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EXCLUSIVE: In his first foray into the premium TV series marketplace, uber producer Dick Wolf is prepping American Babylon, a period drama chronicling the epic story of the creation of Las Vegas – the American Dream written in blood and neon. He has partnered on the project with long-time collaborator Tom Thayer…

As Robert Schenkkan’s The Great Society begins pulling you back back back to a cultural moment that rivals our own in meanness, division and barrel-scraping crumminess, Brian Cox would seem to have the toughest job on Broadway. Portraying the accidental president who succeeded the martyred one only to land waste deep…

A livestreamed read-through of Pulitizer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan’s The Investigation: A Search For The Truth In Ten Acts has now been streamed by more than a million people, according to the producers. The play, which is a reading of excerpts from Robert Mueller’s investigation of potential Russian…

Update, with video and link The cast for last night’s live-streamed all-star reading (from New York City’s historic Riverside Church) of The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts – playwright Robert Schenkkan’s adaptation of the Mueller Report – included Annette Bening, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Frederick…

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Schenkkan, the Pulitzer-winning playwright who penned the LBJ play and movie All The Way and who co-wrote the screenplay for Mel Gibson’s upcoming Hacksaw Ridge, has a new hot-button project. He has been tapped to write Amazon Studios’ K Troop. This is the pic that will  chronicle the rise of the KKK…

Opening at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2012, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan's All the Way quickly became a cultural touchstone—re-framing the legacy of one of America's greatest presidents while holding up a mirror to the challenges and fears in contemporary America, as one of the most significant…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s almost considered a foregone conclusion that HBO’s The Pacific will sweep the Emmy Award categories for miniseries, due in no small part to the writing work of co-executive producer Bruce C. McKenna who scripted 7 of the 10 installments and is nominated along with Robert Schenkkan for penning the final…

As Sunday’s Emmy Awards telecast approaches, the Writers Guild of America West last night hosted its annual “Sublime Primetime 2010”. It was a panel discussion with Emmy-nominated TV writer-producers including Carlton Cuse (Lost), Rolin Jones (Friday Night Lights), Mindy Kaling (The Office), Robert King and Michelle Ki…