Tuesday, June 9, 2015
East End denizen and talk-show host Baldwin, a key backer of the series, will chat with Dick Cavett and public radio’s Studio 360 ringleader Kurt Andersen after the July 11 opening …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:52PM[SHARE]Lord Lloyd Webber’s fall show, School of Rock — The Musical is doing some test marketing with “pre-previews” at New York’s Gramercy Theatre. Although the shows …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:12PM[SHARE]The once mild-mannered young Los Angeles prosecutor whose dogged investigation put mass-murderer Charles Manson and several members of his “family” behind bars, died Saturday of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:53PM[SHARE]Monday, June 8, 2015
Well, Buffalo in the metaphoric sense. Week 2 of the 2015-2016 Broadway season included the 69th Annual Tony Awards (congrats to the winners, hankies to the losers) and saw the curtain fall …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:47PM[SHARE]It’s always so tempting to throw our hats into the Tony Awards races — no matter how thankless the task proves to be, year after year. Well, with odds-on favorite American Pharoa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:50PM[SHARE]As surely as Monday follows Sunday, closing notices go up for struggling shows that leave the Tony Awards empty-handed. First to go dark in the wake of last night’s awards will be T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:39PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: There wasn’t a bad apple in the bunch. Every winner at Sunday night’s Tony Awards — the 69th time they’ve been handed out — was inarguably at the top…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 7, 2015
It might seem somewhat counter-intuitive to open the Tony broadcast with a number from a show called Something Rotten! But this Best Musical nominee is a goofy, high-energy love letter to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:19PM[SHARE]He won’t get to deliver it on the CBS broadcast, but Lifetime Achievement honoree Tommy Tune just delivered his acceptance speech at Radio City music Hall:
"Right now I'm thinking of T…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:57PM[SHARE]Welcome to Deadline.com‘s live blog of the 69th Annual Antoinette Perry Awards — the Tonys — which will be telecast live by CBS from New York’s Radio City Music Hall.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 6, 2015
This week lawyers for heirs to the estates of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello filed a lawsuit in New York against the author and producers of Hand To God, claiming that the show — a Tony n…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:25PM[SHARE]Friday, June 5, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: Hand To God producer Kevin McCollum says there’s something rotten about a lawsuit filed this week against his show on behalf of the heirs to Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:41PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Six weeks of exhausting campaigning through Earth’s most earnest, swag-free awards season finally come to a close on Sunday with the Tony Awards, broadcast live by CBS from …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2015
Sex between consenting puppets may be fine on a Broadway stage, but lifting one of comedy’s most famous routines may be going too far. A lawsuit filed this week in the Southern Distric…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:45PM[SHARE]Mary-Louise Parker and Dennis Arndt are a match made in the heavens, as you’ll see if you get the chance to observe Heisenberg, the marvelous brief play having its world premiere at…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: Five days to go until the Tony Awards (Sunday, 8-11 PM, CBS) and it’s about time we heard from Phyllis Newman, who has been known by many names but these days calls herse…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:21PM[SHARE]CBS is gambling on the popularity of Broadway’s 2014-2015 slate of Tony-nominated musicals to draw TV viewers to the Sunday 8-11 P.M. broadcast from Radio City Music Hall, along with h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:47AM[SHARE]Here’s the trailer for Suffragette, which reunites Streep and her Bafta-nominated Iron Lady screenwriter Abi Morgan in Sarah Gavron’s drama about Britain’s long and some…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 2, 2015
The Grey’s Anatomy/Scandal/How To Get Away With Murder topper will publish her first book with Simon & Schuster in November, according to an announcement today by VP/editor-in-chie…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:57PM[SHARE]A long-gestating revival of Dames At Sea, a beloved off-Broadway musical from 1968, has booked the Helen Hayes Theatre for a fall opening. It’s the first show at Broadway’s small…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:37PM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2015
It’s down to the wire as we head into New York’s great weekend two-fer: the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, when American Pharaoh hopes to become the first Triple Crown winner since …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:29PM[SHARE]A fresh-faced blonde in the Doris Day mold who found unlikely fame as the mother of psycho killer Jason Voorhees in Friday The 13th and its first sequel, Palmer died Friday of natural …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 31, 2015
Hamilton won’t be eligible for the Pulitzer Prize or Tony nominations until next season, but that hasn’t slowed the show’s prize-winning juggernaut in advance of its July t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00PM[SHARE]Following a pattern set by the original 1996 production and last spring’s West End revival, David Hare’s Skylight has paid off its Broadway capitalization costs in under two mont…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:07PM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2015
In past summers, Andrew Lloyd Webber has invited a select group of friends to his Sydmonton estate for a festival of works-in-progress by Andrew Lloyd Webber. But with his adaptation of the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 28, 2015
Hal Holbrook mimicked Mark Twain of Hannibal, Missouri; Tovah Feldshuh did Golda Meir from Kiev and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Julie Harris played Emily Dickinson from Amherst, Massachusetts. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:30PM[SHARE]The resurgence of interest in the work of playwright A.R. Gurney will continue in the fall with a revival of Sylvia starring competing Tony Award nominees Annaleigh Ashford (You Can’t …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:40PM[SHARE]Cooper, a Tony nominee for his title performance in a hit revival of The Elephant Man, and Schilling, the Orange Is The New Black star who braved off-Broadway in a revival of Ivan Turgenyev&…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:17AM[SHARE]Fish In The Dark, Larry David’s runaway Broadway hit, has extended its limited run and will make a go of it with two new stars: The previously announced Jason Alexander, replacing Davi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Casting is complete for George Takei’s musical Allegiance, inspired by his experience as a Los Angeles-born boy whose family was imprisoned, along with 120,000 other Japanese-Americans…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:20PM[SHARE]Brooks, a series regular who plays tough-and-vulnerable “Taystee” Jefferson  on Orange Is The New Black, will make her Broadway debut playing Sofia in the upcoming fall reviva…
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