All articles by Erik Pedersen
Casting Society is out with the non-film nominees for its 42nd annual Artios Awards. See the full list below. Dozens of TV shows, theater productions, commercials and shorts/shortform series…
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The Spring Awakening off Broadway will continue into the spring. Citing “unprecedented demand,” the musical revival’s producers said Friday that the show from Steven Sater and the late…
Things will start to go bump in the Broadway night next week, and one horrormeister will be there as theatergoers witness it. Jason Blum is set to host a special performance of the play Para…
Oscar and Emmy winner Julianne Moore is set to play the title role in Faydra, a lusty new play by In the Next Room Tony nominee Sarah Ruhl that will have its world premiere Off Broadway next…
Tom Ligon, a veteran actor in films, TV and on Broadway who also was a longtime member of SAG-AFTRA New York Local board, has died. He was 85. The actors union confirmed his death but did no…
Mariska Hargitay is riding high right now — selling out her Broadway debut Every Brilliant Thing (she replaced Daniel Radcliffe in the role), watching her beloved Knicks take the NBA crown…
Jeffrey Lane, an Emmy-winning writer and producer with TV credits spanning the sitcom Mad About You, the dramas Cagney & Lacey and Lou Grant, soap opera Ryan’s Hope as well as Tony Awa…
The ebb tide is nigh for Broadway’s Beaches. The musical based on the 1988 Garry Marshall movie has set an early closing date after getting blanked at the Tony Awards nominations a couple …
There’s going to be an unexpected casting change for Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! The Musical this week. Multi-Grammy winner Megan Thee Stallion said Monday that her final performance as the…
Jessie Jones, a veteran TV character actor who guested on such popular series as Murphy Brown, Newhart and Night Court and also was a prolific comedy playwright, has died. She was 75. Her wr…
Sinners, Jay Kelly and Zootopia 2 were among the big film winners at Casting Society's 41st annual Artios Awards, which celebrate excellence in casting and were handed out in three ceremonie…
Watch a video montage paying tribute to some of the Hollywood celebrities and media figures who have died in 2026. The clips are updated the first week of every month.
We have the nominees for the 37th annual GLAAD Media Awards, which honor fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBTQ community in film, TV, music, videogames, podcasts, j…
Sean Hayes will be going it alone when he returns to the New York stage next year. The Good Night, Oscar Tony winner and two-time Emmy winner is set to star in The Unknown, a new one-man thr…
EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon is launching Toy Theater Productions, a production company to champion innovation in storytelling. Wheeldon and his …
Ragtime is going into overtime on Broadway. The musical revival's producers said today that Ragtime's run at the Vivian Beaumont Theater has been extended for an additional 23 weeks. The sho…
The callbacks are official: Casting Society today unveiled the non-film nominees for its 2026 Artios Awards, which honor the contribution of casting professionals. See the cast of nominees f…
Maybe Happy Ending won Best Musical at the Tony Awards last month, and it's getting a new lead actor after Labor Day. Andrew Barth Feldman will take over as Oliver starting September 2. Feld…
Paul Libin, a major figure in the American theater for nearly seven decades whose leadership positions at Circle in the Square Theatre and Jujamcyn Theaters contributed some of Broadway's mo…
More than 100 celebrities from across the entertainment industry have signed a letter calling for the protection of funding for a federal program that provides emergency crisis support to LG…
EXCLUSIVE: John Lithgow will play Buzz Aldrin in a new podcast drama created by Stephen Kronish (24). Buzz will tell the story of the famous astronaut's life and also get into the highs and …
The hits keep comin' to the Pantages. The fabled Hollywood Boulevard venue today revealed the schedule for its 2025-26 Broadway in Hollywood series, featuring tours of recent hits from the N…
The 12th annual Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards are being handed out tonight at the Beverly Hilton, and Deadline is posting the winners live as they are announced. Check out…
Wicked, A Complete Unknown, Emilia Pérez and Conclave " Best Picture Oscar nominees all " were among the film winners at the 40th anniversary Artios Awards, which the Casting Society handed…
