Thursday, January 7, 2016
Anderson Cooper sat opposite the President in an auditorium at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA filled with people who, Cooper promised, represented every side of the gun control deb…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:13PMJane Fonda, enjoying a resurgence on TV (Grace And Frankie, The Newsroom) and the big screen (Youth, This Is Where I Leave You) will host "A Night of Comedy with Jane Fonda" at Carolines on …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PMPaige Evans, a key force in drawing attention to new plays and writers in New York, has been named artistic director of the Signature Theatre. She will take over the reins of one of the cit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:59PMWarner Bros. Theatre Ventures, the film studio’s live stage play division, has commissioned Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis (Between Riverside And Crazy, The Mot…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:08PMWednesday, January 6, 2016
January always brings bad news for Broadway’s faltering shows, as the tourist crowds recede and ticket sales plummet from their holiday highs. Allegiance, which recounted the experienc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:27PMElizabeth Swados, whose transcendent pan-cultural musical Runaways inspired generations of theater artists well beyond its 1978 Broadway run, died Tuesday in Manhattan. She was 64 and had re…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:23AMTuesday, January 5, 2016
Rehearsals got underway today for Paramour, Cirque du Soleil Theatrical’s first show created specifically for Broadway. The global entertainment giant resolved an intriguing labor issu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:09PMNetflix, Inc. and DreamWorks Animation will expand their partnership to include new series and more family-targeted entertainment, the companies announced Tuesday, “making Netflix th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:03AMAccepting his Best Director nod for Carol from the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday night, Todd Haynes recalled arriving as a boy in New York from Los Angeles in 1970. “This aw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:35AMMonday, January 4, 2016
As Broadway holiday-show schedules last week boosted from the usual eight performances to nine (or, in the case of The Illusionists, 13), the news of the week was a sky-high tally in both do…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:52PMAmerican Cinema Editors, representing 800-plus members working across film and television, today revealed nominations for the 66th Eddie Awards, recognizing outstanding editing in 10 categ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:40AMSunday, January 3, 2016
For the first performance of the New Year, “Ham4Ham” — the free show for lottery hopefuls outside Hamilton at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre that’s become…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:38AMMonday, December 28, 2015
It’s not as if Santa brought a big bag o’ coal to Times Square last week: Total box office gained a healthy 23 percent from the week before, and attendance perked up by 8 perce…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:41PMEXCLUSIVE: There was a time when reality TV and mock-docs like This Is Spinal Tap and Best In Show not only amused us but made us consider the fuzzy line between truth and fiction onscreen…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:22PMFriday, December 25, 2015
Names drive the news, especially in stories where media and entertainment cross wires, throwing off sparks and sometimes even blowing fuses. These are my candidates for the top names driving…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:01PMAs promised on Wednesday, a new trailer for Deadpool was released into the world this morning. Two trailers, in fact — one that Fox dubbed “naughty” and the other, seen …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:19AMThursday, December 24, 2015
Ayad Akhtar, McKinley Belcher, Ray Fisher, Greta Gerwig, Jake Gyllenhaal, Katori Hall, Peter Sarsgaard and John Turturro have signed on for "One Night 100 Years," honoring playwright Arthur …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:38PMWednesday, December 23, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: Five years ago around this time, director John Crowley was in rehearsal on Broadway for the world premiere of Martin McDonagh’s play A Behanding In Spokane. A bizarre (and …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PMTuesday, December 22, 2015
It’s not Star Wars or The Book Of Mormon, but it’s a start: The December 10 performance of off-off-Broadway’s musical two-hander Daddy Long Legs was performed before an aud…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:21PMThe week before Christmas brought less-than-cheery tidings to Broadway. Not only was the overall tally of $29.48 million down 1 percent from the previous week, but a season-on-season comp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:22AMSunday, December 20, 2015
Bartlett Sher’s shows tend to announce themselves with a visual bang, an effect that delights the eye and lassoes us into the story: The levitating orchestra floating away to reveal t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMFriday, December 18, 2015
For better or worse, 2015 has been the year of Hamilton … and everything else (so what’s not to like about that?). Yet it’s been a remarkable time — for immigran…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:35AMThursday, December 17, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a Christmas present for Tyrone the puppet and the rest of the Hand To God gang: U.S. District Court Judge George B. Daniels today ruled that the use of a section from…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:39PMAs the man warbled: “How I got here, I haven’t a clue.” Me neither, though a couple trillion in record sales and related tchotchkes plus a global brand in place surely have…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:58AMWednesday, December 16, 2015
Among the things the Beatles share with William Shakespeare is this: Bend, twist and reshape them as you will, they’re impervious to humiliation. Set Billy Big Boy in the Wild West or…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:07PMUPDATE, 1 PM, with more information throughout.
Broadway has its first new house since the opening of the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in 1998. Co-chief executive officers Howard Panter and Ros…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:01PMLove is a drug-induced psychotic state, right? But what if the drug isn’t pheromone-and-dopamine based but a product of Big Pharma? That’s the question explored in Lucy Prebble&#…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:04PMValidation by the National Film Registry, possibly better than the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, was bestowed upon that trio of hose-wielding, ectoplasm-extinguishing urban cowboys …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:52AMTuesday, December 15, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: Not satisfied with the $500 million tally for 10,000 productions around the world (a number that undoubtedly includes the one in your nephew’s back yard six summers ago), th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:37PMSan Antonio-born comedian Carol Burnett — actress, author and spirit guide to several generations of self-deprecating, rubber-limbed, humanely hilarious thesps — will be the Aust…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:59AMMonday, December 14, 2015
Two new musicals with a good beat you can dance to showed gains on Broadway last week as the overall box held steady moving into the Christmas-New Year’s influx of legal, credit-card …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:45PM 
