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UPDATED with response to statement: Broadway’s West Side Story is coming to the defense of cast member Amar Ramasar, who has been at the center of continued protests outside the theater over a sexually explicit photo the actor had shared of his girlfriend in 2018 when both were members of New York City Ballet…

A group of protesters outside Broadway’s West Side Story Friday night continued to call for the dismissal of a cast member who in 2018 shared a sexually explicit photo of his girlfriend when both were members of New York City Ballet. The protest was carried out even after the woman depicted in the photo disavowed the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Legend Of Buster Scruggs and Harry Potter actor Harry Melling is the latest to join the cast of Joel Coen’s update of Shakespeare classic Macbeth. We hear production is due to get underway in mid-February. Melling will take on the role of Malcolm, a son of former Scottish king Duncan, and a threat to…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Scott Rudin is postponing the Feb. 6 Broadway opening of director Ivo van Hove’s much-anticipated West Side Story by two weeks after an onstage knee injury Friday left leading man Isaac Powell limping toward the end of the show. "We're postponing two weeks – from February 6 to February 20 – to give…

Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill A Mockingbird, one of Broadway’s major critical successes of recent seasons and the most commercially successful American play in Broadway history, will open a London production next spring, produced announced today. Reprising his Broadway duty, Bartlett Sher will direct the staging at London’s…

Seven-time Tony Award winning producers Sue Wagner and John Johnson announced today the formation of Wagner Johnson Productions, a new venture that will see the longtime collaborators produce and general manage an array of theatrical productions including their current slate of the Almost Famous musical and the full…

Director Sam Mendes’ hit London staging of The Lehman Trilogy is heading to Broadway, with previews beginning Saturday, March 7, 2020 at the Nederlander Theatre. Opening night is Thursday, March 26, 2020. The widely expected engagement of the acclaimed production was announced today by producers The National Theatre…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Rudin is developing a U.S. adaptation of British comedy Mum with UK producer Big Talk Productions. August: Osage County and Killer Joe writer Tracy Letts is writing the remake. Deadline understands that The Social Network and Moneyball producer won a bidding war for the rights to the Lesley…

Casting for director Ivo van Hove’s upcoming Broadway revival of West Side Story was announced today by producers Scott Rudin, Barry Diller and David Geffen, with what they’re calling an unprecedented 23 actors making their Broadway debuts. The production, with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s all-new choreography in…

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest, but this is legit: Glenda Jackson’s King Lear will end its Broadway run on June 9. It originally was pegged to run through July 7. Producer Scott Rudin announced the pending final curtain today. Two-time Oscar winner Jackson starred as Shakespeare’s famous king of England who…

Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird has become the highest-grossing American play in Broadway history, with the record-breaking number – $40,113,926.13, to be exact – reached this week. Mockingbird, directed by Bartlett Sher and starring Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch, takes the top spot…

EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird is continuing to make waves on Broadway. Producer Scott Rudin announced today that the play based on Harper Lee's classic novel and directed by Bartlett Sher has broken its own one-week box office record for the fourth time. It has now reached a…