Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Bruce Jay Friedman, an author, playwright and Oscar-nominated screenplay writer for Tom Hanks’s 1984 ilm Splash, died today in New York City. He was 90 and no cause of death was given by h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:04PMSunday, May 31, 2020
The 65th Drama Desk Awards has postponed its plan to stream its awards tonight during a presentation of Spectrum News NY1’s On Stage. The organization cited “breaking news events in New …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:40PMSunday, May 24, 2020
Broadway star Nick Cordero’s has had a positive uptick in his health as he continues to battle coronavirus at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. His wife, Amanda Kloots, issued a positi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:07PMFriday, May 8, 2020
Actor Nick Cordero’s wife, Amanda Kloots, has once again posted on her husband’s condition as he battles the COVID-19 virus. Cordero has had horrible complications since being hospitaliz…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:38PMThursday, April 16, 2020
A new streaming service, Broadway on Demand, will have its US launch next month. The membership-based streaming service promises a library of content, exclusive livestream events, interactiv…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:02PMWednesday, March 18, 2020
Rosie O’Donnell and actor/producer Erich Bergen will bring back the Emmy-winning The Rosie O’Donnell Show this Sunday. The special event is a live, one-night-only streaming fundraiser fo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:49PMThursday, March 12, 2020
The world is turned upside down, but Lin-Manuel Miranda is offering something to help us all get through it. The Hamilton creator has issued a free cut from the Broadway smash musical calle…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:23PMSaturday, February 22, 2020
Sophia Anne Caruso, who originated the role of Lydia Deetz in Broadway’s Beetlejuice, has exited the production as of its Wednesday, Feb. 19 show. The production is scheduled to close to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:25PMFriday, February 21, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: WME has enlisted Tony Award-winning director Kathleen Marshall for representation in all areas. Marshall has a busy slate of upcoming projects on tap. She will helm the film adapt…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMSaturday, February 15, 2020
Veteran screen and stage actor Lynn Cohen, who was best known for her role as “Magda” on HBO’s Sex and the City and its two film versions, died today at age 86. No cause of death was g…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:38PMSaturday, January 25, 2020
Margo Lion, the producer behind the Tony-winning musical adaption of Hairspray, died January 24 at age 75. She had a brain aneurysm, according to her son. Lion was an independent producer wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:01PMSaturday, January 11, 2020
Lan O’Kun, a multi-talent whose long collaboration with sister-in-law and entertainer Shari Lewis brought to life Lamb Chop and other beloved characters, died Jan. 9 at his home in Malibu.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:06PMWednesday, January 1, 2020
Fans took to social media on New Year’s Eve to remind ABC censors of the mess they made when they went away and bleeped the performance of Alanis Morissette’s signature song, “You Ough…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30PMThursday, December 19, 2019
Social media icon and musician Cameron Dallas will make his Broadway debut in the role of “Aaron Samuels” in Tina Fey’s Mean Girls, the show’s producers have announced. Dallas will …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:19PMWednesday, December 18, 2019
Peter Larkin, whose innovative set design graced Broadway productions and major films, died Monday at his home in Bridgehampton, New York after a brief illness. He was 93 years old and his d…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:36PMFriday, December 6, 2019
Ron Leibman, who won a Tony Award for his role as Roy Cohn in 1993’s Angels In America: Millennium Approaches, and co-starred with Sally Field in the 1979 Oscar-winner Norma Rae, has died …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:21PMSaturday, November 30, 2019
A star from the musical Hamilton is singing the blues because his group of friends wasn’t hearing the blues. Giles Terera said a London bar barred entry to his party of eight fellow actors…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:51PMWednesday, November 27, 2019
The national tour for Disney’s Frozen musical is opening next week just over the hill from the studio that created the animated versions. Frozen starts performances on at the Hollywood P…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:44PMSunday, November 10, 2019
Teenage actress Laurel Griggs, who made her Broadway debut at age 6 next to Scarlett Johansson and appeared on Saturday Night Live, has died, according to reports and an online obituary. She…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:20AMThursday, October 31, 2019
Bernard Slade, a versatile writer who created one of Broadway’s most successful plays and several hit TV shows, has died. He passed Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. at age 89…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:22PMThursday, October 10, 2019
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert was “Doin’ It Donkey Style” tonight, focusing on the Oct. 15 Democratic presidential debate in Westerville, Ohio. Colbert ran down the list of candid…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:20PMWednesday, September 25, 2019
Jo-An Anderson Fox, the Nashville-based talent, marketing and television development executive whose client list included Bobby Vinton, Perry Como, Jerry Vale, Engelbert Humperdink, Marty Ra…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:16PMWednesday, July 17, 2019
Stewart Talent has added two new agents in its Los Angeles office, as Ellen Drantch-Billet and Daniel Ortega have joined the theatrical department. Drantch-Billet, a 30-year veteran, has wor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:20PMSunday, July 7, 2019
Martin Charnin, best known for creating and directing the Broadway musical Annie, has died at 84. The Tony-winning lyricist, writer and librettist suffered a heart attack on Wednesday, accor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:38PMSaturday, June 1, 2019
Lin-Manuel Miranda and the In the Heights movie crew surprised on Friday by turning out for a high school performance of the play at New York’s George Washington High. Crazy Rich Asians‘…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:32PMThursday, May 23, 2019
Nik Wallenda and his sister, Lijana, seventh-generation members of the Wallenda family highwire act, will attempt a walk of approximately 1,300 feet long and 25 stories above street level ac…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
The world premiere of Taylor Mac's new comedy Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus has moved its opening night and found a replacement for injured lead Andrea Martin.
The new opening night wil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:35PMThursday, January 31, 2019
David Foster, a 16-time Grammy-winning musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, producer and recording artist, has signed with ICM Partners, which will make touring its top priority. The ag…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:53PMThursday, January 10, 2019
Verna Bloom, whose memorable turn as Marion Wormer in the 1979 comedy classic Animal House saw her immortalize cucumber innuendo, has died. She passed Wednesday in Bar Harbor, Maine from dem…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:29PMFriday, December 21, 2018
Ethel Ayler, whose career spanned prominent Broadway, film and TV roles for five decades, died at age 88 on Nov. 18 in Loma Linda, Calif., according to her family. The cause of death was not…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:12PMThursday, December 20, 2018
Donald Moffat, a character actor who appeared on Broadway, television and film, died Thursday in Sleepy Hollow, New York. He was 87 and passed from complications of a recent stroke, accordin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:11PM 
