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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:16PM[SHARE]At its Newfront (or Upfront) presentation this morning, Hulu announced an exclusive deal with AMCÂ productions for future content. Hulu also announced Difficult People, a new series set to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:03AM[SHARE]The 20th edition of the Nantucket Film Festival will show A24's The End Of The Tour with Jason Segel as the late David Foster Wallace, also starring Jesse Eisenberg, on opening night, Jun…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Contrary to what you might have read elsewhere this morning, Harvey Weinstein never threw in the towel on Finding Neverland, and has no plan to now. He charged into the end-of-season with gu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:37PM[SHARE]Joe DiPietro’s revision of Garson Kanin’s valedictory comedy Peccadillo, which marked the Broadway debut of diva Renée Fleming, will close on Sunday. Staged by Kathleen Marsh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:06PM[SHARE]Reacting to the snub this morning by the Tony nominating committee, which declined to give Finding Neverland any love at all, producer Harvey Weinstein took the high road:
"With 27 nominatio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:14AM[SHARE]UPDATE 2: Complete list of nominees, below:
UPDATE: More nominees, below:
The National Theatre of Great Britain’s ingenious adaptation of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Ni…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:10AM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2015
Broadway heads into the Tony season hawking something for everyone, as audiences prove amenable to shows on every scale as long as they like what they see. That’s particularly true …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:31PM[SHARE]Jayne Meadows Allen, a gifted comedian in the Lucille Ball vein who became familiar to TV audiences as a longtime panelist on CBS’ I’ve Got A Secret, died April 26 of natural cau…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:36PM[SHARE]John Cameron Mitchell added “starred on Broadway” to the long list of credits attached to his trailblazing musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch that already included written by, co-…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 26, 2015
Rarely has the phrase “torn from the headlines” burned with as much relevance as it does with Grounded, the mesmerizing show that opened Sunday at the Public Theater. George Bran…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:40PM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: Whether Harvey Weinstein fired Broadway press representative Rick Miramontez or Rick fired the producer of Finding Neverland is now officially moot. Miramontez’Â O&M P…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:40PM[SHARE]They’re grizzled and jowly but barely less quick with the sardonic retort, the five surviving members of Monty Python. The recent concert reunion of Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2015
Outcasts and losers link The Visit and Airline Highway, the two final entries in 2014-2015 Tony Awards sweepstakes (the nominations for this year’s awards will be announced on Tuesday …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]Facing competition from that red hot up-and-comer down the street, one Will Shakespeare, the Bottom brothers have to come up with a new hit or see their troupe out on the streets. The amusin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Embrace the exclamation point. Trust it. Give yourself over to it. Something Rotten!, the intoxicating new musical at the St. James Theatre, revels in its silliness so engagingly that exclam…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]No pun intended, the Selma director assured a packed audience at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan’s Chelsea, at the start of a freewheeling conversation with the Tribe Called Quest co-foun…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:27PM[SHARE]Usually the closing notices go up after the Tony nominations are announced. But poor business and no prospects of improvement have brought a quick end to The Heidi Chronicles, a revival o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Broadway musicals are like chemistry sets. Even the smartest kid in the class occasionally conjures a potion smelling suspiciously of rotten eggs. That’s the case with Doctor Zhivago, …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]The screwball comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson (previously paired in Marley & Me) is the first from the They All Laughed director in 14 years. Nascent distributor Clar…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:04PM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2015
Sometimes, what happens in Williamstown really oughtta stay in Williamstown. That Berkshires berg with its annual summer theater festival has been sending shows to Broadway left (The Elephan…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:35PM[SHARE]Director Bennett Miller went mano-a-mano with director Christopher Nolan Monday evening before a packed, film-crazy crowd at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center as part of the Tribeca Film Fe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:15PM[SHARE]Queen Elizabeth enjoyed her best week yet, and Henry VIII and his cronies couldn’t ax for anything more, showing a boost of nearly $266K even as Broadway took a sharp dive after spring…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:34PM[SHARE]Between Riverside And Crazy, Guirgis’ comic drama about an elderly ex-policman and the motley of family and friends who weave in and out of his Riverside Drive apartment, won the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:17PM[SHARE]Every Broadway actor (not to mention theatergoer) endures the modern-day scourge of mobile phones that go off in the middle of a solo and the distraction of Tinkerbell lights as people in th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 19, 2015
A fathers’s suicide and a daughter’s sexual awakening may not be typical themes for a Broadway musical (OK, there’s no such thing as a typical theme for a Broadway musical)…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 18, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: Second Stage Theatre, one of New York’s most prominent off-Broadway companies, closed Friday on its deal to buy the Helen Hayes Theatre, Deadline has confirmed. The $24.7 mi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2015
We don’t have an American troupe comparable to the U.K.’s National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company to officially carry the dual burden of fostering new work while reinvesti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the teaser that MCC Theater will use to promote Permission, the latest play from very-bad-boy writer Robert Askins, whose Hand To God just opened on Broadway to ra…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:34PM[SHARE]Perhaps taking a cue from colleague Marc Platt –Â who defied critics’ expectations by turning the widely dissed Wicked into one of Broadway’s biggest all-time moneymakers…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:44PM[SHARE]The Black List development project took to Twitter and other social media this morning to announce that Zosia Mamet, Alex Wolff, Julia Garner and Michael Gaston have joined the cast of its f…
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