Thursday, 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 05:26PMHot on the heels of the much-lauded film The Big Short comes Dry Powder, Sarah Burgess’ new play about finance and the U.S. economy that will star Homeland‘s Claire Danes and Han…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:03PMThe last picture show to run at the Ziegfeld Theater, Manhattan’s sole remaining uniplex, is Star Wars: The Force Awakens, according to Cablevision, which has leased the theater from r…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:39AMJust in time for the dog days of summer, Andrew Lloyd Webber and T.S. Eliot’s Cats will return to Broadway this summer, the first revival since the original blockbuster closed after an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:17AMWednesday, January 20, 2016
Posing no threat to his reputation for being late, Mayor Bill de Blasio proclaimed January 20, 2016 “David Bowie Day.” The announcement from the Mayor’s Office of Media and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:26PMAsked this afternoon for his take on the lack of Oscar nominations for African Americans, Quincy Jones — who’s scored 34 films beginning with The Pawnbroker in 1964 — told…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:08PMEXCLUSIVE: TV and radio personality and author Alani Nicole Anthony — better known as La La — has joined the producing team of Eclipsed, the celebrated drama that will mark the B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:08PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
While Hollywood denizens dodge fallout from the monochromatic Oscar nominations, Broadway might be feeling smug in this season of The Color Purple, On Your Feet!, Allegiance, Eclipsed and, o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:49PMPenthouse, the girly magazine that took on Playboy by going hardcore in the 1990s only to see its market overcome by the tsunami of Internet porn, has gone digital-only, owner General Media …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:46PMDespite a negligible dip in the overall Broadway box office last week, several shows had reason to cheer through the January blahs. Three musicals showed significant gains, including lauded…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:41PMLionsgate and New Regency are pooling resources through a multi-faceted production and distribution agreement announced today at NATPE that will “capitalize on content opportunities in…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:19AMMonday, January 18, 2016
Last time out, it was superagent Sue Mengers. On Monday night, Bette Midler posted this tease:
making it look a lot like she plans to return to Broadway in a revival of Hello, Dolly!
More …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:27PMA behind the scenes look at the creation of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s game-changing Broadway musical about the first Treasury Secretary, has been added to the Public Broadcasting…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:01PMAmerican Fault Line: Race And The American Ideal—Ken Burns & Henry Louis Gates, Jr. will be streamed live from the Brooklyn Academy of Music on March 16, with newly announced moder…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:04PMSunday, January 17, 2016
The 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards tonight is, more to the point, the 1st annual Critics’ Choice Awards, as the Broadcast Film Critics Association and Broadcast Television Jo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:50PMAdam Driver hosted the season return of Saturday Night Live, which opened with a parody of the latest GOP presidential hopefuls’ debate, as if parody could do the actual Fox Business N…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:46AMLena Dunham was nowhere to be seen as Adam Driver hosted Saturday Night Live in its return from holiday break as a newly minted movie star on the heels of his Star Wars: The Force Awakens sh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:42AMFred Armisen cameoed on last night’s season-return of Saturday Night Live, offering a brief and deeply felt tribute to David Bowie, who died this week of cancer at 69. “When I …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:57AMThursday, January 14, 2016
Here’s Megan Hilty bouncing down a stairway — bounce bounce bounce — and strutting her outrageous stuff in a pink beribboned bustiere, mouth agape and eyes betraying an ove…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:46PMThumbing their mouses at the already crowded field of last minute Broadway season Tony contenders, the producers of Nerds, a new musical about the rivalry between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:51AMAthena Film Festival, a public film confab spotlighting works by and about women, will launch this year’s edition with the New York premiere of Dawn Porter’s Trapped, a document…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:17AMBrian Bedford, a British-born actor of formal elegance, contagious modesty and impish spontaneity, died Wednesday in Santa Barbara after a long battle with cancer. He was 80.
In a career spa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:41AMWednesday, January 13, 2016
Bradley Cooper, who appeared on Broadway in last season’s smash revival of The Elephant Man, has added his name to the roster of stars participating in the January 25th salute to Arthu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:46PMExpanding UTA has signed a new long-term lease at Vornado Realty Trust's 888 Seventh Avenue and plans to build a new NYC headquarters, the talent and literary agency announced Wednesday. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:44PMTuesday, January 12, 2016
It’s been almost a year since the untimely death of New York Times “Media Equation” columnist David Carr sent shockwaves through both sides of the journalism grinder, and…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:51PMDavid Margulies, who played the Mayor of New York in the Ghostbusters films and Tony Soprano’s classy lawyer Neil Mink, died Monday afternoon in New York City after a long illness. His…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:05PMMonday, January 11, 2016
They’re called trends for a reason — the darned things repeat themselves with startling regularity. Attendance and ticket sales at Broadway shows fell off sharply in the wake of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:58PMThe act — or was it real? — grew tiresome even before the end of Ricky Gervais’ comparatively brief, zinger-laden monologue launching the 73rd Golden Globes on Sunday. His …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:24AMSunday, January 10, 2016
Hosting the Golden Globes for the fourth time, the first since 2012, Ricky Gervais had a small sackful of barbs, several aimed at Jennifer Lawrence and her campaign for equal pay for women i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:31PMFriday, January 8, 2016
The developers of “Image Shaker” — which like shredded blue jeans was once something to avoid but now is de rigueur in filmmaking — are among the 10 innovations re…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:02PMThursday, January 7, 2016
Anderson Cooper sat opposite the President in an auditorium at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA filled with people who, Cooper promised, represented every side of the gun control deb…
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