Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed was declared a new musical today at a meeting of the Tony Administration committee. The ruling…
EXCLUSIVE:Â 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…
Entertainment tech company Rovi Corp. announced this morning that it has completed a deal to acquire DVR maker TiVo for $1.1 billion in cash and stock. The new $3 billion aggregate, which wi…
I’ve written here before that there is no artist in the theater today I admire more than George C. Wolfe, a writer and director blessed with the sharpest mind, the quickest wit, the wi…
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran villain Christopher McDonald, a familiar face this season as vindictive Judge John Schakowsky on CBS’ finalizing series The Good Wife, has landed a couple of plums &…
EXCLUSIVE: The Star Trek icon Mr. Sulu and the real-life social activist who played him will mark the eve of the cut-off date for Tony eligibility by saluting Broadway’s most div…
It can be a challenge, making the contemporary case for Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night. It’s as long as its title warns, for one thing. It’s rep…
EXCLUSIVE: Picture the beleaguered General’s tent on a day when the war is going poorly and the prospects couldn’t be worse. An ambitious young man arrives; for his first persona…
Here’s the trailer for Fox Searchlight’s July 22 US release of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, promising everything you’d hoped for from Team AbFab, Jennifer Saunders (who …
Immortality, like Krazy Glue, styrofoam and the two-party system, sounds like a fine idea — until you find your fingers stuck together under a mountain of landfill with Donald Trump ru…
EXCLUSIVE: The Lilly Awards, named for Lillian Hellman and founded seven years ago to “celebrate women of distinction in American theater,” will honor Eclipsed playwright (and Th…
His name is Sam. AÂ headset is permanently attached to his skull as he ever-more frantically paces the double-digit square footage of his grotto lair. He’s mostly connected to the te…
The Cirque du Soleil brand looks like a boon for the Lyric Theatre which, with 1,896 seats in its current configuration is Broadway’s biggest house. A highly regarded name, famil…
“She is gone, but she used to be mine.” I don’t think anyone, hearing that lyric from Waitress, could escape feeling a rush of sadness and exhilaration. Sadn…
EXCLUSIVE: 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: I…
“We’ve gotta remind them: Earth is not for the taking!” Coming June 24, 20th Century Fox’s Independence Day: Resurgence from director Roland Emmerich and producers De…
Michael Moore looked healthy, De Niro and Keitel looked chummy, Jodie Foster looked glamorous and Cybill Shepherd looked seriously happy as they arrived Thursday night at the Beacon Theat…
Benjamin Walker wears clothes and almost no clothes with equal elan in American Psycho, the blood-spattered, label-obsessed musical that opened on Broadway tonight. Perhaps the star ha…
The Tribeca Film Festival announced the winners of its competition categories this afternoon, with top honors in this 15th edition of the event going to Dean, Junction 48 and Do Not Re…
Julie Taymor (Across The Universe, Titus) interviewed Jodie Foster, whose film Money Monster with George Clooney and Julie Roberts just got a berth in Cannes (and whose Taxi Driv…
EXCLUSIVE: Ever since Ana Villafañe marched across the TV screens of America last November, leading the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade to the irresistible rhythms of the Miami So…
The U.S. Treasury will announce this afternoon that a campaign to keep Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill has been successful, as has been one to replace the slave-holding, Native American-k…
For awhile, Tina Fey has danced a bit around the subject of a Broadway musical adaptation of her 2004 film Mean Girls. On Tuesday evening at the Tribeca Film Festival, however, Fey said that…
The Nantucket Film Festival added more than 30 additional feature selections to the lineup of its June 22-27 run, including two world premieres: Xavier Manrique's Chronically Metropolitan, d…
The prolific lyricist who currently has two musicals running on Broadway and the director best known for his four-decade collaboration with the late playwright Lanford Wilson will be this ye…