Wednesday, May 27, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Broadway’s crazy 2014-2015 season ended on a very high note, especially if you’re a theater owner or one of a handful of producers with big fat hits: The week that ended Sunday b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:37PM[SHARE]With less than two weeks to go before the Tony Awards (Sunday June 7, 8-11 P.M. on CBS), knuckles are white, fingernails are bitten, eyelids are twitching, feet are pacing, chat rooms are bu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:34PM[SHARE]Just don’t call it an American horror story. Lange and Byrne will play the grandiose aging matinee idol James Tyrone, famed as the Count Of Monte Cristo, and his morphine-addicted w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2015
When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast five years ago, Eve Ensler instinctively headed to New Orleans.
SOURCE: noir.bloomberg.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of “La Bete” features the U.K.'s great clown Mark Rylance in a scenery- devouring, tour-de-force performance as a buffoonish actor foisted on David Hyde Pier…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 05:58PM[SHARE]I was attending “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” the $65- million show that has been previewing for a month and is expecting critics to wait until Feb. 7 before weighing in. This…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 05:58PM[SHARE]Amidst all the sex being thrown around in Thomas Bradshaw’s boinkathon, social conventions get clawed at and stripped away.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PM[SHARE]Denzel Washington puts in a smashing lead performance and is surrounded by an excellent supporting cast.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PM[SHARE]Friday, May 22, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: I met Swoosie Kurtz for the first time in the brief lull between her first Tony nomination and her first win. Almost immediately I asked her to marry me. Didn’t matter that …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:19PM[SHARE]The one-time footballer will emcee the July 15 fundraiser, ESPN’s annual that-was-the-year-in-sports event to be broadcast live by ABC for the first time. Maura Mandt an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2015
The thing of it is, is this: Until the last two minutes or so — when the show suddenly built to a frenzy with a slide show that Don Draper’s Kodak Carousel could only hope to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2015
David Letterman took the stage at the Ed Sullivan Theater tonight to deliver his final monologue after 33 years as a late-night TV host. We’ll get the full transcript up when it’…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:21PM[SHARE]Here is David Letterman’s final Top 10 list and the folks who read them:
Top 10 Things I've Always Wanted to Say to Dave
10. Alec Baldwin: “Of all the talk shows, yours is …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:11PM[SHARE]Stop the presses, Neil LaBute has a heart, possibly. In his new play, The Way We Get By, no women are humiliated, no gay men are beaten up, and the only abuse unleashed is directed at…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:03PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: While we’re all thanking David Letterman for tossing the genteel Tonight Show mold and recasting post-primetime comedy in his own rebellious image, here is a heresy worth co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:52AM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2015
Annie Baker’s The Flick won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama two years ago after an off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons, so it may seem too soon for a reappraisal. But few plays in my…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:19PM[SHARE]The 2015 Tony Awards haven’t even been decided yet but next year’s best-musical race already has a strong contender. Hamilton, Lin-Manual Miranda’s history lesson rapped in…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:58PM[SHARE]Who says Times Square is godless? That hasn’t been the case at least since Disney came back to Broadway, though as usual the deity must co-exist, however uneasily, with Mammon. On t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 17, 2015
Was it just my imagination or were there more sketches and fewer videos on the season closer of Saturday Night Live last night? Yes, some were flat but still, there were more hits than misse…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:31AM[SHARE]In the Department Of So-How-Was-The-Play-Mrs. Lincoln?, Louis C.K.’s dive into the empty pool monologue was followed on last night’s season finale of Saturday Night Live with a s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:48AM[SHARE]Holy moley. Oh, man. Louis C.K. launched the season finale of Saturday Night Live with a monologue that took no prisoners and is bound to go down in SNL history as either the most infamous o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 16, 2015
A June showcase of four short plays addressing the critical and growing incursion of censorship into arts and culture has been cancelled by the presenting venue, Greenwich Village’sÂ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:23AM[SHARE]MPI Media Group has acquired all domestic distribution rights to Uncle Nick, a comedy starring Brian Posehn (Mr. Show, The Sarah Silverman Program). The film is directed by Chris Kasick (Att…
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