Thursday, April 28, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: 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 01:15PMEXCLUSIVE: The Star Trek icon Mr. Sulu and the real-life social activist who played him will mark the eve of the cut-off date for Tony eligibility by saluting Broadway’s most diverse…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:40AMWednesday, April 27, 2016
It can be a challenge, making the contemporary case for Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night. It’s as long as its title warns, for one thing. It’s rep…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:46PMEXCLUSIVE: Picture the beleaguered General’s tent on a day when the war is going poorly and the prospects couldn’t be worse. An ambitious young man arrives; for his first persona…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:25PMHere’s the trailer for Fox Searchlight’s July 22 US release of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, promising everything you’d hoped for from Team AbFab, Jennifer Saunders (who …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:32AMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Immortality, like Krazy Glue, styrofoam and the two-party system, sounds like a fine idea — until you find your fingers stuck together under a mountain of landfill with Donald Trump ru…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMEXCLUSIVE: The Lilly Awards, named for Lillian Hellman and founded seven years ago to “celebrate women of distinction in American theater,” will honor Eclipsed playwright (and Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:01PMMonday, April 25, 2016
His name is Sam. A headset is permanently attached to his skull as he ever-more frantically paces the double-digit square footage of his grotto lair. He’s mostly connected to the tele…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMThe Cirque du Soleil brand looks like a boon for the Lyric Theatre which, with 1,896 seats in its current configuration is Broadway’s biggest house. A highly regarded name, familiar …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:08PMSunday, April 24, 2016
“She is gone, but she used to be mine.”
I don’t think anyone, hearing that lyric from Waitress, could escape feeling a rush of sadness and exhilaration. Sadness at the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:27PMFriday, April 22, 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: I…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:16PM“We’ve gotta remind them: Earth is not for the taking!”
Coming June 24, 20th Century Fox’s Independence Day: Resurgence from director Roland Emmerich and producers De…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:22AMMichael Moore looked healthy, De Niro and Keitel looked chummy, Jodie Foster looked glamorous and Cybill Shepherd looked seriously happy as they arrived Thursday night at the Beacon Theatre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:29AMThursday, April 21, 2016
Benjamin Walker wears clothes and almost no clothes with equal elan in American Psycho, the blood-spattered, label-obsessed musical that opened on Broadway tonight. Perhaps the star has a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMThe Tribeca Film Festival announced the winners of its competition categories this afternoon, with top honors in this 15th edition of the event going to Dean, Junction 48 and Do Not Resist…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:39PMWednesday, April 20, 2016
Julie Taymor (Across The Universe, Titus) interviewed Jodie Foster, whose film Money Monster with George Clooney and Julie Roberts just got a berth in Cannes (and whose Taxi Driver is a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:22PMEXCLUSIVE: Ever since Ana Villafañe marched across the TV screens of America last November, leading the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade to the irresistible rhythms of the Miami Sound …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:20PMThe U.S. Treasury will announce this afternoon that a campaign to keep Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill has been successful, as has been one to replace the slave-holding, Native American-k…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:23PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
For awhile, Tina Fey has danced a bit around the subject of a Broadway musical adaptation of her 2004 film Mean Girls. On Tuesday evening at the Tribeca Film Festival, however, Fey said that…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:11PMThe Nantucket Film Festival added more than 30 additional feature selections to the lineup of its June 22-27 run, including two world premieres: Xavier Manrique's Chronically Metropolitan, d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMThe prolific lyricist who currently has two musicals running on Broadway and the director best known for his four-decade collaboration with the late playwright Lanford Wilson will be this ye…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:19PMMonday, April 18, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Nazis: Too evil for mockery, or fair game for belly laughs? The Holocaust: Reserved exclusively for serious discussion, or is there social good in tasteless jokes referencing GE a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:18PMParamour, the first made-for-Broadway venture from Cirque du Soleil, got off to a rousing start last week in the Street’s biggest house, the Ambassador Theatre Group’s Lyric Thea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:41PMUPDATE 12:30 p.m. with comment from Lin-Manuel Miranda:
Miranda released this statement: "It is a tremendous honor to even be considered for this very prestigious award. Quiara [Alegria Hude…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:10PMJanet McTeer and Liev Schreiber, both Tony winners, will return to Broadway this fall in the Donmar Warehouse production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton, directed by the D…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:04PMHere’s the trailer for Equals, in which Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult begin an illicit romance in this ice-blue, future-set romantic thriller directed by Drake Doremus (Like Cr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:45AMEXCLUSIVE: Anika Noni Rose, soon to be seen as Kizzy on the History Channel’s Roots remake, will play the lead in BET's 2-hour scripted pilot The Yard. She stars, with Peyton Alex Smit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMSaturday, April 16, 2016
Actors who participated in the development of Hamilton will be compensated for their contribution under an agreement announced Friday between lead producer Jeffrey Seller and Ronald Shechtma…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:01PMFriday, April 15, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: It’s every parent’s nightmare, or one of them, more real for some than others depending on social status and the access that privilege and money confer: A disobedient …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:56PMEXCLUSIVE: 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: E…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:25PMThursday, April 14, 2016
Col Allan, who has presided over the pugilistic, perennially profit-challenged New York Post for 15 years, announced Thursday that he’s outta there at the end of April and will be succ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:07PM 
