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Thursday, February 27, 2025

‘The Hunger Games: On Stage’ Sets October London Debut by Anthony D'Alessandro

Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: On Stage has set an October 20 debut at the new 1,200-seat Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre in London’s financial district Canary Wharf. As previously annou…

SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Lionsgate, Path & Eleanor Bergstein Launching New Stage Production ‘Dirty Dancing: The Musical’ by Anthony D'Alessandro

Theaters goers can look forward to having the time of their life when Dirty Dancing: The Musical hits the stage. A new stage production adaptation of the 1987 movie starring Patrick Swayze a…

SOURCE: Deadline at 11:03AM

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Cait Ferrera Promoted To Manager At Artists First by Anthony D'Alessandro

EXCLUSIVE: Cait Ferrera has been promoted to manager at Artists First. She will continue to work out of their New York offices. Ferrera began at Artists First in NYC, working for Randi Miche…

SOURCE: Deadline at 03:48PM

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

‘La La Land’ Broadway Musical In The Works by Anthony D'Alessandro

A Broadway musical take of the six-time Oscar-winning, $472 million worldwide-grossing movie La La Land is in development, Emmy- and Tony-winning producer Marc Platt said Tuesday. The show…

SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM

Sunday, May 2, 2021

Netflix Feature Adaptation Of Broadway’s ’13: The Musical’ Finds Its Stars by Anthony D'Alessandro

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has locked down the cast to its upcoming feature adaptation of Broadway’s 13: The Musical. The musical, which ran from October 2008 to January 2009 at the Bernard B. Jac…

SOURCE: Deadline at 08:13AM

Friday, April 30, 2021

Apple Picks Up eOne Feature Musical ‘Come From Away’ by Anthony D'Alessandro

The upcoming filmed production of Tony-winning Broadway musical Come From Away is headed to Apple Original Films. eOne, Hasbro’s entertainment studio, is producing and financing the live …

SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Broadway Won’t Reopen For Some Time — But What About New York City Movie Theaters? by Anthony D'Alessandro

Broadway theaters aren’t expected to reopen in New York City for quite a long time, Deadline sources saying not before 2021. And according to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s recent reopenin…

SOURCE: Deadline at 07:20PM

Monday, February 10, 2020

Paramount Sets Tony-Winning Director Rachel Chavkin For Remake Of Spanish Thriller ‘Shrew’s Nest’ by Anthony D'Alessandro

EXCLUSIVE: After winning last year’s Tony for Best Direction of a Musical for Hadestown, Rachel Chavkin is making her feature film directorial debut on Paramount’s psychological thriller…

SOURCE: Deadline at 08:34PM

Sunday, December 22, 2019

Universal Sends Theaters Updated Version Of ‘Cats’ With “Improved Visual Effects” After Debut by Anthony D'Alessandro

If you watched Cats on opening night, you may have seen a different version than others who saw it later in the weekend as sources tell Deadline that Universal Pictures sent out a memo to …

SOURCE: Deadline at 07:04PM

Monday, April 29, 2019

Sarah Silverman Musical Based On Stand Up’s Memoir ‘The Bedwetter’ To Open Within Year – Tribeca by Anthony D'Alessandro

At a Tribeca Talks tonight with fellow stand-up comedian and filmmaker Mike Birbiglia, Sarah Silverman mentioned that the musical based on her 2010 memoir The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage,…

SOURCE: Deadline at 10:06PM

Friday, June 28, 2013

An L.A. Cult Comedian's Insane Onstage Meta-Sitcom by Anthony D'Alessandro

Two weekends ago, a re-run of cult L.A. comedian Brendon Small's bildungsroman Adult Swim cartoon Home Movies appeared, a reminder for his absurdist, neurotic stylings. But what was Brendon …

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00PM

Friday, March 22, 2013

Why Emily Maya Mills Could Be the Next Carol Burnett by Anthony D'Alessandro

"By any chance, are there a couple of boxes out there on stage?" Such was comedienne Emily Maya Mills's query to a fellow performer in the dressing room at the Upright Citizens Brigade The…

SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00PM

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