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Kelsey Grammer is opening up about David Hyde Pierce’s decision not to return to the upcoming Frasier revival series on Paramount+. Hyde Pierce played Grammer’s titular Frasier Crane’s younger brother on the Emmy-winning Cheers spinoff series. “David basically decided he wasn’t really interested in…

There's something in the recipe for Julia, HBO Max's series about Julia Child and her transformative cooking show, that viewers are savoring like a warm meal straight from the kitchen. "People are having a very specific kind of reaction to it," says David Hyde Pierce, who stars as Julia's husband, Paul Child. "[They]…

UPDATE, with cast replacement Ari'el Stachel, the actor who won a Tony Award for his performance in Broadway’s The Band’s Visit, has departed the Public Theater’s much-anticipated Off Broadway world premiere production of The Visitor just weeks after the cast, creative team and the Public’s leadership delayed previews…

Frasier‘s long-in-the-works return to TV is getting closer to reality. Paramount+ is eying a 10-episode order for a followup to the Emmy-winning NBC series produced by Frasier studio CBS TV Studios, sources said. Frasier star and executive producer Kelsey Grammer, who has been leading the efforts to revive the iconic…

HBO Max has picked up to series its drama pilot Julia, giving an eight-episode order to the project based on the life of world-renowned chef Julia Child. Starring Sarah Lancashire and David Hyde Pierce, the series from Chris Keyser (The Society, Party of Five), Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts Entertainment is…

David Hyde Pierce is set to star opposite Sarah Lancashire in Julia, HBO Max's drama pilot about the famous chef, trailblazing cookbook author and TV personality, from Chris Keyser and Lionsgate Television. Pierce is joining the project in a recasting. He replaces Tom Hollander, who originally had been tapped for the r…

Bette Midler is heading back where she belongs, returning to Broadway’s Hello, Dolly! for the final six weeks of the hit Tony-winning show that won her a Tony of her own. Bernadette Peters, who took over the role after Midler’s departure, will end her run as previously scheduled on July 15, with Midler taking the…

Like mortarboards on graduation day and lizards in Little Orphan Annie, happy critics tend to fling words in the air, leap into paroxysms of ecstasy and throw caution to the wind when something makes us happy. I probably speak for the general critical consortium when I say – duh! – that Bette Midler on Broadway makes…

What would we do without odd couples? Not just Neil Simon’s Oscar and Felix but all those mismatched friends, lovers, spouses, siblings, parents, partners, pets, cousins, exes, execs, scoundrels, thieves and other ill-suited collaborationists whose sum is more than the equal of their farce? With Ripcord, David Lindsay…

No surprise, a musical about the run-up to a wedding fraught with all sorts of incompatibilities, will shutter after the Sunday, August 9 matinee. The show, by Brian Hargrove (book and lyrics) and Barbara Anselmi (music), is staged by David Hyde Pierce and stars Daly and Harriet Harris as warring mothers-in-law-to-be…

Every Broadway season produces a punching bag or two (Moose Murders, which closed on opening night and became a synonym for flop; A Tale Of Two Cities, which ought to have closed on opening night to seal off the loss at a mere $16 million). Often the punching bag comes with a title that invites critical brickbats. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at Serino/Coyne ad agency’s TV spot for It Shoulda Been You, a long-shot new musical slated to begin performances March 17 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, with official opening on April 14. Staged by David Hyde Pierce (Frasier), the comedy stars Tyne Daly and Harriet Harris and centers…