Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Alec Baldwin, who was to play a weeklong role in Rob Reiner’s Iraq movie Shock And Awe, has exited the film over financial timing issues, Deadline has learned. Reiner, who…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:49PMEnsuring that, as Philadelphia Story playwright Philip Barry might have put it, the privileged class will continue to enjoy its privileges, fashion magnate Michael Kors and his husband Lance…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:51AMMonday, October 17, 2016
A busy Broadway week disrupted by Yom Kippur’s impact on Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s performances demonstrated growing interest in fall’s new offerings, as older shows…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:04PMKen Davenport, a Broadway multi-tasker as producer, ticket broker, blogger, event organizer, theater owner and general manager, has joined Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group as …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:39PMSunday, October 16, 2016
Diane Lane stars in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway revival of The Cherry Orchard. This beautiful film actress (Trumbo, Unfaithful) can hardly be accused of helicoptering do…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMFriday, October 14, 2016
The U.S. Court Of Appeals this week upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of the Broadway show Hand To God, while noting that the original District Court judge made the right deci…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:15PMThursday, October 13, 2016
Following a tryout run that became the most successful show in the Goodman Theatre’s history, War Paint will move from Chicago to Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre in March, becomin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PMTuesday, October 11, 2016
The Broadway box office sprang to life last week, with 25 of 29 shows registering gains over the previous week. Leading the pack were Stephen Schwartz’s Wicked, at the Nederlander Orga…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:28PMDeadline'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: It’s …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PMBroadway production company The Araca Group and global toy-and-games makers Hasbro Inc. today announced plans to bring Col. Mustard and the rest of the suspects from Clue to the stage follow…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:18AMFriday, October 7, 2016
Laurie Metcalf, Chris Cooper, Jane Houdyshell and Condola Rashad will star in Lucas Hnath’s new play, set years after the most famous door slam in the history of drama (not comedy, tho…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:10PMThursday, October 6, 2016
Holiday Inn sets the Broadway musical back 75 years. I doubt anyone will be complaining.
An exuberant, shamelessly old-fashioned tap-and-tuner presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company at …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMThe John F. Kennedy Center today named Jeffrey Finn to the newly created role of Vice President of Theater Producing and Programming. Finn, an occasional Broadway producer, fills a void left…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:47PMWednesday, October 5, 2016
Few male playwrights can match Horton Foote for the women he sparked to life, even in such male-centric works as his Oscar winning screenplays for To Kill A Mockingbird and Tender Mercies a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMTuesday, October 4, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Talent and literary agency ICM Partners, and theatrical publishing and licensing company Samuel French Inc. have formed a new strategic partnership to co-represent ICM's foreign s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:32PMNot since Terrence McNally’s It’s Only Play stunned the Fabulous Invalid cult with blockbuster sales has a Broadway revival sprung to life as The Front Page is doing this youn…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:50AMThursday, September 29, 2016
With his intense eyes, dimpled chin and thatch of hair, Simon McBurney has a chameleonic look that shifts imperceptibly from innocent to sinister, enchanted to terrified, that will be famili…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:55PMTuesday, September 27, 2016
Proving it’s possible to have not just two but three acts in the business there’s no business like, Canadian impresario Garth Drabinsky announced today that he’s coming bac…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:47PMConfirming reports earlier this week, Disney Theatrical Productions this morning said that Tony- and Olivier Award-winning director Michael Grandage and Tony- and Olivier Award-winning scen…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMMonday, September 26, 2016
Six shows in previews bulked up the new Broadway season and all of them drew audience interest across a wide range of genres, from seasonal songfest (Holiday Inn) to modern classic (The Ch…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:45PMFriday, September 23, 2016
Disney Theatrical Productions declined this morning to confirm a report that Tony winner Michael Grandage (Red, Frost/Nixon) has been handed the reins to its Broadway adaptation of the block…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:48AMWednesday, September 21, 2016
Indie distributor Abramorama just launched Ron Howard’s Beatles doc The Beatles: Eight Days A Week — The Touring Years. Heading into the New York Film Fest season, the company ha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:34PMEXCLUSIVE: She plays Marisa on Disney Channel's K.C. Undercover, and now Veronica Dunne will make her Broadway debut as femme fatale Roxie Hart in the record-breaking revival of Chicago for…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:54AMAngela Lansbury revealed this morning that she won’t be returning to Broadway next season after all. The five-time Tony winner said in June that she would head a revival of Enid Bagnol…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:27AMTuesday, September 20, 2016
Pianos, heard but unseen, play central roles in family-centered dramas by distinctive American writers getting world premieres with crystalline, luminous productions. Richard Nelson̵…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:11PMMonday, September 19, 2016
Broadway mourned the death last week of Edward Albee and will salute the playwright by dimming the marquee lights on Wednesday at 7:45 PM for one minute. Albee’s Broadway legacy is u…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:16PMEXCLUSIVE: As the song goes — “World, take me back!” Bette Midler is returning to Broadway in a musical revival, and any doubts about the Divine diva’s drawing power …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:48PMEXCLUSIVE: Film and stage producer Scott Rudin is nothing if not a gambler — he has no fewer than three major productions in the Broadway season just getting underway. Now one of his r…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMFriday, September 16, 2016
UPDATE with more information throughout.
Edward Albee, the Pulitzer-winning playwright behind some of the most important and groundbreaking works of American theater and whose …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30PMEXCLUSIVE: Dan Gordon’s stage adaptation of the five-Oscar-winning 1983 weeper and the Larry McMurtry novel that spawned it will make its U.S. debut starting October 29 at the adventur…
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