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The Shubert Foundation has awarded a record $37.6 million in unrestricted grants to not-for-profit theaters, dance companies, academic theater training programs, and related service agencies, and in addition has made two $1 million gifts to create endowed scholarships for theater students at Spelman College and Morehou…

The West End hit musical Back to the Future will, as widely expected, get a Broadway staging in 2023, producers confirmed in a tweet today. “Synchronize Your Watches — The Future’s coming to Broadway in 2023!!!,” the tweet, which includes a brief teaser clip, says. Production details, including casting and dates, were…

Rock band Weezer, fronted by singer-guitarist Rivers Cuomo, will stage a week-long residency on Broadway this fall, the band has announced. The band’s five-show SZNZ: In Residence on Broadway will kick off at the Broadway Theatre on Sept. 13, with Weezer expected to perform different tracks from its SZNZ EP album…

James Rado, who along with his friend and writing partner Gerome Ragni created Broadway’s seminal Age of Aquarius musical Hair, died peacefully Tuesday evening of cardio respiratory arrest in New York City, surrounded by family. He was 90. His death was announced by his longtime friend, publicist Merle Frimark. Hollywo…

MJ and A Strange Loop saw Tony Award glory translate into box office surges in the week after the June 12 ceremony, with MJ leaping by $216,921 over the previous week’s take to a huge $1,660,978. A Strange Loop grossed $845,313 for the week ending June 19, a jump of $168,998 over the previous week. Both shows were…

The Tony Award-winning revival of Company will play its final Broadway performance at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Sunday, July 31, producers said in a surprise announcement today. Producer Chris Harper said in a statement tonight, "It remains the honor of a lifetime to bring Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's…

A stage adaptation of The Pianist, based on the Władysław Szpilman memoir that was the source of the Oscar-nominated 2002 film, is being developed by director Emily Mann with an eye toward Broadway. An industry reading is set for New York City this month with Tony Award winner Santino Fontana (Tootsie) starring as…

Broadway will adopt a “mask optional” policy for audiences in July, the Broadway League announced today. Audience members will be encouraged, but not mandated, to wear masks in theaters. Charlotte St. Martin, President of The Broadway League said: "Millions of people enjoyed the unique magic of Broadway by watching the…

When Playwrights Kill, a new dark comedy by playwright Matthew Lombardo, will skip a planned engagement in Connecticut to “further develop the play this summer in New York City,” producers say. The comedy, which stars Jeremy Jordan, Harriet Harris and André De Shields, was to have played the Bushnell’s Belding Theatre…

Maureen Arthur, an actress best remembered for her performance as secretary Hedy La Rue in Broadway’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and its 1967 screen adaptation, died June 15 of natural causes in Beverly Hills. She was 88. Arthur’s friend, the actor Ilene Graff, announced the news on Facebook…

EXCLUSIVE: The pre-Broadway engagement of the Elton John-Shaina Taub musical The Devil Wears Prada is showing its fashion sense for the first time in Prada-appropriate stylized photos provided exclusively to Deadline. See the pictures below. The musical, which begins a limited five-week Chicago engagement on July 19…

UPDATE, with Beanie Feldstein statement: Funny Girl stars Beanie Feldstein and Jane Lynch will depart the productionl on September 25, producers announced today. In a tweet, the show addressed the return of Feldstein following a week off after testing positive from Covid, then announces the September…