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EXCLUSIVE: Kinky Boots is coming back to the United States… via streaming service BroadwayHD. The West End production of the musical, which is from Cyndi Lauper and playwright Harvey Fierstein, is to launch on the digital platform on July 15. It comes after the Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award-winning musical ended its…

These boots were made for Broadway, and that’s just where they’ll be — until the spring. Producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig said today that Kinky Boots, which won six Tony Awards including Best Musical in 2013, will close on April 7. When the final curtain falls, it will have played 2,507 regular performances and 34…

Emmy winner Wayne Brady will return to his glittery boots as fabulous drag queen Lola in the Tony-winning Broadway musical Kinky Boots on Monday, March 5. Brady will reprise his role in a limited run only, with his final performance on Friday, April 26. Brady will be taking over for J. Harrison Ghee, who will be…

Any doubt that feel-good Canadian import Come From Away would triumph over its modest Tony Awards showing (seven nominations; one win, for Christopher Ashley’s staging) can be put to rest. It had a rock-solid summer, with above-capacity attendance at the Shubert Organization’s Schoenfeld Theatre and no fire-sale…

A steady mid-summer on Broadway overall reflects a decent, tourist-driven mean but not the roller-coaster ride some shows are on, especially those that are star-driven. Kinky Boots, in its fifth year at Jujamcyn Theatres’ Hirschfeld, has enjoyed a big shot in the arm from Brendon Urie on the marquee; the show was up…

Lin-Manuel Miranda just can’t stop winning awards. The current London production of In the Heights — the Broadway show he conceived, wrote, scored and starred in before doing the same for current musico-historico blockbuster Hamilton — won the Olivier Award Sunday for best score. In the Heights choreographer Drew…

Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk via email each week about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: Jeremy Corbyn has had a very rough few days as newly elected head of the Labor Party — some of which eerily echoes fellow…

Darth Vader wears a size 16 shoe, which is murder on the cobbler when you add to the mix red patent leather by the yard, three-inch spike heels and some bling. Kinky boots, indeed. Ticket buyers leave Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre feeling they got their money's worth after the musical's 20-minute balls-to-the-wall…

EXCLUSIVE: Masters Of Sex standout Annaleigh Ashford, who did an arc on the Showtime drama’s first season, is being promoted to regular for Season 2. As a result, Ashford will depart her Tony-nominated role in the hit Broadway musical Kinky Boots sometime in March. On Masters Of Sex, about the pioneers of the science…

The 67th Tony Awards were unveiled tonight at Radio City Music Hall, where Neil Patrick Harris served as host for the fourth time. Among the night’s honorees, Cicely Tyson nabbed her first Tony win and Cyndi Lauper became the first woman to win the Tony for Best Score for the film-to-Broadway Best Musical Kinky Boots…

Kinky Boots and Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike are among the big winners of the 79th Annual Drama League Awards announced today in New York City. Kinky Boots took Distinguished Production of a Musical and Vania And Sonia And Masha And Spike was named Distinguished Production of a Play. Other winners include Pippin…