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Broadway box office was down 15% last week, with even some of the biggest hit shows reporting slips for the week ending May 1. In all, the 36 shows grossed $29,072,410. Likely reflecting a slimming down of spring break and Easter tourist business, attendance was off by 10% last week from the previous week, coming

Ariana DeBose will host this year’s Tony Awards, organizers announced today. DeBose, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar this year for her performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and was Tony-nominated in 2018 for Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, will host the Tonys live from New York’s Radio City Music Hall

EXCLUSIVE: Broadway playwright and American Rust TV writer Adam Rapp has signed with CAA in all areas. Rapp, whose many plays have been staged at regional and Off Broadway venues, made his Broadway debut in 2019 with The Sound Inside starring Mary-Louise Parker. The drama was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play, and

The Old Vic’s production of Amy Herzog’s play 4000 Miles, which was to have featured the West End debut of Timothée Chalamet in a co-starring role opposite Dame Eileen Atkins, has been canceled, the theater company announced today, citing a two-year pandemic-caused delay. In a statement to ticket-holders, theater management wrote: Following its postponement due

EXCLUSIVE: The Game Awards and Summer Game Fest producer Geoff Keighley has partnered up with Imax to level up the two annual gaming events. On Thursday, Imax announced that it will air the two buzzy gaming occasions live across its theaters in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. “We are thrilled to be

The red bucket brigades so long-familiar to Broadway spring audiences were back this year after a two-year pandemic absence, and the results were heartening: donations across Broadway, Off Broadway and touring productions to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS totaled $4,288,994. One musical in particular outdid itself: The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, raised

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Morgan, creator of award-winning The Crown, has shifted focus from royals to zoom in on Russian oligarchs as the topic of his new stage play Patriots. It has been fast-tracked to have its world premiere at London’s Almeida Theatre in July with Tom Hollander (The Night Manager) cast to portray Boris Berezovsky, a

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the last time before Monday’s nomination announcements, making some final eligibility determinations for shows including the stars of American Buffalo, Hangmen and How I Learned To Drive, among others. Among the rulings: American Buffalo actor Darren Criss will be considered eligible as a featured player in a play,

An organization representing Asian American performers, a labor union for scenic designers and a popular Manhattan nightclub-cabaret are among this year’s special Tony Award honorees announced today in advance of Monday’s awards nominations. Also among the honorees: Emily Grishman, a music copyist who provides written instrumental parts and full scores for Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional