Monday, October 26, 2015
For 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 11:49AMIt’s been eight years since the Roundabout Theatre Company launched both its postage-stamp size developmental space on West 46th Street and the career of an extraordinary playwright, w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:10AMSunday, October 25, 2015
The pre-show outside the Richard Rodgers Theatre has become almost as hot as tickets to Hamilton, playing inside. What began as free bit of entertainment — dubbed “Ham4Ham”…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:10AMSaturday, October 24, 2015
Calling filmmaker Michael Moore “a valuable thorn in the side of American complacency,” interviewer Annette Insdorf introduced the triple-threat writer-producer-director for a co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:08PMFour new films that take on grand-scale social issues from the intimate perspective of the people affected by them were the subject of a too-brief, provocative panel at Saturday afternoon&#…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:43PM“Nobody's going to go to a film because the guys came in on time and under budget,” Alejandro Inarittu told an audience of young filmmakers Saturday at the Producers Guild of Ame…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PMFriday, October 23, 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 03:50PMIn the 1960s, the idea of sending up popular culture was so fresh it could still be considered daring — “Monster Mash” was a Top 10 Halloween hit in 1962 and Batman was on …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30AMThursday, October 22, 2015
Marlo Thomas, who’s headlining Joe DiPietro’s off-Broadway comedy of indiscretions Clever Little Lies, saw several different circles of her life intersect over lunch at La Gren…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:34PMWednesday, October 21, 2015
I don’t know what’s in the drinking water down at the Public Theater but they ought to bottle it for sale at the snack bar. Michael John LaChiusa’s very moving and beautifu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PMChicken & Egg Pictures announced today the 10 participants in its inaugural Accelerator Lab, which will oversee the development of non-fiction projects helmed by first and second-time …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AMWhat would we do without odd couples? Not just Neil Simon’s Oscar and Felix but all those mismatched friends, lovers, spouses, siblings, parents, partners, pets, cousins, exes, execs, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:29AMTuesday, October 20, 2015
“I think I would love for it not to be a thing when there are a bunch of women show runners somewhere,” Agbo told an appreciative crowd at Tuesday night’s creative keynote …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:41PMThe 12 Years A Slave star, who’s also about to be seen as the motion-capture character Maz Kanata in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, will continue with Eclipsed when it moves to Broadway…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:40AMMonday, October 19, 2015
There was good news, bad news and no news on Week 21 of the 2015-16 Broadway season, which saw a modest drop over the big Columbus Day weekend haul from the prior stand. On the plus side, 12…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:52PMCall it the Nightmare on 42nd Street, just in time for Halloween: A horror show named Trip Of Love has taken over the Little Shubert Theatre, recently renamed Stage 42 possibly so patrons w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:25AMOyelowo (Selma, HBO’s Nightingale and Five Days) will play Shakespeare’s triumphant general and Craig (Bond, James Bond) the betraying lieutenant Iago who orchestrates his leade…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:31AMSunday, October 18, 2015
After months of separated-at-birth? jokes about Larry David and Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, Saturday Night Live made the dream come true with its cold…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:37AMAn exuberant Tracy Morgan hosted Saturday Night Live last night with an emotional assist not only from 30 Rock castmates Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Jane Krakowski and Jack McBrayer, but from L…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:54AMFriday, October 16, 2015
You haven’t been able to score a pair for love or money (well, maybe money) since tickets to Benedict Cumberbatch’s three-month run as the Melancholy Prince went on sale last yea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:18PMEXCLUSIVE: She may be playing biological mother to Supergirl Melissa Benoist in the upcoming CBS series, but multi-platform star Laura Benanti (Nashville, The Sound Of Music Live) is doing …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:59PMEXCLUSIVE: Hope springs eternal for producers with a hot property. Gotta Dance, a new musical based on Dori Berenstein’s documentary about a pro-basketball dance team of senior citizen…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:21PMThe last of Alan Menken’s Disney collaborations with the late Howard Ashman (and with additional work from Tim Rice), the Genie tuner has been a sell-out at Mickey’s Broadway sh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:11PMCicely Tyson turns 91 in December and there’s a moment in the uneven Broadway revival of The Gin Game when the years fall away, when she is evanescent, transformed for a quickly pass…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AMThursday, October 15, 2015
Just weeks after New York’s tabloids began reducing coverage of entertainment news in the country’s culture capital, the New York Film Critics Circle announced the addition of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:49PMWednesday, October 14, 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: T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:13PMPumping the promotion for his musical adaptation of Paramount’s 2003 Jack Black hit School Of Rock into high gear, Andrew Lloyd Webber today released a 360-degree video link to the sho…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:54PMTuesday, October 13, 2015
Her name is Jess, and half her face and right arm have been severely burned during three tours of duty in Afghanistan, leaving her disfigured, disabled and angry. Sudden noises trigger fla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:32PMEXCLUSIVE: With advance ticket sales now in the $40 million range — a figure comparable to The Book Of Mormon and the opening of Miss Saigon in 1991 — and tickets harder to come…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:13PMWith 31 shows running (including seven in previews) and only two registering drops, the Broadway box office welcomed Columbus last week with a lofty 22% increase over the previous stand. The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:02PMEXCLUSIVE: In a deal with Macmillan imprint Feiwel And Friends, actor and writer John Cariani will reverse the usual traffic flow by recasting his popular dramedy Almost, Maine into a YA n…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:13AM 
