Friday, September 16, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:06AMThursday, September 15, 2016
Something Rotten!, a broad musical comedy that combined a Shakespeare-era story with a contemporary sensibility that appealed to some theatergoers but left others, including some critics, co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PMCome From Away, a new musical set in the Newfoundland town of Gander on the morning of September 11, 2001, has been booked into the Shubert Organization’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, fo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:08AMWednesday, September 14, 2016
Sony Pictures Entertainment today named Lia Vollack to the top post at newly formed Columbia Live Stage, SPE’s new theatrical productions division. The move comes on the heels of Wedn…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:53PMEXCLUSIVE: In February, Frank Langella will pick up the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre and not long after, if things proceed according to plan, he will be donning lingerie a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:45AMTuesday, September 13, 2016
Jack Hofsiss, an expert in human frailty who in 1979 became the youngest director to win the Tony Award for his staging of The Elephant Man and later helmed the Jill Clayburgh film I’m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:27PMIt didn’t take long to find the next tenant of the August Wilson Theatre, where Jersey Boys will close January 15. Groundhog Day, which opened recently at London’s Old Vic to lau…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:31PMLewis Black up close isn’t nearly as deranged as those who know him only from his guest rants on The Daily Show might have supposed. We were used to seeing him at a desk, suit rumpled…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:05AMMonday, September 12, 2016
Jeanine Tesoro and Lisa Kron’s Fun Home was something of a miracle, a small stall in the noisy Broadway bazaar selling intimacy, feeling and a coming-of-age tale on a scale that seldom…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:24PMBusy stage director Laurence Connor has signed with Paradigm for agency representation. Connor drew critical notice with his staging of the most recent London and Broadway revivals of Les Mi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:17PMFriday, September 9, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton wrought many miracles on Broadway: The multiple-Tony winning show itself, of course, whose influence reached into the wider culture like no other since R…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:48AMThursday, September 8, 2016
Just days after announcing a partnership with Baz Luhrmann to develop Moulin Rouge! into a Broadway musical, Global Creatures has set its sights on another film-to-musical collaboration. The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:30AMTuesday, September 6, 2016
Jersey Boys, the most successful jukebox show Broadway has produced and a global phenomenon later revisited in Clint Eastwood’s less successful 2014 film, will end its record-breaking …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:30PMCameron Mackintosh‘s second, scaled-down revival of Les Misérables ended an 18-month run with overflow crowds and coin-heavy cash registers Sunday. The musical took in $1.33 million …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:57PMTituss Burgess, a star of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and 30 Rock, will head up an investors’ audition of The Preacher’s Wife on September 12 in New York starring the R&B …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:01AMSally Field & Co. just got some support from the tony Lincoln Center crowd. Producer Scott Rudin, who’s bringing Sam Gold’s celebrated revival of The Glass Menagerie to Broad…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:09AMSunday, September 4, 2016
The New York Times this week quietly ended its coverage of restaurants, art galleries, theaters and other commercial and nonprofit businesses in the tri-state region, laying off dozens of lo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:39PMThursday, September 1, 2016
Global Creatures, the outfit behind Walking With Dinosaurs — The Arena Spectacular, announced this morning that it’s signed up a top-rank duo of director Alex Timbers (Rocky …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:28AMWednesday, August 31, 2016
Attention shoppers! Tony-winning Broadway producer Scott Sanders has sold his self-named company to Westfield Corporation, which builds and operates malls from Los Angeles’ Century …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00PMMonday, August 29, 2016
The Broadway box office took another August dip last week, thanks at least in part to the reduced schedule at the Street’s biggest theater, the Lyric. That’s where Cirque du Sol…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:11PMThursday, August 25, 2016
It’s boom time for ’50s mistress of intrigue Patricia Highsmith: Her roman à clef The Price Of Salt was most recently filmed as the acclaimed Cate Blanchett vehicle Carol, as Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:29PMWednesday, August 24, 2016
When I sat down early this week with Derek McLane, nominated for his sets for both the 2016 Academy Awards and NBC's presentation of The Wiz Live!, I took out my camera to shoot some candids…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:02PMJennifer Holliday, who claimed instant stardom as Effie White in the 1981 premiere of Dreamgirls, will take over the role of chanteuse Shug Avery in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PMMonday, August 22, 2016
Finding Neverland, whose well-chronicled journey from 2004 Miramax meller to Harvey Weinstein-produced Broadway musical provided as much entertainment off-stage as on, closed up shop on …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:58PMFriday, August 19, 2016
When price is no object, wealthy patrons and expense-account execs will always find a way to secure a pair for Broadway’s Hamilton and London’s Harry Potter And The Cursed Ch…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:27PMThursday, August 18, 2016
It’s not exactly the unending Jarndyce v. Jarndyce of Dickens’ Bleak House, but the five-years-and-counting saga of the Broadway-bound musical Rebecca saw another court ruling t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:22PMMonday, August 15, 2016
Producer Scott Rudin’s big gamble — moving Tony winner The Humans from the intimate Helen Hayes to the larger Gerald Schoenfeld — kicked off on a high note with its fir…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:06PMMonday, June 20, 2016
Broadway took it easy during Week 4 of the 2016-2017 season, lining up just about flat with the week before. But the leveling off probably came as teams prepared for the early summer season&…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:55PMBroadway producers have long been culling the libraries of major studios for brand-name films to turn into live musicals. It seems inevitable that similarly popular board games would be anot…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:28PMSunday, June 19, 2016
Leslie Odom Jr., who last Sunday won the Tony Award for best performance by a leading actor in a musical, announced this afternoon that he will leave the cast of best musical winner Hamilton…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:46PMFriday, June 17, 2016
Less than a week after winning 11 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Hamilton is facing changes as its Tony-nominated company members announce their departures. The latest is Phillipa Soo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:16PM 
