Monday, December 14, 2015
Two new musicals with a good beat you can dance to showed gains on Broadway last week as the overall box held steady moving into the Christmas-New Year’s influx of legal, credit-card …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:45PMEXCLUSIVE: 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: A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:40PMThe stars already are beginning to align for next season on Broadway. Producers Howard and Janet Kagan, with Paula Marie Black, announced today that they have signed pop crooner Josh Groban …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:12AMSunday, December 13, 2015
Fun Home, an intimate, dark-hued show that won last year’s Tony Award for best musical, has recouped its $5.25 million capitalization after eight months at Circle In The Square Theatre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:00PMCBS-owned Simon & Schuster, publisher of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hunter S. Thompson, announced Sunday plans to sell a book about Taylor Swift to be crowd-sourced ̵…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:54PMOne of the highlights of Saturday Night Live‘s 41st season has been watching the seriously improving chemistry between “Weekend Update” hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost. Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:34AMThe penultimate Saturday Night Live of the fall season began — and pretty much ended — with the cold open, a welcome return by Will Ferrell as George W. Bush announcing that he w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:02AMFriday, December 11, 2015
The Last Man On The Moon, a documentary about astronaut Eugene “Gene” Cernan, has been set for theatrical, digital and video-on-demand release on February 26. Gravitas Ventures w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:41PMThursday, December 10, 2015
Here is one of the great triumphal surprises in a Broadway season that has had its share of them: A revival of The Color Purple that lifts an already formidable musical into greatness just …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMNorm MacDonald has signed with Random House imprint Spiegel & Grau to publish his memoir, Based On A True Story, in 2016. The martini-dry comedian is best known for his stint as anchor…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:01PMWednesday, December 9, 2015
Sam Mendes’ pull-out-all-the-stops production of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory — which overcame mixed reviews to become a hit at London’s Drury Lane Theatre — is …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PMTuesday, December 8, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: True story: Miss Mary Shepherd parked her eyesore of a yellow van in Alan Bennett’s driveway one night and stayed for 15 years, departing only for the afterlife. She was se…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:44PMWith hit-hungry markets fiercely competing for dibs on Broadway juggernaut Hamilton, lead producer Jeffrey Seller had his pick of venues to launch the show’s beyond-Broadway engagemen…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:14PMMonday, December 7, 2015
Having now seen Lazarus and read the script and revisited The Man Who Fell To Earth, I can confidently report that David Bowie has landed on East Fourth Street with a work of blistering nihi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:41PMJerry Seinfeld's once-a-month residency at the New York's Beacon Theatre, announced last week, sold out in minutes this morning, as did an immediately offered extension that will keep the co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:26PMThe Broadway box office took a short dive following the Thanksgiving holiday bonanza, shrinking $2.4 million or 12% from the week before. But Al Pacino proved that audiences will still pay t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:58PMEXCLUSIVE: Dreamgirls star and The Good Wife regular Anika Noni Rose is joining the cast of Starz drama series Power for a multi-episode arc. She plays LaVerne Thomas, a streetwise cop f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:40PMHot on the heels of across-the-board A-grade report cards from most New York-based critics, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical School Of Rock announced plans for a West End opening next…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:43AMSunday, December 6, 2015
Andrew Lloyd Webber has returned to the magnificent Winter Garden Theatre, for nearly 18 years (1992-2000) home to his now-and-forever musical Cats. School of Rock won’t be leaving any…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:41PMUPDATE, 9:30 AM: Adds full cast of The Wiz Live! parody, below.
The cold opening — Taran Killam and Cecily Strong as Donald and Melania Trump at Christmas — sucked, and even the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:30PMRyan Gosling lost it big time — several times, in fact — on last night’s Saturday Night Live, and we were with him all the way. Yeah, we know that breaking character is a M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:39AMSaturday, December 5, 2015
New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. today made the extraordinary gesture of giving prominent, Page One placement to an editorial declaring it “a moral outrage and a nation…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:15PMFriday, December 4, 2015
Mickey Ross, the graying mogul played by Al Pacino in David Mamet’s cockamamie new play China Doll, has a scheme to fly off into the sunset with his gorgeous young girlfriend. To that …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30AMPhenomenal star casting and a young newcomer with killer vocal chops and eyes ripe for close-ups made Thursday night’s telecast of The Wiz Live! NBC’s smoothest outing yet in wha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:29AMThursday, December 3, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:56PMDiane Paulus has either burnished or tarnished the reputation of the American Repertory Theatre, the nonprofit company on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, MA where she is artistic…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:42PMTuesday, December 1, 2015
Broadway songsmiths from Irving Berlin to Frank Loesser and John Kander love a Hollywood gig, so maybe it’s no surprise that the composer-writer-star of the Main Stem’s biggest h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:06PMBest known as an uptown rock palace, the Beacon Theatre will host Jerry Seinfeld for six monthly shows under the rubric Jerry Seinfeld: The Homestand, beginning January 7, 2016 and continuin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:09PMJay and Mark Duplass — whose fiefdom as writers, directors, actors and producers includes HBO’s Togetherness and Amazon’s Transparent — have closed a deal with …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMMonday, November 30, 2015
Broadway’s musicals — particularly those of the family persuasion — were the big winners during Thanksgiving week, and producers can thank not only the holiday trade but th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:22PMEXCLUSIVE: The Wiz was a wow — that’s what you read on every bus and Broadway poster back in the mid-1970s (the ubiquitous pitch line came from Marilyn Stasio’s review in t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:38PM 
