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Bad Cinderella, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s updated musical re-telling of the classic fairy tale, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, June 4. The musical, which features lyrics by David Zippel and book by Emerald Fennell, has been struggling at the box office after critical drubbings. The…

Just hours after members of Actors’ Equity Association joined the striking WGA picket lines outside of HBO and Amazon’s New York City offices today, Kate Shindle, Equity president, suggested in a statement to Deadline that the strike’s impact on the upcoming Tony Awards is yet to be…

Actors’ Equity Association, the union representing theater actors and stage managers, is inviting its members and allies to join the WGA picket line outside HBO and Amazon offices tomorrow. In tweets yesterday and this morning, Equity writes, “New York Members (and allies): Join us on Wednesday, May…

Bruce Norris's Downstate and Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt were named this season’s Best Play and Best Foreign Play, respectively, by the New York Drama Critics' Circle today. Downstate opened last October in an Off Broadway production at Playwrights Horizons. Set at a downstate Illinois group home for…

For Tony Award nominees, the next 37 days will be the usual long slog of interviews, parties, nerves and anticipation. But for producers of the ceremony’s June 11 broadcast on CBS, the date carries a new cause for insomnia: Who will write the thing? With the Writers Guild of America strike showing no…

The Broadway box office report won’t register the impact of this morning’s Tony Award nominations for a week or two, but today’s news certainly comes as welcome and promising signs for Shucked, Kimberly Akimbo, Fat Ham and other well-reviewed productions doing their best to compete against blockbusters…

Broadway’s first post-Tony-nomination casualty has arrived: the shut-out Bob Fosse's Dancin’ will play its final performance on Sunday, May 14. Producer Joey Parnes made the announcement today. When it closes, the updated revival of the 1978 musical will have played 17 preview performances and 65…

Adam Brace, the British playwright and director who was set to make his Broadway debut this summer with longtime collaborator Alex Edelman, died Saturday following a short illness. He was 43. The news comes less than a month after the announcement that Brace and Obie Award-winning writer and…

Some Like It Hot, & Juliet, Kimberly Akimbo and Sweeney Todd were among the big winners in today’s Tony Award nominations, while stars such as Sara Bareilles, Josh Groban, Ben Platt, Corey Hawkins, Sean Hayes, and Jessica Hecht each are now in the Tony running. See below for the complete list of…

Aaron Sorkin, whose adaptation of the classic Lerner & Loewe musical Camelot opened on Broadway earlier this month, will be eligible for Tony consideration in the Best Book of a Musical category, the Tony administration committee ruled today. The Camelot book was originally written by Alan Jay Lerner…

At 20 years old, Gaten Matarazzo is already something of a Broadway veteran. The New Jersey native was only 9 when he made his debut in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, a few years older when he appeared in Les Misérables and then, just last year, took over the role of “Jared Kleinman” in the final…

Harmony, the Barry Manilow-Bruce Sussman musical that played a sold-out run at New York’s National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene last spring, will move to Broadway this fall, producers announced today. The production will begin previews at Broadway's Barrymore Theatre on Wednesday, October 18, ahead of…