Monday, December 18, 2017
Remember 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 03:05PMSunday, December 17, 2017
Nothing says “Christmas Spirit” these days like the sight of a beaming, bespectacled tow-headed 9-year-old pointing his new rifle into the cold dark of night and pulling the trig…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:46PMBefore Bridge of Spies, The BFG and Wolf Hall made him familiar to millions, Oscar winner Mark Rylance was known to theatergoers as an actor who wore the heavy mantle of The Best with consid…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:57PMFriday, December 15, 2017
Blair Brown plays a D.C. doyenne of the right and designated head of the Fed in Beau Willimon’s Broadway play The Parisian Woman. This makes her the foil for Uma Thurman’s ambiti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00PMThursday, December 14, 2017
Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, the 37-year-old son of New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., will take over his father’s position on January 1, the paper announced this morning…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:30PMAdam Driver, back on the big screen this weekend with Star Wars: The Last Jedi, will lead a Broadway revival next season of the late Lanford Wilson’s ferocious drama Burn This, produce…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:33AMWednesday, December 13, 2017
Chrissy Metz, a key ensemble player in NBC’s popular series This Is Us, will make her stage debut this spring in a Geffen Playhouse revival of Neil LaBute’s disturbing 2004 drama…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:03PMUniversal’s legit arm, Universal Theatrical Group, is partnering with Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked, Glee) to develop a Broadway musical based on Death Becomes Her, the 1992 Robert Zemecki…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:11PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Goop entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow will join producers Rick Ferrari, Donovan Leitch, Christine Russell, Louise Gund, Hunter Arnold and Tom Kirdahy in presenting Head Over Heels, a new musical…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:59PMIf Tina Fey can do it, why not her 30 Rock co-star Alec Baldwin? And if their SNL commander-in-chief can honcho her Broadway show, why not his as well?
Those were the questions raised Monday…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:31AMMonday, December 11, 2017
Sweetening an already upbeat week on Broadway, Mark Rylance returned, in Farinelli and the King at the Shubert Organization’s Belasco Theatre, where the Claire van Kampen play brought …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:04PMSamantha Holvey, a Miss America contender in 2006; Jessica Leeds, who says Donald Trump groped her on a plane in the 1970s; and Rachel Crooks, a Trump Tower receptionist who said he kissed h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:51AMFriday, December 8, 2017
Ariane Mnouchkine has spectacle, and exile, in her DNA. Her father, the Russian-born French film magnate Alexandre Mnouchkine, produced Jean Cocteau’s Les parents terribles, Philippe d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:39PMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Two of New York public radio’s best-known and most senior on-air stars, Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz, were suspended today in the wake of assertions by staff members and guests…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:09PMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Patrick Herold, the bespectacled, besneakered veteran head of ICM Partners’ theater division, is getting some help in running the joint. Di Glazer has been promoted to Co-Head of Theat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:31AMMonths of stand-off between Broadway’s casting directors and the Broadway League finally seem headed to court.
The casting directors are demanding recognition as a bargaining unit for …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:39AMMonday, December 4, 2017
The last 40 minutes or so of Spongebob Squarepants is such mind-rattling, eye-popping, rib-tickling fun that maybe I should just stop right there. Not that this ramshackle contraption draw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:49PMTaylor Mac will perform A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (Abridged) as a fundraiser for the 2018 Montclair Film Festival. The original show, which is 24 hours long and traverses 240 yea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:17PMMultiple shows running simultaneously on Broadway might be par for the course for the likes of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, producer Scott Rudin and playwright Neil Simon, but it’s …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:57PMThe Metropolitan Opera has suspended its peerless former music director, James Levine, in the wake of on-the-record allegations of sexual misconduct reported in The New York Times. The suspe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:22PMRetired New York Yankees right fielder and self-proclaimed “straw that stirs the drink” Reggie Jackson has joined the cast of the Damn Yankees Benefit Concert Reading slated f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:07PMArmie Hammer, enjoying plaudits for his starring role in Oscar-buzzy Call Me By Your Name, will make his Broadway debut in June, starring with Tom Skerritt (Picket Fences) in Young Jean Lee'…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:23AMSunday, December 3, 2017
A joyful noise thunders through Circle in the Square theater, as Broadway welcomes a smashing revival of Once On This Island. Michael Arden’s exuberant staging of this 1990 musical fa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PMThursday, November 30, 2017
Beau Willimon has written the story of a D.C. couple whose power grab pitches them against unexpected roadblocks along the Via Dolorosa that is the Beltway, before reaching their destination…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMNine women have provided explicit, on-the-record accounts of being molested or assaulted by Israel Horovitz, a screenwriter whose credits include My Old Lady, Author! Author! and Sunshine, a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:37PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
I could tell you that Amy Schumer is sensational in Meteor Shower and let the box office do the rest, but that would be a disservice to Steve Martin, whose comedy it is, and to the three act…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PMChess, a storied musical from Tim Rice and ABBA that was a London hit and Broadway flop in 1988, is getting another chance on the boards. In February, the Kennedy Center will present a revis…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:31PMTuesday, November 28, 2017
Tepid reviews and an indifferent box office have claimed the Broadway revival of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, starring Clive Owen. The production, the first revival of the 1988 Tony win…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:59PMThree timely plays given superb productions offer stark contrasts to the Broadway blockbusters you probably can’t get into anyway, as well as some of the best performances on view anyw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:56PMMonday, November 27, 2017
The lion roared, the witches flew, the school rocked and even the aging Opera Ghost deserved a Champagne toast. Broadway is more generous than Washington on Thanksgiving: Here, all the turke…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:40PMSpringsteen On Broadway, a massive hit that originally planned to stop rocking after the holidays, has been extended through June 30, the producers announced this afternoon.
The intimate, m…
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