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…
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 …
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