Wednesday, August 27, 2014
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,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:43PM[SHARE]Markus Dohle, CEO of Pearson plc's Penguin Random House, Â announced this morning a changing of the guard at the publishing giant, marking the end of one era and the transition to another.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Since everyone is dousing everyone else these dog days with buckets of ice to raise money for ALS research, I offer a challenge of my own to The New York Post's Michael Riedel: Meet me at Ba…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:03PM[SHARE]Just a few weeks after Sam Shepard's semi-sibling lovers were bouncing off the walls in the Williamstown Theatre Festival revival of Fool For Love comes what appears to be the American premi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:29PM[SHARE]Why did the Shubert Organization, which owns 17 of Broadway's 40 designated theaters, sign off on a deal to buy New World Stages, the five-theater underground off-Broadway complex owned by D…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:49PM[SHARE]Fresh off his staging duties for the Williamstown Theatre Festival's production of The Visit, John Doyle will direct Malcolm Gets, Elizabeth A. Davis, Alma Cuervo, Claybourne Elder and Ja…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:02PM[SHARE]Monday, August 25, 2014
Any question about the drawing power of Neil Patrick Harris was put to rest with  the release of Broadway's latest b.o. tally. In the first week since Harris' departure from the Tony A…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:54PM[SHARE]That's what the SNL vet and Late Night host replied this morning when Al Roker asked him to name his biggest goal for tonight's NBC-broadcast 66th Primetime Emmycast. The filmed interview wa…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:37AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Here's a first look at the art for Side Show, returning to Broadway in October. The musical, with book and lyrics by Bill Russell and music by Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls), tells th…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:31AM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2014
Motown The Musical, the tuner loosely based on label founder Berry Gordy's memoir, will play its final performance at Broadway's Lunt Fontanne Theatre on January 18, 2015, a few months sh…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2014
The Riedel Watch: I promised occasional updates on reaction to somee of my pal Michael Riedel's more combustible columns (so many to choose from!) and on Wednesday he produced a doozy. Surve…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:15PM[SHARE]Australia throws its wig into the Beatles recycle bin with Lennon: Through A Glass Onion, an Oz perennial from 1992 set to arrive off-Broadway beinning October 3.
Created and per…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:46AM[SHARE]Publishing veteran Rick Horgan, whose position as v.p. and executive editor at Crown was eliminated in May after nearly a decade with the the house, is joining Scribner with the sam…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2014
It's official: Emma Stone will make her Broadway debut in Cabaret beginning November 11th and hanging around Studio 54 as B-grade chanteuse Sally Bowles through February 1, 2015. Michelle…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Hollywood and Broadway producer Paula Wagner has acquired the film rights to the life story of  the late Sylvia Robinson, the singer, songwriter, record producer, publisher, and record…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:32PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Terrence McNally's onstage, backstage, offstage comedy It's Only A Play will begin performances September 28 on Broadway with about $8 million in the bank, producer Tom Kirdahy to…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:15PM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2014
UPDATE, MONDAY 1:40Â p.m.: MCC Theatre Co-Artistic Director Bernard Telsey released a statement this afternoon confirming that Elizabeth Reaser (True Detective, The Good Wife) will replace…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:41PM[SHARE]Rocky bowed out after its disappointing run, and the Broadway box office was off about 3% to $25.2M from the previous week's $25.9M Even an extra performance added to the usual eight for …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:08PM[SHARE]Here's a familiar scene: One couple has invited another, close friends, for a weekend in the country. As significant amounts of alcohol flow from bottle to glass to lips, conversation turns …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:23PM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2014
EXCLUSIVE: Determined to prove his bona fides as a Broadway producer, Harvey Weinstein told Deadline this morning that he and director Diane Paulus are "incredibly happy with the Boston r…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:56PM[SHARE]Got blood? For its upcoming production of Carrie: The Musical, Southeast L.A.'s La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts plans to convert its space on La Mirada Boulevard into Ewan High Sch…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2014
Not that there's anything wrong with that. Well, a few things, maybe.
It's not at all hard to understand why Harvey Weinstein turned to Diane Paulus to overhaul Finding Neverland, the mus…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Putting a new spin on crowdsourcing and the very risky business of producing Broadway shows, investors Howard and Janet Kagan have launched a new online investment platform invest.maxolev.co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:10PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE Updates with more information:Â Harvey Weinstein's well-tended production of Finding Neverland has booked a Nederlander theater and will open on Broadway in the spring, I've lear…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Two fall shows " the new musical Honeymoon In Vegas and a revival of A.R. Gurney's  two-hander Love Letters " are switching theaters. Love Letters will begin performances at the 1.036-…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Fondly remembered for those Elvis impersonators parachuting to the Strip and saving the day for a Brooklyn schnook, "Honeymoon in Vegas" is the latest film-to-musical transfer looking for a …
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 11:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2013
 NEW YORK -- By the end of "Lucky Guy," you're going to like Tom Hanks a lot more than Mike McAlary, the tabloid byline he plays with magnetic appeal in his Broadway debut.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:15PM[SHARE]Monday, December 10, 2012
The producers of "Glengarry Glen Ross" invited critics to see the revival this weekend, following a preview period of nearly two months in which the star, Al Pacino, fine-tuned his performan…
SOURCE: Business Week at 06:57AM[SHARE]Monday, November 12, 2012
David Mamet and the "Glengarry Glen Ross" team had an opening-night party on Sunday without going through the bother of an opening night with those possibly mood- ruining reviews. Mamet's 19…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 10:00PM[SHARE]Monday, September 17, 2012
There's perfect symmetry in the fact that "Show Stopper: The Theatrical Life of Garth Drabinsky" had its premiere in the city where Drabinsky made and lost two fortunes.
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 07:59PM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2012
An unscrupulous, sanctimonious snake vying for his party's presidential nomination, Senator Joseph Cantwell seems like an uncanny imitation of Rick Santorum, especially as played by Eric McC…
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