Tuesday, 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 05:21PMMonday, March 6, 2017
Saigon and Paris looked enticing on Broadway last week, despite a general dip in receipts across Times Square. Cameron Mackintosh’s revival of Claude-Michel Schönberg, Richard Maltby …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:58PMHere’s an exclusive first look at Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web, a documentary about one of the world’s most notorious Internet entrepreneurs (or pirates. depending on your poin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:14PMThursday, March 2, 2017
The Roundabout Theatre Company, a non-profit that operates three Broadway houses and two off-Broadway, has quietly emerged as a powerhouse, even if it often seems overshadowed by competitors…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:09PMViacom’s principal unit Nickelodeon will expand the offerings on its hit series like School Of Rock, introduce new shows, including spinoffs developed in its own pipeline and move the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00PMA mashup of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro music and a new English and Spanglish libretto by Vid Guerrerio, ¡Figaro! (90210), will run in April at New York’s Duke On 42nd Street t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:28PMWednesday, March 1, 2017
It was the best of pies, it was the worst of pies. Benjamin Barker, AKA Sweeney Todd, has set up his terrifying tonsorium in Greenwich Village, and in contrast to John’s of Bleecker St…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMTuesday, February 28, 2017
If the question of whether a woman can have it all makes your eyes glaze over, you’re probably a man. One theatergoer’s fallow field can be another’s fertile ground. In the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:03PMCome June, you can leave your Hart, as well as your Seinfeld and your Silverman, in San Francisco when Viacom principal Comedy Central joins forces with Superfly, presenter of the Bonnaroo a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:10AMMonday, February 27, 2017
Posting a $266K uptick and again topping the $3 million mark in weekly ticket sales, Hamilton helped keep Broadway flat in an otherwise blah week that saw New Yorkers and tourists taking to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:03PMJustin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul denied Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda the first – though undoubtedly not his last – opportunity to sweep the awards quartet known …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00AMThursday, February 23, 2017
And then there were 41.
Broadway’s roster of houses, where stars are born or confirmed, and where theater folks come in hopes of finding Tony glory, expanded by one Thursday night with…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMOscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Force Awakens; Inside Llewyn Davis) will play the melancholy Dane beginning in June at the Public Theater, in a staging of the Shakespeare tragedy by Sam Gold. Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:59PMTalk about having your moment: Masters of Sex writer Steven Levenson wrote the book for Broadway’s new hit Dear Evan Hansen and recently signed on as book writer for Will Ferrell and K…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:25PMWednesday, February 22, 2017
Twelve days after Viacom CEO Bob Bakish restructured the company to focus on six flagship brands – Comedy Central, The Paramount Network, BET, MTV, Nickelodeon and Nick Jr – Com…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:11PMTuesday, February 21, 2017
A holiday weekend, three new shows, plus Glenn Close, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sally Field and Mark Ruffalo adding more star power to a roster that already sees fans lining up outside the Barrymor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:12PMMonday, February 20, 2017
Anna Deavere Smith, a MacArthur “genius” whose skills as deep-dive reporter, canny mimic and social activist have merged in such ground-breaking theatrical works as Twilight: Los…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:39PMSunday, February 19, 2017
Producer-director David Simon paid homage at the WGA Awards tonight to John Waters, his fellow proud son of Baltimore who received the Career Achievement In Writing Award from the Writers G…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:42PMThe 69th annual WGA Awards are being handed out tonight in dual ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles, and Deadline is live blogging from both venues. We also will be updating the winners l…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:02PMFriday, February 17, 2017
It’s party time at the Talk House, the kind of hangout people of a certain age or nostalgic bent associate with Greenwich Village watering holes like the White Horse Tavern and the Lio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:21AMThursday, February 16, 2017
Producers Barry & Fran Weissler announced today that singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles will make her Broadway acting debut beginning March 31 in Waitress, playing the lead role of Jenna H…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:19AMThat remarkable actor Reed Birney, a Tony winner last season for his haunted portrayal of a dad in crisis in The Humans, plays a related role in Tracy Letts‘ Man From Nebraska, which …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30AMWednesday, February 15, 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.
JEREMY G…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:06PMTuesday, February 14, 2017
In 1978, the late Gordon Davidson presented El Teatro Campesino’s prescient multimedia drama Zoot Suit, first at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum and then at New York’s Winte…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:35AMMonday, February 13, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: Public television docu series POV has acquired broadcast rights to Oscar nominee for best documentary short Joe’s Violin and will air it over the summer.
The film is about t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:02PMNearly half the houses on Broadway – 18 of 41 theaters – were dark last week in the winter hibernation as producers geared up for the spring march of new shows. That’s a s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PMSecond Stage Theatre will present a revival of Harvey Fierstein's groundbreaking serio-comedy Torch Song Trilogy, renamed simply Torch Song and staged by by Moisés Kaufman, this fall at …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMThursday, February 9, 2017
Glenn Close first played Norma Desmond in the U.S. debut of Sunset Boulevard when it opened in December 1993 at the Shubert Theatre in Century City before bringing the show to Broadway a yea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:21PMThe tradition of New York playwrights biting the Hollywood hand that feeds them is as tried as the fizzy comedies of Kaufman & Hart (Light Up The Sky) and true as the biting satires of T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:22PMWednesday, February 8, 2017
True Detective director Carey Joji Fukunaga followed Jake Gyllenhaal down the backstage byways of the newly renovated and updated Hudson Theatre and onto the stage, as he rehearses “Fi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:39AMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Three major contributors to The New York Times culture section have left the paper. The most recent is Charles Isherwood, the No. 2 theater critic since 2004, when he jumped from the top c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:32PM 
