Thursday, September 28, 2017
Albert 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 04:46PMAs stunt casting goes, it’s not a bad idea at all: For 10 weeks, beginning November 3, Grammy winner Jason Mraz will play the love interest in Waitress, the Sara Bareilles musical, bas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00AMWednesday, September 27, 2017
It seems like only yesterday that Marg Helgenberger first won legions of admirers playing the mouthy, entrepreneurial K.C. Kolowski on ABC’s landmark series China Beach. Now the C.S.I…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:35PMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Barry Dennen, who played Pontius Pilate in both the original stage and film versions of Jesus Christ Superstar and earlier played a key role in Barbra Streisand’s emergence from cabare…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:46PMWriter and director Garry Marshall didn’t live to see his final project to completion, but producer Paula Wagner has set dates for the musical adaptation of Marshall’s best-known…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:02AMMonday, September 25, 2017
As regular viewers of Fargo and The Leftovers know, Carrie Coon has quickly established herself as an uncommonly gifted actress, conveying the broadest spectrum of emotions without flourish …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:40PMThe Jewish High Holy Days are upon us and public schools are returning to disorder, which can only mean one thing, Broadway-wise: There were lotsa butts somewhere – just not not in The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:04PMWednesday, September 20, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: Lucy DeVito (How My Grandparents Fell in Love, the film of Speech and Debate) and Max Crumm (Broadway’s 2007 Grease! revival) will co-star off-Broadway in Hot Mess, a romant…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:20PMTuesday, September 19, 2017
Entertainment financier Ivy Jhong wants to bring a jukebox show by China’s biggest pop star to Broadway. Jhong splits her time between Beverly Hills and Beijing and is best known for …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:05PMJoe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist celebrated the 10th anniversary pf MSNBC’s Morning Joe program Tuesday by taking over Saturday Night Live‘s legendary Studio 8H …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:08AMMonday, September 18, 2017
Broadway shed some heavy weight last week as two ballyhooed musicals from last spring, Bandstand and Groundhog Day, departed, leaving about $30 million in blood – well, red ink –…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:11PMEXCLUSIVE: Deadline theater critic Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres president Jordan Roth discuss the hottest topics on the Rialto, the only precondition being: no holds barred.
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SOURCE: Deadline at 10:26AMThursday, September 14, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Aronov, Tony winner for last season’s best play, J.T. Rogers’ Oslo, has been cast as an Israeli operative hunting for Adolf Eichmann in MGM's upcoming film Ope…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:28PMEXCLUSIVE: Two-time Tony award nominee Laura Osnes, who wraps up her leading role in the Broadway musical Bandstand this week, has signed with managers Brian Liebman and Cory Richman at Lieb…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:55AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s season 21 of South Park started up tonight on Comedy Central with what, in relative terms, might be described as a subtl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:34PMPier 55, the performance space planned on for a floating man-made island in the Hudson River south of Midtown, was declared dead Wednesday by its chief underwriters, IAC chief Barry Diller a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:58PMEXCLUSIVE: Ferguson, a play comprising Grand Jury testimony in the shooting death of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Brown, will have its New York premiere in a limited run beginning …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:24PMThe 11th edition of Stand Up for Heroes – an annual fall concert benefiting injured servicemen, women and their families – is set for November 7 at the Theater at Madison Squar…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:49PMEXCLUSIVE: The Wooster Group, one of New York’s most long-lived experimental theater companies and stage home of Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man), Kate Valk (The Manchurian Candidate) and the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:26PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Family, friends and fans filled Broadway’s Music Box Theatre Tuesday afternoon to remember the prolific playwright A.R. Gurney, the Love Letters and Dining Room author who died June 13…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:35PMMonday, September 11, 2017
Glitter Gulch, Nevada looked mighty appealing last week as Hurricane Bette took a powder and crowds generally ditched Times Square in droves, getting back to work, school and non-stop catast…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:59PMSaturday, September 9, 2017
Michael Friedman, the phenomenally talented composer and lyricist of theatrical works, including Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, died today due to complications related to HIV/AIDS. He was 41,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:55PMThursday, September 7, 2017
Graydon Carter, who for a quarter-century has courted, cajoled, calibrated and occasionally caricatured an establishment he in his salad days once ruthlessly mocked, is outtathere. The edito…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:28PMRed Roses, Green Gold, a new musical featuring songs by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter, has booked Greenwich Village’s Minetta Lane Theatre for a run set to begin October 11 and open O…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:27PMThe National Theatre’s acclaimed revival of Tony Kushner’s landmark 1993 play Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes has booked a limited Broadway run early next ye…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:10AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
Crooklyn, Spike Lee's ode to brownstone Brooklyn, has won the inaugural “One Film, One New York” contest, which invited New Yorkers to vote on which of five Gotham-related films …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:36PMBilly Crudup will star in the Vineyard Theatre’s world premiere production of Harry Clarke, a new play by Obie Award-winner David Cale (Lillian) and directed by Leigh Silverman (Sweet …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:13PMMean Girls, the new musical produced by Lorne Michaels, the late Stuart Thompson and Paramount Pictures based on the hit film, will begin previews March 12 at the August Wilson Theatre in ad…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:42AMTuesday, September 5, 2017
A mild Broadway mystery is solved today with the announcement from producer Scott Rudin that Bernadette Peters will play Dolly Gallagher Levi beginning in January, when she takes over the ro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PMWith Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 folding its tent and Groundhog Day and Bandstand soon to follow, theater-goers were lining up for last-chance tickets during the Labor Day…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:35PMNew York Times executive editor Dean Baquet and his number 2, Joseph Kahn, told staff members this weekend that the company will seek non-profit partners to help offset the costs of its jour…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:37PM 
