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EXCLUSIVE: New York’s Drama League and filmmakers Jeff Kaufman and Marcia Ross have teamed up for a special video tribute to Terrence McNally. The playwright was set to receive the League’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Unique Contribution to Theater when he died last month due to complications from COVID-19. Watch…

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Zachary Quinto and Ari Graynor will present an April 6 livestream reading of the late Terrence McNally's acclaimed 1991 play Lips Together, Teeth Apart to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund. The livestream on Broadway.com and its…

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who officiated at a 2015 marriage reaffirmation ceremony between his longtime friend and college roommate Tom Kirdahy and playwright Terrence McNally, said at a City Hall briefing on the coronavirus today that the writer’s COVID-19 death proves “this crisis is not just numbers.” The…

Terrence McNally, the revered playwright behind such Broadway shows as Master Class and Frankie and Johnny at the Clair de Lune who also wrote the books for Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Full Monty and others, is being remembered by friends, colleagues and fans today. The four-time Tony winner, who last year received…

Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally has died of complications due to coronavirus. The author of Master Class, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Love! Valour! Compassion!, among many other major works, was a lung cancer survivor with chronic pulmonary disease, and died Tuesday at Sarasota Memorial Hospital…

Actress Rosemary Harris, playwright Terrence McNally and composer Harold Wheeler – Tony Award winners all – each will received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, the Tony administration company announced today. "We are thrilled to recognize Rosemary, Terrence and Harold with the Special Tony…

Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon will star in a Broadway revival this May of Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, producers announced today. The production will be directed by Obie Award winner Arin Arbus in her Broadway debut. The 16-week revival, described as a strictly limited engagement…

He was nicknamed “Chinchilla” for the slash of white in his otherwise jet black mane and he was an impresario as enamored of his artists as he was of the art. Sergei Diaghilev dragged ballet out of the too-too tutu 19th-Century world immortalized on the canvases of Edouard Manet and into the 20th-Century defined by…

It’s probably inevitable that Google Maps, or a clever facsimile of Google Maps, would someday star on Broadway. And here it is in Anastasia, a sprawling expansion on the 1997 animated film, that opened tonight following a developmental run at the Hartford Stage. Alexander Dodge’s set is monumental, with towering…

No Broadway theater goes unspoken for very long, especially in the frenzied run-up to the April Tony Awards eligibility deadline. As Deadline reported Monday, the Lyceum Theatre, a Shubert-owned jewel on West 45th Street, will be the home of The Visit, the last musical by the Cabaret and Chicago team of composer John…

EXCLUSIVE: Terrence McNally’s onstage, backstage, offstage comedy It’s Only A Play will begin performances September 28 on Broadway with about $8 million in the bank, producer Tom Kirdahy told Deadline today. Chalk up the strong advance for the $3.5 million show to one of the starriest marquees in memory, with someone…

Rupert Grint, best known as Ron Weasley — the one who, for better or worse, got to marry Hermione at the end of the 8-part Harry Potter film franchise, will make his Broadway debut this fall in a starry revival of Terrence McNally’s backstage comedy, It’s Only A Play. “I’m thrilled to be making my Broadway debut…