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Greg joined the Deadline staff in 2017 from Bloomberg News, where he was the TV and Film critic. He previously was a staff editor and/or reporter at Variety, Daily Variety and TV Guide Magazine. His features and criticism on arts and entertainment have appeared in the New York Times, Vulture, Slate, Newsweek, Yahoo News and Guitar World Magazine.
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Deadline’s Broadway Critic Picks The Best Of 2024 & Looks Ahead To 2025
The Broadway season doesn’t lend itself comfortably to Best of the Calendar Year Stories — my choices for the first six months of 2024 were made and announced last June in a Tony Award predictions column. So no need to reiterate my undying love for Stereophonic, Illinoise, Appropriate, et. al. Instead, let me bring…
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‘All In: Comedy About Love’ Broadway Review: John Mulaney, Richard Kind, Fred Armisen & Renée Elise Goldsberry Give Voice To Comic Brilliance Of Simon Rich
Last week, the Broadway play All In: Comedy About Love got very dramatic about money – weekly box office, specifically, with grosses topping $1 million, an impressive feat for any play not named Mary. Figure in that All In isn’t really a play at all, but a collection of readings by the short comic fiction…
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‘Gypsy’ Broadway Review: Audra McDonald Takes Her Turn At Momma Rose
There aren’t enough dressing rooms on Broadway to contain all the expectations for the new Gypsy, George C. Wolfe’s revival starring the great Audra McDonald. Considered by theater buffs to be among the greatest stage musicals of the American canon, Gypsy now stars a performer considered among the…
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Acclaimed ‘Dead Outlaw’ Musical Sets Broadway Spring Opening
Itamar Moses’s Dead Outlaw, the acclaimed musical that had a very successful Off Broadway run earlier this year, will open on Broadway this April, producers announced today.
Featuring music and lyrics by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penn and direction by David Cromer, Dead Outlaw will begin preview…
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Sarah Hyland Joins Broadway’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ As Eva Noblezada Heads To West End ‘Hadestown’
With Eva Noblezada departing her role as Daisy Buchanan in Broadway’s The Great Gatsby to join her former Hadestown castmates for a limited run of that musical in London, Sarah Hyland (Modern Family, Broadway’s Grey Gardens) will step into the Gatsby role.
The castings were announced today in…
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Acclaimed ‘Eureka Day’ Extends Broadway Run Through February 2
Eureka Day, the needle-sharp Manhattan Theatre Club comedy by Jonathan Spector that opened to rave reviews this week, has been extended two weeks at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and will now run through February 2, 2025.
Directed by Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro (Broadway: August: Osage…
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Simon Rich Comedy ‘All In’ Starring John Mulaney Sells Out First Week; ‘Elf’ Scores $2M – Broadway Box Office
The build-up to Christmas is being very generous with Broadway. In some cases, very, very generous. Among the most impressive box office developments last week was the welcome given to All In: Comedy About Love, based on the short stories of writer Simon Rich, read live by such performers as, initially…
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World Premiere Set For New Jonathan Larson Musical Featuring Unearthed Songs And Music Cut From ‘Rent’ And ‘tick, tick… BOOM!’
EXCLUSIVE: The Jonathan Larson Project, a new musical featuring more than 20 songs that have never been part of a fully staged production – including material cut from Rent and tick, tick… BOOM! – will make its Off Broadway world premiere in February, producers announced today.
The Jonathan Larson Pro…
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‘Karate Kid: Legends’ Trailer: A Kid In The City, With A Little Help From Some Familiar Friends
Columbia Pictures dropped the official trailer for Karate Kid: Legends today, plenty of time to launch public interest before the spring release. Karate Kid: Legends hits theaters May 30, 2025.
The film features young Ben Wang with the legendary Jackie Chan and everyone’s favorite Karate Kid Ralph…
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‘Eureka Day’ Broadway Review: Who Says Vaccines Are No Laughing Matter?
Quick, think of something really humorous about vaccinations. No? Me neither, but playwright Jonathan Spector has done us all a favor and molded one of the most divisive, inane, grotesque and newly, resurgent issues of the day and polished it into a shiny, insightful and damn funny little gem so that all…
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Billie Eilish Startled After Being Hit By Object Tossed Onstage, Continues Song
Pop superstar Billie Eilish became the latest performer hit by a flying object – seemingly a necklace or bracelet – tossed by an apparently overenthusiastic and certainly moronic audience member.
An unhurt but clearly startled and irritated Eilish, sitting on the stage, handled it with aplomb…
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Nancy Pelosi Undergoes Hip Replacement Surgery After Falling Down Marble Stairs In Luxembourg Palace
Representative Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, underwent hip replacement surgery today following a tumble she took while on an official trip to Luxembourg Friday.
While details were scant yesterday when the incident occurred, details emerged today, in part from Pelosi’s spokesman. The Former…
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