Tony Award winner Laura Benanti will take over as Eliza Doolittle in Broadway’s My Fair Lady, replacing the departing Lauren Ambrose. As reported exclusively by Deadline yesterday, Ambrose has been cast in Apple’s upcoming psychological thriller series from M. Night Shyamalan and British TV writer Tony…

EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under) and Nell Tiger Free (Game of Thrones) have been cast as two of the three leads in Apple’s upcoming psychological thriller series from M. Night Shyamalan and British TV writer Tony Basgallop. While the plot of the series has not been revealed, I hear it follows parents Dorothy…

When Harry Hadden-Paton was informed by his agent that he’d been asked to audition for the Lincoln Center Theater production of My Fair Lady, his first response thought was Freddy Eynsford-Hill, the lovesick young swain smitten with flower girl Eliza Doolittle. Told they were interested in him for the leading – and…

The Tony-nominated Broadway revivals of My Fair Lady and Carousel, falling squarely in the midst of the MeToo moment, have given creative teams (and theater-goers) a chance to re-evaluate these classic musicals and what they have to say about gender roles. If Carousel has the tougher road, with its repeated references…

Emotions — mostly the good kind, like ebullience, delight and satisfaction — ricocheted around today’s press event honoring the 2018 Tony Award nominees. Time, though, was in very short supply. Dozens of nominees, including several whose work stretches well beyond Broadway, like Tina Fey, Denzel Washington, John Leguiz…

While Carousel spins its gorgeous melodies and troublesome social politics in Midtown Manhattan, My Fair Lady, its lighter-hearted companion in the Big Book of treasured musicals toting outdated notions, has opened some 20 blocks north in a sumptuous Lincoln Center Theater production, its cast of 37 led by a…

It’s been called the perfect musical, and if it’s not first on most lists of best Broadway shows, it certainly ranks in the top five: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s My Fair Lady is returning to Broadway in the spring, staged by Bartlett Sher (a Tony winner for South Pacific and nominee for The King and I) with…

EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Ambrose has been tapped to play the female lead in TNT’s high-profile pilot Monsters Of God. She will co-star alongside Garret Dillahunt in the period drama set in post-Civil War Texas. Rod Lurie is writing, directing and executive produces with his Battle Plan Productions partner Marc Frydman and…

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Mezzanotte has joined Amazon's drama pilot The Interestings as a series regular, playing the young version of Ash, the role in which Jessica Paré recently was cast. Ash is a successful theater director and philanthropist who’s harboring a secret from her husband Ethan. Lauren Ambrose is set as the…

Lauren Ambrose has been cast as the female lead in Amazon ensemble drama pilot The Interestings, from Sony TV's TriStar Television. Written by Nip/Tuck alums Lyn Greene and Richard Levine and directed by Mike Newell, The Interestings is described as a grounded. character-driven drama based on Meg Wolitzer's novel…

Two new agents are joining the search in Fox’s reboot of The X-Files. Robbie Amell and Lauren Ambrose have signed on to guest on one episode each of the resurrected series. Amell (CW’s The Flash) will play the smart and smooth Agent Miller, with Ambrose (USA’s Dig) as the sharp and confident Agent Einstein. The…

ABC has set the four leads in its period female-cop procedural drama pilot Broad Squad, with the last one going to Lauren Ambrose, currently seen in USA’s limited series DIG. Also cast in the pilot, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Coky Giedroyc, are Michael Gaston (The Mentalist), Kenneth Mitchell (Jericho) and…