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.
UPDATE, with moment of silence: Though flags outside New Orleans’ Superdome flew at half-staff, security officers with bomb-sniffing dogs greeted visitors and President Joe Biden delivered pre-game videotaped words of consolation and support, the postponed 2025 Sugar Bowl football game between the Georgia…
UPDATED, 11:32 AM: Today’s Sugar Bowl college football matchup between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish has been postponed for 24 hours until Thursday night, Sugar Bowl CEO Jeff Hundley has just announced.
The game had been planned for tonight at Caesars Superdome in New…
Ralph Fiennes needed little urging from Andy Cohen to jump aboard the "very demure, very mindful" meme train.
On last night’s CNN's New Years Eve Live with Cohen and Anderson Cooper, Fiennes dropped by to plug his acclaimed new film Conclave, but, per an agreement with Cohen, provided a bit of…
Broadway had a very merry Christmas – with one big exception – as any number of shows gained big at the box office last week, breaking house records and in one case – Wicked – soaring past the $5 million mark to achieve the highest grossing week ever in Broadway history.
But that exception was a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…