Monday, August 24, 2015
It’s not exactly a collapse worthy of prompting mass defenestrations, but Broadway business echoed the financial malaise sending shivers through the equities markets this week. Of c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:26PM[SHARE]Laura Poitras, whose headline-making documentary Citizenfour had its world premiere at last year’s New York Film Festival opener, returns this year with another world premiere. She wil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:27PM[SHARE]The Oscar winner will take on the lead role in a revival of the 1941 drama staged by British director Michael Grandage (Red, Frost/Nixon). Whitaker (Southpaw, The Last King Of Scotland, B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 22, 2015
The musical adaptation of Adrienne Shelly’s 2007 indie beaut Waitress, with songs by Sara Bareilles and Tony-winner Jessie Mueller (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) in the title …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:31AM[SHARE]Friday, August 21, 2015
Mort Zuckerman, the 78-year-old real-estate mogul who has been trying to unload the foundering tabloid, yesterday officially took the paper off the table. “As you know, several m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:39AM[SHARE]Now that the Topless Painted Ladies have made the front page of the New York Times, it’s probably time to unmask the true hustlers in this Theater District freak show: That would…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 20, 2015
What Moscow rejects, Manhattan embraces: Moisés Kaufman’s celebrated 1997 docuplay Gross Indecency: The Three Trials Of Oscar Wilde, recently canceled by the Kremlin during pre-produc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Jeremy Gerard has covered the shifting fortunes of Jujamcyn Theatres since it became a formidable competitor to the larger Shubert and Nederlander organizations in the late 1980s. In 2013 pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:38PM[SHARE]It does, however, have a title, an “aesthetic” and, most important, a theater — which these days counts for a lot on Broadway. Paramour, the Montreal-based circus-acts-a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 18, 2015
It went out there a chorus boy and came back a rock star. Having shattered all expectations with a limited run that turned into a 76-week, Tony-winning smash hit Hedwig And The Angry Inch…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:49PM[SHARE]The 53rd New York Film Festival Convergence will run September 26 and 27 and delve into the world of immersive storytelling with a mix of unique films, panels, and live interactive experienc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:43PM[SHARE]The Oscar-nominated Gangs Of New York and You Can Count On Me author will open his new play Hold On To Me Darling as the final entry in the celebrated off-Broadway company’s 3…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:20PM[SHARE]Monday, August 17, 2015
The tall talky one and the short silent one headed back to Vegas after a well-received run at the Nederlanders’ Marquis Theatre, though Penn & Teller slipped away trailing a $13…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:18PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The Live With Kelly And Michael stars will host Lincoln Center At The Movies: Great American Dance, a new fall 2015 cinema series partnering Lincoln Center with Fathom Events. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:49PM[SHARE]Tovey will play Rodolpho in a new staging of Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge opening on Broadway this fall at the Shubert-owned Lyceum Theatre. Hansell, a member of the show&…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:32AM[SHARE]In another hard-hitting Last Week Tonight exposé of an obvious target, HBO’s John Oliver went after greedy, literally high-flying televangelists who use the millions mailed to them…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:55AM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: Villafañe, a Cuban-American singer, dancer and actress from Miami, currently is a series regular on Hulu's hit series South Beach. On the film side, she’ll next be …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 13, 2015
The days when audiences heard "to be or not...brrzzz bzzchchch! Pick-up at three-four and…brrzzzchh!…Lex!… brrzzzchh!…'tis nobler…" may be returning, as the FCC…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:48PM[SHARE]The new musical Dear Evan Hansen, which opened last week to strong reviews at Washington’s Arena Stage, will have its New York premiere in spring, 2016 at the off-Broadway powerhouse S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00PM[SHARE]The marquees of Broadway theaters in New York will be dimmed on Friday, August 14th at exactly 7:45 PM for one minute. Liff died Monday night at home in Westchester County, New York. He was …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:37PM[SHARE]Lipstick, batteries, hoagies and Häagen-Dazs Vanilla Swiss Almond will fuel the promotional tsunami that’s about to be rolled out advancing the December 18 release of Star Wars: The F…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, the Tom Hanks/Mark Rylance thriller about the 1962 exchange of a U-2 pilot for a Soviet agent, joins opening nighter The Walk and festival closer Mi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]North American publishing rights to former pro football tight end Ben Utecht‘s poignant memoir Counting The Days Until My Mind Slips Away: A Love Letter To My Family have been acquired…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:45AM[SHARE]Disney India will present the Broadway stage version of its animated hit in the two cities, featuring an Indian cast numbering in the hundreds and adding “Indian influences” to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:11AM[SHARE]Jeremy Gerard has covered the shifting fortunes of Jujamcyn Theatres since it became a formidable competitor to the larger Shubert and Nederlander organizations in the late 1980s. In 2013 pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: Known universally as Biff and ever-present both backstage and at Broadway openings when Broadway openings mattered, Liff wore hats as a manager and producer, and as a longti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:54PM[SHARE]Pitt and her Jolie Pas Productions today signed on with Aircraft Pictures, Cartoon Saloon and Melusine Productions for The Breadwinner, based on the best-selling young adult novel b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:29PM[SHARE]Monday, August 10, 2015
One of Shakespeare’s least loved plays, Cymbeline is sort of the True Detective Season 2 of the canon: not as good as what came before, too convoluted to sort out and too dense to f…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:30PM[SHARE]Fireworks over the Hudson greeted last week’s opening of Hamilton, along with the kind of excitement that comes when an anticipated hit lives up to expectations and Broadway seems, if …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:20PM[SHARE]UPDATE with more information, below, including message from Times critic Mike Hale.
James Poniewozik will succeed Alessandra Stanley as chief television critic, New York Times reporter Micha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]The Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) has added new signature categories for its upcoming run with the Compassion, Justice & Animal Rights program, which will provide filmmaker…
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