Sunday, December 7, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:35AM[SHARE]With host James Franco as a deadpan Captain Hook very much in the epicene vein of Christopher Walken's Thursday night outing, and Cecily Strong as a self-proclaimed "gorgeous, womanly boy…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:19AM[SHARE]Hosting Saturday Night Live for the third time and landing directly on the news of the week, James Franco hauled in his The Interview co-star Seth Rogen to take a few swipes at Sony's hackin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:51AM[SHARE]Friday, December 5, 2014
Worthy probably isn't the word one wants to associate with a first-class production of Peter Pan, the enduring musical about that blithe spirit of eternal youth. But NBC -- attempting to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2014
Tell Mama, tell Papa, tell the kinder: Emma Stone, sensational onscreen as Michael Keaton's naughty Broadway baby in Birdman, makes her real Broadway debut as a smashing Sally Bowles oppo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00PM[SHARE]Here's a Broadway oddball: Side Show, a musical about conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, who became a 1920s freak-show sensation and then top draw on the vaudeville circuit. The ori…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Playing ex-lovers and semi-siblings in the emotional shootout of a lifetime, Sam Rockwell and Nina Arianda will reprise their summer vacation performances in Sam Shepard's intense, int…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]August Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman both came in for some bruising comments Tuesday night courtesy of Liv Ullmann, the actress-turned-writer and director with intimate knowledge of bo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 1, 2014
Sunday marked the end of the highest-grossing and best-attended Thanksgiving week on Broadway ever. The total gross was $34.1 million, $2.6 million more than the same week in 2013. Att…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:45PM[SHARE]Today is the deadline for New York Times staffers to apply for an above-normal buyout offer from the paper, which is looking to eliminate 100 positions in its latest cost-saving measur…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:19PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Neil Meron and Craig Zadan's temporary command center at the Grumman Studios on Long Island has all the charm and none of the warmth of a military bunker. Down the hall, a vast…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:05PM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2014
John Lithgow's "complete triumph" of a performance dominates this all-star revival of Edward Albee's 'A Delicate Balance,' I say in my video review (watch it above) of the Broadway pla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:28PM[SHARE]Jonathan Larson's groundbreaking musical about artists, squatters and AIDS in New York's Alphabet City in the 1990s will open on Christmas Eve in Havana for a three-month run. The Spanish…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:01PM[SHARE]Jason Robert Brown is back on Broadway, in a much lighter vein than his ill-fated Bridges Of Madison County a year ago, as Honeymoon In Vegas began eight weeks (!) of previews at the Nederla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:54PM[SHARE]You would be hard-pressed to find two more unalike human beings, not to say heroes, than Chris Kyle--dubbed "Legend" by his fellow Navy SEALS--and Joseph Merrick, known throughout late 19th-…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 23, 2014
UPDATE 7:44 p.m. with more details throughout.
In the wake of middling reviews and a dozy box office, Sting has agreed to join the cast of his first Broadway musical as composer/lyricist. Fr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:57PM[SHARE]Lorne Michaels'Â writers' room handed veteran Saturday Night Live host Cameron Diaz a mixed bag of bits for last night's gig, her fourth in the slot. After a pointless opening monologue --…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:02AM[SHARE]Last night's Cameron Diaz-hosted edition of Saturday Night Live scored points off the
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:35AM[SHARE]Friday, November 21, 2014
EXCLUSIVE: Adaptive Studios, which recently rebooted HBO's Project Greenlight with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, is going into the graphic novels business with the launch of Adaptive …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2014
A storm rages at the center of the Broadway revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance. Though camouflaged in the elegant, comfortable mufti of the affluent upper classes, it's leveling ev…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]What scalpers have known for decades--that there's a lot of money to be made in day-of-performance ticket sales--now is common knowledge along rialtos around the world. The notion gained fur…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Continuing its hit run at the Belasco Theatre into the spring, Hedwig and The Angry Inch will welcome John Cameron Mitchell starting Wednesday, January 21 for eight weeks. Mitchell…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Mike Nichols, one of the funniest wiseacres ever to walk the planet, never planned to write an autobiography. So a few months ago he agreed to be interviewed--in a Broadway theater, of cours…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 19, 2014
While some critics found Jez Butterworth's Broadway import a mystery wrapped inside an enigma wrapped inside an onion, few had anything but raves for the Wolverine's performance as an avocat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2014
The Shubert Organization, with 17 houses Broadway's biggest landlord, increased its off-Broadway presence from one stage to six after closing the deal to take over New World Stages. Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:33PM[SHARE]Hugh Jackman is 'The Man," and every bit the giant star in The River, Jez Butterworth's absorbing conundrum of a new play. As I say in my video review above, every audience member is the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:07AM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2014
The roster of stars and other bold-face names who took the stage at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Monday afternoon to remember Elaine Stritch was almost as brilliant as the audience …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:14PM[SHARE]Hawkeye Pierce and Murphy Brown " who knew? In a somewhat slumpy mood last week, the Broadway box office had a bit of good news for the latest Love Letters pairing of Alan Alda and Candice B…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 16, 2014
What you want to know is this: Hugh Jackman is electrifying in The River, a concentrated, mysterious fish tale of a play. Seeing him onstage in one of Broadway's most intimate theaters…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2014
Here are two bold predictions about what will not be coming to Broadway anytime soon: Duck Dynasty: The Musical, and Allison Williams as Peter Pan in Finding Neverland. Anything else you …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2014
EXCLUSIVE: Simon & Schuster will publish I'm Not A Terrorist, But I've Played One On TV in hardcover on February 17th. Iranian-American comic Maz Jobrani recounts his strugg…
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