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Thursday, April 14, 2016

Retiring Editor Col Allan Calls New York Post “The Best Ex I Ever Had!” by Jeremy Gerard

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…

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Frank Langella Brings ‘The Father’ To Broadway; F. Murray Abraham’s ‘Nathan The Wise’ Downtown – Review by Jeremy Gerard

Just last week, Frank Langella was gasping for breath in his role as a Russian spy handler exposed to a deadly virus on FX’s The Americans. Here he is tonight on stage at the Manhattan…

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Ethan Hawke & Patti Smith Compare Notes On Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard And Fame: Tribeca Film Festival by Jeremy Gerard

The Tribeca Film Festival’s “Storytellers” series got underway Thursday afternoon with Ethan Hawke on hand to interview Patti Smith about the creative process or something …

SOURCE: Deadline at 07:13PM

Broadway’s Hit ‘Matilda’ Sets Closing Date Nine Months Away And With Little To Show For Investors by Jeremy Gerard

EXCLUSIVE: Proudly calling their show “the 76th longest running musical in Broadway history,” the producers of Matilda announced this afternoon that the acclaimed show will shutt…

SOURCE: Deadline at 06:30PM

Jeffrey Tambor’s Memoir ‘Are You Anybody’ Acquired By Crown For Spring 2017 Release by Jeremy Gerard

Few actors in recent memory have put themselves out there as brazenly, not to say bravely, as Jeffrey Tambor. Over the course of three ground-breaking television series — HBO's The La…

SOURCE: Deadline at 02:26PM

Tribeca Film Festival Opens With ‘The First Monday In May’ – Review by Jeremy Gerard

The 15th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival started up Wednesday night with the world premiere of The First Monday in May, Andrew Rossi’s sharp documentary about the Met Gala. The An…

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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Tony-less Daniel Radcliffe Heads Downtown With ‘Privacy’ by Jeremy Gerard

As sure as robin-sightings in spring, awards seasons bring with them stories about who was “robbed” of an Oscar or Tony or Emmy nomination and which stars can’t seem to get…

SOURCE: Deadline at 11:10AM
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

More Premieres, More TV, Mulitmedia & ‘Taxi Driver’ – Tribeca Film Festival Opens by Jeremy Gerard

It’s been four decades since Robert De Niro looked into a mirror and snarled, “You talkin’ ta me?” before jerking his arm and aiming a pistol at his own image. On A…

SOURCE: Deadline at 08:08PM

Broadway’s ‘Disaster!’ Musical Sets July 3 Closing by Jeremy Gerard

EXCLUSIVE: A show that wrote its own review as one of the early musical casualties of the 2015-2016 season, Disaster! will shutter July 3, if not before, at the Nederlander Theatre to make w…

SOURCE: Deadline at 01:42PM
Monday, April 11, 2016

New Musicals Vie For A Slice Of The Broadway Box Office As Vets Hang On by Jeremy Gerard

Broadway returned from spring break to something approaching normalcy in Week 46 of the 2015-2016 season, with a downward shift of about 10% at the box office as new musicals strutted their …

SOURCE: Deadline at 07:36PM

Washington Post Team Will Shine Spotlight On Donald Trump In Pre-Election Bio by Jeremy Gerard

GOP presidential front-runner-for-the-moment Donald Trump will get the investigative bio treatment in Trump Revealed, slated for publication August 23 by Scribner, an imprint of CBS Corpor…

SOURCE: Deadline at 09:35AM

Trailer: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows’ Unveils Latest Shell Game by Jeremy Gerard

Here’s the line from Paramount on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows: “Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, and Raphael return to theaters this summer to battle bigge…

SOURCE: Deadline at 08:27AM
Sunday, April 10, 2016

‘Saturday Night Live’ Plumbs The Depths With Russell Crowe And Kyle Mooney by Jeremy Gerard

Well it took some doing — a full-on effort, one can only surmise, by everyone in the writers’ room — but last night’s Russell Crowe-hosted SNL was the rattiest, tat…

SOURCE: Deadline at 09:39AM
Friday, April 8, 2016

The Soaring Cost Of Broadway Land (And Air); A $25M Freebie; And The Promise Of Rumer Willis: Gerard & Roth by Jeremy Gerard

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 04:10PM
Thursday, April 7, 2016

Disruptive ‘Color Purple’ Director John Doyle Swings The Scythe Brilliantly On Broadway (And Off) by Jeremy Gerard

EXCLUSIVE: Everywhere you look today, some “disruptive” creative type is rolling out his or her “passion project,” and far be it from Broadway to elude the trend. Gi…

SOURCE: Deadline at 04:33PM
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

L.A. Times Hires Justin Chang As Film Critic, Columnist by Jeremy Gerard

Justin Chang, chief film critic at Deadline‘s sister publication Variety, will join the Los Angeles Times beginning April 25 as a full time film critic and columnist. In a telephone in…

