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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:03PM[SHARE]Monday, December 29, 2014
UPDATE 1:20 p.m. with more information:
With three blockbuster musicals " Disney's Aladdin and The Lion King, along with Wicked " adding a ninth sold-out performance, and tourists p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:20PM[SHARE]Milos Forman was looking for the best writer to adapt the hippie anti-war musical Hair for the big screen. The Czech filmmaker already had a growing U.S. following in the wake…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 24, 2014
To: Amy/So how far do we let the boys go with the Kim-has-no-butthole business??//ml
To: Michael/I don't know, six jokes max? The test auds loved it! did you remember to get the rights to th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:44PM[SHARE]The Oscar-winning director remains a fugitive from American justice despite a 133-page petition filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court by famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:43PM[SHARE]Monday, December 22, 2014
Artistic directors of some 60 of the country's most prominent nonprofit theaters responded swiftly and forcefully to the firing last Thursday of Ari Roth, a playwright and a.d. of Theater J,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:53PM[SHARE]Disney's duo of The Lion King and Aladdin rang up respective sales of $2.2 million and $1.6 million in Week 30 of the Broadway season, which ended Sunday. Wicked ($2 million) and The Book Of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:19PM[SHARE]Chalk up one more Broadway transfer for the Williamstown Theatre Festival, following the current Bradley Cooper starrer The Elephant Man and last season's The Bridges Of Madison County. Flem…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Two of Hollywood's favorite concepts -- mash-up and reboot -- converge with the Christmas Eve opening of Into The Woods, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's big-screen, bold-face …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:57AM[SHARE]Friday, December 19, 2014
Sonia Friedman, the producer who brought Jez Butterworth's oddball one-acter to Broadway's intimate Circle In The Square Theater with arena-size star Hugh Jackman, announced today that the $…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 18, 2014
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway's latest venture in freaky puppetry has been making a virtue of its un-Broadway vices: No stars, not a British import, not a remake of an old movie. Not surprising, given…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:42PM[SHARE]Cuba-U.S. detente has nothing on the hotly competitive Shubert and Nederlander organizations. Broadway's two biggest landlords are suddenly looking like BFF's as co-producers on hoped-for bl…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 17, 2014
UPDATE 12:03 p.m., adding more information below.
The surprise hit of the new Broadway season, a revival of Terrence McNally's opening-night comedy of bad manners It's Only A Play, has recou…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:03PM[SHARE]Monday, December 15, 2014
The ex-Police man stepped in to help his ailing show and the results were pretty instantaneous: Last week, the box office spiked to $818K -- a jump of $326K over the previous week, for its b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:48PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Something Chris Rock recently said to Frank Rich in New York magazine has been haunting me for the past few weeks.
"The thing about comedians is that you're the only ones who prac…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:45PM[SHARE]At 11 a.m. New York time, New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet posted the following on Times Insider, a blog that goes to the paper's subscribers, in response to attorney David Boies'…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:12PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: It's impossible to ignore Emma Stone's eyes. At least until she begins speaking, but we'll get to that. First, not to be reductive, but jeepers, creepers. Even, or especially, on …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 14, 2014
In his first outing as host, Martin Freeman took Saturday Night Live to Middle Earth and The Office, as well as Fargo, North Dakota in an amiable if standard-issue show that featured a We…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:35AM[SHARE]The cold open on last night's Martin Freeman-hosted SNL featured a Charlie Rose interview bit with James E. Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, psychologists whose company was  paid $82 million, a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:23AM[SHARE]The best item on last night's Saturday Night Live menu wasn't live at all. It was a filmed bit in which freshman host Martin Freeman and Team Michaels mashed up Bilbo Baggins, from The…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:49AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 13, 2014
New Yorker magazine critic David Denby, whose erudite and often contrarian film reviews have been essential reading for New York cineastes since he began as the film critic for New …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:48PM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2014
The musical that poignantly poses the question "Who will love me as I am?" got its answer last night: Very few.
Tough business.
Side Show, the $8 million reboot of  a 1997 flop about frea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 11, 2014
More than a year after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Disgraced -- Ayad Akhtar's scorching play about identity politics in post-9/11 New York -- made it to Broadway this season, if…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2014
"Is my crime that I do it, or that I 'fessed up?" the writer asks me. "I mean, whose dog did I poison?"
I'm speaking with journalist Joanne Kaufman, who prompted conniptions among the drama …
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:06PM[SHARE]Matthew Winkler, the founding editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News and one of the most skilled survivors in a tumultuous and ever-shifting media environment, has been kicked upstairs by the bos…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:56PM[SHARE]Monday, December 8, 2014
EXCLUSIVE: Vogel, a prolific and engaging writer, won the prize in 1998 for her drama How I Learned To Drive, which co-starred Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse in a time-spanning pla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:25PM[SHARE]A few weeks go, Bradley Cooper told me that seeing John Hurt's Oscar-nominated performance in the film The Elephant Man inspired him to become an actor. And so the back end of 2014 finds …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:07PM[SHARE]Smarty-pants Matilda and her nasty crew had some good news and some bad news over the last few days. First the bad news: In a tough week for Broadway musicals, Matilda was off a bit over …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: " 'Eff You!' " I answered. Garry Marshall already knew when he asked me, but he wanted see whether I knew what I was talking about. We were discussing Neil Simon, who I s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 7, 2014
Bradley Cooper says that John Hurt's portrayal of John Merrick in the 1980 film The Elephant Man made him decide to become an actor. It's not hard to figure out why: Here's the true st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]It went on too long, per usual, but Saturday Night Live's spoofy Star Wars teaser landed a few good blows, including an almost poignant vision of its aging hero.
Here's the clip. No, it's…
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