EXCLUSIVE: And Then We Were No More, a new play by actor-author Tim Blake Nelson, will star Homeland‘s Elizabeth Marvel when it begins performances in September at Off Broadway’s La MaMa. Produced by La MaMa and Carol Ostrow of Stop the Wind Theatricals, the play will be directed by Mark…

Following his casting news as King Herod in the Hollywood Bowl’s upcoming Jesus Christ Superstar concert, Josh Gad has dropped out of the show after coming down with Covid. With opening night on Friday, the Tony-nominated actor announced his diagnosis with a statement Wednesday on Instagram…

New York City Center has announced additional casting for its annual gala presentation Bat Boy: The Musical, the cult hit last seen Off Broadway in 2001. Andrew Durand (Dead Outlaw), Alex Newell (Shucked) and Christopher Sieber (Death Becomes Her) will join Taylor Trensch (Floyd Collins) who was…

Kelli O’Hara, the Broadway actress who can currently be seen on HBO’s The Gilded Age, will join Tom Hanks in his Off Broadway play This World Of Tomorrow this fall. O’Hara is among the new cast announcements for the Hanks play, which begins performances October 30 in The Shed's Griffin Theater…

EXCLUSIVE: In a tribute shared exclusively with Deadline, musical theater impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh has remembered Tom Lehrer, the musical comedy legend, who has died at the age of 97. Lehrer died on July 26 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, leaving behind a legacy of satirical…

Not long after GOP Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.) introduced a bill to designate the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as the “Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts,” JFK’s niece (and the former First Lady of California) weighed in. “This is insane,” wrote Maria Shriver online.…

Maybe Happy Ending won Best Musical at the Tony Awards last month, and it’s getting a new lead actor after Labor Day. Andrew Barth Feldman will take over as Oliver starting September 2. Feldman — who played the title role for a year in another Tony-winning musical, Dear Evan Hansen — will assume…

Rosamund Pike gives a scorching central performance in the world premiere of Inter Alia at the National Theatre, playwright Suzie Miller’s follow-up to Prima Facie, which won Tony and Olivier Award glory for Jodie Comer. Now, there’s a race to lure the Saltburn star into the West End. Pike (Gone…

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth McGovern is fired up when she talks about sensuous silver screen goddess Ava Gardner, whom the Downton Abbey star portrays in a stage show that hits New York next week. Gardner, she argues, endured the "objectification of the female body, which is the basis of the entire movie…

Sunset Blvd. went out on a high note Sunday, packing the St. James Theatre and handily breaking a couple of that venue’s house records with a weekly gross of $2,481,018. With its final week performance, Sunset now holds the St. James’ record for highest grossing single performance ($514,515…

The hit Broadway play John Proctor is the Villain will extend for a third and final time by one week, with the new closing date now Sunday, September 7. The announcement was made today by producers Sue Wagner, John Johnson, John Mara Jr., Runyonland, and Eric Falkenstein. Kimberly Belflower’s…

Tom Troupe, a veteran actor who appeared on stage and screens silver and small, has died at the age of 97 of natural causes in his Beverly Hills home, according to his publicist, Harlan Boll, and multiple media reports. A prolific performer who appeared on Broadway and over 75 TV series, his…