SOURCE: Deadline at 07:41PM

Sonia Manzano, ‘Sesame Street’s Maria, Set For Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy by Jeremy Gerard

No one ever was going to mistake her for June Cleaver (or Barbara Billingsley, for that mater, um, matter). Sonia Manzano — aka Maria, friend, girlfriend, wife and unshakably empathic…

SOURCE: Deadline at 03:26PM

Tribeca Film Festival Announces Jurors In 11 Categories by Jeremy Gerard

The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) today announced members of juries in 11 competitive categories for its upcoming 15th stand. The group includes actors, filmmakers, writers, entrepreneurs, art…

SOURCE: Deadline at 01:26PM
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

How The Panama Papers Brought Down A Prime Minister, Re-Set The Bar For Serious Journalism And Embarrassed The New York Times by Jeremy Gerard

EXCLUSIVE: Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigned Tuesday, the first political casualty following a leak reported Sunday that dwarfed in scale reveals from the…

SOURCE: Deadline at 04:47PM

Diane Lane Will Star In ‘The Cherry Orchard’ On Broadway This Fall by Jeremy Gerard

A new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s modern classic The Cherry Orchard is set for the fall under the auspices of the Roundabout Theatre Company, with Diane Lane starring as family matri…

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Monday, April 4, 2016

Heading Into The Tonys Stretch, Broadway Box Office Scores $30M Week With 36 Shows by Jeremy Gerard

This is the time of year when producers and critics alike begin pulling out their hair as the Tony nominations draw near and the pregnant pre-deadline field of hopefuls has everyone on edge.…

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Sunday, April 3, 2016

London Loves Lin-Manuel Miranda Too (And ‘Kinky Boots’ & Judi Dench) – Olivier Awards by Jeremy Gerard

Lin-Manuel Miranda just can’t stop winning awards. The current London production of In the Heights — the Broadway show he conceived, wrote, scored and starred in before doing t…

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Oscar Isaac Will Play Hamlet At Brooklyn’s Theatre For A New Audience by Jeremy Gerard

Oscar Isaac will play Shakespeare’s melancholy Prince of Denmark in a new production of the  drama for the Brooklyn-based company Theatre for a New Audience. It’s more than a y…

SOURCE: Deadline at 07:48PM

Kenyan Thompson’s Big Papi Revisits Weekend Update – ‘Saturday Night Live’ by Jeremy Gerard

Sometimes dopey is just dopey — and sometimes dopey is sublime. That’s about all I can say about Kenan Thompson’s extended bit on last night’s Weekend Update segment…

SOURCE: Deadline at 09:57AM

Peter Dinklage Dons Platinum Wig, Duets With Gwen Stefani – ‘Saturday Night Live’ by Jeremy Gerard

Here’s the funniest sketch from last night’s Peter Dinklage-hosted SNL: Built on the lame foundation of a Mafia encounter at a restaurant between a pair of knee-whackers and a c…

SOURCE: Deadline at 09:21AM

Peter Dinklage & Kate McKinnon Host ‘Game of Thrones’Preview But Bobby Moynihan Steals The Sketch – ‘Saturday Night Live’ by Jeremy Gerard

Peter Dinklage hosted last night’s spring season return of Saturday Night Live (with musical guest Gwen Stefani) and he proved to be a, well, totally game leader of the ensemble in an …

SOURCE: Deadline at 09:07AM
Saturday, April 2, 2016

Pundit Andrew Sullivan Will Write For The New York Magazine Editor Who Once Fired Him by Jeremy Gerard

Andrew Sullivan, a public intellectual and conservative provocateur who wrote one of the Internet’s most influential blogs on culture and politics, has joined New York magazine as a co…

SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM
Friday, April 1, 2016

Is Gloom Doomed On Broadway? How About Intermissions? Gerard & Roth by Jeremy Gerard

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: M…

SOURCE: Deadline at 03:37PM

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Chief Out After Five Years by Jeremy Gerard

Barney Wragg, a veteran music-industry executive appointed in 2011 with considerable fanfare to the newly created position of managing director of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful …

SOURCE: Deadline at 12:37PM
Thursday, March 31, 2016

‘The Crucible’ With Ben Whishaw, Saoirse Ronan & Sophie Okonedo Bewitches On Broadway – Review by Jeremy Gerard

Arthur Miller’s 1953 drama The Crucible is a big play — big ideas, big cast, big emotions. In a season of multiple Miller celebrations (last October 17 was the hundredth annivers…

SOURCE: Deadline at 10:03PM

Amy Schumer, Jeff Ross & Emcee Trevor Noah Crack Up Comedy Central’s Ad Crowd – Upfronts by Jeremy Gerard

Underscoring just how high the stakes are in the competition for advertising dollars in the cable market, Comedy Central threw a monster party Thursday evening following a most-hands-on-de…

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