In her first stage appearance since exchanging the boards for the sound stage as Julianna Margulies’ smart sidekick on the final season of The Good Wife, Cush Jumbo grumps, groans, grimaces, growls and glowers — man does she glower — under the sky in Phyllida Lloyd’s freewheeling feminist all-female revisal of The Tami…

UPDATED: During CBS’ upfront presentation, CBS Corp. chairman Leslie Moonves confirmed a straight-to-series order to a Good Wife spinoff project, starring The Good Wife's Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo, to premiere in spring 2017 on CBS All Access. It will be CBS' fledgling SVOD platform’s second original…

Is there another victim-to-victimizer evolution in the offing? The long rumored Good Wife spinoff is close to becoming a reality. CBS’ fledgeling SVOD platform CBS All Access is in negotiations for a straight-to-series order to the project, starring The Good Wife‘s Christine Baranski, reprising her role as top…

Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry and other subjects, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: It feels like there’s a lot of drama on Broadway this season and for once it’s onstage more than off. I’m encouraged…

Shakespeare’s battle-of-the-sexes comedy The Taming Of The Shrew has been a reliable crowd-pleaser over the decades of free Shakespeare in Central Park (among the most memorable were Meryl Streep and the late Raul Julia in 1978, and Tracy Ullman and Morgan Freeman in 1990). The production that will launch the coming…

Christine Baranski’s Emmy nomination for The Good Wife's Diane Lockhart is her sixth for the role –that's one for every year she's been on the show–an experience that’s left her feeling "touched," she says, "because I didn't go into it considering myself a dramatic actress. I've had a learning curve and I think I've…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s an extraordinary time for Cush Jumbo, the London-based actress who starred on Broadway earlier this season with Hugh Jackman in Jez Butterworth’s spooky curiosity <a title="Smoldering Hugh Jackman Adds Cabin Fever To Broadway's Mysterious 'The River': Review"…

One of the many things I never knew until I saw Cush Jumbo’s show Josephine And I is that Josephine Baker sang Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A Changin'” at Carnegie Hall in a triumphant 1973 concert. She didn’t shed her clothes, shake a banana skirt or summon African spirits. She sang the song with smoldering fury…

Hugh Jackman is ‘The Man,” and every bit the giant star in The River, Jez Butterworth’s absorbing conundrum of a new play. As I say in my video review above, every audience member is the better for it. The play also stars Cush Jumbo and Laura Donnelly, in different iterations of “The Woman” character. It’s directed by…