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UPDATED, 3:29 PM: Scott Rudin and Broadway ad agency Spotco have turned off the stage lights in their legal battle over $6.3 million in allegedly unpaid fees by the controversial producer. Over two years, and after a chorus of hearings and mediation dates, lawyers for both parties filed a short stipulation of…

To Kill A Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin’s hit stage adaptation of the Harper Lee novel currently on a lengthy Covid-prompted hiatus, will not return to Broadway after all, and both Sorkin and director Bartlett Sher are blaming the original lead producer Scott Rudin. According to emails obtained by The Ne…

Broadway performers and stage managers who worked on four shows connected to producer Scott Rudin will be released from nondisclosure agreements under terms of a new settlement between the Broadway League and Actors' Equity Association. The NDAs, Equity says, prohibited the union members from speaking about potential…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is developing A24’s adaptation of 2020 Booker Prize winner Shuggie Bain, Deadline can reveal. We understand talks have commenced and decision over greenlight will be made by Ben Irving, who will take over as Interim Drama Director from incumbent Piers Wenger in May. Shuggie Bain producer A24 has hire…

Alvin Deutsch, the attorney who represented singer Peggy Lee in her landmark victory over Walt Disney Productions and more recently tangled with Broadway producer Scott Rudin and the estate of author Harper Lee over rights to a stage production of To Kill A Mockingbird, died Oct. 6 at his home in New York City. He was…

Aaron Sorkin, whose stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird resumes performances on Broadway next week, says in a new interview that Scott Rudin, the show’s former producer, “got what he deserves” after details of past bullying and workplace abuse came to light last spring. But the writer adds that he…

FX this morning announced a Season 4 renewal for Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi's vampire mocumentary series What We Do In the Shadows, and Scott Rudin, who has been on the show since its inception, was not listed among the executive producers for the upcoming season. An FX rep confirmed for Deadline that Rudin is…

Kate Horton, who previously ran the Royal Court Theatre in London and has held executive roles also at the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, will take over for Scott Rudin as executive producer of The Music Man, the upcoming Broadway revival starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. With the hire, The Musi…

UPDATE, with information on Diller-Geffen involvement The Lehman Trilogy, Stefano Massini’s acclaimed play adapted by Ben Power, will begin post-shutdown performances at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 25, with an opening night set for Thursday, Oct. 14. The reopening announcement was made by lead…

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…