Monday, 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:25PMWomen stars are the talk of the town as Broadway rolls into the final four weeks of openings before the April 27 Tony Awards deadline. Leading the way are Bette Midler, breaking house record…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:19PMSunday, April 2, 2017
Like certain sanctified Hollywood creation myths — pretty girl, soda fountain, famous director — the one about going out a chorus girl and coming back a star retains a surefire a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMFriday, March 31, 2017
It’s a good bet that Robert Greenblatt had never shared a dais with Julius “Dr. J” Erving. Yet there they were in New York this week, the NBC Entertainment chairman and the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:10PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
Liars and tigers and sharks, oh, boy: Heartless criminals and frenzied animals will continue to make up the lion’s share of the Discovery’s multiple-network menu. But count on m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:30PMMonday, March 27, 2017
Crowds keep popping up like spring crocuses to see Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly! In previews at the Shubert Theatre, the Scott Rudin-led revival, helmed by Jerry Zaks and co-starring David …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:50PMProving there are second, and even third, acts in theater reviewing, ex-New York Times and Variety critic Charles Isherwood will return to his aisle seat in time for Broadway’s pre-Ton…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:41AMSunday, March 26, 2017
Sharp and threatening as a box-cutter blade, Lynn Nottage’s drama Sweat opened last fall at the Public Theater shortly before the election, an unnervingly prescient reality check even …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:20PMThursday, March 23, 2017
The lumbering whirlibird with the dragonfly eyes and the glittering Cadillac have returned to Broadway, possibly, to steal a phrase from that other big revival down the street, back where th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMComedian Jerry Seinfeld, who’s lent his name and financial backing to stage shows by Colin Quinn, will produce Letters From A Nut by Ted L. Nancy, slated to run at the Geffen Playhouse…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:59AMWednesday, March 22, 2017
The New York Times poached New York magazine’s Jesse Green to be co-chief theater critic with longtime Number One, Ben Brantley. The hiring, effective May 1, according to a memo to th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:41PMTuesday, March 21, 2017
Washington’s National Theatre announced its upcoming season Tuesday morning, confirming the Broadway tryout of Mean Girls, adapted from the 2004 Paramount film by scripter Tina Fey, wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:32PMMonday, March 20, 2017
I don’t know how many Oscar-winning actresses are willing to take a deep dive into new work on stage, especially when there isn’t even the prospect of a Tony nomination in the of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:49PMBette Midler stormed back to Broadway this week, returning for the first time since her sold-out run as superagent Sue Mengers in I’ll Eat You Last, back in 2013. This time she has a b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:09PMShonda Rhimes announced today that she’s backing IAMA Theatre, an L.A.-based nonprofit with strong ties to Shondaland-produced shows including Scandal and Pretty Little Lies. The 9-yea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:13PMSunday, March 19, 2017
UPDATE 11:30 with more information throughout.
Jimmy Breslin, the influential, combative and often-imitated New York City newspaper journalist, died today at 88. His death was reported in hi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PMThursday, March 16, 2017
From the moment he climbs onstage, cane in hand, specs at tip of nose, a snowy mustache and goatee encircling his mouth, and looking jauntily proper in three-piece pinstripe suit, Danny DeVi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMOfficials of the Public Broadcasting Service are reminding Congress of PBS’ historically “strong support” among both Republican and Democratic voters – support the or…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:10AMAlternative First Lady Ivanka Trump, daughter of the President and frequent stand-in for her step-mother, joined Prime Minister Justin Trudeaub at Wednesday night’s performance of the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:39AMWednesday, March 15, 2017
David Byrne’s boisterous segue from Imelda Marcos (Here Lies Love) to Saint Joan (Joan of Arc: Into the Fire) is the ultimate example of crab-walking from the ridiculous to the sublime…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMMonday, March 13, 2017
Music is in the air as the Broadway roster fills up with new shows, especially the tuners that have been circling the airspace over Times Square looking to land as close as possible to the A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:24PMSunday, March 12, 2017
Tuesday, September 11, 2001 is not a day many of us willingily return to, and when we do – especially those of us in New York City and Washington – it’s with a shudder, sti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMFriday, March 10, 2017
Based on Julian Barnes’ Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The Sense of An Ending has opened in New York and Los Angeles, directed by Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox), and adapted by playwrigh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:40PMRobert James Waller, whose romantic novel The Bridges of Madison County sold over 12 million copies and was turned into an Oscar-nominated film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep, has …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:12PMWomen filmmakers and stars take the spotlight at the 19th Sarasota Film Festival, set to run March 31 – April 9 in the arts-heavy west Florida seaside town. Take Every Wave: The Life …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:11AMThursday, March 9, 2017
Sally Field‘s citric, unvarnished performance as Amanda Wingfield is so riveting you may find your focus pulled from the larger picture created by Sam Gold‘s shocking revival of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMEXCLUSIVE: 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.
GERARD: I…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:16PMJust in time for the premiere of his live-action Beauty & The Beast film, Chicago and Dreamgirls helmer Bill Condon has signed on to develop a stage adaptation of A Star Is Born, based …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30AMWednesday, March 8, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: I’m told by insiders at Broadway’s megahit Hamilton that Brian d’Arcy James will return to Broadway as King George III, the killer comedic role that he created i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:06PMMary-Louise Parker (Weeds) and Dennis Arndt (The Practice, Picket Fences) will summer in Los Angeles, bringing their acclaimed performances in Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg to the Center …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:26PMTuesday, March 7, 2017
Dublin-born actor Anthony Boyle, currently playing Scorpius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the megahit at London’s Palace Theatre, has signed with UTA. The two-pa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:21PM 
