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ABC has picked up a fourth season of A Million Little Things.

A Million Little Things has seen solid ratings this season, growing to a 2.57 rating this season among adults 18-49 after 35 days of delayed viewing across linear and digital platforms, nearly five times its Live+Same Day rating (0.54 rating). In addition, A Million Little Things picks up another 5.47 million total viewers with 35 days of multiplatform viewing to average 8.86 million viewers this season.

Written by DJ Nash, the ensemble drama series revolves around a group of friends from Boston who bonded under unexpected circumstances. It stars David Giuntoli as Eddie Saville, Romany Malco as Rome Howard, Allison Miller as Maggie Bloom, Christina Moses as Regina Howard, Grace Park as Katherine Saville, James Roday Rodriguez as Gary Mendez, Stephanie Szostak as Delilah Dixon, Tristan Byon as Theo Saville, Lizzy Greene as Sophie Dixon, Chance Hurstfield as Danny Dixon and Floriana Lima as Darcy Cooper.

Comedies “The Goldbergs,” “The Conners,” and “Home Economics” and dramas “The Rookie” and “A Million Little Things” have all been renewed at ABC.

“The Goldbergs” has been renewed for Season 9. The series stars Jeff Garlin, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile, Hayley Orrantia, Sam Lerner and Patton Oswalt (as the narrator). Fellow star George Segal passed away in March. The show paid tribute to Segal twice after his passing, first with an “In Memoriam” end card on the March 24 episode and then with a longer video montage at the end of the April 7 episode.

The series was created by Adam F. Goldberg, who also executive produces. Doug Robinson, Alex Barnow, Chris Bishop, Annette Davis, Mike Sikowitz, David Guarascio and McLendon-Covey also executive produce. It is produced by Happy Madison, Doug Robinson Productions and Adam F. Goldberg Productions, in association with Sony Pictures Television.

“The Conners” has been renewed for Season...

Exclusive: Karen Robinson will make her way from Schitt’s Creek to A Million Little Things as she joins the cast of the ABC drama in a recurring role.

The Tiny Pretty Things and Frankie Drake Mysteries actress will take on Florence, a sweet, maternal, confident widow whose sense of humor is dwarfed only by her sense of self.

Written by DJ Nash, the ensemble drama series revolves around a group of friends from Boston who bonded under unexpected circumstances. A Million Little Things stars David Giuntoli as Eddie Saville, Romany Malco as Rome Howard, Allison Miller as Maggie Bloom, Christina Moses as Regina Howard, Grace Park as Katherine Saville, James Roday Rodrigues as Gary Mendez, Stephanie Szostak as Delilah Dixon, Tristan Byon as Theo Saville, Lizzy Greene as Sophie Dixon and Chance Hurstfield as Danny Dixon.

Nash is creator and executive producer; Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor and David Marshall Grant...

A new musical by the Tony-winning duo behind “Spring Awakening,” Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, and another by Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown are on tap for the 2018 season of Powerhouse, the theater development program presented annually by Vassar and New York Stage and Film.

Powerhouse has played a role in the development of a number of notable stage titles in recent years, including “Hamilton,” “The Humans” and Off Broadway breakout “The Wolves.” “Head Over Heels,” the Go-Go’s musical that just opened in San Francisco ahead of a Broadway run this summer, was also among the works developed at Powerhouse.

Running June 22-July 29 at the Vassar College campus in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Powerhouse has a slate that includes two mainstage productions, four musical workshop presentations, two “Inside Look” workshops and a number readings of new works by playwrights including Halley Feiffer.

The musical workshop slate includes:

“Alice by Heart...

Award-winning writers Theresa Rebeck and Geoffrey Nauffts will both workshop new musicals at Texas State University as part of the HarrisonBowman New Works Commission.

NBC has put in development Find The Good, a family drama project penned by Nashville writer-producer Geoffrey Nauffts based on memoirs by best-selling author Heather Lende. It comes from Wonderthink, a production company launched recently by Scandal star Tony Goldwyn, writer-director Richard Lagravenese and veteran TV executive/producer Cheryl Bloch. FremantleMedia North America is the studio. Find the Good is based on Lende’s 2014 memoir Find the Good: Unexpected Life Les…...

Recently, ABC released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Nashville" episode 9 of season 4. The episode is entitled, "Three's A Crowd," and it turns out that we're going to see some very interesting and high drama stuff go down as Rayna's new artist gets highly pissed at her for scrapping one of his songs, and more! In the new, 9th episode press release: Rayna's New Artist Causes More Trouble For Her, And Luke Tries To Reconcile With Colt, On ABC's "Nashville." Press release number 2: Rayna's new artist, Markus Keen, will cause trouble for her when he scraps a song on his new album one week before its release. Is Deacon part of the solution or the problem? Luke will attempt to reconcile with Colt, and Scarlett will surprise Caleb back in Nashville when she gets time off on her tour. Guest stars feature: Riley Smith as Markus Keen,...

