stephen Gabriel and Ira Pit…
Jonathan Bennett, the Mean Girls heartthrob and star of the Hallmark Channel's Christmas House franchise, will make his Broadway debut when he takes over the role of Spamalot's Sir Robin fro…
The national union of stage directors and choreographers has reached an agreement with producers on a new four-year pact being called a landmark for some theater workers, the groups announce…
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has set a Broadway record for weekly ticket sales for a non-musical play, reporting a gross of $2,718,487.50 for the week ending Sunday. It was one of se…
Perhaps no single theatrical image sums up Broadway's 2023 more effectively than Jessica Chastain's Nora leaving her dreary, unfulfilled doll house life to exit directly into the unlimited p…
UTA has added veteran lit agent Max Grossman to its expanding theater department. Grossman comes to UTA from A3, where he served as co-head of the theater division and co-ran day-to-day oper…
EXCLUSIVE: Starring an electrifying Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Boulevard ends its limited run at London's Savoy Theatre on January 6 but, as Deadline can reveal in its 2024 West End look …
Pay attention to those loud, annoying cicadas " they seem to have a story to tell. At least they do in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins superb, marvelously performed Appropriate, the Second Stage prod…
EXCLUSIVE: The Stranger Things stage show, an unbelievably brilliant new blueprint for theatricality that premieres in London's West End tonight, will be the first instalment in a tril…
Michael Blakemore, the only director in Tony Award history to win twice in one year, died Sunday, Dec. 10, following a short illness. He was 95. His death was announced by the London-based U…