Tony Phelan News

Variety has learned that Sarah Wayne Callies will lead NBC pilot “Council of Dads.'

NBC has ordered a pilot for the Tony Phelan and Joan Rater drama “Council of Dads,”according to Variety.

The Drama League (Gabriel Stelian-Shanks, Executive Artistic Director) announced today that Mia Rovegno and Mia Walker have been named this year's recipients of The Drama League's Directing Fellowship in Film and Television, which gives early- and mid-career theater directors their first opportunities to shadow on professional film and television projects. Ms. Rovegno and Ms. Walker will receive financial support, travel allowances, expert mentors, and a shadow directing assignment as part of their fellowship.

The Drama League's 2018 Spring Charity Auction has launched at www.biddingforgood.com/thedramaleague, featuring forty once-in-a-lifetime prize packages. The impressive offerings include celebrity experiences with Alan Cumming (Legal Immigrant at Joe's Pub), Jessie Mueller (Carousel), Lea Salonga (Once On This Island); Andrew Rannells (The Boys in The Band), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Log Cabin), Condola Rashad (Saint Joan), Wayne Brady (Kinky Boots), Matthew Broderick (The Seafarer); House Seats to the hottest shows on and off Broadway, like The Iceman Cometh, Escape to Margaritaville, Sweeney Todd, In & Of Itself and more!

The Drama League has launched its 2017 Spring Charity Auction, featuring more than 20 once-in-a-lifetime prize packages.

The Drama League today announced that applications are now available for the 2017 Directors Project Fellowships, the award-winning career development programs for emerging stage directors.

The Drama League's 2016 Gala Charity Auction has launched at www.biddingforgood.com/thedramaleague, featuring over fifty once-in-a-lifetime prize packages.

The new drama series DOUBT (To premiere during the 2016-2017 season) starring Steven Pasquale (BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, Laverne Cox (FOX's ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW) and Katherine Heigl (KNOCKED UP) is heading to CBS for the 2016-17 season.

Broadway stars and a host of musical presentations are on tap for the upcoming 2016-17 primetime television season. Included in THE LINEUP will be new series starring HAMILTON's Christopher Jackson, FROZEN's Kristen Bell and BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY star Stephen Pasquale.

In 2016-2017, CBS will expand its comedy lineup, increasing the number of comedies from four to eight, compared to last fall, and programming two two-hour blocks on Mondays and Thursdays. Check out trailers below!

CBS today unveiled its 2016-2017 primetime lineup, featuring three new comedies, five new dramas and 21 returning series.

ONCE's Steve Kazee is out to solve the mystery in his next TV role.

The Directors Company, in association with Pascal Productions, will present A BETTER PLACE, a new work by playwright Wendy Beckett (Anais Nin: One Of Her Lives, A Charity Case) and directed by Evan Bergman (Love Therapy), will play a limited six-week engagement this spring at The Duke on 42nd Street, a NEW 42ND STREET project (229 West 42nd Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues).

Broadway's Steven Pasquale is lighting up this year's TV schedule.  Deadline reports that the actor will appear opposite Katherine Heigl in CBS's upcoming rework of its legal drama pilot DOUBT.

Katherine Heigl officially has her next small screen gig lined up.

Good news for GREY'S ANATOMY fans! Jason George has been around for a little while now, and is not going anywhere anytime soon.

During a press conference call ahead of its Upfront Presentation today, ABC President Paul Lee revealed that GREY'S ANATOMY will go on, despite the loss of star Patrick Dempsey's exit. 

According to Deadline, PRIVATE PRACTICE star KaDee Strickland will play the lead role in CBS's upcoming DOUBT pilot.

According to Deadline, CBS ordered its first two pilots of the season today -- a comedy starring Tommy Johnagin and a drama from the producers of Grey's Anatomy and Elementary.

Those familiar with the busy halls of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital know that this is a place where bad things happen fairly often. People stroke out after getting new hearts, they shove their hands into body cavities to stop bombs, they get hit by buses, they get held hostage, they're electrocuted; and then there are the actual medical issues that destroy your emotional stability and make you very wary of Web MD.