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EXCLUSIVE: After acclaimed and sold-out runs in London and New York, current-events-based play The Jungle will have its West Coast premiere at the storied Curran Theater in San Francisco this spring. Carole Shorenstein Hays and Sonia Friedman Productions with Tom Kirdahy made the announcement. The Jungle was written…

David Schwimmer is exec producing a television adaptation of British stage play Love for the BBC. The Friends star is one of the team behind the feature-length film, which is being produced by McMafia producer Cuba Pictures. Love, written and directed by National Theatre Artist in Residence Alexander Zeldin, tells the…

Broadway just got a step closer to summoning Beetlejuice: The stage musical adaptation of Tim Burton’s ’80s classic will make its world premiere next October in a pre-Broadway run at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. Directed by two-time Tony nominee (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Peter and the Starcatcher)…

UPDATE Wednesday: Broadway and London’s West End theaters and related venues will dim their lights Friday evening in honor of Sir Peter Hall, who died Monday. Broadway will darken for one minute, beginning at 7:45 PM local time. In London, the lights will go down for a minute beginning 7 PM, also local time. "Peter…

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 have two things on my mind for our discussion this week, Jordan. First: In the last up, first to go category, was Nerds, a long-aborning…

The Tony Award-winning production of the National Theatre's The Curious Incident Of The Dog Tn The Night-Time will close September 4. The production opened October 5, 2014 and will have played 800 performances at the Shubert Organization’s Barrymore Theatre. The longest-running play on Broadway in more than a decade…

More than 200 filmmakers and industry professionals have signed a petition calling on the Locarno Film Festival to drop a planned Israel Film Focus, organised in partnership with the state-backed Israel Film Fund. Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Sally El Hosaini as well as Israeli filmmakers Simone Bitton, Eyal Sivan and Rachel…

Call me reductive but if I were pitching a film version of Mark Haddon’s 2003 best-seller, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, the headline above would do the trick. The prestige British import of Broadway’s fall season, this fine heartbreaker of a show, adapted from the novel by Simon Stephens, arrives…

Richard Bean’s Great Britain — a scatalogically accurate satire of the press that has come hot on the heels of the hacking scandal that brought down The News Of The World and culminated last week in a guilty verdict handed down last week for former editor Andy Coulson — is transferring from the National Theatre’s…

In a major shake-up at the top of the UK industry, respected veteran Film4 head Tessa Ross is leaving her post to become Chief Executive of the National Theatre. Ross, whose most recent official title is Controller of Channel 4 Film and Drama, has headed up Film4, the feature division of the network, for more than a…