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On the bill for the penultimate evening of the Tribeca Festival was Matthew Broderick and Judd Apatow and it was easy to assume that they’d go down Cable Guy memory lane. The movie, which was plotted as another big Jim Carrey tentpole back in 1996 post Ace Ventura, Dumb & Dumber and The Mask, saw…

Matthew Broderick has enjoyed a career lasting 40 years on stage, screen and now TV, but he accepts the headline of his legacy will always be Ferris Bueller. The star of new Netflix drama Painkiller, a fictionalized retelling of the origins and aftermath of the opioid epidemic in which he plays…

We’re getting the first look at Painkiller, Netflix's upcoming limited drama series about the origins of the opioid crisis and the role of Purdue Pharma. Matthew Broderick stars as Richard Sackler, scion of the billionaire Sackler family and senior executive at Purdue Pharma and Uzo Aduba portrays…

Sarah Jessica Parker has announced plans to make her debut on London's West End stage next year, alongside her husband Matthew Broderick.  The couple will play three different couples staying in one hotel room – Suite 719 of the Plaza hotel in New York – in the new adaptation of Neil Simon's play…

Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti will star in an Off Broadway production of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters for a (very) limited run: The production at the Irish Repertory Theatre will run from May 30 to June 4 for eight performances. The Gurney play will be the second of two parts of Irish Rep’s The…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Tony-winning actor and Emmy nominee Matthew Broderick is joining Sony’s R-rated Jennifer Lawrence comedy No Hard Feelings, Deadline has learned. He will play the rich husband of Laura Benanti, who we also told you was cast today. They’ll portray the parents of Andrew Barth Feldman’s character, who…

Broadway’s Plaza Suite, the Neil Simon revival starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, announced a third extension today, citing ticket demand. The comedy will now run at the Hudson Theatre through Sunday, July 10. Directed by John Benjamin Hickey, Plaza Suite was previously extended to make up for…

UPDATED throughout: The Broadway production of Plaza Suite will add an extra five performances to its limited engagement to compensate for this week’s Covid cancellations, productions said today. The production, starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker – both of whom have tested positive for Covid – has…

Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite couldn’t seem better suited to the long-in-coming stage-taking of real-life couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker. What better way for two actors who got their early starts in the theater – she as a young star of Annie, he in Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues – than a…

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker will be joined in Broadway’s upcoming revival of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite by Danny Bolero (In The Heights), Molly Ranson (Prayer for the French Republic) and, in his Broadway debut, Eric Wiegand, producers announced today. Rounding out the cast will be Michael McGrath and…

Uzo Aduba, who is coming off acclaimed performances in two limited series, Mrs. America and In Treatment, and Matthew Broderick will lead the cast of Painkiller, Netflix’s upcoming limited drama series about the origins of the opioid crisis and the role of Purdue Pharma. West Duchovny (The Magicians), Dina Shihabi (Jac…

After a lengthy delay due to the pandemic shutdown, the Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker has locked in a 2022 opening date. Plaza Suite will begin preview performances on Friday, February 25, 2022, with the official opening night set for Monday, March 28…