Theater
Adam Epstein, Tony-Winning ‘Hairspray’ Producer, Dies at 49
Adam Epstein, who won a Tony Award for producing Hairspray before he was 30 and received other nominations for his work on revivals of Amadeus and The Crucible and adaptations of The Wedding Singer and Cry-Baby, has died. He was 49. Epstein died Tuesday at Adventist Health hospital in Glendale after a brief battle with […]
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Phylicia Rashad to Direct New Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Play on Broadway
Phylicia Rashad will make her Broadway directing debut with a new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The play, Purpose, marks Jacobs-Jenkins return to Broadway after his play, Appropriate, a family drama about siblings returning to their father’s home, starring Sarah Paulson, won the 2024 Tony Award for best revival of a play. Purpose follows the Jasper […]
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Broadway Box Office: ‘The Wiz,’ ‘Illinoise’ See Final Weeks Surge
In its second to last week on Broadway, The Wiz brought in close to $1.7 million, its highest tally of its run so far, putting it within the top five in the industry for the week. The revival, which features a revised book by Amber Ruffin, has been running at the Marquis Theatre since March […]
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Disney Developing Stage Adaptation of ‘The Greatest Showman’
Disney is bringing The Greatest Show on Earth to the stage. The company says that it is developing a stage musical based on the 2017 film The Greatest Showman to, produced by its Disney Theatrical division. The announcement was made at the D23 conference in Anaheim, California, where a cast performed “The Greatest Show,” the […]
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Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr to Star in Broadway Revival of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’
Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr will star in a Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross in spring 2025. The production will be directed by Patrick Marber, who won a 2023 Tony Award for his direction of Leopoldstadt. Odenkirk and Burr will make their Broadway debuts in the play. The David Mamet play is […]
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Broadway Box Office: ‘The Outsiders’ Keeps Climbing, ‘Once Upon A Mattress’ Joins Fray
The Outsiders musical continued its post-Tony run, breaking the box office record at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre for the seventh week in a row. The show, which won the Tony Award for best musical, grossed $1.49 million last week. That’s about $27,000 more than prior week, even though only one more person attended. The average […]
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Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ to Open on Broadway in Spring 2025
Stranger Things: The First Shadow is coming to Broadway in the spring. The play, which is set up as a prequel to the events of the Netflix series, will start previews at the Marquis Theatre on March 28, 2025, with an opening night on April 2025. Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions are producing. The show premiered […]
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Lily Collins, Álvaro Morte to Make West End Stage Debuts in Bess Wohl’s ‘Barcelona’
Lily Collins will bid adieu to Paris and join Money Heist‘s Álvaro Morte in London for the pair’s West End stage debuts in Barcelona. The Emily in Paris star will join Morte in Bess Wohl’s acclaimed two-character play Barcelona at the Duke of York’s Theatre in the U.K. capital from Oct. 21 to Jan. 11, […]
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June Walker Rogers, Broadway Performer, Playwright and Author, Dies at 97
June Walker Rogers, a singer, dancer and comedian who performed on Broadway and television and wrote several musicals and a book about how to survive in show business, has died. She was 97. She died July 8 at her home in Westport, Connecticut, her family announced. Born in Steubenville, Ohio, and raised in Queens, June […]
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Keanu Reeves to Make Broadway Debut in ‘Waiting for Godot’ in Fall 2025
Keanu Reeves will make his Broadway debut in Waiting for Godot. The play, directed by Jamie Lloyd, will come to Broadway in fall 2025. Reeves will play Estragon and Alex Winter, an actor and co-star with Reeves in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, will play Vladimir in the revival of Samuel Beckett’s play. Reeves is […]
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Adam Driver to Star in Off-Broadway Play ‘Hold On to Me Darling’
Adam Driver will star as a fictional country music icon in Kenneth Lonergan’s play Hold On to Me Darling this fall. The play, directed by Neil Pepe, is slated to begin performances at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre on Sept. 24, ahead of an Oct. 16 opening night. The production is currently slated for a limited […]
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