Monday, November 30, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: 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 04:38PMThursday, November 26, 2015
Already looking like a hit with Broadway theatergoers, newcomer On Your Feet! — the biotuner about the courtship and rise to superstardom of the Miami Sound Machine’s Gloria an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:47AMTuesday, November 24, 2015
The centenary of the Death Of A Salesman playwright’s birth is being celebrated with Broadway revivals and much academic truffle-sniffing, but this event may get closest to the heart …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:28PMSylvia, the A.R. Gurney comedy in which Matthew Broderick plays a man in mid-life crisis who falls in love with an adoring talking dog, will end its Broadway run a few weeks earlier than pla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:11PMSpeculation that Tom Cruise and Universal Pictures might be wrapping up a deal on the studio’s reboot of The Mummy has been making the rounds this week as the studio continues to plot�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:49PMMonday, November 23, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: At an elegant breakfast this morning at the French Embassy on Fifth Avenue, tonight’s International Emmy Awards were the raison d’être but it was Paris and the events…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:20PMBroadway’s brief mini-boom went bust last week, as the pre-Thanksgiving blues saw 15 shows drop $100K or more — in several cases a lot more — from the previous week. One sl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:40PMMaking good on a promise that seemed unlikely at the time, the producers of the Berry Gordy biotuner Motown The Musical said Monday that the musical will return to Broadway next summer for …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PMWeinstein Live Entertainment (WLE) will team up with Théâtre du Châtelet to bring the Paris company’s production of Singin’ In The Rain to Broadway in 2016 and on a world to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:45PMThe high-energy retro musical, which seemed to founder in its own flop sweat since opening in October to tepid reviews, will close on January 3 after a disappointing run of 85 performances a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:20PMSunday, November 22, 2015
Looking like the love-child of Jeremiah Johnson and Mr. Natural, Matthew McConaughey turned a Butterball into a naked turkey puppet late in last night’s pre-Thanksgiving episode of Sat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:14AMThe best sketch on last night’s Matthew McConaughey-hosted SNL wasn’t live at all. Two weeks before the release of Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens, director J.J. Abrams poppe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:30AMFriday, November 20, 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: L…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:13PMThe White House announced Friday morning plans to screen Focus Features’ The Danish Girl and episodes of Amazon Studio’s Transparent on Monday, November 23, as part of a program …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:45PMThursday, November 19, 2015
The DOC NYC documentary film festival wrapped Thursday evening doling out jury prizes and celebrating a 21 percent hike in attendance in its sixth outing, which ran from November 12 through …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMSir Cameron Mackintosh announced Thursday that his London revival of Miss Saigon, slated to shutter in February, will move to Broadway late next season with its stars and directors intact. E…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:16PMTuesday, November 17, 2015
Gawker.com, the website that set the bar — high and low — for gossip in the Internet age, is trading snark for satire and salacious innuendo for political intelligence.
Just a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:45PMEXCLUSIVE: Disney’s blockbuster The Lion King passed Cats last week to become the third-longest-running show in Broadway history. But Disney’s claim that a new ad for the show re…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:43PMEXCLUSIVE: Best known for her recurring role as Betty DiMello on Showtime’s Masters of Sex opposite Michael Sheen and Caitlin Fitzgerald, Annaleigh Ashford has signed with ICM Partn…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:42PMMonday, November 16, 2015
Monday brought abundant good news to Gloria and Emilio Estefan. Not only did their musical biography On Your Feet! show some legs with a $209K jump at the box office, but they — along…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:20PMSunday, November 15, 2015
Annie, get your gun!
How much more do you want to know about Misery, which hobbled to its opening Sunday night on Broadway? William Goldman wrote the script, as he did the screenplay for Rob…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:25PMOne reason we can all hope the Republicans-Got-Talent reality show continues for awhile is that it provides a whetstone for the SNL‘s “Weekend Update” team, who get sharper…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:42AMLike Godot, Jimmy Fallon never showed up for “A Sit-Down With The Tonight Show Writers,” a New York Comedy Festival event Saturday afternoon moderated by New York Times pop cul…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:26AMSaturday, November 14, 2015
There was no cold open. Cecily Strong appeared alone and said “Paris is the City of Lights,” adding a moving, and movingly brief, tribute to the people of the city and of France.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:53PMAstrophysicist and sometime Nightly Show guest Neil deGrasse Tyson led a panel Saturday afternoon with host Larry Wilmore and top staff from the Comedy Central program, leading off the discu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:25PMThursday, November 12, 2015
What does it mean to be man? Call it reductive, but that’s the question at the heart of Arthur Miller’s plays (he conceded as much in his memoir Timebends) — and none more …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PMCall it the battle of the brands: A pair of Broadway stars will play two titans of the cosmetics industry in War Paint, a new musical that’s just been slated for its world premier earl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:47PMTuesday, November 10, 2015
There was a little event in Manhattan tonight with a few folks you might recognize. Performers at the ninth annual Stand Up for Heroes charity event at the Theater at Madison Square Garden …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:12PMFive days after Disney and Lucasfilms fulfilled his dying wish to see The Force Awakens, lifelong Star Wars fan Daniel Fleetwood has succumbed to cancer. Earlier today, his wife Ashley post…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:45AMMonday, November 9, 2015
Broadway’s autumn roller-coaster ride continues apace, with ticket sales rebounding at the box office as theatergoers continue to express their preferences for hits over misses. The 1…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PMUPDATE with more information:
The producers of David Mamet’s new play China Doll, starring Al Pacino, have moved the opening back two weeks, to December 4th from November 19th. That m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:59PM 
