Saturday, May 16, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:54AM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2015
The Drama League, a service group whose members are theatergoers from across the U.S., announced its 81st annual awards on Friday, providing a bit of chatter-worthy insight into how the wind…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:33PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Spring is bustin’ out all over Times Square (literally, if you count the body-painted double-breasted  Guaranteed-Female-Students-Working-Their-Way-Through-College slinki…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2015
The Oscar-winning Chinatown scribe will receive the 2015 Screenwriters Tribute at an event on June 27 hosted by comedian David Steinberg, the Nantucket Film Festival announced Thursday. Town…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:45PM[SHARE]No voice in today’s theater cries out with such compelling pathos and beauty as that of Athol Fugard, a painter of stage stories that, even after more than five decades, continues to t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 12, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: A New York State Supreme Court judge ruled this morning that Broadway publicist Marc Thibodeau was in breach of contract when he sent out an email that caused an angel to pull …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:11PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Alani Nicole Anthony, aka La La, is joining the unkillable Unforgettable as a series regular. The formerly CBS, now A&E crime procedural produced by Sony TV has a 13-week orde…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PM[SHARE]The American Civil Liberties Union and its Southern California chapter today filed grievances with several federal and state agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:11PM[SHARE]Turner Broadcasting and Live Nation Entertainment today announced the Live Nation Music Awards, a new television event that promises to celebrate the best live musical performances of the ye…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:17PM[SHARE]The Last Ship sailed months ago but Sting and his Tony-nominated score live on. Another chance to hear it — near, if not precisely on Broadway — comes up Tuesday, May 19, when it…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:21AM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2015
With six weeks of bragging rights for producers to tout their Tony nominations before the June 7 awards show (did IÂ mention it’s on CBS starting at 8 p.m.?), most in that select clu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:22PM[SHARE]New York’s pre-Tony theater awards blitz is in spring bloom. Last week there were the N.Y. Drama Critics Circle tips, limited to plays and musicals. Yesterday were the Lortels, hono…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 10, 2015
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway-bound musical is heading uptown for a summer opening after a sold-out run at the Public Theater, while Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize winner, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:19PM[SHARE]If you can picture Dustin Hoffman’s mother in The Graduate, or Ralph Fiennes’ in Quiz Show, or, in her best known, if least characteristic film role as the treacherous foil to Ja…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:08PM[SHARE]You had to cool your heels for nearly two minutes, but the “Picture Perfect” game-show sketch on last night’s Saturday Night Live hit a live target: fear of retribution by …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:22AM[SHARE]Momma said there’d be nights like this: Reese Witherspoon hosted an SNL edition packed with more lame jokes than this story’s headline. Decked out in a bizarre lace dress that mi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:41AM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2015
With the UK's General Election last night ending in a surprise victory for Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservative Party, Audience playwright Peter Morgan has quickly updated the s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2015
It’s probably not the best moment in time for a show that soft-peddles an “honor” killing. And yet here is Zorba! — that manic-depressive musical that provedÂ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:34PM[SHARE]Even before taking over its just-purchased Broadway flagship, the Helen Hayes Theatre, the estimable off-Broadway company Second Stage has lined up major talent for its upcoming 37th season,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Ever the provocateur, Norman Lear has been beating the drum for a series that takes aging comically. I mean seriously. Or as serious fodder for a sitcom. Netflix ups the stakes with Grace…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:46PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: One of the busiest dance-makers on the world stage, Christopher Wheeldon just earned a pair of Tony nominations for his Broadway debut directing and choreographing An American In …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:33PM[SHARE]Accepting the PEN American Center’s version of a Lifetime Achievement Award, writer Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare In Love, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead) voiced support on Tuesd…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2015
The critically lambasted musical from composer Lucy Simon, lyricists Michael Korie and Amy Powers and book writer Michael Weller, will shutter Sunday, May 10 at the Shubert-owned Broadway Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2015
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle this afternoon named Lin-Manuel Miranda’s exuberant, rap-inflected show Hamilton as the best musical of the season. The show recently ended …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:01PM[SHARE]Spring was finally in the air this week. That, combined with two closings (The Heidi Chronicles and Living On Love), a curtailed run (just six performances for Hedwig And The Angry Inch, ret…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:42PM[SHARE]After a run of about 15 minutes, Duck Commander Musical has announced a quick closing at the Rio Hotel. Based on Willie and Korie Robertson’s 2012 book about the Louisiana fam…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 3, 2015
In a generally weak SNL outing, the expected plug for host Scarlett Johansson’s latest romp as Black Widow in The Avengers: Age Of Ultron was delivered in the evening’s best vid…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:01AM[SHARE]Hat-tipping anticipated competition from the championship fight, Saturday Night Live returned after a brief hiatus and cold-opened with a screen-roll touting a “pirated” feed of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:18AM[SHARE]Kicking off her fourth tour as host of SNL, Scarjo told Kenan Thompson and Tarran Killam that the best thing that’s happened to her in the past year was the birth of her daughter, maki…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:21AM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2015
Enough talk (for the moment at least) about who and what didn't get Tony nominations earlier this week. Let's turn to some who did. Each year, the announcement of nominees is accompanied by …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The day after the announcement of the Tony Awards nominations is always emotional in the Broadway precincts, as the selected few begin to enjoy their five weeks of glory ahead of th…
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