Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Although she hardly needs the publicity to promote her upcoming concert tour, Barbra Streisand will make her first appearance on the Tony Awards since the Nixon administration. CBS said toda…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:35PMBefore he hit 25 Reed Birney was already a Broadway star in a hit show that wasn’t even a musical. In 1977 Albert Innaurato’s blue-collar Philly with a gay-twist comedy Gemini ha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMTuesday, May 31, 2016
Cate Blanchett and company have rented a house for their Broadway debut next winter. Andrew Upton’s revisal of Anton Chekhov’s Platonov, also starring Richard Roxburgh, will begi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:00PMCirque Du Soleil’s first made-for-Broadway venture, Paramour, launched the 2016-2017 season last week with a post-opening boost of $219K over Week 52 (notwithstanding a slew of downbea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:13PMKey Brand Entertainment, a global powerhouse that develops, produces and markets live theater through Broadway Across America, Group Sales Box Office and several other companies, has renamed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:27PMMonday, May 30, 2016
When Hamilton ended its Public Theater run in the spring of 2015, there was a lot of pressure to open immediately on Broadway. After all, it was already a runaway hit, with several sold-out …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMFriday, May 27, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: 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: W…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMThursday, May 26, 2016
At once shocking in its finality and completely expected, the producers of American Psycho announced Thursday that the Duncan Sheik musical will play its last Broadway performance on Sunday,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:27PMWednesday, May 25, 2016
The lovestruck heart doesn’t merely leap in Paramour. It flips, flies, frolics, flits, flounces, trips to the moon on gossamer wings, beats like a boogie and jumps like a bean —…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMAward-winning new musical Dear Evan Hansen, which world premiered at Arena Stage in Washington, DC this past summer and will wrap its New York premiere at Second Stage this Sunday, is headed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:37PMBroadway’s Arthur Miller revivalfest continues next season with the Roundabout Theatre Company production of Arthur Miller's 1968 drama The Price, directed by Steppenwolf co-founder T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMOn the subject of success, George C. Wolfe has always been ambivalent. Wary.
”When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving, so that when I got to New York I would know how to do i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMTuesday, May 24, 2016
The Broadway cast of Tuck Everlasting got an early and unwelcome Memorial Day weekend gift this evening: They were told the musical will play its final performance on Sunday at 7:30 PM. It w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:10PMEmerging from the ashes of bankruptcy and mismanagement, the revived New York City Opera will present a season beginning in September at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater and other…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:44PMBy sheer happenstance — because sometimes in New York it can seem that everything really is happening somewhere nearby — I saw a revival of Tennessee Williams’ lyrically o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:51AMMonday, May 23, 2016
The 61st annual Obie Awards, established by the Village Voice to acknowledge achievement in off-Broadawy theater, named Rajiv Joseph’s gripping drama with humor Guards at the Taj as th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:45PMTicketbuyers clamoring to be in the room where it happens — namely the Richard Rodgers Theatre, home of the season’s runaway blockbuster Hamilton — helped push the Broadway…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:45PMFor the second time, Los Angeles Times owner Tribune Publishing Company has rejected Gannett Company's $15 per share takeover bid. The door isn’t closed, however. Tribune, which also o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:37AMDisney this morning released a teaser for its live-action remake of the smash 1991 animated musical Beauty and the Beast. The new film retains the Alan Menken/Howard Ashman/Tim Rice score an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:08AMSunday, May 22, 2016
If the only image that comes to mind at the mention of the name Dick Gregory is the skinny African American elder, his beaming visage ringed with a nimbus of white hair and beard, prepare�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:51PMFriday, May 20, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Beth Behrs stands over her mother, asleep in a hospital room and dying of cancer. “I’ve been single for so long,” she says, “I’ve started having wet…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:39PMThursday, May 19, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Outside on West 54th Street in Manhattan, passersby were doing double-takes as a not-quite incognito Robert De Niro cooled his heels, waiting for a cue. He wasn’t making a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:49PMMorley Safer, an old-style, in-the-trenches newsman who was among the first reporters to bring the horrors of the Vietnam War onto the TV sets and into the living rooms of average American…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:10PMIt’s more like a separation agreement than an all-out divorce but yesterday’s surprise management shakeup at London-based Ambassador Theatre Group is sending shockwaves through B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:54AMWednesday, May 18, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: There’s a visual in HBO’s All The Way when the powerful Georgia Senator Richard Russell registers the fact that his protégé Lyndon Johnson has sacrificed him, and …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:03PMA play with music about a play with music — sounds crazy, no? And yet here in New York City, in the same season, we have not one but two plays with music about plays with music, each …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:31AMTuesday, May 17, 2016
The films of Mark Lee Ping-Bing, one of the world’s foremost cinematographers, will be featured by the Museum of Modern Art in “Luminosity: The Art of Cinematographer Mark Lee Pi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:11PMESPN took over Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre, home of majority owner Disney’s The Lion King, for its Upfront presentation this morning, where the themes were bringing the Great Unc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:43PMMonday, May 16, 2016
With one week left in the 2015-2016 Broadway season, the box office is telling a different story than the one on the marquees. Outside the theaters, there’s plenty of excitement as tic…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:25PMSaturday, May 14, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired North American rights to Detour, the twisty new thriller from writer/director Christopher Smith (Severance, Blac…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:03AMFriday, May 13, 2016
Here’s a look at the Philip Roth adaptation marking producer/writer James Schamus’ debut as director: An intense drama set in 1951, when young Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman; Fury,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:55PM 
