EXCLUSIVE: Tom Francis, the Olivier Award-winning actor who will reprise his West End portrayal of Joe Gillis in Jamie Lloyd's West End production of Sunset Boulevard when the revival moves to Broadway this fall, has signed with Linden Entertainment. Francis stars opposite Nicole Scherzinger, who…

As far as the three young women sitting in row E at London's Bush Theatre were concerned, the name of the character Tosin Cole was playing in Benedict Lombe's "spicy" love story Shifters, wasn't Dre — short for Dream — but "Dreamboat." It's a double whammy of love, well, sort of, for Cole (Till, Bob M…

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Ian McKellen will not feature in the final three performances of Player Kings in London’s West End after his fall. The Lord of the Rings acting icon fractured his wrist and sustained other injuries after falling from the stage on Monday night. A statement from the Noel Coward Theatre said that…

Nearly a century later, the panic around William Randolph Hearst’s manufactured “Reefer Madness” still has a hold on parts of culture. When actor and producer Christian Campbell attempted to promote his 25th anniversary Los Angeles stage revival of Reefer Madness: The Musical on Facebook and…

Zoë Chao of Peacock's sci-fi rom-com If You Were the Last and Hadestown‘s Amber Gray will be among the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway staging of Jonathan Spector’s new comedy Eureka Day in December, producers have announced. In addition to Chao and Gray, the full cast of Eureka Day will…

For those keeping track of such things, nearly 10% – or $3,239,838 – of Broadway’s total $36.8 million box office last week was earned by productions directed by Taymors: The Lion King‘s Julie Taymor and her niece, The Outsiders director Danya Taymor. And that’s before The Outsiders‘ big Tony-winning…

Merrily We Roll Along, the smash Broadway hit starring Tony-winners Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe and nominee Lindsay Mendez, is being professionally filmed by RadicalMedia, the same production company that proshot and produced Hamilton and Come From Away. A production insider tells Deadline…

Swept Away, the new musical featuring the music of folk-rock band The Avett Brothers, will begin performances at Broadway's Longacre Theatre on Tuesday, October 29 with an opening set for Tuesday, November 19. The announcement was made today by producers Matthew Masten, Sean Hudock, and Madison Wells…

The Heart of Rock and Roll, the struggling musical built around the hits of Huey Lewis, will play its final performance at a matinee on Sunday, June 23. The show will have played 24 previews and 72 performances. In a statement, producer Hunter Arnold said, "It was pure joy working on the show with…

UPDATE, with League statement: Actors' Equity Association, the labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, will cease issuing contracts for work on productions in development as negotiations with the Broadway League have stalled. "We never wanted…

In the week leading up to Jeremy Strong’s Tony Award victory, Broadway’s An Enemy of the People broke the box office record at Circle in the Square Theatre, grossing $1,266,338 and topping its own previous records. The production had already broken the previous Circle in the Square box office…