EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Brosnahan, the lead of Amazon’s breakout comedy seriesThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, has renegotiated her deal, landing a big salary increase, I have learned. I hear co-star Tony Shalhoub also has completed his contract renegotiation with Amazon Studios while fellow co-star Alex Borstein is in the final…
It’s been a longtime TV industry tradition for the cast of successful series to renegotiate their contracts and get salary bumps after the first two seasons.
The practice has been employed by the broadcast networks for decades, with NBC’s This Is Us as a recent example, and also has been adopted by the streaming…
UPDATED with backstage video: "Marvelous" news: Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel took the first three SAG awards given out this evening, for comedy series: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor for Tony Shalhoub, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor for Rachel Brosnahan, and the nine-member ensemble for Best…
Two-thirds of the way into the pilot of Amazon Studios' The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there's a moment that underscores just how unflappable Rachel Brosnahan's uptown Jewish housewife heroine, Miriam 'Midge' Maisel, truly is.
Her business suit-wearing wannabe stand-up hack of a husband, Joel (Michael Zegen), drops the…
Feed your soul: Go see The Band’s Visit. Now that this exquisite musical has moved uptown to Broadway – it opened tonight at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre – I can make that recommendation with only one caveat, which is to spring for center orchestra seats, but more about that later. The rare film-to-musical adaptation…
The multi-talented stars of The Band’s Visit, several of whom also play their own instruments, have re-upped for the Broadway transfer this fall, including leads Tony Shalhoub and Katrina Lenk. Director David Cromer’s staging of the intimate musical, with score by David Yazbek (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) and book by…
The Band’s Visit, a quietly powerful one-act musical that opened off-Broadway last December and became one of the most acclaimed shows of the season, will re-open on Broadway this fall. Previews are set to begin October 7 Â at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, with the official opening November 9. David Cromer will reprise…
Two and a Half Men alumna Marin Hinkle will co-star opposite Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shalhoub and Michael Zegen in Amy Sherman-Palladino's Amazon dramedy pilot The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Set in the 1950s, the project centers on Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Brosnahan), who had her life mapped out for herself: go to college…
Monk alum Tony Shalhoub has been cast opposite Rachel Brosnahan in Amy Sherman-Palladino’s Amazon drama pilot The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Set in the 1950s, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel centers on Miriam “Midge” Maisel (Brosnahan), who had her life mapped out for herself: go to college, find a husband, have 2.5 kids and…
EXCLUSIVE: It’s every parent’s nightmare, or one of them, more real for some than others depending on social status and the access that privilege and money confer: A disobedient child is reprimanded in the heat of anger, resulting in a minor injury. A suspicious teacher reports the wound and suddenly a mother has her…
Tony Shalhoub is set for a lead role opposite Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Tveit and Danny Pino in BrainDead, CBS’ comic-thriller series set in the world of Washington, D.C. politics. The show, set to premiere this summer, comes from Robert and Michelle King, creators and executive producers of The Good Wife.
In Brai…
