Thursday, July 23, 2015
The Shubert Organization, with 17 houses Broadway’s biggest landlord, has landed one major catch for next season: Duncan Sheik’s musical adaptation of American Psycho. Produce…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:18PM[SHARE]Broadway’s marquees will go dark for one minute on Friday at 7:45 P.M. in honor of Theodore Bikel, the actor, folk singer and union activist who died earlier this week. Bikel was be…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 21, 2015
To a  Jew growing up in New York in the 1950s and ’60s, Theodore Bikel was bigger than Zero Mostel, bigger than Peter, Paul & Mary, bigger than Yul Brynner. He was Broadway, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 16, 2015
Surefire stories don’t write themselves. That’s the take-away from Amazing Grace, the epically bad show that opened Thursday at the Nederlander Theatre. The timing certainly c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Jeremy Gerard has covered the evolving fortunes of Jujamcyn Theatres since it became a formidable competitor to the larger Shubert and Nederlander organizations in the late 1980s. In 2013…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 15, 2015
As the old saying goes, Jesus saves, Moses invests, God recoups. Even on Broadway, where 80% of shows fail. The Deity had an inside edge with the Big Bang Theory star as His stand-in at Stud…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:33PM[SHARE]The Attenberg writer-director becomes the third filmmaker in residence at FSLC after directors Lisandro Alonso (Jauja) and Andrea Arnold (Red Road). During her residency in New York, Tsangar…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:13PM[SHARE]Jane Krakowski (The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, 30 Rock) will return to Roundabout Theatre Company for its 50th anniversary season to co-star on Broadway in a revival of She Loves Me with …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Producers Joan Raffe, Jhett Tolentino, and Douglas Denoff announced today that That Girl will continue as the lead in the new off-Broadway comedy by Tony winner Joe DiPietro (Memphis). The s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:45PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Chiké Okonkwo (Banshee, BBC's Paradox) has been cast in Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation. He joins an ensemble that includes  Jackie Earle Haley, Armie Hammer, Col…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:51AM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: The musician and actress, currently co-starring as an FBI analyst in CBS’ CSI: Cyber, has joined the film as one of the leads. XOXO, directed by Walter Robot studio’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:37PM[SHARE]Penn & Teller haven’t been on Broadway since 1991, and their limited-run return is getting lots of love from audiences and critics of the anti-b.s.-crusading illusionists. In th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:14PM[SHARE]Here’s a first look at the trailer for Club De Cuervos, Netflix’ new dramedy series from Gaz Alazraki (Nosotros Los Nobles). All 13Â episodes of Season 1 will be available excl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 11, 2015
UPDATE, 5:50 A.M. with more information throughout.
Roger Rees, who won Olivier and Tony awards in the early 1980s for his performance as the title character in The Life and Adventures of Ni…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:50AM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2015
Penn & Teller have taken a break from Las Vegas and car commercials for a six-week run at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre, and welcome home. It’s been a 15-year dry spell without …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 9, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: Bryce Pinkham, Tony-nominated for the role he originated in the 2014 Best Musical A Gentleman's Guide To Love and Murder, will return to the role of scheming heir Monty Navarro on…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:08PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The Way Way Back star Liam James is reteaming with producer Sycamore Pictures for Speech & Debate, a film adaptation of Stephen Karam’s acclaimed off-Broadway play. Dan …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 8, 2015
As the July 14 release date of Go Set A Watchman approaches, documentary film producer Mary McDonagh Murphy released a new photograph of To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee, taken in …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:45PM[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 11:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Here’s someone who needs to find another outlet for his creativity. Just before the lights came up on a performance of Hand To God at Broadway’s Booth Theatre a few days ag…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:12PM[SHARE]Helen Brann, whose self-named literary agency represents such high-octane clients as Robert B. Parker and Stephen Sondheim, has completed a succession arrangement with ICM Partners that will…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:02PM[SHARE]As Deadline reported exclusively last week, a revival of Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s musical will move from Los Angeles to Broadway in the fall. Ken Davenport, producing the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:39PM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2015
The long July 4 weekend may have seen hot bodies seeking refuge in air-conditioned seats but they weren’t in cooling down in Broadway theaters. The 28 shows were off 13% from the previ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 2, 2015
Judy Garland at the Palace had nothing on the crowd that roared when Ellen Greene made her entrance Wednesday night on stage at New York’s City Center for the final of  just two …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Chekhov meets Beth Henley in Of Good Stock, Melissa Ross’s melodramedy getting its New York premiere  at Manhattan Theatre Club’s off-Broadway MainStage (after a spring unveil…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:04PM[SHARE]Talk about severing ties! Getting the jump on its own annual July 4th fireworks extravaganza, one of the country’s biggest retailers announced this morning that it was taking the pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:30AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: An acclaimed revival of Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s musical Spring Awakening is transferring to Broadway in the fall, I’m told, as soon as a theater can be locked …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Jeremy Gerard has covered the evolving fortunes of Jujamcyn Theatres since it became a formidable competitor to the larger Shubert and Nederlander organizations in the late 1980s. In 2013…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:58PM[SHARE]No surprise, a musical about the run-up to a wedding fraught with all sorts of incompatibilities, will shutter after the Sunday, August 9 matinee. The show, by Brian Hargrove (book and ly…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:34PM[SHARE]Bartlett Sher’s production has its Golde and Motel The Tailor. Joining Danny Burstein’s talkative Tevye the milkman will be Jessica Hecht (Breaking Bad) as his no-nonsense wife G…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:01PM[SHARE]The life of a drama critic inevitably includes a confrontation with an angry playwright who insists that every character and situation in his or her very bad play is a 100-percent-guaranteed…
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