1,869 stories by "Jeremy Gerard"
Glenn Close is bringing her Norma Desmond back to Broadway. Fresh off her run starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical earlier this year in London, Close will return to New York with …
The Ars Nova production of Natasha, Pierre And The Great Comet Of 1812 blazed onto Broadway last week with $1.13 million in ticket sales at the Imperial Theatre, an extraordinary 15 percent …
Susan Traherne, the heroine of David Hare’s 1978 drama Plenty, is hard to love. She has a tendency to pop off on matters of social and political delicacy, an inconvenient trait for the…
There are a couple of ways to go in reviewing a new revival of The Front Page. One could bemoan the demise of hard copy and the glory days of tabloid journalism, not to mention of Broadway i…
Before the prodigiously gifted British writer Mike Bartlett wrote last year’s Broadway knockout King Charles III and the BBC’s Doctor Foster, he was what might be called a New An…
EXCLUSIVE: Alec Baldwin, who was to play a weeklong role in Rob Reiner’s Iraq movie Shock And Awe, has exited the film over financial timing issues, Deadline has learned. Reiner,…
Ensuring that, as Philadelphia Story playwright Philip Barry might have put it, the privileged class will continue to enjoy its privileges, fashion magnate Michael Kors and his husband Lance…
A busy Broadway week disrupted by Yom Kippur’s impact on Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s performances demonstrated growing interest in fall’s new offerings, as older sho…
Ken Davenport, a Broadway multi-tasker as producer, ticket broker, blogger, event organizer, theater owner and general manager, has joined Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group as …
Diane Lane stars in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway revival of The Cherry Orchard. This beautiful film actress (Trumbo, Unfaithful) can hardly be accused of helicoptering …
The U.S. Court Of Appeals this week upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of the Broadway show Hand To God, while noting that the original District Court judge made the ri…
Following a tryout run that became the most successful show in the Goodman Theatre’s history, War Paint will move from Chicago to Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre in March, becomin…
The Broadway box office sprang to life last week, with 25 of 29 shows registering gains over the previous week. Leading the pack were Stephen Schwartz’s Wicked, at the Nederlander Orga…
Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred.
GERARD: It’…
Broadway production company The Araca Group and global toy-and-games makers Hasbro Inc. today announced plans to bring Col. Mustard and the rest of the suspects from Clue to the stage follow…
Laurie Metcalf, Chris Cooper, Jane Houdyshell and Condola Rashad will star in Lucas Hnath’s new play, set years after the most famous door slam in the history of drama (not comedy, tho…
Holiday Inn sets the Broadway musical back 75 years. I doubt anyone will be complaining.
An exuberant, shamelessly old-fashioned tap-and-tuner presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company at …
The John F. Kennedy Center today named Jeffrey Finn to the newly created role of Vice President of Theater Producing and Programming. Finn, an occasional Broadway producer, fills a void left…
Few male playwrights can match Horton Foote for the women he sparked to life, even in such male-centric works as his Oscar winning screenplays for To Kill A Mockingbird and Tender Mercies…
EXCLUSIVE: Talent and literary agency ICM Partners, and theatrical publishing and licensing company Samuel French Inc. have formed a new strategic partnership to co-represent ICM's foreign s…
Not since Terrence McNally’s It’s Only Play stunned the Fabulous Invalid cult with blockbuster sales has a Broadway revival sprung to life as The Front Page is doing thi…
With his intense eyes, dimpled chin and thatch of hair, Simon McBurney has a chameleonic look that shifts imperceptibly from innocent to sinister, enchanted to terrified, that will be famili…
Proving it’s possible to have not just two but three acts in the business there’s no business like, Canadian impresario Garth Drabinsky announced today that he’s coming bac…
Confirming reports earlier this week, Disney Theatrical Productions this morning said that Tony- and Olivier Award-winning director Michael Grandage and Tony- and Olivier Award-winning sc…
Six shows in previews bulked up the new Broadway season and all of them drew audience interest across a wide range of genres, from seasonal songfest (Holiday Inn) to modern classic (Th…
