Monday, February 8, 2016
Oscar 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 12:09PMSunday, February 7, 2016
Lady Gaga — all red (gown and eye glitter), blonde (the hair, of course) and blue (finger nails) — won cheers and plaudits for a sturdy, dignified rendition of the National Ant…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:16PMWhat was the best bit during the so-so SNL that host Larry David promised in his opening monologue? The breath-of-fresh-air appearance of Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and Hans (Owen Wilson…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AMDemocratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders put in a guest appearance on tonight’s Larry David-hosted Saturday Night Live. First came a sketch that featured David reprising …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:46AMThursday, February 4, 2016
Here’s one of the more intriguing indie trailers to come across the transom: The Automatic Hate, from Emmy- and Gotham Award-winning director Justin Lerner (Girlfriend), starring A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:02PMWednesday, February 3, 2016
UPDATE with more information below:
Bob Elliott, the comedian known variously as radio newscaster Wally Ballou, beer pitchman Harry Piel and, always, as the taller half of the comedy team of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMAs Deadline reported a few weeks back, a new musical built around the songs and fuzzy logic of singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett will start it its day-boat voyage to Broadway in 2017. The pla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:29PMTuesday, February 2, 2016
A small private foundation focusing on the contributions of artists and scientists who have moved to the U.S. from abroad announced today prizes totaling $250,000 to theater artists who also…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:11PMNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio today appointed Julie Menin as Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. Menin, a highly regarded lawyer, activist and consumer advoca…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:29AMAffable Late Late Show host and Tony winner James Corden will lead the 70th annual Tony Awards, which CBS will telecast live from New York’s Beacon Theatre on June 12 from 8-11 PM. Thi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:48AMMonday, February 1, 2016
The week that ended Sunday on Broadway had to improve over the week before, when the Street went dark on a blizzard-flattened Saturday, so there’s even less reason than usual for week…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:59PMEXCLUSIVE: 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: So …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:23PMIMAX Corporation today announced a distribution and marketing partnership, that will provides Discovery Communications’ Discovery Channel with 18 months of exclusive paid global televi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:10AMSunday, January 31, 2016
I suppose you could say they had me at the umbrellas. Over two years in the planning and threatened by heavy rains all day, Fox’s sprawling presentation of Grease Live went forward Sun…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:40PMSaturday, January 30, 2016
Asserting its position as the leading voice of the liberal Democratic establishment, the New York Times today strongly endorsed Hillary Clinton for nomination as the Presidential candidate…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:38AMFriday, January 29, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Success rewards some artists with an opportunity to shoot the moon, take a risk, do something completely unexpected. Direct Grease: Live for example.
“It was an easy decis…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:45PMThursday, January 28, 2016
Shakespeare’s battle-of-the-sexes comedy The Taming Of The Shrew has been a reliable crowd-pleaser over the decades of free Shakespeare in Central Park (among the most memorable were M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:25PMWednesday, January 27, 2016
Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh, who teamed up at New York’s City Center for a powerful revival of Uncle Vanya four years ago, will make their Broadway debuts next winter in The Pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:59PMThe New Yorker magazine editor and writer Susan Morrison confirmed today that she’ll write a biography of her one-time boss Lorne Michaels, for Random House. The Saturday Night Live cr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:51PMTina Fey and Jeff Richmond will write and direct a tribute to the Saturday Night Live creator and executive producer that will feature Tituss Burgess, Jimmy Fallon, Cheyenne Jackson, Taran K…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:58AMTuesday, January 26, 2016
The blizzard of 2016 dumped more than two feet of snow on the Broadway theater district, and while producers had hoped to forge ahead, city authorities hd other plans, shutting down transpor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:48PMEXCLUSIVE: Broadway’s most powerful landlord, the Shubert Organization, may be angling to profit from New York’s current obsession with those clip-clopping horse-drawn carriages…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:01PMReturning to the stage for the first time in two decades, Justified co-star and six-time Emmy nominee Timothy Olyphant will headline the Atlantic Theater Company’s world premiere of Os…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PMHamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rap-infused musical about the American Revolution and the first Treasury secretary, will have a run beginning in the late summer of 2017 at the Hollywo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMMonday, January 25, 2016
It wasn’t Jonas, but Hollywood had its own snowstorm this weekend, in a mini-blizzard of releases from Ryan Kavanaugh‘s mouthpieces hoping to defang New York magazine’s …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:31PMSunday, January 24, 2016
As sunlight broke over storm-stalled New York, the trade group Broadway League announced that today’s performances, most of them 3 P.M. matinees, will go on as scheduled:
“All Br…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:11AMThe rest of New York City may have been shut down by winter storm Jonas, but Saturday Night Live went on in high style with an episode hosted by mixed martial arts star Ronda Rousey and fea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:21AMFiring on all cylinders, Saturday Night Live captured the Oscars’ diversity fiasco with a fast and furious parody of the all-white acting nominations last night in one of the season&#…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:39AMFriday, January 22, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Colin Quinn‘s streaming comedy series Cop Show will have its second-season premiere on February 2 on the Lexus-owned digital content channel LStudio.com. Following a somewha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:33PMThursday, January 21, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Each week Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth have an email conversation about the state of the industry, the only stipulation …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:26PM 
