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…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:17PM[SHARE]Penguin Random House and Universal Pictures said today that the studio has signed a two-year first-look production agreement with the newly minted mega-publisher. Peter Gethers, Pre…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:39AM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2014
Neil LaBute's new play is called The Money Shot and how depressing refreshing is it that I overheard so many people patiently telling so many other people outside the theater the meaning of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:49PM[SHARE]Broadway stayed the course last week as five new shows played previews and the Mia Farrow/Brian Dennehy revival of Love Letters opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre to rapturous reviews. Th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:31PM[SHARE]Disney Company's global blockbuster The Lion King has surpassed The Phantom Of The Opera as the highest grossing show of all time, the company announced today. Broadway, touring and internat…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 21, 2014
The most shocking stage news of the week was that Angela Lansbury is getting her Noel Coward act together and taking it on the road. Having filled theaters on Broadway and the West End ov…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2014
UPDATES, 1:45 p.m. with more information, below: Screen and stage actress, songbird and survivor Polly Bergen, first known as the terror-stricken wife in the original Cape Fear, died S…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2014
The unholy alliance between commercial theater producers and subsidized theaters " where shows often try out en route to Broadway " took a bizarre twist Wednesday with news that Duncan…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2014
NYFF director Kent Jones announced today that the Film Society of Lincoln Center has added the world premiere of Laura Poitras's CITIZENFOUR to its Main Slate lineup. The presentation…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:08PM[SHARE]Like shiny new cars in showrooms, the latest Broadway models have begun to raise their curtains as the 2014-2015 season begins gathering steam, evidenced by a 12% rise in total grosses over …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:56AM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2014
Beautiful " The Carole King Musical has recouped its production costs after about 10 months on Broadway. Capitalized at $13 million, the biotuner-slash-jukebox show starring Tony wi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 14, 2014
Mention "Twist And Shout" to a Boomer and you'll get a shake of the thinning hair or shaved scalp along with recollections of the Fab Four on The Ed Sullivan Show. The more knowing respon…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:49AM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2014
The Second Stage Theatre just announced that it will no longer be producing the new musical American Psycho, the adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel and feature film that is trying to …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2014
No play ever celebrated arrested development quite so amusingly as Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth, a shambling off-Broadway hit from 1996 now revived starring Michael Cera, Kieran C…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Ethan Hawke and Richard Gere will hold pride of place at the 52nd New York Film Festival. The Film Society of Lincoln Center will host Hawke on September 30 and Gere on October 8 for "An Eve…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:22PM[SHARE]New York's major Public Broadcasting Service station, WNET-13, will begin presenting Theater Close-Up, a weekly series of top-tier off-Broadway show,s on October 2. Weaver, a screen star wit…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:42PM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2014
The lights of five Broadway theaters will be dimmed Tuesday evening in memory of Joan Rivers " and in defiance of theater owners who earlier in the day decided not to give the comedien…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:11PM[SHARE]Molly Glynn, a mainstay of Chicago's supercharged theater scene, died Saturday after being struck by a tree while cycling with her husband during a sudden thunderstorm, according to the Chic…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:25PM[SHARE]UPDATES with the rest of the box office news. The brooms of Wicked ran out of fuel last week, as ticket sales fell an impressive $367,560 from the week before. The Oz prequel was one of 1…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:57PM[SHARE]Michael C Hall will replace Andrew Rannells in the title role of Hedwig And The Angry Inch beginning October 16. The show won Tony Awards in June as best musical revival and for the producti…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 7, 2014
EXCLUSIVE: Literary biographies tend to be either too literary or too biographical: so artful as to be ruined by artifice or so bogged down in minutiae they're a challenge to pleasure. The s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:24PM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2014
Beautiful " The Carole King Musical, which has been a consistent box office winner at Broadway's Stephen Sondheim Theatre, will hit the West End in February and launch a U.S. tour in Septemb…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2014
In 1957 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musicalized the Cinderella story as a TV vehicle for Julie Andrews, sizzling from the success of My Fair Lady. When the show made its Broadwa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Mike Bloomberg has found a job he'll never have to relinquish because of those annoying term limits: He announced Wednesday that he has returned full time to lead Bloomberg LP, the financial…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:58PM[SHARE]In the wake of rave reviews and a sold-out West End run, the revival of David Hare's drama Skylight will open on Broadway in the spring, with stars Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan repeating…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:26PM[SHARE]Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre collective, already repped on Broadway with This is Our Youth, now in previews, will have a second Tony-eligible show this season when the Manhattan Theatre …
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:35PM[SHARE]Penguin Random House has begun a major re-organization under CEO Markus Dohle, who announced today the appointment of Madeline McIntosh as head of the newly created Penguin Publishing Group.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2014
UPDATE, 12 noon: More Broadway b.o. news after first paragraph: Â Broadway's summer season ended with a fast break out of the starting gate as previews of It's Only A Play, starring Nathan…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:02PM[SHARE]Friday, August 29, 2014
Melissa Rivers released this update on the condition of her mother, Joan Rivers, hospitalized since yesterday at New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital:
"My mother would be so touched by the tributes…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Off-Broadway's ever-fecund Vineyard Theatre has nabbed Vincent Kartheiser " who plays obnoxious ladder climber Pete Campbell on AMC's Mad Men " for its upcoming show about the filming of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:28PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The much-ballyhooed Broadway revival of Side Show has a new above-the-title producer: Universal Pictures. Christopher Herzberger, U's executive, live theatricals, pushed the deal,…
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