Friday, November 18, 2016
Jason Sudeikis has enough mischief in his eyes to make John Keating a credible non-conformist hero in Dead Poets Society. You’ve heard of this secret club of pubescent prep-school pis…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:05PMWednesday, November 16, 2016
This week brings two attempts at spinning 1980s Oscar gold into stage-worthy vehicles for stars of a certain magnitude. Tomorrow’s opening will be Jason Sudeikis chancing the Robin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMDates and theaters have been set for Amélie, A New Musical, with Hamilton star and Tony nominee Philipa Soo in the title role. Following its 2015 world premiere at the Berkeley Rep, the sho…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30AMMonday, November 14, 2016
What a world MacArthur “genius” Mimi Lien has created at the Imperial Theatre for Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812. The auditorium is voluptuously draped in scarlet …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMBroadway did its bit for last week’s presidential election, as many shows shifted schedules to allow a day off for voting on Tuesday, typically an early-curtain evening popular with c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:04PMYes, it comes from London’s West End with a title that all but waves a red flag at critics. And yes, the lead producer took a similar risk with the popular but Tony-challenged musi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:58PMFriday, November 11, 2016
No Pay, Nudity starts with bad news for “between projects” actor and dog owner Lester Rosenthal getting terrible news, and then it gets depressing. Also, however: warm, deeply fu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:31PMThursday, November 10, 2016
Jerry Seinfeld has added 12 Thursday performances between January and June 2017 to his Beacon Theatre residency, "Jerry Seinfeld: The Homestand." The 2017 dates are January 5, February 9,�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:41PMWednesday, November 9, 2016
The play is called Women Of A Certain Age, and we critics were invited to see it on the very evening it is set, November 8, 2016: Election Day. Although some of my colleagues were put out w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:46PMTuesday, November 8, 2016
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? playwright Edward Albee will be remembered December 6 beginning at 1 PM at the August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street), according to a group o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:08PMAlthough the Broadway community came out in force a few weeks ago for a fundraiser in support of Hillary Clinton, today’s message was non-partisan: Vote. Over the last several days, J…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:10AMGreat performances are rare, great ensembles even more so. One brilliant turn can salvage an otherwise mediocre evening, but when a company of actors clicks, as do the three men who make up …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:01AMMonday, November 7, 2016
A Bronx Tale, boasting more bold-face names behind the scenes than on the stage, got off to a cheery start last week on Broadway. Chazz Palminteri’s late-’80s solo show has morp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:18PMSaturday, November 5, 2016
Richard Steiner was never interested in sailing smoothly into the Cincinnati toy business his father and two uncles founded and which produced Play-Doh. A free-spirited adventurer, he was ne…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:36AMThursday, November 3, 2016
Yes, I thought long and hard about the headline above this review. But no play in recent memory has shed more light on the crises and tribulations of America’s great retrenched worki…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMCorey Hawkins (Straight Outta Compton) will join Allison Janney and John Benjamin Hickey next spring in a Broadway revival of John Guare's Six Degrees Of Separation. Hawkins will play Paul, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:27PMJohn Legend, who’s increasingly using his stature as a Grammy and Oscar-winning singer and songwriter (for “Glory,” co-written with Common for the film Selma) to promote th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:59PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
Tammy Grimes, the whiskey-voiced actress who went out an ingenue and came back a star in the title role of The Unsinkable Molly Brown — and later played Dorothy Brock, a star oversha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:32AMMonday, October 31, 2016
Boasting Broadway’s highest average ticket price of $206.03, it’s no wonder Hamilton returned last week to the $2 million club, taking in $2.2 million at the Nederlander Organiza…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:49PMSunday, October 30, 2016
Idle rich do the Devil’s work in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, turning innocents and believers into pliant lovers ripe for betrayal, all for their personal amusement. Cruelty and revenge …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:02PMProducers this evening informed the cast of The Color Purple that the show, which won the 2016 Tony Award for best musical revival, will play its final performance on January 8 after 449 reg…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:39PMSaturday, October 29, 2016
A skirmish over above-the-title billing in a new Broadway show’s Playbill erupted into all-out war this weekend, as the non-profit theater that developed one of the most acclaimed musi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:20PMThursday, October 27, 2016
You undoubtedly know their names and faces: Andrew Rannells plays Lena Dunham’s’ gay confidante Elijah in HBO’s Girls. Christian Borle played the depressive composer Tom L…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMEXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred.
GERARD: D…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:33PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
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Howard Davies, a highly regarded director known for his work at several of England’s most prominent theatrical venues including the National…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:30PMWho knew? Jake Gyllenhaal can be brooding (Brokeback Mountain), intense (Nightcrawler, Zodiac) and weird (Enemy). But who knew he could out-Mandy Patinkin Mandy Patinkin? Yet that’s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:18PMTuesday, October 25, 2016
Glenn Close is bringing her Norma Desmond back to Broadway. Fresh off her run starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical earlier this year in London, Close will return to New York with …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:14AMMonday, October 24, 2016
The Ars Nova production of Natasha, Pierre And The Great Comet Of 1812 blazed onto Broadway last week with $1.13 million in ticket sales at the Imperial Theatre, an extraordinary 15 percent …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:00PMSunday, October 23, 2016
Susan Traherne, the heroine of David Hare’s 1978 drama Plenty, is hard to love. She has a tendency to pop off on matters of social and political delicacy, an inconvenient trait for the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PMThursday, October 20, 2016
There are a couple of ways to go in reviewing a new revival of The Front Page. One could bemoan the demise of hard copy and the glory days of tabloid journalism, not to mention of Broadway i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:48PMWednesday, October 19, 2016
Before the prodigiously gifted British writer Mike Bartlett wrote last year’s Broadway knockout King Charles III and the BBC’s Doctor Foster, he was what might be called a New An…
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