Recently, ABC released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Nashville" episode 19 of season 3. The episode is entitled, "The Storm Has Just Begun," and it turns out that we're going to see some very interesting and dramatic scenes as Juliette plots her huge return to the stage. Deacon receives some much-awaited, life changing news, and more! In the new, 19th episode press release: It's The Evening Of Teddy's "Note By Note" Gala With Rayna, Deacon And The Girls Ready To Perform, But Before They Can, Deacon Receives The Call He's Been Waiting For. Press release number 2: The brightest stars of Nashville have gathered in support of Teddy's music education initiative, "Note By Note," where Juliette will plan her return to the spotlight - and Layla will find herself thrust into it - alongside Jade St. John. At the gala, Rayna, Deacon, Maddie and Daphne will get ready to take the stage and perform,...

Last night, ABC dropped the new promo/spoiler clip (below) for their upcoming "Nashville" episode 8 of season 3, and it appears to be very drama-filled and intense as a confused Rayna becomes the recipient of another one of Luke's crazy outburst. Meanwhile, a big awards show is taking place, and more! The episode is titled, "You’re Lookin’ at Country." In the new, 8th episode official plotline: "It’s country music’s biggest night of the year at the 48th Annual Cma Awards in Nashville. Up for a total of 11 awards between them, Rayna and Luke’s evening will kick off with an unfortunate hitch when Rayna accidentally sees Luke’s pre-nuptial agreement papers, causing for some extreme turbulence between them. Elsewhere, Avery’s parents will arrive on the scene as Avery is nominated for a Cma Award. What should be a lovely reunion, will head south when Avery introduces them to Juliette.

The CW and CBS TV Studios, which are exploring the French court circa 17th century with freshman drama Reign, are staying in the country with another period drama project, The Painted Girls. Based on the book by Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Painted Girls is set in 1880s Paris against the backdrop of the turbulent and exciting world of “La Belle Epoque” – decadence, poverty, sex, drugs and a serial killer running rampant throughout the city. It revolves around three sisters studying at a top ballet academy, one of whom becomes the muse for Edgar Degas and his famed paintings of ballerinas. Tony-nominated playwright Geoffrey Nauffts (Next Fall) will write the adaptation and co-executive produce. Dan Jinks (Pushing Daisies), who exec produced the CW’s medical drama Emily Owens, MD, is executive producing the project, which was brought to his company by Svp Nick Nantell. Nauffts’ TV credits include Brothers & Sisters and Political Animals.

Making for quite the glamorous evening in the Big Apple, the stars gathered together at Radio City Music Hall for the 2010 Tony Awards on Sunday night (June 13).

With Sean Hayes acting as the evening's host, big names such as Katie Holmes, Daniel Radcliffe, Beyonce and Jay-z, and Lea Michele all turned up for the annual Broadway event.

During the course of the evening, big winners included the lovely Scarlett Johansson as Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her work in "A View From a Bridge," as well as Denzel Washington as Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his stage duties in "Fences".

Also taking home trophies were Catherine Zeta Jones as Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for "A Little Night Music," along with "Red," which received the best play prize and five other trophies.

The complete list of...

Here’s the easiest prediction to make about this year’s Tony Awards, which will be presented June 13 at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall: Host Sean Hayes will almost certainly make some reference to the hullabaloo about being too gay to play a straight man in the musical Promises, Promises. The CBS broadcast will also have an excuse to present a production number from his show even though it didn’t snag a nomination for Best Revival of a Musical. (There’s talk that the show will open with a medley of “pop songs you might not know are on Broadway.

Though the economy was still in dire straits, Broadway carried on during the 2009-10 season, with visits from such high-voltage marquee names as Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig, Christopher Walken, Denzel Washington, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Liev Schreiber, and Scarlett Johansson. A little group called Green Day rocked Broadway's world with the stage adaptation of the band's hit album "American Idiot," Twyla Tharp paid tribute to Frank Sinatra in "Come Fly Away," and Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins formed a "Million Dollar Quartet." "Fela!," Bill T. Jones' combination dance party, concert, and musical biography, transferred to the Main Stem from its Off-Broadway run, as did Geoffrey Nauffts' tender and moving play "Next Fall." "Red" and "Time Stands Still" offered searing portraits of artists coping with crises, while Sarah Ruhl's "In the Next Room or the vibrator play" captured the repressive Victorian era. Broadway fare also...

This recap is a love letter to Geoffrey Nauffts.

Nauffts co-wrote this week’s episode, along with David Marshall Grant (currently B&S’ showrunner). Like Grant, Nauffts is an actor turned playwright, and the fact that his very first play, Next Fall, not only was produced but made it to Broadway And is up for a Tony would normally be the kind of success story that would have me seething with envy. Except I saw Next Fall and could only admire it.

Next Fall explores how a gay couple grapple with their religious differences, and I was impressed how it depicted a very real issue (I know many gay people who have struggled over aspects of their religious affiliations) that we’ve never seen addressed on stage before.

