EXCLUSIVE: Success rewards some artists with an opportunity to shoot the moon, take a risk, do something completely unexpected. Direct Grease: Live for example. “It was an easy d…
Shakespeare’s battle-of-the-sexes comedy The Taming Of The Shrew has been a reliable crowd-pleaser over the decades of free Shakespeare in Central Park (among the most memorable were M…
Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh, who teamed up at New York’s City Center for a powerful revival of Uncle Vanya four years ago, will make their Broadway debuts next winter in The Pr…
The New Yorker magazine editor and writer Susan Morrison confirmed today that she’ll write a biography of her one-time boss Lorne Michaels, for Random House. The Saturday Night Live cr…
Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond will write and direct a tribute to the Saturday Night Live creator and executive producer that will feature Tituss Burgess, Jimmy Fallon, Cheyenne Jackson, Taran K…
The blizzard of 2016 dumped more than two feet of snow on the Broadway theater district, and while producers had hoped to forge ahead, city authorities hd other plans, shutting down transpor…
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway’s most powerful landlord, the Shubert Organization, may be angling to profit from New York’s current obsession with those clip-clopping horse-drawn carriag…
Returning to the stage for the first time in two decades, Justified co-star and six-time Emmy nominee Timothy Olyphant will headline the Atlantic Theater Company’s world premiere of Os…
Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rap-infused musical about the American Revolution and the first Treasury secretary, will have a run beginning in the late summer of 2017 at the Hol…
It wasn’t Jonas, but Hollywood had its own snowstorm this weekend, in a mini-blizzard of releases from Ryan Kavanaugh‘s mouthpieces hoping to defang New York magazine…
As sunlight broke over storm-stalled New York, the trade group Broadway League announced that today’s performances, most of them 3 P.M. matinees, will go on as scheduled: “All Br…
The rest of New York City may have been shut down by winter storm Jonas, but Saturday Night Live went on in high style with an episode hosted by mixed martial arts star Ronda Rousey and f…
Firing on all cylinders, Saturday Night Live captured the Oscars’ diversity fiasco with a fast and furious parody of the all-white acting nominations last night in one of the season…
EXCLUSIVE: Colin Quinn‘s streaming comedy series Cop Show will have its second-season premiere on February 2 on the Lexus-owned digital content channel LStudio.com. Following a somewha…
EXCLUSIVE: Each week Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth have an email conversation about the state of the industry, the only stipulation …
Hot on the heels of the much-lauded film The Big Short comes Dry Powder, Sarah Burgess’ new play about finance and the U.S. economy that will star Homeland‘s Claire Danes and Han…
The last picture show to run at the Ziegfeld Theater, Manhattan’s sole remaining uniplex, is Star Wars: The Force Awakens, according to Cablevision, which has leased the theater from r…
Just in time for the dog days of summer, Andrew Lloyd Webber and T.S. Eliot’s Cats will return to Broadway this summer, the first revival since the original blockbuster closed after an…
Posing no threat to his reputation for being late, Mayor Bill de Blasio proclaimed January 20, 2016 “David Bowie Day.” The announcement from the Mayor’s Office of Media and…
Asked this afternoon for his take on the lack of Oscar nominations for African Americans, Quincy Jones — who’s scored 34 films beginning with The Pawnbroker in 1964 — to…
EXCLUSIVE: TV and radio personality and author Alani Nicole Anthony — better known as La La — has joined the producing team of Eclipsed, the celebrated drama that will mark the B…
While Hollywood denizens dodge fallout from the monochromatic Oscar nominations, Broadway might be feeling smug in this season of The Color Purple, On Your Feet!, Allegiance, Eclipsed and, o…
Penthouse, the girly magazine that took on Playboy by going hardcore in the 1990s only to see its market overcome by the tsunami of Internet porn, has gone digital-only, owner General Media …
Despite a negligible dip in the overall Broadway box office last week, several shows had reason to cheer through the January blahs. Three musicals showed significant gains, including laud…
Lionsgate and New Regency are pooling resources through a multi-faceted production and distribution agreement announced today at NATPE that will “capitalize on content opportunities in…