Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is doing some heavy hinting that his The Phantom of the Opera musical – or some version of it – is returning to New York two years after the show ended its 35-year Broadway run. In a new Instagram video – watch it below – Lloyd Webber, pretending to speak for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum will produce a feature film adaptation of Cult of Love, Leslye Headland’s dark comedy play that opened to excellent reviews on Broadway in December. The film is currently in development under the Ferrell-Elbaum banner Gloria Sanchez Productions, with the…

UPDATED with latest: The 97th Oscars is in the rearview — time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows and nominations dates ahead as we move move toward Emmy season and look ahead to the Tonys, music awards and more. Check back often for…

CrazySexyCool, the upcoming jukebox musical about ’90s trio TLC that’s set to premiere at Arena Stage in Washington D.C. next year, is aiming for a Broadway move, sources tell Deadline. A Broadway production timeline hasn’t been set. The musical tells the story of Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Lisa…

Good Night, and Good Luck, the play about Edward R. Murrow written by George Clooney and Grant Heslov adapted from their 2005 film, grossed $3,784,200 last week at Broadway’s 1,537-seat Winter Garden Theatre, breaking its own previous $3.3 million record as the highest grossing non-musical play in…

Broadway’s 2024-25 season has gotten off to a rather extraordinarily fine start, from the wildly popular and hysterically funny Oh, Mary! to the fabulous splash of Death Becomes Her and the wonderful left-field sleeper Maybe Happy Ending. There have been a few clunkers — looking at you, Tammy Faye …

The Salem Witch trials have, many times over, proven themselves near unbreakable as allegory, starting at least with Arthur Miller’s 1953 The Crucible, in which the goings on in Massachusetts Bay around 1692 made for a master class take-down of McCarthyism. The next decade would see the trials as a…

Leslie Odom, Jr. will return to Broadway’s Hamilton this fall in a reprise of his Tony Award-winning role as Aaron Burr. A member of the original cast, Odom’s return to Hamilton comes nine years after he took his final bow in July 2016. Odom begins performances on Tuesday, September 9, for a…

The previously announced Broadway production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter has found a home in the Hudson Theatre, where the play will begin previews on Saturday, September 13 ahead of a Sunday, September 28 opening night. The strictly limited…

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met yesterday in the third of their four Tony eligibility meetings, and while most of the decisions where the usual determinations about what category to place video designs and projections. But one ruling stood out: The fine revival of David Mamet’s Glen…

When the Broadway-themed drama Smash began its two-season run on NBC in 2012, the entire theater industry, it seemed then, was entranced. The lingo, the faces, the concerns – all seemed, if not entirely authentic, then at least clever enough to create some backstage buzz. Even with the series’ quick…

The national tour of The Who’s Tommy, the Des McAnuff-revival that played on Broadway last year, has been delayed by a year, with a new launch date of Fall 2026. Producers had previously announced that the tour would kick off in Fall 2025 at the Providence Performing Arts Center in Providence…