86 stories by "Erik Pedersen"
Janis Paige, who racked up more than 100 film, TV and stage credits over six decades including The Pajama Game, Silk Stockings and Santa Barbara, died June 2 at her home in Los Angeles. She …
It's been a very busy April on Broadway, and it'll wrap with the 77th Tony Awards nominations announcement next week. And word came today that Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberr…
Edward Bond, the Oscar-nominated Blow-Up screenwriter and playwright whose Saved and Early Morning were banned in the UK, fueling a legal review that led to the end of stage censorship in th…
Hollywood and the entertainment industry lost a number of giants during 2023, from Norman Lear, Raquel Welch, Harry Belafonte, Matthew Perry and André Braugher to Tony Bennett, Tina Turn…
A newcomer will be easing on down the road next year. Nichelle Lewis has been cast in the lead role of Dorothy in the Broadway revival of The Wiz, which is slated to hit the boards in the sp…
IATSE has reached a tentative deal with the Broadway League and Disney Theatrical on a new "Pink Contact," a day after talks had broken down. The agreement now goes to union members for rati…
Judith James, a film, TV and Broadway producer who was Richard Dreyfuss' producing partner for many years and worked on such projects as Quiz Show, Mr. Holland's Opus and Eleanor: In Her Own…
Like live theater itself, the Tony Awards has had ample opportunity of late to accustom itself to curve balls, upsets and all sorts of real-world intrusions onto Broadway's rarified and belo…
The 76th annual Tony Awards preshow is under way before tonight's televised ceremony tonight in New York, and Deadline is updating the winners list as they are announced. Have a look below t…
Michael Lamont, who went from acting in Bye Bye Birdie and Oliver! on Broadway to a career as photographer for studios, theaters and actors, has died. He was 76. According to Patty Onagan, p…
Broadway in Hollywood has tuned up the slate of musicals for its 2023-24 season. Headed to the Pantages Theatre stage starting late this year are the touring productions of MJ The Musical, T…
Michael Butler, the Tony-winning producer who brought Hair to Broadway in 1968 and later produced the film adaptation and many other productions of the show, died Monday in Santa Barbara. He…
One of the world's most popular and enduring actresses died today, and tributes to Dame Angela Lansbury are raining down like a closing-night curtain call. Here is just a sampling that spans…
Tony winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson and nominee Jesse Williams are suiting up again as stars of the baseball-themed Take Me Out, which is set to return to Broadway in the fall. The hit reviv…
It'll be a shorter-than-planned reign for The Little Prince on Broadway. Producers said today that the show based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella will end its limited engagement…
Liz Sheridan, the veteran actress best known for playing Jerry Seinfeld's mother on Seinfeld and also recurred on ALF and appeared in several Broadway shows, died today in New York City. She…
We got trouble, my friends, right there in New York City. It's trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with C, and that stands for … Covid. Broadway's revival of The Music Man has canc…
As Broadway gets ready to rock with you once again, there's a new man in the mirror for the Michael Jackson musical. The producers said today that Myles Frost will play the King of Pop in MJ…
As we finally turn the calendar on the Cruelest Year, let's take a moment to reflect on some of the memorable people we lost from the world of entertainment. Click through the photo gallery …
Roger Berlind, the 25-time Tony-winning producer of more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals ranging from Amadeus, City of Angels and Doubt to The Book of Mormon, Dear Evan Hansen …
Ann Reinking, a Broadway veteran who starred in the original production of Chicago, won a Tony Award as its choreographer and also co-starred in the films Annie and All That Jazz, has …
Broadway has been dark since mid-March, but its 2019-20 season already was winding down. In fact, there were 31 shows on the Main Stem boards when the coronavirus made this the cruelest of y…
Terrence McNally, the revered playwright behind such Broadway shows as Master Class and Frankie and Johnny at the Clair de Lune who also wrote the books for Kiss of the Spider Woman, T…
Zoe Caldwell, a veteran stage, TV and film actress who won four Tony Awards and originated the Broadway roles of Maria Callas in Master Class and the title character in The Prime of Mi…