Monday, April 24, 2017
Opening arguments were made this morning in the jury trial pitting publicist Marc Thibodeau against producers Ben Sprecher and Louise Florenza, whose unrequited attempts to mount a musical b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:31PMSunday, April 23, 2017
The producers of the stage musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, led by Warner Bros Theatre Ventures, have pulled a Harvey Weinstein. As Weinstein did with his stage version of Finding …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:40PMThursday, April 20, 2017
Like mortarboards on graduation day and lizards in Little Orphan Annie, happy critics tend to fling words in the air, leap into paroxysms of ecstasy and throw caution to the wind when somet…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMOK, so he’s a day late, if not a dolly short: On the eve of the most ballyhooed Broadway opening of the season, Mayor Bill de Blasio proclaimed tomorrow – Friday, April 21 –…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:13PMOff-Broadway’s Second Stage Theater today unveiled plans for the inaugural productions at its Broadway flagship, the Helen Hayes Theatre, as well as co-commissions of new work in colla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMWednesday, April 19, 2017
The nasty, tasty snakepit that is Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes has been irresistible to actors and audiences since Tallulah Bankhead chewed the Southern scenery in the play’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMUPDATE with more details from presentation: Freeform has picked up its mermaid drama pilot The Deep to series, which will be titled Siren. It was one of several programming announcements at …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:20PMThe Tribeca troika of festival founders Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Paula Weinstein took brief turns at the podium during a lunch for journalists in town to cover the 2017 Tribeca Fil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:37PMNow that Andy Karl has wowed the critics and producers with his show-must-go-on performance at the opening night of Groundhog Day, the injured star is taking a healthier view of his situatio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:03AMThe New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and Brooklyn College's Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema today announced that Patty Carey-Perazzo's Half-Life and Robin Rose Sin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
It’s humbling, not to say near-impossible, to fully convey the thrumming resonance of Indecent, the evanescent shimmer of a show that arrived on Broadway tonight following its New York…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMKevin Spacey will host the 71st annual Tony Awards, to be telecast live by CBS on June 11 from Radio City Music Hall.
This will be the first time hosting for Spacey, who won a Tony in 1991 f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:25PMMonday, April 17, 2017
Groundhog Day, the very good new musical from composer-lyricist Tim Minchin (Roald Dahl’s Matilda) and Danny Rubin (who co-wrote the original screenplay for the 1993 film), opened Mond…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:59PMEaster Week was especially springlike for Broadway as five musicals surpassed the $2 million mark at the box office, boosting overall sales to $41 million. That’s a 17 percent incline …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:49PMA roar of cheers greeted Andy Karl from the first moment he appeared onstage this evening at the August Wilson Theatre, where Groundhog Day has just opened. It had been touch-and-go since F…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:45PMCaissie Levy, who played Fantine in the 2014 revival of Les Misérables and Elphaba in Wicked, will play Elsa, and Patti Murin (Lysistrata Jones, Xanadu and currently in NBC’s Chic…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:02PMCarousel, the sophomore effort by the Oklahoma! team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, will be revived on Broadway next season, according to producers Scott Rudin and Roy Furman. Ope…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:59AMSaturday, April 15, 2017
Andy Karl, the Olivier Award-winning star of Groundhog Day The Musical, was injured Friday night near the end of a critics’ preview of the show, bringing the curtain down at 10:20 P.M.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:32AMFriday, April 14, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: 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 03:07PMThursday, April 13, 2017
Professional relationships are as disposable in our culture as goods on the shelves at Walmart, and so it is an especially happy occasion to report on the flowering of an artistic pairing, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMHere’s an exclusive look at Radio Dreams, the newest feature from Iranian-British director Babak Jalali (Frontier Blues), in theaters in May. Film centers on the real, if semi-functio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:31PMPop continues its push into original scripted programming. The cable network, owned jointly by CBS and Lionsgate, is expanding its original slate with three new scripted series, Pop presiden…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMWednesday, April 12, 2017
In the pictorial dictionary of the English language, you’ll find Barbara Barrie in the definition of “imp.” Even if you can’t place her name, you will recognize her f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PMTuesday, April 11, 2017
The culling of the Broadway ranks, common among box-office laggards in the weeks leading up to the Tony Awards nominations, struck this week for the second time as In Transit announced that …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:30PMDiane Lane received the Sarasota Film Festival’s Award for Cinematic Excellence on Sunday, where Paris Can Wait was the closing night event. The first feature by Eleanor Coppola (whose…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:39AMMonday, April 10, 2017
An influx of big new musicals, including Groundhog Day, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Anastasia and Bandstand, has cash registers on Broadway are ringing off the charts, with almost eve…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:37PMLynn Nottage won her second Pultizer Prize for Drama today, winning the award for Sweat, a drama set in a Pennsylvania factory town ravaged by changing economics and the social forces that…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:22PMThursday, April 6, 2017
It must have seemed an inspired idea: Cast competing divas to play the business titans who created rival women-centered businesses. And could the timing for the Broadway opening have been be…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Kevin Kline has loomed, larger than life, over Broadway for more than four decades: as the preening, prat-falling Pirate King opposite Linda Ronstadt in The Pirates of Penzance; the probosco…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMTuesday, April 4, 2017
New musical Hadestown and a revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street scored seven nominations each, followed by six for the Sutton Foster-led revival of Sweet Charity at thi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:31PMMonday, April 3, 2017
Amélie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's good-natured 2001 film, was produced for an estimated $10.7 million and has grossed $132 million to date. That’s not bad for a sentimental fantasy about a…
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