Tony Awards: Last News

A new Thursday matinee seems to be paying off for the Neil Diamond Broadway bio-musical A Beautiful Noise: Last week the show grossed more than $1 million, a nine-month high attributable at least in part to an unusual new performance schedule.

Break out your scarves, kids, a version of the award-winning play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child may be coming to a school near you.

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Lloyd Webber and his The Really Useful Group have signed with CAA.

Sometimes you meet someone in this business and within minutes you immediately understand why they are so successful. Ben Winston, a producer, director and co-founder of the production entity Fulwell 73 is absolutely one of those people.

MTV Video Music Awards is shaping up to be one of the most exciting nights in television this fall.Taylor Swift leads the nominations this year, with noms in eight different categories. SZA, Sam Smith, Doja Cat, Miley Cyrus, Olivia Rodrigo and Nicki Minaj all received multiple MTV VMA nominations. While many awards shows recruit critics to determine winners, MTV puts the power in the public's hands to decide who is the best of the best for the year.

Angelina Jolie will be making her Broadway debut as a producer on the upcoming musical The Outsiders and she’s opening up about her involvement in the project.

Matthew Broderick is looking back at his career.

Lin-Manuel Miranda reportedly has set his sights on his next musical for the stage. The multiple Tony and Grammy award winner is adapting a stage musical version of The Warriors, based on Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel that was later turned into the 1979 action thriller film directed by Walter Hill, according to the New York Post‘s Johnny Oleksinski.

Monty Python’s Spamalot is heading back to Broadway this fall. The revival, which follows a sold-out run at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., begins previews Tuesday, October 31, at the St. James Theatre, with an official opening night of November 16.

CBS and Fox weighed in on their upfronts today, following NBC last week. CBS has closed its 2024 selling season up “low-to-mid single digits” in dollar commitments. Fox Corp. showed gains in news and is looking at a fall slate of sports, animated and unsripted content.

Deadline.Her daughter, director and actress Mary Stuart Masterson, confirmed the news on Instagram.“She was the most graceful clumsy person you would ever meet,” Glynn’s daughter wrote in a heartfelt post. “Strong, smart, silly, intuitive, kind, generous, passionate and a deep listener.”The post continued, “She was devoted to my father and to the enormous circle of students and collaborators who were considered her chosen family.”The Post reached out to Mary Stuart Masterson’s representatives for comment.

Veteran publicist Cari Ross, Senior Vice President of Communications at Gersh, has died, the agency announced Thursday. A cause of death was not immediately known.

Matthew Serino, who with business partner Nancy Coyne cofounded one of Broadway’s leading advertising and marketing agencies in Serino Coyne, died June 19. He was 79.

Hollywood is on Broadway — just not for much longer.The Tony-winning “The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window” starring “Star Wars'” Oscar Isaac and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s” Rachel Brosnahan has just a handful of shows remaining at the James Earl Jones Theatre before it closes on Sunday, July 2.And if you want to catch the pair of icons along with Tony winner Miriam Silverman and Robert DeNiro’s son Julian (!) live on stage in the revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s 1960s-based political drama, you can still grab last-minute tickets.In fact, seats are available for all remaining shows.At the time of publication, the lowest price we found was $84 before fees on Vivid Seats.Tickets for other shows begin at the $100 to $130 range.By our estimation, that’s not a bad price to catch stars from the “Spider-verse” and the upcoming “Superman” franchises IRL.

Angela Bassett may have gone home empty handed at the Oscars in March, but the two-time nominee will be getting a golden statuette this year after all – and in very good company too.

The production of It Ends With Us starring Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively has been paused due to the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike. The 35-year-old actress had begun filming the romance film It Ends With Us, based on the novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover, prior to the hiatus.

Charna Flam Sheldon Harnick, lyricist for “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Fiorello!,” and creative partner to composer Jerry Block, died on Friday morning at his home in Manhattan, The New York Times confirmed. He was 99. Harnick met Bock in the late 1950s, and in 1958 they collaborated on “The Body Beautiful,” a musical set within the world of prizefighting. But quickly thereafter in 1959, they collaborated on “Fiorello!,” a musical painting a portrait of the notorious New York City politician Fiorello La Guardia. “Fiorello!,” written by George Abbott and Jerome Weidman, followed the New York City mayor, who held office from 1934-1945, and drew in theatergoers for nearly 800 performances. The production won a Pulitizer Prize for drama and three Tony Awards, including the prize for Best Musical, which it shared with “The Sound of Music.”

ended, former co-stars Lea Michele and Darren Criss have reunited for another musical show,, which returns to Apple TV+ with all-new performances on Friday, June 23. Ahead of season 5's return, ET has an exclusive sneak peek at Michele and Criss' episode, in which they perform a duet. In the clip, the two sing «Don't Rain on My Parade,» the popular song from the 1964 musical first performed by Barbra Streisand and later famously performed by Michele's character, Rachel Berry, during season 1's sectionals competition.

“SIX The Musical,” running at the Lena Horne Theatre, is as hot as ever.The upbeat 80-minute musical follows the lives of Henry VII’s six wives and how they moved on — “divorced, beheaded, died…divorced, beheaded, survived.” Over the course of the production, the Queens compete to determine who will be the lead singer of their band — winner is whomever was treated the worst by the King. The music in “SIX” is pop with a feminist tinge; for our money, the show feels more like a concert than theater.Don’t lose your head — be smart and take advantage of the affordable, available ticket prices for “SIX” while you can.At the time of publication, we found tickets going for as low as $78 before fees on Vivid Seats—not a bad price to catch a Tony-winning show live.We’ve got everything you need to know and more about seeing “SIX” live on Broadway.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.Interestingly enough, “SIX” only runs five days a week.As of now, audiences can catch the show eight times a week, Wednesday through Sunday at Broadway’s Lena Horne Theatre — there are no Monday or Sunday performances.

And Just Like That… is back for this Thursday with the first two episodes, followed by a new installment every week. I’ve seen the first seven made available to press; without giving away too much, let’s just say you’re in for an emotional ride.

but not for much longer.“Fat Ham,” currently on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre, closes on Sunday, June 25.And it’s a show you won’t want to miss.The story, a modern re-telling of “Hamlet” at a cookout, has more than won over Broadway fans during its three-month run in Midtown.“I’m a huge Shakespeare nerd so I went in super excited about that but also went in knowing that Hamlet himself is one of my least favorite characters in the lexicon,” theater veteran Kelly Klotz told the NY Post. “This production and the actor playing the Hamlet role (Marcel Spears) completely changed my mind.