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Broadway producer Jordan Roth is schooling us with another episode of his mostly-animated The Birds and the BS, the kids show for adults that routinely features some of Broadway’s biggest voices. This time around: Alan Cumming. The subject: The American Dream. The cartoon Cumming stops by the show to refute Roth’s…

Name-calling gets us nowhere – except maybe the Oval Office, but let’s call that a fluke. So in the spirit of radical, extreme kindness, actress Sutton Foster schools Broadway producer (and sometime Deadline pundit) Jordan Roth in the latest episode of Roth’s animated web series The Birds and The BS. In case you…

Stephen Colbert is doing it. Why not Jordan Roth? Just as Colbert and Chris Licht unleashed Our Cartoon President on Showtime, Broadway theater owner and producer (and regular Deadline pundit) Roth is producing and starring in his own animated web series, The Birds and the BS – animated being the operative word. Watch…

Few who saw Alex Sharp in the Broadway transfer of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time did not immediately mark him out as a talent to keep an eye on. He makes his feature debut in the Cannes out-of-competition title How to Talk to Girls at Parties, alongside Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman, and is…

Although the Broadway community came out in force a few weeks ago for a fundraiser in support of Hillary Clinton, today’s message was non-partisan: Vote. Over the last several days, Jujamcyn Theatres president (and Deadline co-author of Gerard & Roth) assembled this video with more than 200 images from every Broadway…

EXCLUSIVE: Each week Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth have an email conversation about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. ROTH: This weekend, thousands of theater lovers from all over the world will converge at the New York…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: A couple of weeks ago Jerry Seinfeld announced a "residency" at the Beacon Theatre comprising six once-a-month performances…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: I figure it's never too early to start bitching about the Tony Awards and how they distort both the show and the business of…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: I doubt there’s any place hotter on Planet Theater today than 425 Lafayette Street, in the East Village. The Public hasn’t just…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: The conventional wisdom used to be that there's a finite Broadway audience comprising the 23 million people living in the…

Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: I was posting a lengthy interview with Hal Prince yesterday as he prepares to head to Tokyo for the opening of Prince Of Broadway when I…

Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk via email each week about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: Jeremy Corbyn has had a very rough few days as newly elected head of the Labor Party — some of which eerily echoes fellow…