Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Addressing speculation last night about his post-Daily Show plans, Jon Stewart dismissed various scenarios (including “modeling” and rock-stardom) before unveiling the first segm…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:18AM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2015
Where’s Andrew Jarecki?
The director of HBO’s The Jinx: The Life And Deaths Of Robert Durst canceled scheduled appearances on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, MSNBC’s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:43PM[SHARE]And we’re off to the races, folks, with six new Broadway shows in previews and more to come before the April 23 deadline for 2014-15 season Tony Awards eligibility. Stars rule, with…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:40PM[SHARE]Erivo will reprise her performance as Celie when director (and this time designer, as well) John Doyle brings his scaled-down Menier Chocolate Factory production to Broadway’s Berna…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:17PM[SHARE]Robert Durst’s apparent confession to the murders of his wife, neighbor and best friend wasn’t discovered until “many months” after it was recorded through an open…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 15, 2015
Whether you’re a student of the Broadway musical or just a sailor looking for a darned good time, you could do worse than spend a matinee and evening in Times Square with Betty Comd…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 14, 2015
Robert Falls, the gifted stage director who also runs Chicago’s Goodman Theater, had one crazy week. As his remarkable 5-hour production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Come…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:38PM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: As Team de Blasio considers ways to plug loopholes in the various federal and local tax laws that cost New York City millions in revenue, let’s revisit a couple of sacred…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:22PM[SHARE]Queenie Pie was the talk of the town and Duke Ellington was the reason. When the great jazz composer died in 1974, he left behind an unfinished “street opera” that offered …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Sometimes I think we Americans worship the Royal Family as much as our British cousins do. Or maybe, as I say in my video review above, we Yanks just love watching the unsurpassable Helen Mi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:03PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Millions of untaxed dollars from the sale of the air above landmarked theaters—money that might be playing a starring role on Broadway—are going instead to buy fast…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:11PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: After gleaming, Tony-nominated performances on Broadway in Stick Fly and The Trip To Bountiful, (plus a run as Juliet opposite Orlando Bloom’s Romeo, and a career-making rol…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:27PM[SHARE]One of the many salutary after-effects of Ava DuVernay’s Selma has been renewed interest in that city’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of a violent confrontation between people march…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:58AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2015
The iceman cometh in spades last week, making it a field day for walk-ins (or sleigh-ins) even at some of Broadway’s biggest hits, as reflected in the week’s box office rep…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:11PM[SHARE]Shtick is to Larry David as location is to real estate: everything, everything and everything.
As I say in my video review above, David is making his first stage appearance since grade schoo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 8, 2015
A filmed bit on Saturday Night Live last night promoting Fox’s Empire posed the question: “Empire has already taken black America by storm. But what about white America?”…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:36AM[SHARE]Chris Hemsworth brought Thor to a fratboy victory party over Ultron, in a hardly unexpected Avengers riff on last night’s Saturday Night Live. The bit covered all the superheroes and i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:03AM[SHARE]Kate McKinnon went to the dark heart of Servergate as Hillary Clinton, addressing the nation from her comfy couch in Chappaqua. The Saturday Night Live cold open featured Hill in a series of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2015
Very funny. Occasionally very, very funny. Four-stars funny. If that's all you need to know about
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2015
The Warner Bros Theatre Ventures production will co-star Elizabeth Marvel in the film adaptation by William Goldman. More to come….
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:44PM[SHARE]Call ‘em the Dueling Daves. They may not sling guns, but ultraconservative activist and philanthropist David Koch will soon be glaring directly into the defiant face of liberal-cause s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:37PM[SHARE]What do you watch on that hotel-room TV? Key Brand Entertainment owner John Gore hopes that Kinky Boots will prevail over kinky everything else. KBE, which produces, promotes and sells ticke…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2015
A star is born: With the run at the Public Theater sold out and arrival on Broadway this summer assured, the producers of Hamilton unveiled their striking new logo for the show. Striking …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:45PM[SHARE]The best new play of this young year has brought pros Diane Lane and Tony Shalhoub and relative newcomers Gayle Rankin and Mamoudou Athie to Lincoln Center Theater At The Mitzi Newhouse…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:23AM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2015
It must have been a great week for Netflix and HBO. Broadway ticket sales dropped $4.6 million from the previous frame for the week ending Sunday. Big shows saw falloffs in the hundreds of t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:34PM[SHARE]Clive Owen (The Knick) will make his Broadway debut in a revival of Harold Pinter’s Old Times, directed by Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge (La Cage Aux Folles). Previews for the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 1, 2015
OK, you had to wait a couple of minutes for the slap-happy payoff, but SNL’s riff on a Bloomberg News TV panel explaining the hot but MEGO topic of net neutrality was a solid team e…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:04AM[SHARE]Saturday Night Live host Dakota Johnson was near was near-perfect as a naïve American teen who leaves her understanding Dad at the airport to hitch her wagon to terrorism in this twist…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:40AM[SHARE]While Fifty Shades Of Grey was obviously front-and-center on Saturday Night Live‘s Dakota Johnson-hosted show, the cold open ran one-time “America’s Mayor” Rudy Gi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:15AM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2015
Billionaire real-estate man Mortimer B. Zuckerman told the already demoralized, thinned-out staff of the New York Daily News on Thursday that the wheezing tabloid, currently bleeding as much…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Conan O’Brien is disappointed, maybe, with friendly late-night rival Jon Stewart. O’Brien and producer Jeff Ross made a pit stop Wednesday afternoon at Trattoria Dell’Arte …
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