Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Following up on the popularity of its One Book, One New York program, in which New Yorkers were invited to share in reading and discussing a single, New York-centric book, Mayor's Office of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMMonday, July 31, 2017
Broadway receipts were up slightly last week even as an old lesson held true: A hit that doesn’t hitch its wagon to a star is a better long-term bet than a star-driven vehicle. That wa…
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Sam Shepard, whose snaggle-toothed smile, craggy good looks and outlaw style as actor and writer made him an American icon in the mold of Gary Cooper and Marlo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:25PMFriday, July 28, 2017
Mandy Patinkin took to Twitter and The New York Times Friday afternoon to say that he has pulled out of a planned three-week stint in the Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:41PMEXCLUSIVE: Veteran New York legit agent Josh Pultz has launched Amplified Entertainment, a boutique management firm.
Pultz spent 18 years, first as an assistant, then as the senior agent at …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:23AMThursday, July 27, 2017
Michiko Kakutani, the chief New York Times book critic once placed by Esquire magazine at “the red hot center of the literary universe” and “the only one who serious people…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PMCasting for the world premiere of the Broadway-bound new musical Mean Girls, with a book by nine-time Emmy Award winner Tina Fey, was announced today by producers Lorne Michaels and Stuart T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:29PMWednesday, July 26, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award nominee Phillipa Soo, who played Alexander Hamilton’s wife, Eliza Schuyler, in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s multiple award winning musical Hamilton, has signed with…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:55PMMandy Patinkin, best known to television audiences as Saul Berenson on Homeland, will take a two-week side trip to Broadway via 19th-century Moscow beginning August 15. He’ll play the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:26AMTuesday, July 25, 2017
Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel looks to have been set to close out the 55th New York Film Festival, running September 28 through October 15. The film, starring Kate Winslet, Juno Temple, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30PMBlair Brown, whose credits range from Orange Is The New Black to her Tony Award-winning performance in Copenhagen and the title role in the seminal TV series The Days and Nights of Molly Dod…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:29PMMonday, July 24, 2017
A steady mid-summer on Broadway overall reflects a decent, tourist-driven mean but not the roller-coaster ride some shows are on, especially those that are star-driven. Kinky Boots, in its f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:23PMThursday, July 20, 2017
Forget about the shows, for a minute. Soulpepper, a highly, and rightly, decorated Toronto theater company in residence this month at the Signature Theatre on West 42nd Street, is offering t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:02PMWednesday, July 19, 2017
New York City Mayor de Blasio and Cultural Affairs Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl released Wednesday what they dubbed the city’s first-ever comprehensive culture plan. Enfolded in a glos…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:05PMIn an often funny, moving and profanity-laced keynote address this week, actor, playwright and memoirist John Leguizamo denounced the entertainment industry’s ghetto attitude toward La…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:02AMTuesday, July 18, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: Hot on the heels of his third Tony Award nomination, for his leading role in Groundhog Day, Andy Karl has signed with ICM Partners.
The role of jaded weatherman Phil Connors, or…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:25PMEXCLUSIVE: The new season is barely underway but already heating up with the announcement that Uma Thurman will make her Broadway debut in The Parisian Woman. The Beltway comedy of bad manne…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:48AMMonday, July 17, 2017
An enlivened Broadway box office rebounded last week with a 10 percent hike over the previous week. More than half of it – $1.5 million of the $2.8 million cash coups de théâtres …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:16PMFormer Disney communications executive and PR agency veteran Joe Quenqua has joined 42West as a Managing Director based in its Los Angeles office. Overseeing teams on both coasts, Quenqua wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:59PMDear Evan Hansen, which last month won the Tony Award for Best Musical, has recouped its $9.5 million capitalization after 8.5 months, producer Stacey Mindich said Monday. The show, starring…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:41AMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter and inveterate polemicist and provocateur David Mamet is suddenly the talk of the rialto on both sides of the Atlantic. Why? H…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMThursday, July 13, 2017
Thoughtful, self-possessed and charismatically morose, Oscar Isaac inhabits Shakespeare’s melancholy prince as naturally as the sweater he wraps himself in. This youthful Hamlet is mos…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMSarah Holdren, an off-Broadway director with an eclectic resume, has been hired as theater critic for New York magazine and its online entertainment site Vulture, editor-in-chief Adam Moss a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:06PMWednesday, July 12, 2017
As Deadline reported back in April, Oscar nominee Uma Thurman will make her Broadway debut this fall in The Parisian Woman, by House of Cards mastermind Beau Willimon (also in his Broadway d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:45AMTuesday, July 11, 2017
Dominique Morisseau has been cutting a wide and spectacular path through the writers’ ranks, as executive story editor on Showtime’s Shameless and as the author of The Detroit Pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:46PMNBC News confirms that Megyn Kelly has been given a September 25 start date and that the hourlong 9 AM Today show segment will include a studio audience. NBC News is currently looking for an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:52AMMonday, July 10, 2017
Dear Evan Hansen, the Tony-winning best musical about a nervy lie that turns a shy boy into a social media hero, continued to be the Street’s dominant new show last week, ringing up $1…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:11PMIf your question is, “Who’s better in Hello, Dolly! – Bette Midler or Donna Murphy?” you’ll have to look elsewhere for an answer. It’s not a contest. Midl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:32PMSunday, July 9, 2017
News about the departure of Hawaii Five-O co-stars Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park found its way to New York Saturday night. Korean-born playwright and actor Ins Choi scored bigtime with his …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:27PMFriday, July 7, 2017
Writers are warned never to give away the ending of a movie or play. But beginnings are fair game. this is how Paul Dooley opens his one-man show, Movie Dad:
‘I am a character acto…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:45PMThursday, July 6, 2017
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts president Deborah Spar has rejected a request, supported by a number of well-known artists and scholars, to cancel upcoming performances by a troupe un…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:55PM 
