Dave Itzkoff

The UK theatre industry weathers the Covid-19 outbreak. Read updates here:

Network will host a post-show talk back on Wednesday, March 20 following the 7pm performance in partnership with American Express. Participants include NETWORK stars Bryan Cranston (All The Way, "Breaking Bad"), Tony Goldwyn ("Scandal," Promises, Promises) and Tatiana Maslany ("Orphan Black," Mary Page Marlowe). New York Times culture reporter and author of Mad as Hell: The Making of 'Network' and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies Dave Itzkoff will moderate.

If you're looking for a great sale on recent releases, head out to Barnes and Noble this weekend. The sale is running now through Labor Day (Monday, September 3rd, 2018). Over 100 new titles and recent best sellers are ON SALE for 50% off. If you're not near a store, the sale is also online. Members save an extra 10% in store or receive free express shipping online. Below is a press release for the company with all the details, but I also stopped in the store this week and took pictures of the displays so that you can get a better look at the titles on sale.

The Just For Laughs Festival, presented by Videotron in association with Loto-Quebec, successfully upped the ante on hilarity with more artists and TV tapings than ever before, popping the cork over an astounding 42 sold-out shows. With a flood of television tapings, social media coverage, and international press, JFL experienced more worldwide exposure than ever before! JFL's name is synonymous with comedy. You can't turn your head without catching stand-up captured at the festival; major players include Netflix, HBO, The Comedy Network, CBC, Showtime, The CW, CNN, Hulu, CBS, Comedy Central, LOL, TruTV and countless other media outlets from across the globe.

The 88th Annual Academy Awards telecast aired live coast-to-coast on Sunday, February 28th (8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT).

Comedy Central, in association with The New York Comedy Festival (NYCF), announced today the addition of more than 50 shows to its 2015 line-up, which includes compelling and engaging panel discussions, classic stand-up, musical comedy and podcasts.

As part of David Letterman's send-off from THE LATE SHOW, Ray Romano will be hosting a special tribute show airing on CBS on May 4th.

Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson, currently starring on Broadway in the critically acclaimed Steppenwolf production of Kenneth Lonergan's This is Our Youth will appear in their very first 'TimesTalks' with New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, today, November 14th at 5:30PM.

Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson, currently starring on Broadway in the critically acclaimed Steppenwolf production of Kenneth Lonergan's This is Our Youth will appear in their very first 'TimesTalks' with New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, Friday, November 14th at 5:30PM.

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that New York Times writer Dave Itzkoff, who wrote Robin Williams's obituary for the newspaper, will pen a biography on the actor.

Nearly 34 years after it originally aired on television, the National Geographic Channel will rebroadcast all 13 episodes of Carl Sagan's ground-breaking series 'COSMOS: A PERSONAL VOYAGE' as a two-day event this weekend, Saturday, March 8, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, March 9, from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. The two-day marathon will conclude in time for the global world premiere of the new series COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY on Sunday, March 9, from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET/PT across multiple U.S. Fox networks, including Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX), National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo WILD, Nat Geo MUNDO, FX, FXX, FXM, FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports 2 and FOX Life.

The Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company's revival of Middle Of The Night by Academy Award winner Paddy Chayefsky, starring Tony and Drama Desk Nominee Jonathan Hadary (Gypsy, Awake & Sing, Gemini, As Is) along with Todd Bartels (Bingo With the Indians, Church), Amelia Campbell (Our Country's Good [Tony nomination], A Streetcar Named Desire, Waiting in the Wings, The Herbal Bed), Alyssa May Gold (Arcadia, Keen's Lemon Sky), Nicole Lowrance (Peter and the Starcatchers, Dividing the Estate), Denise Lute (Harry Outside, Bug), and Melissa Miller (Merchant Of Venice with F. Murray Abraham, Keen's I Never Sang for My Father), directed by Keen Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein, will have Talkbacks following performances on Thursday evenings. Scheduled are:

TimesTalks just welcomed John Cusack, who was interviewed by NYT reporter Dave Itzkoff. TimesTalks events take place at TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City. For additional information or to purchase advance tickets, which are $30 for each interview plus service fees, please call: 1.888.NYT.1870 or visit www.TimesTalks.com.

Some of the brightest names in film, television, theater, books, advocacy and awareness are sitting down with New York Times journalists for TimesTalks events at TheTimesCenter this month. Participants include Yale University professor David W. Blight, filmmaker Ken Burns, and historian Adam Goodheart; actor-producer Bradley Cooper; Tony Award-winning stars of the upcoming Roundabout Theatre revival of 'Anything Goes,' Sutton Foster and Joel Grey with director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall; Tony Award-winning British playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard; two-time Golden Globe winner, Academy Award and Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner; and Academy Award-winning director Gerardine Wurzburg with the two men featured in her new documentary 'Wretches & Jabberers,' Larry Bissonnette and Tracy Thresher, and Autism Society president and CEO Lee Grossman. Moderators for upcoming TimesTalks offerings include theater reporter Patrick Healy; arts columnist Dave Itzkoff; Jamie Malanowski, lead writer of NYTimes.com's award-winning Opinionator series, 'Disunion;' and Editorial Page editor Andrew Rosenthal.

Some of the brightest names in film, television, theater, books, advocacy and awareness are sitting down with New York Times journalists for TimesTalks events at TheTimesCenter this month. Participants include Yale University professor David W. Blight, filmmaker Ken Burns, and historian Adam Goodheart; actor-producer Bradley Cooper; Tony Award-winning stars of the upcoming Roundabout Theatre revival of 'Anything Goes,' Sutton Foster and Joel Grey with director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall; Tony Award-winning British playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard; two-time Golden Globe winner, Academy Award and Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner; and Academy Award-winning director Gerardine Wurzburg with the two men featured in her new documentary 'Wretches & Jabberers,' Larry Bissonnette and Tracy Thresher, and Autism Society president and CEO Lee Grossman. Moderators for upcoming TimesTalks offerings include theater reporter Patrick Healy; arts columnist Dave Itzkoff; Jamie Malanowski, lead writer of NYTimes.com's award-winning Opinionator series, 'Disunion;' and Editorial Page editor Andrew Rosenthal.

Dave Itzkoff of the New York Times talks to all four members of the show's starry cast about the projects that they've been working on (or not working on) this summer during the show's hiatus. The answers range from sewing to filming... Click here to read the feature story.

Theatre legend Patti LuPone has issued a response regarding the recent run-in with a Las Vegas audience member who was texting during the show. The action forced LuPone to stop the show, and calmly repremand the texter.

The New York Times has turned its attention to Andrew Lloyd Webber's upcoming 'Phantom: Love Never Dies', the sequel to his worldwide mega hit musical The Phantom of the Opera.

Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Sunday, January 11, 2009.

Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Saturday, January 10, 2009.