Monday, March 7, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a trailer that piqued the creepy-loving part of our brain: A teaser for the world premiere of Pet at the SXSW Film Fest on Friday at midnight. Directed and produced b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:13PMSpring’s seedling musicals are starting to peep through the winter spoil — Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star has begun previews at the Cort, She Loves Me is clos…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:47PMSunday, March 6, 2016
A few things worth noting about Eclipsed, which opened tonight at New York’s Golden Theatre: It marks the Broadway debuts of both Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira. Nyong’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:18PMNancy Reagan, wife of President Ronald Reagan and one of the most popular — and controversial — First Ladies in modern American history, has died at 94 of congestive heart fail…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:37PMProving that comedy will never top reality (at least when it comes to U.S. politics), Jonah Hill hosted last night’s SNL and none of the sketches could compete with the GOP circus unfo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:18AMGiving his catatonic brain surgeon a rest — just as the real Dr. Ben Carson did this week, suspending his tortoise-versus-hare campaign for the GOP presidential nomination — Ja…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:22AMSaturday Night Live returned tonight after a brief hiatus with a few sharp opening salvos against one-time SNL host and increasingly likely GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. The cold …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:10AMSaturday, March 5, 2016
Donald Trump’s name is never uttered in Richard Nelson’s quietly incandescent Hunger, a play that feels as fresh as if it was written this morning — which, in fact, it act…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:03AMThursday, March 3, 2016
The adage that you can’t make an audience go to a show it doesn’t want to see has proven true once again with this evening’s announcement that a revival of Eugene O’N…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:59PMEXCLUSIVE: Journalist Tina Brown has never had trouble attracting A-listers to her projects, whether for cover stories in Vanity Fair and Newsweek magazines, top journalists to the publicat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:29PMBarbara Cook, indelibly River City librarian Marian Paroo opposite Robert Preston own Broadway in The Music Man and Cunegonde in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, will return to the stage …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:37PMBonnie Pan, a former Maker Studios and Yahoo Video programming executive, will head up Endemol Beyond, the company’s North American digital division. She replaces Will Keenan, who lef…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:32PMWednesday, March 2, 2016
Launching the 2016 Upfronts sellathon, Nickelodeon today added two new sports-themed series from Rob Dyrdek and Shane Nickerson of Superjacket Productions (Fantasy Factory, Ridiculousness): …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00PMEXCLUSIVE: 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 10:20AMTuesday, March 1, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: After a decade at Luber Roklin, Stephanie Moy has joined Elevate Entertainment. At Luber she worked with Damson Idris (Snowfall), Katie Leclerc (Switched At Birth), Jes Macallan (…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:13PMThe Austin Film Society said today that SNL alumna and Bridesmaids star Maya Rudolph will wax funny and smart about comedy goddess Carol Burnett at the Texas Film Awards in Austin on March 1…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PMMonday, February 29, 2016
Broadway’s portfolio of 31 shows — up a handful of titles over the same week one year ago — showed a 7 percent boost on ticket sales over 2015. That presents a far prettier…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:48PMHard on the heels of his surprise Oscar win last night for Bridge Of Spies, Mark Rylance came up with an Olivier Awards nomination for best actor in Farinelli And The King, in which he playe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:27PM“Welcome to the Academy Awards,” Chris Rock said near the top of Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, “otherwise known as the ‘White Peoples’ Choice Awards.’ …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:17AMSunday, February 28, 2016
After a week of trying out material at L.A.’s Comedy Club and pre-show tweets in which he stoked the crowd with “Get Ready” and a shot of him, rainbow pen in hand, working …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:05PMSaturday, February 27, 2016
Hamilton Fish, the black-sheep scion of a storied political dynasty, documentary filmmaker and progressive political activist, will take the reins of The New Republic as publisher and editor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:17AMThursday, February 25, 2016
The very fine actor Frank Wood is already onstage when we take our seats at the Booth Theatre for Hughie, perched nearly motionless behind the front desk of a New York hotel whose glory days…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMEXCLUSIVE: Sarah Mezzanotte has been cast in Amazon's The Interestings as a series regular, playing the young version of Ash, the role in which Jessica Paré was recently cast. Ash is a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:51PMDark, dark, dark: Netflix released part two of the trailer for Season 2 of Marvel’s Daredevil, which will launch globally on March 18. (See the first part here.) The action-drama will…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:34AMWednesday, February 24, 2016
Lawrence O’Donnell, the former political aide who hosts MSNBC’s Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell, let loose on Wednesday night with a fusillade of arrows aimed at Hollyw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:46PMGERARD: It feels like there’s a lot of drama on Broadway this season and for once it’s onstage more than off. I’m encouraged by start, out of the gate, of Stephen Karam…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:56PMHamilton creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda is in talks to join the Walt Disney Studios’ planned sequel to Mary Poppins. Emily Blunt is in talks for the lead role, played by Julie A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:37PMTuesday, February 23, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: A UCLA-sponsored study of Hollywood’s favorite subject — itself — concludes that expanding opportunities for women and minorities behind and in front of the came…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:16PMMonday, February 22, 2016
Stars are shooting up like spring peepers as Broadway begins to warm after a cold winter. Recent additions to the Street-wide cast list include Forest Whitaker, previewing in Eugene O’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PMPublic Relations duo Annett Wolf and Lisa Kasteler have brought on Annick Muller, a veteran publicist from IDPR, as a senior vice president of Wolf Kasteler P.R.’s New York office, eff…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:51PMMonday marks the fifth time out for TEDxBroadway, a daylong convention of live-entertainment artists and producers set for the Shubert Organization’s New World Stages. The organizers a…
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