Monday, November 9, 2015
UPDATE 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 01:59PMSunday, November 8, 2015
George Takei, who would grow up to play Lt. Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek, was five years old in 1942 when his family and some 120,000 other Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast were forci…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PMHere’s Donald Trump’s first sketch on yesterday’s Saturday Night Live, hosting for the first time since 2004. Doubtless you’ll be seeing a lot of it, possibly mistak…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:59AMA pre-taped parody of Drake’s “Hotline Bling” video offered last night’s SNL audience something mostly absent from the rest of the show: Host Donald Trump looking loo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:31AMDonald Trump met his two mini-me’s in the opening monologue of tonight’s Saturday Night Live (Taran Killam and Darrell Hammond), but the the best joke came from Larry David. Davi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:02AMSaturday, November 7, 2015
Protesters opposed to Donald Trump hosting tonight’s Saturday Night Live are proceeding down Fifth Avenue and 56th from Trump Tower toward 30 Rock. No official estimate of the crowd is…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:20PMThursday, November 5, 2015
A star is born with On Your Feet! — the latest Broadway jukebox musical and one that, opening on the eve of Donald Trump’s Saturday Night Live gig couldn’t be timelier. A b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMA goofy off-Broadway hit from 2012 that repurposes ear-worm music (“Alone Again (Naturally)” and cheesy plots from 1970s movies and TV, Seth Rudetsky’s Disaster! is b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:15AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
With the number 522,080 boldly emblazoned on the carton, about 100 demonstrators delivered a package to NBC Universal and Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels Wednesday nigh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:47PMSome of the country’s most prominent Hispanic and civil rights groups are heading to Rockefeller Center for a 6 PM rally today to protest Donald Trump’s upcoming hosting duties …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:19PMEXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at screenwriter/playwright William Goldman and director Will Frears discussing Misery, their Broadway adaptation of Stephen King’s thriller starrin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:29PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: In Spotlight, three Boston Globe reporters and their editor work doggedly to expose a terrible injustice: The widespread rape and sexual abuse of children by priests in the Bost…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:52PMBert Fink is, no doubt, a most happy fella. The one-time Broadway press agent spent 26 years in the brain trust of the New York-based Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, building a repu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:09PMMonday, November 2, 2015
Given the right dosage of care and encouragement, Rear Window could become the best old-fashioned thriller Broadway has seen since Ira Levin’s Deathtrap. And that was a very long time…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:02PMEvery so often dire predictions, like the weather forecast, prove correct, and that’s the story of Week 23 of the 2015-2016 Broadway season. Producers feared the triple whammy of the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:22PMMahershala Ali, who plays the suave lobbyist Remy Danton, Kevin Spacey’s sometime partner in political mayhem, on the Netflix series House Of Cards, will co-star with Joshua Jackson …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PMEXCLUSIVE: 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: T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:58AMSunday, November 1, 2015
This season’s prestige British import, Mike Bartlett’s serio-comedy opens in the not-too-distant future, at Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. Prince Charles, the monarchy’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:50PMFriday, October 30, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: With Broadway producers nervous anticipating this weekend’s audience-daunting triple threat of Hallowe’en, the World Series and the New York City Marathon, a fourth m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:58PMIt has been more than three decades since Tim Pigott-Smith entered the American consciousness as the obsessive police captain Ronald Merrick during the final days of British rule in India, i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30AMThursday, October 29, 2015
Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game, the upcoming The Emperor’s Children) is making her Broadway debut in Thérèse Raquin, and not since Donna Reed donned spectacles and pulled her h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMDirector Alex Timbers (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Rocky) and leading man Steven Pasquale (FX’s Rescue Me, The Bridges Of Madison County) will join forces in a revival of the Alfred…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:59PMForest Whitaker (Southpaw, The Last King Of Scotland, Bird, etc.) announced in August the plan to make his Broadway debut this season in a revival of Eugene O’Neill’s dark two…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMRick Miramontez, who built a small Times Square shop into one of Broadway’s top p.r. powerhouses O&M Company, will bring his company and top staff to DKC Public Relations. The n…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:58AMWednesday, October 28, 2015
Matthew Broderick plays Matthew Broderick and Annaleigh Ashford plays the dog he picks up in Central Park. They’re both pretty adorable in the Broadway premiere of A.R. Gurney’s …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:30AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
Stephen Karam’s knockout drama The Humans, which opened off-Broadway this week to star-making reviews, will move to Broadway in the spring with its ensemble cast intact. The transfer, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:40PMUnabating love for the iPhone moved Apple Inc. beyond analysts’ Q4 2015 projections with a 31 percent rise in quarterly profit, the Cupertino, CA-based company said this afternoon. T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:55PMAmerican history just got a little sexier for 20,000 New York City high school students. A $1.46 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation will provide the NYC Department of Education wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:08AMMonday, October 26, 2015
The stars have begun to align on Broadway and the big winners are new plays in the box office ring: In one corner, Bruce Willis, making his Main Stem debut in William Goodman’s adaptat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:46PMA key factor in making Chicago the longest running revival in Broadway history is the savvy deployment of stars in limited runs — as with the current appearance of Dancing With The St…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:18PMFor decades now, every Broadway show (and most off-Broadway offerings as well), have been filmed and then quietly stashed way at TOFT, the Theatre On Film And Tape archive at the Lincoln Cen…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:49AM 
