Thursday, October 26, 2017
Physically and cerebrally Clive Owen has the chameleonic qualities that define a certain kind of star charisma: He’s handsome but not pretty; suave in a way that practically advertises…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMIAC chief and Gotham philanthropist Barry Diller knows things that float will rise to the surface. Six weeks ago, Diller startled New York officials by pulling the plug on Pier 55, his futur…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:12AMWednesday, October 25, 2017
Is it odd that someone as prodigiously talented as Zoe Kazan has a thing for avatars of human consciousness? In 2012’s Ruby Sparks, the film she also wrote, she played a blocked noveli…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:29PMAttorney Gloria Allred today introduced a fourth actress she is representing in the unfolding saga of women who assert that they were assaulted or otherwise sexually abused by Harvey Weinste…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:57PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
What can I say about a terrible play that made me laugh? That it’s a waste of talent and hardly worthy of Jason Alexander’s return to the stage for the first time since he replac…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PMIt took 16 months of arm-twisting, glad-handing, elbow-jabbing, butt-bussing bicoastal diplomacy and numbers-crunching, but January’s 60th annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast by CB…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AMMonday, October 23, 2017
Keep an eye on The Band’s Visit. The intimate one-act musical, previewing at the Barrymore Theatre following a sold-out, rave-inducing run last season at the nonprofit Atlantic Theatre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:48PMFriday, October 20, 2017
Scarlett Johansson and cast mates from the Avengers franchise will perform a benefit reading of Thornton Wilder's Our Town on November 6 at Atlanta's Fox Theatre. So far, Robert Downey Jr., …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:20AMThursday, October 19, 2017
Shorter by a big word and a long act, Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy is back, trim, glittering and rechristened, simply, Torch Song. Michael Urie (Buyer & Cellar, Ugly Betty…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PMDirector Julie Taymor, credited with some of the most storied stage productions of our time, will receive the 2018 “Mr. Abbott” Award. The prize, which is the top laurel from the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:59AMBroadwayHD, a streaming service that offers live and live-to-video stage productions from Broadway and beyond, announced today that it’s partnering with two global streaming services, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:59AMWednesday, October 18, 2017
Rob Reiner’s film LBJ, with Woody Harrelson in the title role, was unveiled at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, but will be in theaters November 3. Those dates provide vie…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:20PMMonday, October 16, 2017
Anthony Edwards (ER, Top Gun) will make his Broadway debut alongside Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff in next spring’s revival of Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God. Edwards wil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:12PMThe Broadway transfer of The Band’s Visit – which topped many critics’ Best Of lists last season in its off-Broadway premiere at the Atlantic Theatre Company – play…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:40PMJack Skirball was a Reform Jewish rabbi from Cleveland who moved to Los Angeles, where he became a real estate developer and film producer best known for his relationship with Alfred Hitchco…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:58PMFriday, October 13, 2017
War Paint, the musical starring Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole as cosmetics queens Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, will close after the November 5 performance, seven weeks earlie…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:12AMThursday, October 12, 2017
You might think Bruce Springsteen doesn’t belong on Broadway, but you would be wrong. “I miss the beauty of the blank page,” he says at one point, echoing Stephen Sondhei…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:30PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
Two rarities converge with the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Time and the Conways. The J.B. Priestley drama has not been seen in these precincts since its 1938 U.S. premiere …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMIt didn’t take long for one Jersey boy to take Broadway by storm, filling the void left when Jersey Boys shuttered in January after 12 socko years. Bruce Springsteen began previews of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:04PMBroadway, where Harvey Weinstein has worked for several years to establish himself as a major player, has begun responding to reports, last week in The New York Times and, today, in The New …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:38PMSunday, October 8, 2017
Jessica Lange, with Hannah Shepard and Samuel Walker Shepard – the children, now grown, that she had with Sam Shepard – entered the Ellen Stewart Theatre quietly as an audience o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:41AMFriday, October 6, 2017
With videos and web links, Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón and Hamilton mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda have put their considerable financial and creative muscle behind disaster relief effort…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:30PMA deal is all but done to combine the country’s third and fourth largest wireless networks, leaving T-Mobile U.S. Inc. chief executive John Legere in the catbird seat: He would control…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:54AMThursday, October 5, 2017
The Roundabout Theatre Company’s developmental program is called Roundabout Underground, and it’s housed in the sub-sub-basement of the nonprofit’s off-Broadway complex, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:03PMIt’s been called the perfect musical, and if it’s not first on most lists of best Broadway shows, it certainly ranks in the top five: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:02PMTuesday, October 3, 2017
Three top lieutenants from DKC/O&M, the powerful Broadway p.r. firm founded by industry veteran Rick Miramontez, have jumped ship to start their own shops. That’s par for the cou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:14PMMonday, October 2, 2017
Any doubt that feel-good Canadian import Come From Away would triumph over its modest Tony Awards showing (seven nominations; one win, for Christopher Ashley’s staging) can be put to r…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:11PMA new production of Howard Crabtree’s When Pigs Fly, exclusively announced on Deadline in August, has been cancelled before it ever took off. In a statement this morning, the producers…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:51AMSunday, October 1, 2017
UPDATE with more information, below.
Condé Nast publishing magnate S.I. Newhouse died today at his home following a long illness, his family confirms. He was 89.
The Newhouse family stateme…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMThursday, September 28, 2017
So many stars aligned for this production of Shakespeare’s sylvan comedy As You Like It that it’s hard to know where to begin. How about the audience? One idiosyncrasy of the Cla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:45PMAlbert Innaurato, whose early play Gemini ran on Broadway from 1977 through 1981 and was adapted as both a feature and television film, has died. Deadline confirmed that he was found dead T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:46PM 
