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Actress/singer Rita Wilson has joined the outcry against producer Scott Rudin, claiming he tried to find a way to legally fire her from a Broadway show when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Wilson spoke out in an interview with The New York Times  about her experience working with Rudin on the 2015 Broadway…

UPDATE, with additional union details The Broadway League has confirmed that producer Scott Rudin has resigned from its ranks, a move that could have colossal ramifications on the Broadway landscape now and in the foreseeable future. Without League membership, Rudin would be something akin to a non-union producer, or…

In the wake of a Thursday protest march that called for the Broadway League to take action, producer Scott Rudin has said he will resign from the trade organization. Broadway actors and other protesters marched in the streets to show their anger against Rudin, who is accused of bullying and violence against his…

Michael Chabon, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2000 novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and worked for years with producer Scott Rudin on an unrealized film adaptation, has written a lengthy mea culpa – titled Apology of a Rudin Apologist – in which he expresses shame and regret for “enabling Scott…

Add New York State’s summerlong arts festival NY PopsUp to the roster of projects from which producer Scott Rudin has stepped back. Deadline has confirmed that Rudin, under fire for allegations of employee mistreatment and toxic workplace behavior, is no longer involved in the “day to day operations” of the live…

UPDATE, with social media photos Protesters and organizers of today’s March on Broadway are sharing photos of the event, which started at 1 pm ET at Columbus Circle in Manhattan and has proceeded to Times Square and the theater district. The march, a grassroots event calling for, among other demands, the ouster of Scot…

My face-to-face meeting with Scott Rudin was brief. "You're fired, Scott," I said. "I expected it," he shrugged. "I lost control of the show." We shook hands and he left quietly. Rudin at the time was producing a Mel Gibson film for MGM that was turning into a maelstrom of conflict. Rudin, it seemed, knew how to…

UPDATE, with Equity statement The Producers Guild of America is expanding its Independent Production Safety Initiative to include anti-bullying trainings "with the goal of eliminating workplace violence and aggression." The move comes in the wake of bullying accusations against Broadway and Oscar-winning movie…

Actors’ Equity Association told members today that it will not place producer Scott Rudin on its “Do Not Work” list, explaining that the union utilizes the list to alert members about the status of non-union productions. Rudin, as the Equity letter states, “is a producing member of the Broadway League, and as such, he…

Hugh Jackman, star of the upcoming Broadway revival of The Music Man produced by Scott Rudin, said today that the company is “rebuilding the Music Man team” in the wake of Rudin’s decision to step back from active leadership participation. The statement, released through a spokesperson, is the first from Jackman since…

The fallout from the allegations of systematic abuse against Scott Rudin has extended to his ongoing projects. Earlier today, the top producer issued a statement saying that he was “stepping back from my film and streaming projects in addition to my work on Broadway.” (He had issued a similar statement about the…

Not long after Scott Rudin issued a statement he will step back from film and TV projects, to go with the voluntary exit from theater projects he announced days ago, sources said that Rudin has stepped away from the five projects he had with A24, this following a THR expose by Tatiana Siegel on Rudin’s recidivist…