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Ambassador Theatre Group has announced an exclusive three-year partnership with the newly formed Bad Robot Live, the theatre division of J.J. Abrams's Bad Robot Productions. As creative collaborators and co-producers, ATG will help bring to the stage Abrams's “unique producorial vision.” The joint…

Broadway’s Jujamcyn Theaters and International Entertainment Holdings Limited, the parent company of Ambassador Theatre Group, have agreed to combine operations, bringing together two of the major players on Broadway and London’s West End. Jujamcyn owns five Broadway theaters: the St. James, Al…

EXCLUSIVE, Updated with additional details: Paul Mescal's Irish eyes are smiling, and doing a jig as well. Not only did he receive a first Oscar nomination Tuesday for his leading role in Aftersun, but Deadline can reveal that the acclaimed production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, in…

UPDATE 10:45 AM: Clarifies online ticket sales, below. EARLIER: The Broadway stand of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will open next April 22 at the Ambassador Theatre Group’s Lyric Theatre, producers Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions announced today. Preview performances…

Jake Gyllenhaal will open on Broadway this spring, inaugurating the newest house on the Street — but not in the show originally announced. The extensively refurbished Hudson Theatre will reopen in February with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Pulitzer Prize winning musical Sunday In The Park With George. The…

UPDATE 7:45 P.M.: The mystery of the Putsch Of Paramour is solved: Cirque Du Soleil’s $25 million Broadway venture at Ambassador Theatre Group’s Lyric Theatre has been vanquished by Harry Potter as the Wizarding World heads for the Great White Way. The London smash Harry Potter And The Cursed Child will move into the…

UPDATE, 1:30 PM with more information throughout: Paramour, the first show developed by the Montreal-based behemoth Cirque du Soleil specifically for Broadway, will shutter April 16 at the Lyric Theatre, exactly a year after it began previews. The theater then will undergo renovations, according to the announcement…

The Ambassador Theatre Group is expanding its North American operations, tapping Stephen Lewin as Chief Executive Officer and Kristin Caskey as EVP Content and Creative. In 2015, ATG acquired a second Broadway theater, the Hudson, and the ACE Theatrical Group, a company which specializes in the design, development…

UPDATE 12:45 PM: Adds comments from Cirque du Soleil theater chief Scott Zeiger and more, below. EARLIER: It’s more like a separation agreement than an all-out divorce, but Wednesday’s surprise management shakeup at London-based Ambassador Theatre Group is sending shockwaves through Broadway. Howard Panter and…

Rehearsals got underway Monday for Paramour, Cirque du Soleil Theatrical’s first show created specifically for Broadway. The global entertainment giant resolved an intriguing labor issue by negotiating separate deals with Actors Equity Association, which represents actors and stage managers, and the Americn Guild of…

Sir Howard Panter’s Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), which controls 40 venues in the UK and recently acquired Broadway’s second-biggest house, the Lyric (previously known as the Foxwoods and before that the Ford Center for the Performing Arts), has added Sydney, Australia’s 1,100-seat Theatre Royal to its growing…