RELATED:Â Saying Goodbye: A Video Tribute To The Hollywood And Media Figures We've Lost In 2024
Helen Gallagher, who won Tony Awards for Pal Joey and No, No, Nanette before starring as Maeve Ryan for all 13 seasons of daytime soap Ryan's Hope, died November 24. She was 98. Playbill con…
EXCLUSIVE: We have the finalists 2024 Latine List. The partnership between the Latin Tracking Board, NALIP and The Black List have selected 10 projects that represent some of the best rising…
UPDATED with new category: Brush up on those contenders: The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild has revealed the timeline for its 2025 MUAHS Awards, which celebrate outstanding achiev…
The Broadway cast of Hamilton headed back to the recording booth to update the musical track "The Election of 1800" leading up to Election Day. The changed lyrics encourage voter registratio…
The Kit-Kat Club is getting some new blood. Queen singer and American Idol alum Adam Lambert and Moana and The Power star Auli'i Cravalho will step in the respective roles of Emcee and Sally…
Spencer Milligan, who starred in the 1970s Saturday morning series Land of the Lost from Sid & Marty Krofft and was a regular guest star on TV into the late 1980s, has died. He was 86. A…
See me, feel me " while you can. It's nearly game over for The Who's Tommy: The Tony-nominated musical revival will end its Broadway run next month, press agency Boneau/Bryan-Brown said toda…
The 77th annual Tony Awards are being handed out tonight in Manhattan, and Deadline is posting the winners live as they are announced. See the list of winners thus far below, followed by the…
Janis Paige, who racked up more than 100 film, TV and stage credits over six decades including The Pajama Game, Silk Stockings and Santa Barbara, died June 2 at her home in Los Angeles. She …
It's been a very busy April on Broadway, and it'll wrap with the 77th Tony Awards nominations announcement next week. And word came today that Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberr…
Edward Bond, the Oscar-nominated Blow-Up screenwriter and playwright whose Saved and Early Morning were banned in the UK, fueling a legal review that led to the end of stage censorship in th…
Hollywood and the entertainment industry lost a number of giants during 2023, from Norman Lear, Raquel Welch, Harry Belafonte, Matthew Perry and André Braugher to Tony Bennett, Tina Turn…
A newcomer will be easing on down the road next year. Nichelle Lewis has been cast in the lead role of Dorothy in the Broadway revival of The Wiz, which is slated to hit the boards in the sp…
IATSE has reached a tentative deal with the Broadway League and Disney Theatrical on a new "Pink Contact," a day after talks had broken down. The agreement now goes to union members for rati…
Judith James, a film, TV and Broadway producer who was Richard Dreyfuss' producing partner for many years and worked on such projects as Quiz Show, Mr. Holland's Opus and Eleanor: In Her Own…
Like live theater itself, the Tony Awards has had ample opportunity of late to accustom itself to curve balls, upsets and all sorts of real-world intrusions onto Broadway's rarified and belo…
The 76th annual Tony Awards preshow is under way before tonight's televised ceremony tonight in New York, and Deadline is updating the winners list as they are announced. Have a look below t…
Michael Lamont, who went from acting in Bye Bye Birdie and Oliver! on Broadway to a career as photographer for studios, theaters and actors, has died. He was 76. According to Patty Onagan, p…
Broadway in Hollywood has tuned up the slate of musicals for its 2023-24 season. Headed to the Pantages Theatre stage starting late this year are the touring productions of MJ The Musical, T…
Michael Butler, the Tony-winning producer who brought Hair to Broadway in 1968 and later produced the film adaptation and many other productions of the show, died Monday in Santa Barbara. He…
One of the world's most popular and enduring actresses died today, and tributes to Dame Angela Lansbury are raining down like a closing-night curtain call. Here is just a sampling that spans…
Tony winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson and nominee Jesse Williams are suiting up again as stars of the baseball-themed Take Me Out, which is set to return to Broadway in the fall. The hit reviv…
It'll be a shorter-than-planned reign for The Little Prince on Broadway. Producers said today that the show based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella will end its limited engagement…