Tuesday, January 20, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: In New York City and Washington D.C. on Monday, thousands of protesters took part in a “Die-In,” blocking traffic and, in Manhattan, diverting Martin Luther King Birth…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:05PM[SHARE]A pair of long-running nostalgic tuners — the ’80s-loving Rock Of Ages and the ’60s-loving Motown The Musical — shuttered last week (Motown plans a comeback next y…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:54PM[SHARE]You probably remember Castle Rock’s 1992 film Honeymoon In Vegas, if only for the squadron of parachuting Elvis impersonators floating down to the Las Vegas Strip to save the day at th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The Tony Award-winning actress (Caroline, Or Change;Â nominee for the Denzel Washington-led revival of A Raisin In The Sun) and growing force on TV (The Good Wife) and screen (D…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 18, 2015
Knowing a good thing when he’s got it, Lorne Michaels unleashed the full power of Kate McKinnon’s devastating Justin Bieber impersonation last night on SNL, in a take-off on his …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:42AM[SHARE]Kevin Hart had a hyper-carbonated opening monologue and played well with others as Saturday Night Live went into the spring of its 40th season. He started out talking about the perils of liv…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:23AM[SHARE]Saturday Night Live returned from vacation with second-timer Kevin Hart hosting and plenty of current events to masticate, especially given the episode’s timing between the Oscar no…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 17, 2015
In what appears to be a case of one intolerant government scratching the back of another even though they don’t like one another much, bootleg DVDs of The Interview have been disappear…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 15, 2015
You think they just don’t make ‘em like they used to? To find out how wrong you are, head to Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre for a couple of hours of finger-snapping, tap-da…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]The Tony Administration Committee, meeting Thursday for the second time this season to mull eligibility requests, rule changes and the like, made two adjustments that will affect the Broadwa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Nightcrawler star Jake Gyllenhaal and The Affair‘s Golden Globe winner Ruth Wilson are making their Broadway debuts together in Nick Payne’s intimate little play Constellations,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:46PM[SHARE]Thank heaven for not-so-little girls. A revival of the Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe musical Gigi, starring Disney-minted and Spring Breakers starlet Vanessa Hudgens, has booked the Neil S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson were at the Golden Globes at the Beverly Hilton the other night even though they’re making their Broadway debuts in Constellations. Mere mortals wouldÂ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, January 12, 2015
Winter came fast and hard to Broadway last week, as eight shows shuttered and attendance plunged one-third from the last holiday week of the calendar year. It was also the week that saw prem…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:18PM[SHARE]Meryl Streep nailed it when she said, in the final seconds of the 72nd Golden Globe Awards telecast: “How much are we going to miss Amy and Tina?” The co-hosts, sparingly but …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:14AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 11, 2015
The blonde beauty who added a smoldering Swedish sensuality to the pantheon of European 1950s and ’60s screen sirens that included Gina Lollobrigida and Brigitte Bardot, died Sunday…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 9, 2015
The David Stone-produced musical, in which Menzel plays two versions of the same character, will close March 22, one week shy of its first anniversary at the Nederlander-owned Richard Rodger…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:27PM[SHARE]Editors and publishers around the world this week have been faced with a now too-familiar dilemma: Should they re-publish the cartoon images that undoubtedly provoked the murder by Islami…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2015
No Broadway theater goes unspoken for very long, especially in the frenzied run-up to the April Tony Awards eligibility deadline. As Deadline reported Monday, the Lyceum Theatre, a Shubert-o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:13PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The stage veterans who shared screen time on NBC’s Smash have committed to one of the loopier-sounding offerings of the spring season on Broadway, the new musical c…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]Mike Bloomberg toasted Teddy Schwarzman Wednesday night at  a party for the Imitation Game producer thrown by his parents, Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman and his wife Christine. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Michael Novick, an Emmy-nominated Glee producer, and veteran Broadway producer Kevin McCollum (The Last Ship and the upcoming Something Rotten! and Hand To God) have optioned Leila Sal…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:18PM[SHARE]Some hit shows fade into the record books before quietly expiring. Not Cabaret, the revived revival that brought Alan Cumming back to Studio 54Â last spring in the role of the Emcee that&#…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Leaving no doubt that she’s prepared to defend her movie against attacks on grounds of historical accuracy, Selma director Ava DuVernay told a gathering of media and AMPAS elite in New…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:41PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Bradley Cooper may have been snubbed by the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild, but Broadway and the West End love him. When his lauded performance as John Merrick, AKA the…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:18PM[SHARE]On Broadway, January is the cruelest month, when faltering shows fall by the wayside to make room for mewling newcomers hoping to score with critics and customers alike. Early Tuesday mornin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:08AM[SHARE]Celebrating this year’s honorees at the trendy Meat Packing District restaurant Tao, the New York Film Critics Circle offered starry salutes to Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, do…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:53AM[SHARE]Monday, January 5, 2015
The combination of premium ticket prices, extra performances, last-chance opportunities and loads of ticket buyers from out of town let Broadway ring out 2014 with its biggest-ever b.o. tall…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:22PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: In November I began these conversations with artists who have deep roots on both coasts with Bradley Cooper, receiving parallel plaudits for his leading roles in American…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:07AM[SHARE]Riding a wave of rapturous reviews and an invigorated box office at Studio 54, the Roundabout Theatre Company announced Sunday that Emma Stone has extended her Cabaret run by two weeks…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Stars, revivals, and musicals conjured from films will continue to dominate Broadway in the coming months, as sure as rising ticket prices and limited runs. The resulting high expectat…
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