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EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes, the Oscar and Tony award-winning director, has chosen three London theater stars — Michael Balogun (National Theatre Live: Death of England-Delroy), Hadley Fraser (Donmar Theatre's Coriolanus), and Nigel Lindsay (Chichester Festival Theatre's Woman In Mind) — to bring his…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (1917) has linked up with acclaimed His Dark Materials writer Jack Thorne on a new project for the stage that will explore how legendary acting figures Richard Burton and John Gielgud put Hamlet on Broadway in 1964, with a little help from Elizabeth Taylor. The result of…

EXCLUSIVE: Giles Terera (Death of England: Face to Face), winner of an Olivier Award for his portrayal of Aaron Burr in the London transfer of Broadway hit Hamilton, will star in a history-making production of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, with Rosy McEwen, who won acclaim in the second season of The Alienist, as…

EXCLUSIVE: Two shows are being lined up to replace Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella musical which closes after a disappointing, short-lived run in London's West End. News of Cinderella's closure became a contentious affair, causing members of the actors union Equity to picket outside the Gillian Lynne Theatre. Cast…

Amazon has partnered with the National Theatre to stream four of its highest-profile recorded stage shows in the UK and Ireland. Launching on June 11, the shows will include Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, which she performed at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End, and Danny Boyle’s staging of Frankenstein, starring…

The National Theatre, the UK stage company, has launched a dedicated streaming service following the success of its filmed productions on YouTube during lockdown. Bespoke platform National Theatre at Home will be available worldwide and launches with productions including Phèdre with Helen Mirren, Othello with Adrian…

EXCLUSIVE: After acclaimed and sold-out runs in London and New York, current-events-based play The Jungle will have its West Coast premiere at the storied Curran Theater in San Francisco this spring. Carole Shorenstein Hays and Sonia Friedman Productions with Tom Kirdahy made the announcement. The Jungle was written…

David Schwimmer is exec producing a television adaptation of British stage play Love for the BBC. The Friends star is one of the team behind the feature-length film, which is being produced by McMafia producer Cuba Pictures. Love, written and directed by National Theatre Artist in Residence Alexander Zeldin, tells the…

Broadway just got a step closer to summoning Beetlejuice: The stage musical adaptation of Tim Burton’s ’80s classic will make its world premiere next October in a pre-Broadway run at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. Directed by two-time Tony nominee (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Peter and the Starcatcher)…

UPDATE Wednesday: Broadway and London’s West End theaters and related venues will dim their lights Friday evening in honor of Sir Peter Hall, who died Monday. Broadway will darken for one minute, beginning at 7:45 PM local time. In London, the lights will go down for a minute beginning 7 PM, also local time. "Peter…

Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: I have two things on my mind for our discussion this week, Jordan. First: In the last up, first to go category, was Nerds, a long-aborning…

The Tony Award-winning production of the National Theatre's The Curious Incident Of The Dog Tn The Night-Time will close September 4. The production opened October 5, 2014 and will have played 800 performances at the Shubert Organization’s Barrymore Theatre. The longest-running play on Broadway in more than a decade…