Fran Drescher News

In light of the global COVID-19 outbreak, all performances for the remainder of the spring season have been canceled.

Indebted creator Dan Levy and castmates Fran Drescher, Abby Elliott, Adam Pally, Steven Weber, Jessy Hodges and more talk about their commute and giant water bottles as they take you behind the scenes of NBC's Indebted.

Today photographer Robert Lundberg launches his new series, Uncontaminated Sound: The Interviews, via Pure Grain Audio. For the first episode, featuring notable and buzzworthy comedian Mike Cannon, Lundberg speaks with Cannon about his process and path which sets the tone for the series. Filmed in New York City and Boston, the video series will be released bi-weekly. The series focuses on having raw and uncut conversations with contemporary artisans, entertainers, musicians and more.

NBCUniversal hosted a press junket at the Four Seasons Midtown Hotel in New York City on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, featuring new and returning mid-season series including 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' 'Good Girls,' 'Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector,' 'Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist,' 'Indebted,' 'Manifest,' 'America's Got Talent: The Champions' and more.

We asked, and you answered! The classic television show The Nanny is being developed as a musical with the help of Fran Drescher, Peter Marc Jacobson, and Rachel Bloom. To celebrate we asked BroadwayWorld readers to name the other TV shows that they'd like to see come to the stage. Now we've gathered some of the most popular answers for you to enjoy, from classics like The Golden Girls and Bewitched to more recent favorites like Smash and The Good Place.

Acclaimed actress, comedian, writer and activist Fran Drescher makes her Café Carlyle debut, June 16 a?" 20. The Queens native has received two Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations for her portrayal as the lovable Miss Fine on the CBS hit series The Nanny, a show she also created, wrote, directed and executive produced. Fran's next sitcom was based off of her real life relationship with her gay ex-husband, Peter Marc Jacobson -- a show she also produced, created, and starred in called Happily Divorced. Currently, she is starring in NBC's new sitcom Indebted where she plays a baby boomer gone broke who has to move in with her adult son and his young family. An accomplished film actress, she's won Esquire's Five Minute Oscar for her memorable performance in the mockumentary, This Is Spinal Tap. She has co-starred in countless films throughout her career with the likes of Robin Williams, Dan Aykroyd, Tim Robbins and Billy Crystal, not to mention such esteemed directors as Rob Reiner, Milos Forman and Francis Ford Coppola. Her latest films slated to be released this year are The Creatress and After Class.

Renée Taylor is an Emmy Award winner, Oscar nominee, actress, screenwriter, playwright and comedy legend known for Lovers and Other Strangers, Made for Each Other, and of course, The Nanny, to name only a few of the projects that make up her long and impressive career.

Today's top stories: The Nanny will be developed as a musical, and more!

The Nanny is being developed into a Broadway musical, producers Brian Zeilinger and Scott Zeilinger announced today, to be based on the iconic Sony Pictures television series created by Peter Marc Jacobson and Fran Drescher.

Richard and Susan Bloch will present an invitation only industry presentation of the new play THE GOD BOX by Drama Desk winner, Jim Brochu. Brochu will appear in the reading with Tony nominees, Robert Cuccioli and Bryce Pinkham. Emmy Award winner Dorothy Lyman directs the reading to be held on in New York City January 6, 2020.

Emmy Award-winning actress and writer Renée Taylor a?" known to millions as Fran Fine's food obsessed mother, Sylvia, on a?oeThe Nannya?? a?" will bring her comedy smash MY LIFE ON A DIET to George Street Playhouse beginning next Tuesday, November 19th. Called a?oefascinating, lighthearted and spicya?? by The New York Times, MY LIFE ON A DIET, an autobiographical comedy written by Ms. Taylor and her late husband Joseph Bologna, had an enormously successful run last season Off-Broadway under the direction of Mr. Bologna.

Following another winning fall, the network heads into the new year with a crop of prestige shows that combine top talent with creative storytelling. With more new shows launching in 2020 than the fall, NBC's robust winter and spring slate fuels a long-term strategy and features a completely reimagined “Little Big Shots” as well as three new dramas and one new multi-camera comedy. 

Spencer Day Wraps Up Shows at The Green Room 42 with Preview of New Album

Café Carlyle's winter & spring 2020 seasons will feature the return of audience favorites Hamilton Leithauser, Isaac Mizrahi, Joan Osborne, Betty Buckley, and John Pizzarelli; and debuts by Stephanie J. Block, Belinda Carlisle, and Fran Drescher.

Outlandish launches its third season on Saturday, October 12 with America's favorite Nanny Fran Drescher, performing a show for the first time in Palm Springs. In a?oeSchmoozing With Fran Dreschera??, the legendary actress/comedian/activist shares, in her unique voice, both hilarious and poignant stories of her life. Produced by Logo TV Founder Matt Farber in partnership with the Palm Springs Cultural Center and benefiting the LGBT Community Center of the Desert (The Center), the Outlandish series will feature six iconic acts known in the LGBT and mainstream media for their cutting-edge wit and humor. I had the chance to chat with Ms. Drescher as she was preparing for her upcoming Palm Springs foray. Here are a few excerpts from that conversation.

Deadline reports that Gravitas Ventures will release family comedy 'After Class' this December. The film stars Justin Long and Fran Drescher.

a??a??a??a??a??a??a??Two Worlds Entertainment, LLC., a twenty first century think-tank committed to evolve theater and music-based initiatives into modern, relevant and successful models, announced earlier this summer, their establishment and services. Founded by New York based music and theater professionals Richard Grasso and Jeff Malone, they are working to change the way both modern and classic art is marketed, branded, educated and consumed. 

The 22nd Anniversary of the Long Island International Film Expo (LIIFE) took place between July 12th – 18th, and included some of the best new short and feature-length independent movies anywhere, made by filmmakers from around the world - with a strong contingent of local Long Islanders showcased as well - all shown at the historic Bellmore Movies (222 Pettit Avenue, Bellmore, NY  11710)

Producer Rick Murray welcomes the legendary Fran Drescher to Provincetown for one night only in her show, Schmoozing with Fran, Saturday, August 10 at 8:00 p.m. at Provincetown Town Hall.  

Donelle Dadigan, Founder and President of The Hollywood Museum in partnership with Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch O'Farrell (CD13), proudly unveiled the 2019 salute to the LGBT community's contributions to the entertainment industry last night to launched Los Angeles' Gay Pride weekend festivities.