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.
Bad Cinderella, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s updated musical re-telling of the classic fairy tale, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, June 4.
The musical, which features lyrics by David Zippel and book by Emerald Fennell, has been struggling at the box office after critical drubbings. The…
Just hours after members of Actors’ Equity Association joined the striking WGA picket lines outside of HBO and Amazon’s New York City offices today, Kate Shindle, Equity president, suggested in a statement to Deadline that the strike’s impact on the upcoming Tony Awards is yet to be…
Rocky IV actor Dolph Lundgren, who has roles in the upcoming The Expendables 4 and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, has revealed an eight-year battle with cancer that was considered terminal prior to what he says was a more successful round of treatment.
In an interview on the syndicated interview…
Perhaps last week’s Tony Award nominations started paying off at the box office quicker than expected, at least for a few productions: Figures for last week, while down overall, indicate a nice bump upwards for Some Like It Hot, Shucked, Summer, 1976 and Good Night, Oscar.
Some Like It Hot, the…
Michael R. Jackson, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of A Strange Loop, is sinking his choppers into a stage musical adaptation of the 2007 cult horror-comedy film Teeth, set for an Off Broadway debut next year.
The musical, announced today as part of Playwrights Horizons’ 2023-24 season…
Actors’ Equity Association, the union representing theater actors and stage managers, is inviting its members and allies to join the WGA picket line outside HBO and Amazon offices tomorrow.
In tweets yesterday and this morning, Equity writes, “New York Members (and allies): Join us on Wednesday, May…
UPDATE, with GMA interview video: Ed Sheeran, who just won a court case in which he was accused of copying the Marvin Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On” for his own 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud,” will perform at the the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards on Thursday, producers announced today.
Hosted…
Bruce Norris's Downstate and Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt were named this season’s Best Play and Best Foreign Play, respectively, by the New York Drama Critics' Circle today.
Downstate opened last October in an Off Broadway production at Playwrights Horizons. Set at a downstate Illinois group home for…
For Tony Award nominees, the next 37 days will be the usual long slog of interviews, parties, nerves and anticipation. But for producers of the ceremony’s June 11 broadcast on CBS, the date carries a new cause for insomnia: Who will write the thing?
With the Writers Guild of America strike showing no…
The World Health Organization today ended its designation of Covid as a “global health emergency.”
WHO director general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement, tweeted out by WHO, that it is “with great hope” that he declares Covid “over as a global health emergency,” but added, “that…
Linda Lewis, the British singer who scored a string UK solo hits in the 1970s but is most widely known as one of the era’s most in-demand backup singers who recorded with Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens, David Bowie, T. Rex and Rod Stewart, died May 3 at her home. She was 72.
Her death was announced by her…
The death of New York City subway rider and familiar Michael Jackson street impersonator Jordan Neely has been ruled a homicide, the city’s medical examiner said Wednesday night.
Neely had been placed in a chokehold by a fellow subway rider Monday after the homeless man began screaming at passengers…