EXCLUSIVE: Just in time for the unveiling of her TBS late night quiz show Separation Anxiety, comedian Iliza Shlesinger has signed with Weinstein Books for the October 4, 2016 publication…
UPDATE Wednesday morning, adding Paul McCartney’s tribute and more detail throughout. George Martin, a semi-retired producer of classical music recordings until he became &…
Disaster! is the Nick The Lounge Singer of Broadway musicals. A cast of extraordinarily gifted stars appears to have been tricked into stretching a three-minute parody of movies …
Last in, first out: nerds, a long-aborning musical about the rivalry between Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs announced Tuesday that a planned late-April openi…
EXCLUSIVE: With Broadway’s spring season revving up before the crush of openings to make the Tony Awards cutoff date of April 28, one more musical has been added to the mix, though it …
It was only a few seasons back that Rocky Balboa made his Broadway debut in a very expensive and not too terrible musical based on the movie about the Phillie beefsteak with a mug’s he…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a trailer that piqued the creepy-loving part of our brain: A teaser for the world premiere of Pet at the SXSW Film Fest on Friday at midnight. Directed and produced b…
Spring’s seedling musicals are starting to peep through the winter spoil — Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star has begun previews at the Cort, She Loves Me is clos…
A few things worth noting about Eclipsed, which opened tonight at New York’s Golden Theatre: It marks the Broadway debuts of both Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira. Nyong&…
Nancy Reagan, wife of President Ronald Reagan and one of the most popular — and controversial — First Ladies in modern American history, has died at 94 of congestive heart …
Proving that comedy will never top reality (at least when it comes to U.S. politics), Jonah Hill hosted last night’s SNL and none of the sketches could compete with the GOP circus unfo…
Giving his catatonic brain surgeon a rest — just as the real Dr. Ben Carson did this week, suspending his tortoise-versus-hare campaign for the GOP presidential nomination —…
Saturday Night Live returned tonight after a brief hiatus with a few sharp opening salvos against one-time SNL host and increasingly likely GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. The cold …
Donald Trump’s name is never uttered in Richard Nelson’s quietly incandescent Hunger, a play that feels as fresh as if it was written this morning — which, in fact, it a…
The adage that you can’t make an audience go to a show it doesn’t want to see has proven true once again with this evening’s announcement that a revival of Eugene O’N…
EXCLUSIVE: Journalist Tina Brown has never had trouble attracting A-listers to her projects, whether for cover stories in Vanity Fair and Newsweek magazines, top journalists to the public…
Barbara Cook, indelibly River City librarian Marian Paroo opposite Robert Preston own Broadway in The Music Man and Cunegonde in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, will return to the stag…
Bonnie Pan, a former Maker Studios and Yahoo Video programming executive, will head up Endemol Beyond, the company’s North American digital division. She replaces Will Keenan, who l…
Launching the 2016 Upfronts sellathon, Nickelodeon today added two new sports-themed series from Rob Dyrdek and Shane Nickerson of Superjacket Productions (Fantasy Factory, Ridiculousness): …
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…
EXCLUSIVE: After a decade at Luber Roklin, Stephanie Moy has joined Elevate Entertainment. At Luber she worked with Damson Idris (Snowfall), Katie Leclerc (Switched At Birth), Jes Macallan (…
The Austin Film Society said today that SNL alumna and Bridesmaids star Maya Rudolph will wax funny and smart about comedy goddess Carol Burnett at the Texas Film Awards in Austin on March 1…
Broadway’s portfolio of 31 shows — up a handful of titles over the same week one year ago — showed a 7 percent boost on ticket sales over 2015. That presents a far prettier…
Hard on the heels of his surprise Oscar win last night for Bridge Of Spies, Mark Rylance came up with an Olivier Awards nomination for best actor in Farinelli And The King, in which he playe…
“Welcome to the Academy Awards,” Chris Rock said near the top of Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, “otherwise known as the ‘White Peoples’ Choice Awards.R…