Penguin Random House has begun a major re-organization under CEO Markus Dohle, who announced today the appointment of Madeline McIntosh as head of the newly created Penguin Publishing Group.…
UPDATE, 12 noon: More Broadway b.o. news after first paragraph: Â Broadway's summer season ended with a fast break out of the starting gate as previews of It's Only A Play, starring Nathan…
Melissa Rivers released this update on the condition of her mother, Joan Rivers, hospitalized since yesterday at New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital: "My mother would be so touched by the tributes…
Off-Broadway's ever-fecund Vineyard Theatre has nabbed Vincent Kartheiser " who plays obnoxious ladder climber Pete Campbell on AMC's Mad Men " for its upcoming show about the filming of …
EXCLUSIVE: The much-ballyhooed Broadway revival of Side Show has a new above-the-title producer: Universal Pictures. Christopher Herzberger, U's executive, live theatricals, pushed the deal,…
Markus Dohle, CEO of Pearson plc's Penguin Random House, Â announced this morning a changing of the guard at the publishing giant, marking the end of one era and the transition to another.…
Since everyone is dousing everyone else these dog days with buckets of ice to raise money for ALS research, I offer a challenge of my own to The New York Post's Michael Riedel: Meet me at Ba…
Just a few weeks after Sam Shepard's semi-sibling lovers were bouncing off the walls in the Williamstown Theatre Festival revival of Fool For Love comes what appears to be the American premi…
Why did the Shubert Organization, which owns 17 of Broadway's 40 designated theaters, sign off on a deal to buy New World Stages, the five-theater underground off-Broadway complex owned by D…
Fresh off his staging duties for the Williamstown Theatre Festival's production of The Visit, John Doyle will direct Malcolm Gets, Elizabeth A. Davis, Alma Cuervo, Claybourne Elder and Ja…
Any question about the drawing power of Neil Patrick Harris was put to rest with  the release of Broadway's latest b.o. tally. In the first week since Harris' departure from the Tony A…
That's what the SNL vet and Late Night host replied this morning when Al Roker asked him to name his biggest goal for tonight's NBC-broadcast 66th Primetime Emmycast. The filmed interview wa…
EXCLUSIVE: Here's a first look at the art for Side Show, returning to Broadway in October. The musical, with book and lyrics by Bill Russell and music by Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls), tells th…
Motown The Musical, the tuner loosely based on label founder Berry Gordy's memoir, will play its final performance at Broadway's Lunt Fontanne Theatre on January 18, 2015, a few months sh…
The Riedel Watch: I promised occasional updates on reaction to somee of my pal Michael Riedel's more combustible columns (so many to choose from!) and on Wednesday he produced a doozy. Surve…
Australia throws its wig into the Beatles recycle bin with Lennon: Through A Glass Onion, an Oz perennial from 1992 set to arrive off-Broadway beinning October 3. Created and per…
Publishing veteran Rick Horgan, whose position as v.p. and executive editor at Crown was eliminated in May after nearly a decade with the the house, is joining Scribner with the sam…
It's official: Emma Stone will make her Broadway debut in Cabaret beginning November 11th and hanging around Studio 54 as B-grade chanteuse Sally Bowles through February 1, 2015. Michelle…
Hollywood and Broadway producer Paula Wagner has acquired the film rights to the life story of  the late Sylvia Robinson, the singer, songwriter, record producer, publisher, and record…
EXCLUSIVE: Terrence McNally's onstage, backstage, offstage comedy It's Only A Play will begin performances September 28 on Broadway with about $8 million in the bank, producer Tom Kirdahy to…
UPDATE, MONDAY 1:40Â p.m.: MCC Theatre Co-Artistic Director Bernard Telsey released a statement this afternoon confirming that Elizabeth Reaser (True Detective, The Good Wife) will replace…
Rocky bowed out after its disappointing run, and the Broadway box office was off about 3% to $25.2M from the previous week's $25.9M Even an extra performance added to the usual eight for …
Here's a familiar scene: One couple has invited another, close friends, for a weekend in the country. As significant amounts of alcohol flow from bottle to glass to lips, conversation turns …
EXCLUSIVE: Determined to prove his bona fides as a Broadway producer, Harvey Weinstein told Deadline this morning that he and director Diane Paulus are "incredibly happy with the Boston r…
Got blood? For its upcoming production of Carrie: The Musical, Southeast L.A.'s La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts plans to convert its space on La Mirada Boulevard into Ewan High Sch…