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When she was 23, Sonia Friedman was—to use her expression—thrown into a rehearsal room with Harold Pinter at London's National Theatre. She was his deputy stage manager during production for the premiere of his one-act play Mountain Language starring theatrical royalty Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins. "I was the…

The first show of the 2017-2018 Broadway season has sparked the first Tony head-scratcher of the season, seven months before the CBS telecast of the awards. On Thursday, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced its first rulings on eligibility for the prized awards and said that 1984, the adaptation of…

Seven lead members of the original West End company of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child are set to reprise on Broadway when preview performances begin at the Lyric Theatre next March. The official opening at the renovated theater is slated for April 22, 2018. Broadway bound are Jamie Parker (Harry Potter), Noma…

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…

UPDATE Friday morning with more information below. An acclaimed UK stage adaptation of 1984, George Orwell’s chilling 1949 novel about a war-ravaged world ruled by Big Brother and the unwitting rebel Winston Smith, will follow the limited run this spring of Sunday In The Park With George at Broadway’s newest house…

After a preview period of nearly two months, London's new two-part stage extravaganza, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, finally took its opening gala bow today at the Palace Theatre, announcing the start of a run that will soon book through December 2017 and seems certain to extend even further. Since Deadline…

You haven’t been able to score a pair for love or money (well, maybe money) since tickets to Benedict Cumberbatch’s three-month run as the Melancholy Prince went on sale last year. But the Sonia Friedman production at London’s Barbican Theatre drew more than 225,000 viewers to theaters around the world on Thursday for…

J.K. Rowling announced today that Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, a spin-off play about the boy wizard, will open in London’s West End in summer 2016. The play, which is described as filling in the untold story of Potter including what happened to his parents, is written by much in-demand Brit scribe Jack Thorne (Th…

The Oscar-nominated Imitation Game star (and newylwed following a formal wedding recently on the Isle Of Wight) will play the Melancholy Dane in a long-since sold-out production this summer at London’s Barbican Centre. The director is Lyndsey Turner, best known stateside for last year’s knockout Broadway revival of…

Sonia Friedman, the producer who brought Jez Butterworth’s oddball one-acter to Broadway’s intimate Circle In The Square Theater with arena-size star Hugh Jackman, announced today that the $3.2 million drama has recouped the costs of producing it. That means the rest of the run, which began on Halloween and ends…