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Though the coronavirus pandemic has kept Broadway shuttered for the better part of the 2019-2020 season, the Tony Awards show must go on — virtually — and with far fewer productions qualifying for consideration. Only 18 shows and plays qualified for this year’s award show, a significant drop from last year’s 34 eligible productions, and …
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Amy Adams has joined the cast of Universal Pictures’ “Dear Evan Hansen” and will portray Cynthia Murphy, mother of the characters Connor and Zoe Murphy. “Dear Evan Hansen,” a Tony-winning musical, opened on Broadway in 2016. The story follows a high schooler with social anxiety who gets caught up in a lie after Connor Murphy’s family …
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A tribute concert celebrating the life of actor Nick Cordero will be exclusively streamed on Labor Day weekend via Broadway on Demand. The webcast takes place Sunday, Sept. 6, at 7 p.m. ET/4 PT. The tribute will celebrate Cordero’s life and career featuring appearances from his former castmates. Cast members from his best-known shows — …
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NBC is planning to launch a splashy primetime Broadway special in October, Page Six has exclusively learned, in which casts from top Broadway shows will perform. The network has reached out to all Broadway shows, we hear, to participate in the special so far. But theater insiders tell us there’s now backstage drama at some …
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Broadway is buzzing over a $6.3 million lawsuit filed by top theater ad agency SpotCo against top producer Scott Rudin. SpotCo alleges Rudin hasn’t paid his bills. Sources told us Rudin’s now prepping a countersuit as soon as this week. An insider huffed, “These are typical grievances between a producer and a vendor,” and added …
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Brent Carver, the Broadway actor who won a Tony Award for his leading turn in “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” died this week, his family said in a statement Thursday. He was 68. “Our family is sharing news of Brent Carver’s passing on Aug. 4 at home in Cranbrook, BC, his birthplace and favorite place …
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Actress Royana Black has passed away after a battle with leukemia, her family announced. She was 47 years old. The sister of Black’s husband, John Hubbell, shared on a GoFundMe page that Black died “very suddenly” of acute myeloid leukemia on July 14. “Royana’s incredible energy and spirit will be a part of our lives …
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Live theater seems an eternity away in New York, where Broadway shows are on hiatus until at least Jan. 3. But in London, an in-person performance at a major theater was held this past week. Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer of “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Cats,” hosted a trial run Thursday of a …
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Lisa Kudrow could come to Broadway — as her character on HBO’s “The Comeback,” Valerie Cherish. Sources told Page Six that Kudrow is being wooed to the stage by various shows after she said in a recent interview that if cult hit “The Comeback” came back for a third season, she envisioned Val — a …
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Thanks to a previously unreleased recording, the late actor Nick Cordero will get to take his final bow. “Live Your Life,” a live album of Cordero’s 2019 cabaret show at New York’s Feinstein’s/54 Below, will drop Sept. 17, the actor’s birthday, his wife, Amanda Kloots, announced Wednesday. “Nick would be absolutely thrilled to hear this …
Though the coronavirus pandemic has kept Broadway shuttered for the better part of the 2019-2020 season, the Tony Awards show must go on — virtually — and with far fewer productions qualifying for consideration. Only 18 shows and plays qualified for this year’s award show, a significant drop from last year’s 34 eligible productions, and …
