Thursday, January 25, 2018
Casting is complete for director George C. Wolfe‘s Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh, starring current Oscar nominee Denzel Washington as Eugene O’Neill’s pipe-dream bu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:41PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Not one to rest on his laurels, Broadway composer/lyricist David Yazbek will follow his acclaimed The Band’s Visit – which is selling out on Broadway and is certain to earn sever…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:31PMMonday, January 22, 2018
Amy Sherman-Palladino couldn’t have been more tickled to host a panel titled “Women in Theatre: Resetting the Stage.” The creative force behind The Gilmore Girls and this s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:32PMGordon Edelstein, artistic director of Connecticut’s Tony Award-winning Long Wharf Theatre and a frequent director on New York stages, was put on administrative leave today. The reside…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:51PMWaitress turns two in April but the musical adaptation of Adrienne Shelly’s indie film is playing like the hot new kid on the block. Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, who made her Broa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:07PMThursday, January 18, 2018
One is the not-in-Kansas-anymore tale of a young woman who begins work as an aide in a Bronx public home for the aged. The other is about a wife slash mother slash aspiring screenwriter slas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:44PMTammy Blanchard (Tallulah, Into the Woods, Moneyball) has been cast in the upcoming Broadway revival of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, starring Denzel Washington and staged …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:42PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
With the three-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend as a spur, the Broadway box office defied the January trend, pole-vaulting 27% over the same week in 2017 and even surpassing the previo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:06PMMonday, January 15, 2018
Lanere Holmes Rollins, a Parking Production Assistant who has cleared New York’s streets for film and TV crews for more than two decades, waited more than three hours to claim Martin …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:13PMThursday, January 11, 2018
How well we know John Lithgow’s satisfying face, his agreeable body: The eyes narrowed quizzically above a smile slimmed by secrets (or is it menace?); the frame softly hulking, lackin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:30PMWednesday, January 10, 2018
Rory O’Malley, a Tony nominee for The Book of Mormon who’s now playing the crowd-pleasing comic role of King George III in the national tour of Hamilton, has signed with The Rose…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:45PMMonday, January 8, 2018
Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff’s publisher today called any attempt to interfere with publication of the incendiary tell-all “flagrantly unconstitutional.” Backed by hi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:34PMPredictable as white sales and BOGO promos, Broadway made a hard landing after the Christmas-to-New Year’s high-flying, record-breaking stand. The Boss dodged the winter drafts and too…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:44PMSunday, January 7, 2018
Reese Witherspoon brought the Golden Globes audience to its feet with her introduction of Cecil B. DeMille Award winner Oprah Winfrey. Maybe the crowd was looking for some release during a f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:41PMUPDATED with video: “Oprah!” Brown said, not the first to acknowledge her presence in the front row as he accepted his Globe. Brown made history as the first African American to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:52PMFriday, January 5, 2018
When Toronto’s celebrated theater company, Soulpepper, was preparing to spend a monthlong summer residency in New York, I warned artistic director Albert Schultz that he was playing ag…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:13PMThursday, January 4, 2018
The surprises at the annual New York Film Critics Circle dinner bash aren’t in the awards; they were announced last month. The appeal of this gathering – which in its raffishness…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:22AMTuesday, January 2, 2018
Broadway offered something for everyone last week, as long as everyone was loaded with dough. Face-value ducats topped out at $1,150 for blockbuster Hamilton, but that was Monopoly money con…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:36PMAuthor James Anthony Tyler has won the third annual Dramatists Guild of America’s Horton Foote Playwriting Award, which carries $25K purse underwritten by the Richenthal Foundation. Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:01PMThursday, December 28, 2017
In case there was any doubt about how the New York Times feels about Steven Spielberg’s The Post – not to mention the Washington Post – here’s a look at today’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:54AMWednesday, December 27, 2017
Even with Christmas falling on a Sunday and many Broadway shows going to a seven-performance week, non one’s complaining of coal in Times Square, as ticket sales added up to $35.8 mill…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:44PMTuesday, December 26, 2017
Pussy Sludge, Gracie Gardner’s play about a young woman who also is an oil well, has earned the writer $45,000 and extensive development opportunities, courtesy of the American Playwri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:44PMMonday, December 25, 2017
For years, Harvey Weinstein was seen as one of the country’s most prominent donors and fund-raisers for causes ranging from the Democratic Party to AmFAR, the American Foundation for …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:50PMSunday, December 24, 2017
If you’re looking for a Champagne date you and your Revolutionary honey can share in the coming week, how about $2,300 for a pair to Hamilton? The concert-slash-show, at the Richard …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:41PMChicago tech billionaire Michael Ferro, the largest shareholder of Tronc (owners of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and, most recently, the New York Daily News) has entered into an …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00PMFriday, December 22, 2017
In a repeat of its Broadway opening two years ago, Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton opened Thursday night at London’s newly restored Victoria Palace Theatre, sending critics into pa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:35AMThursday, December 21, 2017
Ari’el Stachel, whose plaintive rendering of “Haled’s Song About Love” is one of the only great numbers in The Band’s Visit that’s not sung by Katrina L…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:07PMWednesday, December 20, 2017
New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush, who was suspended last month in the wake of allegations that he had behaved inappropriately with female colleagues, will be allowed to return in late Ja…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:52PMTuesday, December 19, 2017
SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical will open on Broadway at the Nederlander Organization’s Lunt Fontanne Theatre on April 23, following previews slated to begin March 28. A developmental…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:05AMMonday, December 18, 2017
The Broadway box office took a slight dip last week, off by $900K or about 2.5 per cent from the week before, but there probably won’t be much complaining as Christmas and the New Year…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:10PMRemember that time Donald Trump was the blood-spurting bulls-eye of thrusting daggers and wounding imprecations in Central Park? It was only a few months ago, and, well it was in all the pap…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:05PM 
