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There’s an abundance of treats offered by director Matthew Warchus’ staging of A Christmas Carol – like Andrea Martin dressed as a Victorian caroler mingling with the audience at Broadway Lyceum Theatre, handing out Clementines and cookies before curtain – but perhaps the best is the revelation that the Dickens…

Andrea Martin and LaChanze will join the previously announced Campbell Scott in this holiday season’s Broadway production of A Christmas Carol, an adaptation of the Dickens classic by playwright Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and director Matthew Warchus (Matilda The Musical). Martin will play the…

The world premiere of Taylor Mac's new comedy Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus has moved back its opening night. The new opening night will be April 21 at Broadway's Booth Theatre. Preview performances began on Monday, March 11. As previously announced, original co-star Andrea Martin departed the company on March 4…

Andrea Martin has dropped out of the upcoming Broadway production Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus after breaking four ribs in a recent accident during rehearsals, producer Scott Rudin announced today. Martin, who was to co-star with Nathan Lane in the new Taylor Mac comedy, will be replaced by cast member Kristine…

Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin are heading back to Broadway next spring in the world premiere of Taylor Mac’s Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus. George C. Wolfe will direct, with previews beginning March 5, 2019, at the Booth Theatre. The production and casting were announced today by producer Scott Rudin. The comedy…

Great News got bad news from its network today. NBC has canceled the workplace/family comedy starring Briga Heelan and Andrea Martin after two seasons. Created by 30 Rock alumna Tracey Wigfield and exec produced by 30 Rock creator Tina Fey, the series had a modestly rated run in midseason 2017. The comedy clinched a…

One of my favorite performers in any medium, Andrea Martin joins me today in a special New York edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side — and there are many sides to this actor. Martin is currently starring as two very different mothers in two TV shows: NBC’s Great News, which has been renewed for a…

Two-time Emmy and Tony winner Andrea Martin is the latest to sign up for Hairspray Live!, NBC's live musical produced by Universal Television that will air December 7 from Los Angeles. She will play Prudy Pingleton, the overprotective and often close-minded mother of Penny Pingleton (Ariana Grande) who doesn't approve…

Andrea Martin is set as one of the two leads in NBC’s untitled Tracey Wigfield comedy pilot from Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. Also cast in the single-camera project from Universal TV is Kimrie Lewis-Davis (Scandal, Peeples). They join previously cast Adam Campbell. Written by Wigfield, the comedy centers on an already…

Here’s Megan Hilty bouncing down a stairway — bounce bounce bounce — and strutting her outrageous stuff in a pink beribboned bustiere, mouth agape and eyes betraying an overabundance of oxygen to the brain. Here, too, is Andrea Martin dueling losingly with sardines, which sometimes fly off the plate like birds heading…

NBC has picked up 12-episode series  single-camera comedy Working The Engels, starring SCTV alumna Andrea Martin. NBC will co-produce the series with Core Media/Noreen Halpern’s Halfire-CORE Entertainment, which has a 3-for-1 drama series deal at NBC, and Canada’s Shaw Media. American networks have teamed with…

‘Still Life’ Scores Early Sales Ahead Of Venice Bow Still Life, the Uberto Pasolini film that's premiering in Venice's Horizons section, has closed some early sales for Beta Cinema. Eddie Marsan (Ray Donovan) and Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey) star in the movie about a UK council worker whose job is to notify the…