The producers of the stage musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, led by Warner Bros Theatre Ventures, have pulled a Harvey Weinstein. As Weinstein did with his stage version of Finding …
Like mortarboards on graduation day and lizards in Little Orphan Annie, happy critics tend to fling words in the air, leap into paroxysms of ecstasy and throw caution to the wind when som…
OK, so he’s a day late, if not a dolly short: On the eve of the most ballyhooed Broadway opening of the season, Mayor Bill de Blasio proclaimed tomorrow – Friday, April 21 –…
Off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theater today unveiled plans for the inaugural productions at its Broadway flagship, the Helen Hayes Theatre, as well as co-commissions of new work in colla…
The nasty, tasty snakepit that is Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes has been irresistible to actors and audiences since Tallulah Bankhead chewed the Southern scenery in the play’…
UPDATE with more details from presentation: Freeform has picked up its mermaid drama pilot The Deep to series, which will be titled Siren. It was one of several programming announcements at …
The Tribeca troika of festival founders Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Paula Weinstein took brief turns at the podium during a lunch for journalists in town to cover the 2017 Tribeca Fil…
Now that Andy Karl has wowed the critics and producers with his show-must-go-on performance at the opening night of Groundhog Day, the injured star is taking a healthier view of his situatio…
The New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and Brooklyn College's Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema today announced that Patty Carey-Perazzo's Half-Life and Robin Rose Sin…
It’s humbling, not to say near-impossible, to fully convey the thrumming resonance of Indecent, the evanescent shimmer of a show that arrived on Broadway tonight following its New York…
Kevin Spacey will host the 71st annual Tony Awards, to be telecast live by CBS on June 11 from Radio City Music Hall. This will be the first time hosting for Spacey, who won a Tony in 1991 f…
Groundhog Day, the very good new musical from composer-lyricist Tim Minchin (Roald Dahl’s Matilda) and Danny Rubin (who co-wrote the original screenplay for the 1993 film), opened Mond…
Easter Week was especially springlike for Broadway as five musicals surpassed the $2 million mark at the box office, boosting overall sales to $41 million. That’s a 17 percent incline …
A roar of cheers greeted Andy Karl from the first moment he appeared onstage this evening at the August Wilson Theatre, where Groundhog Day has just opened. It had been touch-and-go since…
Caissie Levy, who played Fantine in the 2014 revival of Les Misérables and Elphaba in Wicked, will play Elsa, and Patti Murin (Lysistrata Jones, Xanadu and currently in NBC̵…
Carousel, the sophomore effort by the Oklahoma! team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, will be revived on Broadway next season, according to producers Scott Rudin and Roy Furman. Ope…
Andy Karl, the Olivier Award-winning star of Groundhog Day The Musical, was injured Friday night near the end of a critics’ preview of the show, bringing the curtain down at 10:20 P.M.…
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline theater critic Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres president Jordan Roth discuss the hottest topics on the Rialto, the only precondition being: no holds…
Professional relationships are as disposable in our culture as goods on the shelves at Walmart, and so it is an especially happy occasion to report on the flowering of an artistic pairing…
Here’s an exclusive look at Radio Dreams, the newest feature from Iranian-British director Babak Jalali (Frontier Blues), in theaters in May. Film centers on the real, if semi-funct…
Pop continues its push into original scripted programming. The cable network, owned jointly by CBS and Lionsgate, is expanding its original slate with three new scripted series, Pop presiden…
In the pictorial dictionary of the English language, you’ll find Barbara Barrie in the definition of “imp.” Even if you can’t place her name, you will recognize her f…
The culling of the Broadway ranks, common among box-office laggards in the weeks leading up to the Tony Awards nominations, struck this week for the second time as In Transit announced that …
Diane Lane received the Sarasota Film Festival’s Award for Cinematic Excellence on Sunday, where Paris Can Wait was the closing night event. The first feature by Eleanor Coppola (whose…
An influx of big new musicals, including Groundhog Day, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Anastasia and Bandstand, has cash registers on Broadway are ringing off the charts, with almost eve…