Friday, 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 03:55PMEXCLUSIVE: 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.
ROTH: It&…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:20AMEXCLUSIVE: “Mother and I live next door to each other, separated by one daunting hill,” Carrie Fisher explains in this HBO Documentary Films feature, having its world premiere th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMMelissa Rivers and other members of comedian Joan Rivers‘ family have settled a malpractice suit against Yorkville Endoscopy and the doctors treating her, following her death in 2014. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:11AMThursday, May 12, 2016
UPDATE 10:15 AM with more information and photos from the presentation.
EARLIER: NBCUniversal’s Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo hopes to broaden its reach with plans unveiled to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:15PMWednesday, May 11, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s are some figures you haven’t seen bandied about much in the Tony nominations numbers game: Competing in the all-important best show categories are four new pla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:27PMA Broadway farewell to Doris Roberts will be held Monday, May 16. The tribute to the Emmy-winning actress and stage veteran, to be held at the Ambassador Theatre on West 49th Street, will…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:50PMTuesday, May 10, 2016
A couple of unexpected plot turns have resulted in cast changes at Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, the George C. Wolfe show that picked up…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:23PMMonday, May 9, 2016
It was a slightly down week on Broadway, but you wouldn’t have known it at the musicals blessed with nominations by the Tony gods. With its record 16 nods, already sold-out Hamilton st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:17PMChristian Borle, a two-time Tony winner currently starring as William Shakespeare in Something Rotten! will play Willy Wonka next season in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Fac…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMFriday, May 6, 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: …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:51PMFinding Neverland, the passion project that marked Harvey Weinstein’s debut as the lead producer of a Broadway musical, will close on August 21. Weinstein and executive producer Victor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:53AMThursday, May 5, 2016
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle has voted the Stephen Karam’s The Humans as best play and Shuffle Along as best musical of the 2015-2016 season. The group’s winners were…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:29PMEXCLUSIVE: Midding-to-scorching reviews have not dissuaded London theatergoers from making Matthew Perry’s star turn in his playwriting debut a breakthrough West End sellout. Enterin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:04PMAddressing a packed house at a scene-y downtown beer hall Thursday, a confident if limping Jeff Zucker extolled the success of his six-month-old baby Great Big Story, the video channel aime…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:24PMJennifer Lawrence has released a new clip from X-Men: Apocalypse exclusively on her Facebook page. The story as we know it so far: "Just because there's not a war doesn't mean there's peace.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:48AMWednesday, May 4, 2016
When your Broadway smash hit has just been laureled with a record-breaking 16 Tony Award nominations — three for yourself alone — you need to step up your game. That was the cas…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:27PMEXCLUSIVE: Look at that face: The oval eyes, blue, and broad smile bracketed by the parentheses that form when she smiles, which is often enough. Jessie Mueller’s visage telegraphs op…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:00PMHulu CEO Mike Hopkins this morning confirmed plans to offer a “skinny bundle” of offerings that will include real-time delivery of broadcast and pay TV network channels that won…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:10AMTuesday, May 3, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Brooks has been crying all morning, she told me this morning, a couple of hours after learning she’d been nominated for a Tony Award.
“The other day at the st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:01PMUPDATE with complete list of nominees:
History filtered through the prisms of race and sex will dominate the race to the June 12 Tony Awards, as nominees for Broadway’s top prizes we…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:58AMNominations for the 70th annual Tony Awards are being announced this morning at the Paramount Hotel in New York during a live cut-in from CBS News’ CBS This Morning at about 8:30 AM ET…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:24AMMonday, May 2, 2016
U2 frontman and human rights activist Bono took to the stage of Broadway’s Golden Theater on Saturday afternoon following the matinee of Eclipsed. He lead an emotion-packed dedication…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:52PMPatrons are finding the new Sara Bareilles musical Waitress tasty enough to recommend, and Broadway’s cloudy dramas saw some welcome sunshine during Week 49 of the 2015-2016 season. Bo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:07PMThe National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Key Brand Entertainment chief operating officer and executive vice-president Miles Wilkin will receive the 2016 Special Tony Awards, the group…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:15PMFilm director Robert Altman’s son Mike was a teenager when he wrote the lyric (to Johnny Mandel’s melody) that became the them of M*A*S*H. You remember it:
The game of life is h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:48AMFriday, April 29, 2016
Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed was declared a new musical today at a meeting of the Tony Administration committee. The ruling means t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:06PMEXCLUSIVE: 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:�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:27AMEntertainment tech company Rovi Corp. announced this morning that it has completed a deal to acquire DVR maker TiVo for $1.1 billion in cash and stock. The new $3 billion aggregate, which wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:02AMThursday, April 28, 2016
I’ve written here before that there is no artist in the theater today I admire more than George C. Wolfe, a writer and director blessed with the sharpest mind, the quickest wit, the wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMEXCLUSIVE: Veteran villain Christopher McDonald, a familiar face this season as vindictive Judge John Schakowsky on CBS’ finalizing series The Good Wife, has landed a couple of plums &…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:15PM 
