As Deadline reported a few weeks back, a new musical built around the songs and fuzzy logic of singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett will start it its day-boat voyage to Broadway in 2017. The p…
A small private foundation focusing on the contributions of artists and scientists who have moved to the U.S. from abroad announced today prizes totaling $250,000 to theater artists who also…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio today appointed Julie Menin as Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. Menin, a highly regarded lawyer, activist and consumer advoca…
Affable Late Late Show host and Tony winner James Corden will lead the 70th annual Tony Awards, which CBS will telecast live from New York’s Beacon Theatre on June 12 from 8-11 PM. Thi…
The week that ended Sunday on Broadway had to improve over the week before, when the Street went dark on a blizzard-flattened Saturday, so there’s even less reason than usual for we…
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. ROTH: So …
IMAX Corporation today announced a distribution and marketing partnership, that will provides Discovery Communications’ Discovery Channel with 18 months of exclusive paid global televi…
I suppose you could say they had me at the umbrellas. Over two years in the planning and threatened by heavy rains all day, Fox’s sprawling presentation of Grease Live went forward Sun…
Asserting its position as the leading voice of the liberal Democratic establishment, the New York Times today strongly endorsed Hillary Clinton for nomination as the Presidential candi…
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…
While he maintains that Jon Snow is indeed dead, Game Of Thrones‘ Kit Harington is prepping for a return to the living theater — and a deal with the devil. He’ll play Docto…
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 …