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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Simon & Schuster Signs Memoir By Comedian Maz Jobrani, Austin Film Fest Favorite by Jeremy Gerard

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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Tony Awards Say Nathan Lane Outranks Co-Stars In 'It's Only A Play' by Jeremy Gerard

UPDATE: Adds more decisions by the Tony Awards Administration Committee. Although seven names get top billing in the hit Broadway revival of It's Only A Play, the folks who run the Tony A…

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Matthew Broderick Extends Smashing 'Play' Stay by Jeremy Gerard

The Broadway revival that reunited Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane for Terrence McNally's off-stage comedy It's Only A Play was originally slated to run through January 4. But with hous…

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Monday, November 10, 2014

Stars Align As Bradley Cooper, Hugh Jackman Pump Up Broadway Box Office by Jeremy Gerard

It's starting to shape up as one of the  starriest " and priciest " seasons in memory for that eternal invalid, the Broadway play. With the addition of Bradley Cooper headlining The Eleph…

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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Broadway's Polish Tea Room, Where Moguls And Misfits Mingle, Will End Its Run by Jeremy Gerard

As protests go, it was small beer, but on Saturday a minor picket-packing horde had arranged itself peaceably outside the Cafe Edison, better known as the Polish Tea Room, on West 47th…

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Thursday, November 6, 2014

Ed Grimley Will Step In For Nathan Lane In Broadway Shuffle by Jeremy Gerard

The Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's off-stage comedy It's Only A Play has extended its limited run but will test the magic of its central star pairing in January, when Martin Short…

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Elisabeth Moss, 'Heidi Chronicles' Book Broadway's Music Box Theatre by Jeremy Gerard

So long, Pippin; hello Heidi. The upcoming revival of The Heidi Chronicles, with Elisabeth Moss in the title role of Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, has landed the Shubert-o…

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Monday, November 3, 2014

'The Last Ship' Review: Sting's Songs Float Broadway Musical by Jeremy Gerard

It's been a few years since U2's Bono made his Broadway debut with Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark - a musical take on the web-slinging superhero that didn't quite stick with audiences. N…

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Hugh Jackman Rides 'The River' Tide To Box Office High-Water Mark by Jeremy Gerard

The new Jez Butterworth play began previews at Broadway's underground Circle In The Square theater, with star Jackman immediately taking the lead for priciest non-musical ducat. Average tick…

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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Chris Rock Crossed The Line " And 'Saturday Night' Lives by Jeremy Gerard

Jesus may have died for our sins but Chris Rock killed for Saturday Night Live. He killed. Twelve hours ago he set Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center ablaze with jokes about the Boston…

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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ewan McGregor Find 'The Real Thing' Elusive In Broadway Debuts by Jeremy Gerard

Tom Stoppard's 1984 dazzler gets the matinee-comedy treatment from director-of-the-moment Sam Gold in a revival that leaves its attractive stars, both in their Broadway bows, deeply in the l…

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'Every Brilliant Thing', U.K. Pop-Up Hit, Rolls To Off-Broadway by Jeremy Gerard

A major hit from August's Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to London, Every Brilliant Thing will take over the Greenwich Village house in December. That's where shows includi…

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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

L.M. Kit Carson Is Dead, 'Paris, Texas' Writer, USA Film Fest Co-Founder by Jeremy Gerard

An iconoclast in the worlds of independent film and journalism who embodied " and celibrated " Texas individualism, Carson died October 20 in Dallas following a long battle with osteoporosis…

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Superhero Musical 'Fortress Of Solitude' Should Fly To Broadway by Jeremy Gerard

Nothing widens the eyes of a film producer like a pitch with a superhero angle. And with so much talent emulating Disney, Universal and Paramount in striking cross-platform deals with Bro…

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Monday, October 27, 2014

Glenn Close, John Lithgow Lead 'Delicate Balance' To Record Sales: Broadway Box Office by Jeremy Gerard

A very busy fall season continues apace with the first week of previews for Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance setting a house record at the Shubert-owned Golden Theatre. Staged by Pamela …

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Sting's 'The Last Ship': Broadway Songs Win Critics' Love, Full Sails For Debut by Jeremy Gerard

The Last Ship, Sting's debut as a Broadway composer/lyricist, opened Sunday night with fellow pop icons Billy Joel " whose songs made the Twyla Tharp show Movin' Out a Broadway hit " and The…

