Thursday, April 16, 2015
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:22PM[SHARE]With producers lined up three deep for any available Broadway house, no show closing leaves a theater empty for long. The departure of Honeymoon In Vegas from the Nederlander Theatre opens t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Finding Neverland flies. Occasionally it even soars. The miracle is that the darned thing not only got off the ground, but that this musical prequel to the Peter Pan story arrives on Broa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:59PM[SHARE]Possibly former actor Paul Giamatti is one of six guest directors of National Geographic Channel’s new series Breakthrough, which NGC is producing in partnership with General Electric …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:27PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE:Â It’s an extraordinary time for Cush Jumbo, the London-based actress who starred on Broadway earlier this season with Hugh Jackman in Jez Butterworth’s spooky curios…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Every Broadway season produces a punching bag or two (Moose Murders, closed on opening night and became a synonym for flop; A Tale Of Two Cities, which ought to have closed on opening night …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Broadway this week welcomed a pair of lavishly produced revivals of 1950s musicals that were processed by MGM’s Arthur Freed unit into hugely popular movie musicals, both directed by V…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:05PM[SHARE]CEO Brett Murrihy founded Artist Voice in 2010 with Matt Gudinski as part of Michael Gudinski's Mushroom Group to  book local and international music acts for tours and performances…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:59PM[SHARE]The Nightcrawler star will play the nerdy, lovestruck florist Seymour in this summer’s three-performance concert revival of Little Shop Of Horrors, the musical adaption of the 1960 Rog…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:49PM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: The actress, who won a Tony Award for her leading role in Venus in Fur, will join the cast of Stephen Frears' Florence Foster Jenkins opposite Meryl Streep and H…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:14PM[SHARE]“Money, Money, Money” goes the Abba ditty that will certainly become Mamma Mia‘s swan song as it begins its long goodbye leading up to shuttering on Labor Day. It’s a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:41PM[SHARE]Ana Villafañe, a Cuban-American singer, dancer and actress from Miami, will play Gloria Estefan in On Your Feet! opposite Josh Segarra as the superstar’s husband, producer Emilio…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:31AM[SHARE]Hard on the heels of the Broadway import of Wolf Hall from the Royal Shakespeare Company, and The Audience, with Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth, more Royal Crown is pouring this way. Produc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:29AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 12, 2015
In the weird time warp that Broadway sometimes can be, this season offers Betty Comden and Adolph Green owning 42nd Street with concurrent revivals of On The Town and On The Twentieth Centur…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]He even came very close to saying “You look mahvel…” but stopped just short of completing his iconic Fernando Lamas catchphrase, during a “Weekend Update” segme…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:26AM[SHARE]On the eve of the former First Lady/N.Y. Senator/Secretary Of State’s expected announcement that, yes, she’s running for POTUS, SNL cold-opened with Kate McKinnon’s HRC at …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:56AM[SHARE]The popular co-star of Fox’s runaway hit series proved her formidable comedy (and singing) chops even when the material fell short — as it did more often than not — in her …
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:16AM[SHARE]Friday, April 10, 2015
Here’s the thing: If you want to savor an adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s historical novels about boy-crazy King Henry VIII, you can go the leisurely route via public television, o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2015
Beginning a long final bow on Broadway, producer Judy Craymer announced Thursday night that Mamma Mia! will close on September 5 at the Shubert-owned Plymouth Theatre. The Abba jukebox music…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:46PM[SHARE]John Legend, who just won an Academy Award as co-author of the Selma anthem “Glory,” will partner with CORE Media Group on the reality series Sing it On for the CBS/Lionsgate cab…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2015
There are many reasons to celebrate the arrival on Broadway of Hand To God. It wraps its seriousness in a veneer of XXX-rated irreverence. I don’t know which I want to do more: Sing Ha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 6, 2015
The Broadway box office rose significantly over the combo Easter and Passover weekend, with the week ending Sunday grossing $29.87 million compared to $27.96 million the week before. The ave…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:18PM[SHARE]Julie Wilson, a sultry, whiskey-voiced chanteuse who ruled the soigné cabaret rooms of Manhattan, from the top of the world at the St. Regis Hotel to the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel, di…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:39AM[SHARE]Friday, April 3, 2015
Bill Nighy returns to David Hare’s plays in this new revival of his 1996 work Skylight and, as I say in my video review above, it’s a very good thing. Nighy and co-star …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2015
Bill Nighy made his Broadway debut almost a decade ago in David Hare’s The Vertical Hour. He returns in Skylight, an earlier but better Hare play from 1996, and it’s cause for…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: I hear the up-and-comer — recently of The Book Of Mormon on Broadway, the films Ricki And The Flash and the Pitch Perfect mini-franchise — has been cast in An…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:33PM[SHARE]The actress, who just won an Oscar for her role as the mom ion Boyhood, will write about her unconventional family, being a single mother at age 20 and her experience as a woman in Hollyw…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:13PM[SHARE]One of the many things I never knew until I saw Cush Jumbo’s show Josephine And I is that Josephine Baker sang Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A Changin'” at Carnegie…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2015
In a significant free-speech victory, Loretta A. Preska, Chief United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York, ruled Tuesday that 3C, a play that parodies the 1970s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:47PM[SHARE]The Jason Robert Brown and Andrew Bergman musical transferred to Broadway in November on the wings of great reviews and a leading performance by Tony Danza that drew praise for its Rat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:55PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Adaptive Studios, which recently rebooted HBO's Project Greenlight with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, has signed an overall deal with actress-writer-blogger Amy Main to develop and …
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