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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Broadway’s Shubert Organization with four safety violations in the accidental falling death of a stagehand at the Winter Garden Theater last November. The violations in the death of stagehand Peter Wright, 54, are categorized by OSHA as “serious,” though not…

Philip J. Smith, who as the longtime chairman of Broadway’s Shubert Organization was one of the most influential and powerful forces in American theater, died today in New York City of complications of Covid-19. He was 89. Smith’s death was confirmed by daughters Linda Phillips and Jennifer Stein. Smith retired from…

Dr. Pamela Newkirk, a journalist, scholar and author of Diversity Inc.: The Failed Promise of Billion-Dollar Business, has been appointed to the Shubert Organization’s board of director. Newkirk also will sit on the board of the theater owner and producer’s The Shubert Foundation. The appointment is effective…

Philip J. Smith, Chairman and Co-CEO of The Shubert Organization, has announced his retirement, effective June 30, after 63 years with Broadway’s largest theater owner and producer. A major force on the theatrical landscape for decades, Smith will also resign his duties as Chairman of The Shubert Foundation, the…

With Broadway’s COVID-19 shutdown expected to last until early summer, if not longer, the Shubert Organization, the industry’s largest theater owner and a major producer, has furloughed staff members throughout various departments, Deadline can confirm. The furloughs include staffers in administrative, sales and…

Broadway’s theater owners say the Times Square panic and its spillover into some theaters last night was handled by those venues in accordance with security procedures developed by the Broadway community and the New York Police Department, but at least some shaken audience members of To Kill a Mockingbird took to…

A new musical version of classic Billy Wilder comedy Some Like It Hot is coming to Broadway in 2020, with a score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, who won a Tony for their work on Hairspray. The show is from the Shubert Organization and producers Craig Zadan & Neil Meron, who acquired the rights to the 1959 film…

CAA has taken a stake in the Entertainment Benefits Group, which the agency describes as “one of the largest privately held travel and entertainment providers in the U.S.” EBG offers more than 40,000 corporate clients and their more than 50M employees access to private, exclusive deals and special offers. EBG's…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline theater critic Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres president Jordan Roth discuss the hottest topics on the Rialto, the only precondition being: No holds barred. JEREMY GERARD: It was inevitable that the recent spate of allegations about sexual harassment, abuse and violence would cross the…

Jersey Boys, an 11-year blockbuster on Broadway, 2014 Clint Eastwood-helmed film and global stage hit, is returning to New York this fall. The show, which ran for more than 4,600 performances at Jujamcyn Theatres’ August Wilson Theatre, closed in January. Lead producers Dodger Theatricals is bringing the show back to…

UPDATE, 12:01 PM (EXCLUSIVE): The Humans, Stephen Karam’s Tony-winning drama, will end its run at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on January 15. But a person familiar with the management of the show told Deadline that its future has yet to be determined. Translation: The closing at the Schoenfeld might mark just another…

They paved paradise and put up a Hard Rock Hotel. A block of West 48th Street in Manhattan once known as Mecca for musicians of every stripe but especially rockers, will soon be home to New York’s first Hard Rock Hotel. The stretch between Sixth Avenue and Broadway was for decades known as Music Row, anchored by Manny…