Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), the modest, two-person musical that charmed critics last season and scored eight Tony Award nominations, will play its final performance on Sunday, November 29. At the time of its closing, Two Strangers will have played 21 previews and 428 performances at the Longacre Theatre. The First National […]
Deadline•Greg Evans16 Sept
The show, which was among the 2026 best musical nominees, will play its final performance after one year on Broadway.
The Hollywood Reporter•Caitlin Huston16 Sept
Ashlyn Maddox, Tyler Jordan Wesley, Ryo Kamibayashi and Amalia Yoo are about to learn about the “bitch of living.” The young actors will star in this fall’s off-Broadway revival of “Spring Awakening,” the angsty coming-of-age musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik. Maddox (“Parade”) has been cast as Wendla alongside Wesley as Melchior, Kamibayashi (“Oh, […]
Variety•Rebecca Rubin16 Sept
O'Donnell will play The Narrator from Oct. 6 through Oct. 18, as Dratch takes a short leave.
The Hollywood Reporter•Caitlin Huston16 Sept
Rosie O’Donnell is headed back to Broadway, however briefly: She’ll join The Rocky Horror Show for two weeks in October as the “Narrator” while current star Rachel Dratch takes a short leave. O’Donnell’s engagement, announced today by the show’s producers, will begin Tuesday, October 6, and run through Sunday, October 18. The former co-host of […]
Deadline•Greg Evans16 Sept
60 years ago today, the Metropolitan Opera House opened at the Lincoln Center on Broadway and Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. Back then, it opened its doors and its curtains for the first time to Franco Zaffirelli’s Antony and Cleopatra. Today it’s one of the most prestigious opera […]
Good News Network•Good News Network16 Sept
Carly Rae Jepsen chats with Vogue about putting together her new concept record “Day and Night,” mixing motherhood with pop stardom, and writing her first musical.
Could Reece Weaver, breakout star of the Netflix series America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, be following in Whitney Leavitt’s tap-dancing shoes in bringing crowds to Broadway’s Chicago? The box office figures from last week suggest yes. Weaver’s first week as Roxie Hart – and her Broadway debut – saw attendance for Chicago jump to 100% […]
Deadline•Greg Evans15 Sept
The 'Oh, Mary' director will helm the revival which is set to come to Broadway in fall 2027.
The Hollywood Reporter•Caitlin Huston15 Sept
Little orphan Annie is returning to the Great White Way. A revival of “Annie” will premiere on Broadway in fall 2027, timed to the classic musical’s 50th anniversary. Sam Pinkleton, the Tony-winning director of “Oh, Mary!” and “The Rocky Horror Show,” is leading the new production. Casting and other key creatives will be announced at […]
Variety•Rebecca Rubin15 Sept
Cue all the “sun will come out” references: Annie, the beloved Tony-winning musical that gave us the song “Tomorrow” and provided generations of child actors the chance to play plucky orphans, will return to Broadway in a 2027 50th Anniversary production to be directed by Oh, Mary!‘s Sam Pinkleton. The production is planned for fall […]
Deadline•Greg Evans15 Sept
Toronto film festival: riotous lead performance holds together third movie from actor turned film-maker, about a housewife who joins a local musical Jesse Eisenberg’s last two directorial efforts – the prickly comedy When You Finish Saving the World and the slightly softer A Real Pain – are small films rooted in the real world. They have their little idiosyncrasies, their bits of cinematic flair, but they keep their feet grounded in the here and now. For his third film, Eisenberg has said goodbye to all that (or most of that) and run headlong at the surreal and the absurd, borrowing from Charlie Kaufman and other oddballs to tell a small story in a big way. The Debut is about a repressed housewife, Mona (Julianne Moore), who decides to audition for a role in a community theater production of a musical called Nosy Neighbors, one of those gassy Manhattan trifles that were so ubiquitous on Broadway a half century ago. Mona’s kids are about to fly the nest, and her husband barely seems to notice her when she’s standing right next to him. So why not have a little creative adventure? Continue reading...
The Guardian•Richard Lawson in Toronto15 Sept
Tonight Mariska Hargitay, who recently directed an Emmy winning documentary and also made her Broadway debut, became the first woman to host the Emmy Awards in 15 years, and at least in the show’s fairly brief opening monologue mostly steered clear of attempting to out-do the outrageous comedy talents of previous hosts Amy Poehler and […]
Deadline•Greg Evans15 Sept
Andrew Scott will star in a new feature film version of Simon Stephens’ Sea Wall, a play that the actor originally performed in 2008 at the Bush Theatre in London and that was later staged on Broadway in 2019 with Tom Sturridge in the sole role. The film, though, won’t be a traditional stage-to-screen adaptation: […]
Deadline•Greg Evans14 Sept
In 2022 Jodie Comer took the theatrical world by storm in Suzie Miller’s one woman play, Prima Facie which won Olivier Awards for the London West End production including Best Actress for Comer who repeated her triumph the next on Broadway and won the Tony Award. Now for whatever reason Comer did not reprise her […]
Deadline•Pete Hammond13 Sept
The Oscar nominee tackles the role originated by Jodie Comer on the West End and Broadway in Susanna White's film version of Suzie Miller's award-winning play.
The Hollywood Reporter•Caryn James13 Sept
Tom Felton talks about taking on Broadway, Rupert Grint following his footsteps and a new Harry Potter generation.
BBC12 Sept
Luke Evans felt a connection with Tim Curry. The Rocky Horror Show star—who portrayed Dr. Frank-N-Furter on Broadway after Curry originated the role onstage and in the 1975 film—had reached out to...
E! Online•Marissa Dow11 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has acquired North American distribution rights to the feature take of the Eugene O’Neill play, Long Day’s Journey Into Night which stars 2x Oscar winner Jessica Lange reprising her 2016 Tony-Award winning Broadway role. Quiver will release the pic on Sept. 25 with a special screening at Film at Lincoln Center on […]
Deadline•Anthonypauldalessandro11 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Jack Huston (Spider-Man Noir, Boardwalk Empire), Chazz Palminteri (A Bronx Tale, Bullets Over Broadway) and Kathleen Chalfant (The Copenhagen Test, The Affair) have joined Ellen Pompeo and Jodie Whittaker in the Hulu pilot Chicks. From writer and executive producer Katie Robbins, Chicks is a family dramedy set in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods of old Boston. It follows Chickie (Pompeo) and Doreen […]
Deadline•Rosy Cordero10 Sept