Sunday, October 19, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:31AM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2014
The ants-in-their-pants revival of On The Town that snap, crackle and popped open Thursday night on Broadway is so unabashedly old-fashioned it could seduce a Red State senator. And yet i…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2014
It's not exactly the Majestic Theatre, but Broadway's biggest landlord is now the proud owner of a picturesque five-story warehouse in the shadow of the cruise ships and piers along Manha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PM[SHARE]That gaping hole left in the new season when the producers of American Psycho cancelled a planned pre-Broadway run has been filled by Stephen Adly Guirgis, author of the asterisk-laden…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2014
'Birdman' is the latest film from Mexican writer/director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, starring Michael Keaton in a terrific role as a washed-up former action-movie actor trying to revive hi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Seven Broadway shows registered $200K-plus increases during the holiday week over the previous stand, leadng to an overall rebound of 16% as a couple of house records fell and newer entri…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:21PM[SHARE]After a brief, sci-fi style opening of a comet hurtling through the atmosphere, Birdman begins with a through-the-door view of Michael Keaton, seen from the back sitting cross-legged in a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:51AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 11, 2014
As the 52nd New York Film Festival winds down this weekend, the sponsoring Film Society of Lincoln Center said that Robert Redford will receive the group's Chaplin Award at a gala next April…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:15PM[SHARE]Seamless and as darkly riveting as any John le Carre or Graham Greene thriller, Laura Poitras' Citizenfour puts an indelibly human face on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, while ripping awa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2014
ISIS Â is overtaking the Middle East, ebola spreads death from Liberia to Texas, President Obama stops traffic from Malibu to La Jolla and Philip Roth still can't cop the Nobel Prize for L…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:16PM[SHARE]While San Diego's Comic-Con mostly dwarfs New York's confab, the latter has stepped up the star power as George Clooney just surprised fans by appearing onstage for Disney's Tomorro…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2014
I hear that 54 Below, the Theater District nightclub that recently signed a multi-year pact with Broadway diva Patti LuPone, has stuck a deal with Shaiman, the musical polymath (com…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Just a few weeks after the Disney Company roared that The Lion King had become the highest-grossing entertainment of all time, NBCUniversal today announced that Robert Greenblatt, pres…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:23PM[SHARE]Five-time Tony nominee Seldes began her Broadway career at age 17 in 1947, performing in John Gielgud's staging of Medea with Dame Judith Anderson. She became an enduring stage legend throug…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:41AM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
Two newcomers entered Broadway's fall fray last week, which saw total box office jump almost 5%, to $23.2 million, from the week before. Sting's autobiographical musical The Last Ship …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:21PM[SHARE]Geoffrey Holder, the only theater man who, at 6'6″ could look Tommy Tune right in the eye and say "Abosolutely maaaaah-velous" died Sunday in New York City. He wqas 84. Charles M…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 5, 2014
Call me reductive but if I were pitching a film version of Mark Haddon's 2003 best-seller, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, the headline above would do the trick. The prest…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:15PM[SHARE]After a primetime SNL revisit with host Steve Martin in a 1978 show that opened with a bit featuring audience plant Bill Murray, a performance by the Blues Brothers and Martin's own "King…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:24AM[SHARE]With a lot of help from host Sarah Silverman, SNL returned to old form with this bit, as Joan Rivers angles for a place in Heaven by roasting the likes of Richard Pryor, Steve Jobs, Lucille …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:01AM[SHARE]Friday, October 3, 2014
EXCLUSIVE: Norman Lear begins his memoir Even This I Get To Experience with a story he loves to tell that easily could have been a Mike Nichols and Elaine May routine:
"Mother, I just got a …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:22PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Norman Lear never was one to be stifled with. When Fred Silverman turned to him for a show to upgrade the image of CBS " the Tiffany network that, through the enormous popul…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2014
The cornerstone Chicago troupe, one of the most influential among the country's nonprofit theaters and one of the few true artistic ensembles, today announced a coming management changeov…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2014
After eight years of development, director Des McAnuff and a creative team that includes playwright and screenwriter Michael Weller, composer Lucy Simon and lyricists Michael Korie and and A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:44PM[SHARE]The New York Times reported today plans to eliminate 100 newsroom jobs through voluntary buyouts and, if necessary, staff layoffs. At the same time, the paper said it will eliminate or conso…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Actors Equity has given its OK for Brit thespians Geoffrey Beevers, Michael Elwyn, Richard McCabe, and Rufus Wright to accompany Olivier Award-winning Mirren's Queen Elizabeth II to Broad…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Finding Neverland has quickly become known in Broadway precincts as The Curious Incident Of The Blog In The Day-Time (with apologies to that other show opening this week). On Sunday, Deadlin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:50AM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2014
With 30 shows on the boards (including six in previews up until Sunday's opening of You Can't Take It With You), Week 18 of the Broadway season was all but identical to the prior stand. Lond…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:00PM[SHARE]You might say she's going from Weeds to leaves, though not of grass. Mary-Louise Parker, best known to TV audiences as Nancy Botwin on the hit Showtime series, will publish what Scribner is …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 28, 2014
What becomes a legendary comedy most? Laughs, of course. Oscar Madison saying "F.U. Took me three hours to figure out F.U. was Felix Ungar!" " why, I'll bet you laughed just remembering the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:11PM[SHARE]The iceman cameth, Sunday, to Cambridge, Mass. "Â dumping a bucketful on New York Post Broadway columnist Michael Riedel. It was a positive outcome for all as Harvey Weinstein, tending his…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Following rapturous reviews for a Broadway revival and another one off-Broadway, A.R. Gurney is having a moment in the sun. It's only taken the veteran playwright " whose The Dining Ro…
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