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Sunday, October 26, 2014

'The Last Ship' Review: Jeremy Gerard On Sting's Tuneful But Too-Familiar Broadway Show by Jeremy Gerard

The last international rock icon to stake a claim on Broadway was Bono, and we know how that worked out. Happily, The Last Ship " an unapologetically sentimental coming-of-age tale wit…

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Saturday, October 25, 2014

Harvey Weinstein Talks At Produced By NY " Live Coverage by Jeremy Gerard

Refresh for updates 1:30PM PST: "The great boom today is in television," said the Weinstein Co. chairman, "You have 1o hours to tell a story and the deal is to find great writers." 1:17PM PS…

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Produced By NY: James Schamus On Bad Advice, Data Flow & The Four Most Important Words In The Business by Jeremy Gerard

Leading off the second Produced By NY 2014 interview session, producer Bill Horberg (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Disconnect) led an often hilarious conversation with film-biz polymath James …

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'Produced By NY 2014': Jake Gyllenhaal Interviewed By Hawk Koch: 'I Love The Abrasion' by Jeremy Gerard

The first NYC edition of the PGA's `Produced By' confab launched this morning with  a conversation between former PGA president and producer Hawk Koch and Night Crawler's Jake Gyllenhaal,…

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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Gretchen Mol Tackles Brutal 'Disgraced'; Winning New Musical Is 'Found': NY Stage by Jeremy Gerard

Timely dramas on Broadway are in very short supply, and that alone makes the bow of Disgraced an event worth applauding. Ayad Akhtar's play, a fleet, furious 85-minute descent into politics,…

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'Girls' Showrunner Jenni Konner: 'The Whole Idea Of Likability Is Kind Of Silly' by Jeremy Gerard

Slate TV critic Willa Paskin interviewed Jenni Konner to keynote the 10th annual New York Television Festival, filling a Chelsea movie theater with industry newbies, wannabes and fans of the…

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Craig Zadan & Neil Meron In Development Deal With Broadway's Shubert Organization by Jeremy Gerard

Sound Of Music and upcoming Peter Pan producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have signed a three-year development and production deal with Broadway powerhouse The Shubert Organization, t…

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Lauren Zalaznick Joins Penguin Random House Board: Publishing by Jeremy Gerard

The publishing giant today announced that the former NBCUniversal exec and film producer Zalaznick has been named to its board of directors. Here's the release:  NEW YORK, NY, Octob…

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Keira Knightley Sets Broadway Debut As Thérèse Raquin At Roundabout Theatre Co. by Jeremy Gerard

Score a huge one for Todd Haimes, longtime artistic director of the nonprofit Roundabout empire. The company, which operates three Broadway venues, will launch its 50th anniversary season…

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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Harvey Weinstein & Diane Paulus Will Kick Rockettes, Radio City Music Hall Into Spring by Jeremy Gerard

Producer Harvey Weinstein and director Diane Paulus, already collaborating on the upcoming Broadway musical Finding Neverland, are teaming with Madison Square Garden Entertainment to launch …

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

'Citizenfour' Review: Jeremy Gerard On Chilling Edward Snowden Documentary by Jeremy Gerard

Watch my video review of Citizenfour, the chilling documentary by Laura Poitras about Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked tens of thousands of pages of classified d…

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Tatiana Maslany & Thomas Sadoski Set To World Preem Neil LaBute's 'The Way We Get By' by Jeremy Gerard

Tatiana Maslany and Thomas Sadoski will play a couple of free-wheelers who spend a drunken night together and awaken to a bunch of post-coital challenges from one another and their neares…

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Powerful 'Klinghoffer' Premiere Starts With Protests, Ends With Cheers by Jeremy Gerard

Police barricades surrounded the plaza at Lincoln Center, helicopters buzzed overhead and several hundred protesters, at one point led by former mayor Rudy Giuliani, denounced the Metropolit…

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Monday, October 20, 2014

Broadway Box Office: 'Dog' Barks, Sting Bites, 'Play' Wows In $26M Week by Jeremy Gerard

Although the Broadway box office was off 4% in post-Columbus Day ticket sales, there were several indicators of good news for the holiday season. Coming off a slew of rave reviews, The…

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Sunday, October 19, 2014

'Klinghoffer' Powder Keg Makes Strange Bedfellows of Rudy Giuliani, Floyd Abrams by Jeremy Gerard

When was the last time an opera inspired noisy demonstrations on the ground and extreme bloviating in the media? Yet that's what the Metropolitan Opera's production of John Adams and Alice G…

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