Monday, February 22, 2016
Monday 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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMBridge Of Spies starts with a nickel and ends with a dollar. Mark Rylance starts with a dollar and ends with a nickel. That, at least, is one way of looking at this actor’s extraordina…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:12AMFriday, February 19, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: This is the trailer for Claude Lanzmann: Spectres Of The Shoah, a nominee for the best short-form documentary Oscar that also will have its debut on HBO on May 2. Adam Benzine…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:52PMHarper Lee, an unknown writer from Alabama whose story about racial injustice in the American South would become one of the most acclaimed novels and then movies of all time, has died. The a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:12AMThursday, February 18, 2016
After a justly celebrated off-Broadway run, Stephen Karam‘s knockout drama The Humans has moved to Broadway, courtesy of everywhere-these-days producer Scott Rudin. A smart decision wa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:00PMDirector Kenny Leon, who won praise in December for starting The Wiz Live for NBC, will return in December for the Peacock web’s fourth live musical venture, Hairspray Live. The show w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:53PMEXCLUSIVE: Election cycles always make for strange bedfellows, entertainment-wise. Why should this year’s be any different? Here’s an exclusive look at a new political mockumenta…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:20PMEXCLUSIVE: Former CBS Evening News anchor and NBC Today Show co-host Katie Couric is roaming the country as Global News Anchor for Yahoo News, insulated from the upheavals ongoing in the oth…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:24PMA fine but wayward cast led by Ed Harris and Amy Madigan makes an almost unwatchable mess of Sam Shepard’s ferocious drama Buried Child. I can report this with some confidence not onl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:58AMWednesday, February 17, 2016
Bill Simmons, the longform-loving sports authority, announced this morning the imminent launch of The Ringer, his new sports-and-culture site. The move comes less than a year after ESPN dis…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:41PMTuesday, February 16, 2016
Despite the frigid blast that walloped Manhattan over the Presidents’ Weekend holiday, Broadway rebounded in the 38th week of the 2015-2016 season, ringing up $25.7 million in tickets …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:50PMTwo thumbs up, or out — if you’re a hitchhiker, that is. IFC Midnight will release Abner Pastol’s road-trip-cum-romantic-thriller Road Games on March 4 in New York and Los …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:12PMCome From Away, a new musical set in tiny Gander, Newfoundland on September 11, 2001, hopes to arrive on Broadway next spring following runs in Washington D.C and Toronto. Lead producer Junk…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AMMonday, February 15, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Frank Rich recently had an email conversation with Deadline’s Jeremy Gerard about his upcoming HBO documentary, Becoming Mike Nichols. In addition to executive producing th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:15AMPrincipal photography on Star Wars: Episode VIII began today at London’s Pinewood Studios, Disney said, adding that Benicio Del Toro, Laura Dern and newcomer Kelly Marie Tran had joine…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:01AMSunday, February 14, 2016
Musical guests on Saturday Night Live don’t always get a chance to shine outside their two slotted numbers, but Kanye West nearly stole the show from host Melissa McCarthy last night…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:09AMMelissa McCarthy, with two movies to promote, hosted the Valentine’s Day edition of SNL, with musical guest Kanye West, in a B+ episode of the 41st season. Things got off to a topical�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:42AMThe writing wasn’t always up to the talents of physical comedian Melissa McCarthy, hosting last night’s SNL, but there were still enough laughs to keep the show’s motor, we…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:45AMSaturday, February 13, 2016
We are here live from both the Hyatt Regency in Century City, CA and the Edison Ballroom in New York City at the 2016 Writers Guild Awards. In regards to its history as an Oscar predictor in…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:50PMFriday, February 12, 2016
Here’s the first trailer for The Night Manager, a six-part mini-series produced alongside BBC One and The Ink Factory and having its premiere on April 19 at 10 PM ET/PT. An update of J…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:38PMEXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry (and whatever else might be on their minds), the onl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:14AMThursday, February 11, 2016
“In your life, you get lucky in various strange ways,” Mike Nichols tells fellow director Jack O’Brien in this HBO documentary, filmed shortly before Nichols’ death…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:23PMScore another coup for the book publishing industry: The Boss is back. Hot on the heels of announcements that Amy Schumer and, most recently, Megyn Kelly landed multimillion dollar deals to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:26AMWednesday, February 10, 2016
In Fox Searchlight’s A Bigger Splash, Tilda Swinton stars as rock legend Marianne Lane, recuperating from throat surgery on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul (Ma…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:07PMProducer Scott Rudin this morning announced plans to bring Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird to Broadway during the 2017-2018 season. Aaron Sorkin, who scr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:51AMTuesday, February 9, 2016
Disney Theatrical Productions chief Thomas Schumacher made it official today: Frozen, the musical based on the Mouse’s blockbuster, Oscar-winning animated film from 2014, will come to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:22PMParamount Pictures today announced that the comedian (Frozen, The Wedding Ringer, Broadway’s The Book Of Mormon) will star in "Heavy Duty,” a comedy based on Gad’s original…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:16PMYes, it really looked like that alligator was chomping on that flipper-flapping turtle standing in for Jeb Bush, as Samantha Bee tore through her first show. She announced at the outset of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:30AMMonday, February 8, 2016
Performance schedules were back to normal on Broadway last week — and so was the ongoing winter slowdown, as most shows continued to slide, perhaps with people staying away from matine…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:33PMEXCLUSIVE: If Marc Platt is fretting over the long-shot odds of Bridge Of Spies winning the top Oscar, you wouldn’t know it from the tone of his voice during a phone conversation on Su…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:13PMOscar winner Morgan Freeman will receive the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s 43rd Chaplin Award during the group’s annual gala on April 25. Freeman, a five-time Oscar nominee an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:09PM 
