Broadway got an updated look at itself today, with the Broadway League’s annual demographics report showing yet again that the typical theatergoer was more than likely female, white, about 41 years old, a U.S. resident and college grad whose household rakes in $276,465 a year. The report surveys…
EXCLUSIVE: Juan Carlos, one of the original cast members of Broadway’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow, was onstage one evening last June when, just as Act One was coming to an end, he jumped on the set’s revolving turntable as he done night after night since the show began previews in March…
Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, revitalized by the recent casting of the film franchise’s Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy, once again topped the box office roster with a magical gross of $2,939,627, outpacing even the final (partial) week of Leslie Odom Jr.’s hugely successful limited return…
The Queen of Versailles, the new and soon-to-close Broadway musical starring Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham, will shut its doors even earlier than previously announced: Producers informed the cast today that rather than close January 4, 2026, the show will play its final performance on…
Rachel Dratch, Campbell Scott, Claybourne Elder and Wayne Brady have signed on for several upcoming productions in the New York City Center’s Off Broadway Encores! revival series beginning with High Spirits in February, The Wild Party in March and La Cage Aux Folles in June. Saturday Night Live…
Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris has been has been released from custody in Japan three weeks after being arrested on suspicion of attempting to smuggle illegal drugs into the country. The Tony-nominated playwright and actor was arrested and taken into custody on November 16 when he flew…
Bigfoot!, the new musical comedy set for an Off Broadway bow this February, has found its titular beast – it’ll be Grey Henson of Mean Girls and Elf – and its trio of humans to be played by Alex Moffat, Crystal Lucas-Perry and Katerina McCrimmon. With a book by Amber Ruffin (Some Like It Hot, La…
Shoshana Bean (Hell's Kitchen, Wicked) is joining the cast of this spring’s Broadway musical version of The Lost Boys, taking the role of Lucy Emerson, the mother of two teenaged boys who become embroiled in the vampire goings-on in a small California town. The role was played by Dianne Wiest…
Giancarlo Esposito has dished on plans for a Stephen King project he's working up with Guy Busick, and an adaptation of his graphic novel 'The Venetian', which hits shelves soon. The Breaking Bad star was on good form as he paid a visit to Deadline's Red Sea International Film Festival…
EXCLUSIVE: British television comedy queen Catherine Tate sashays across the room where rehearsals for Sleeping Beauty, the 10th annual feast of fun (and filth), are taking place. Performances begin at the historic London Palladium on Saturday through January 11. Tate's doing evil witchy…
The holiday season is always a perfect time for movie musicals, but as it turns out Wicked: For Good is not the only one Broadway lovers will have this season. Director Maria Friedman’s exquisite film of the hit Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Mer…