This week’s Brothers & Sisters does something similar, bringing up very real issues that I can’t remember another show addressing in quite this way before.

There's real drama looming over the Tonys race for best play. Pundits can make a good case for any of the four nominees to win: "In the Next Room (or, the Vibrator Play)," "Next Fall," "Red" or "Time Stands Still."

Many are betting on "Next Fall," the tale of ill-starred gay lovers -- one a young, devout Christian (Patrick Heusinger), the other an older, cynical Jewish chap (Patrick Breen). The New York Times calls "Next Fall" a "a smart, sensitive and utterly contemporary New York comedy (that's) looking remarkably vital. . . . The funniest heartbreaker in town."

Here's our chat with writer Geoffrey Nauffts and director Sheryl Kaller. Elton John is one of the producers, by the way.

Video by Paul Sheehan...

The Power Rankings!

Hurrah! Matthew Mitcham is no longer the only gay in the (Olympic) village. Plus the gays run away with the Tony noms and an L.A. Latin band is our honorary gay of the week.

Character Rank (Last Week) Show (Network) Comments

Gay Tony Nominees

1 (N/A)

Broadway

(New York) The 'mos did us proud as always! Congrats to Bill T. Jones, Robin de Jesus, Levi Kreis, Sean Hayes, John Logan, Geoffrey Nauffts, Andrew Lippa, La Cage and A Little Night Music.

Blake Skjellerup

2 (N/A)

Olympics

(New Zealand) Move over Matthew Mitcham! There is a new gay Olympic competitor in town. Everyone say hi to Kiwi speed skater Blake!

Dr. Reid Oliver

3 (7)

As the World Turns

(CBS) So Dr. Reid knows how to handle enraged gay guys, huh? Hmm... Omg, I can't believe what he did to Noah! I Hate you, Dr. Reid! You are terrible!

There are so many movie and television faces nominated for the Tony Award this year that one begins to worry about how any stateside stage actor can earn a living. The answer, appears to be get famous in another medium in order to get plum stage roles.

Jude Law (Hamlet) is equally at home on screen or stage

This can work against the audience, this self destructive drive to only see the familiar, if it robs them of great stage trained actors in meaty roles. But thankfully this isn't a problem with actors who are adept at changing their "scale" for any medium. Take The Lovely Laura Linney, for instance, who no one would dare accuse of being out of her element whether she's on the silver screen, the living room telly or treading the boards on Broadway.

Lead Actor in a Play

Jude Law, Hamlet

Alfred Molina, Red

Liev Schreiber,...

One has to hand it to the Tony nominators: They didn't follow conventional wisdom nor did they particularly pay heed to commercial considerations.

Indeed, some of the biggest noms went to shows that are either long gone ("Ragtime," "Finian's Rainbow," "In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play," "Time Stands Still") or lagging at the boxoffice ("Fela!" "Memphis," "Next Fall," "Million Dollar Quartet").

The biggest surprises Tuesday were the omissions.

"The Addams Family," the most successful new musical of the season, was thoroughly dissed, failing to get noms for best musical, for its stars Nathan Lane or Bebe Neuwirth, or even for its production design. And though it did get one for original score, that's not exactly a coup in a season in which only one other musical, "Memphis," even had one. The category had to be embarrassingly filled out with the forgettable music from "Enron" and Branford Marsalis' incidental music for "Fences.

Years before we knew Michael Chiklis as tough-as-nails Vic Mackey on The Shield, he starred in a very different cop series for ABC.

The Commish revolves around a no-nonsense police commissioner named Tony Scali (Chiklis). A former Brooklyn cop, he's respected by his officers and the small-town community of Eastbridge for his unorthodox methods. Even more important than his job though is his family at home. The series also features Theresa Saldana, Kaj-Erik Eriksen, John Cygan, Melinda McGraw, Geoffrey Nauffts, Nicholas Lea, Gina Belafonte, and David Paymer.

The ABC drama ran for five seasons and 94 episodes, from 1991 until 1996. Interestingly, the show spent its run between Thursday and Saturday nights -- the most-watched and least-watched nights of television today.

The Commish: The Complete First Season has just been released on DVD and the set includes all 21 episodes as...

New York – Star wattage will burn bright at the 2010 Tony Awards with Denzel Washington, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Kelsey Grammer among those receiving nominations Tuesday.Washington and Law were each cited for best actor performances in "Fences" and "Hamlet," respectively. Zeta-Jones was nominated for best performance by a leading actress in a musical, "A Little Night Music," and Grammer was nominated for lead actor in a musical, "La Cage aux Folles.""Fela!" — nominated for best musical — and "La Cage aux Folles," nominated for the best musical revival, each received 11 nominations, followed by "Fences" with 10 nods.Nominated for best play were "In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)" by Sarah Ruhl; "Next Fall," by Geoffrey Nauffts; "Red," by John Logan, and "Time Stands Still," by Donald Margulies.Best musical nominations went to Green Day's "American Idiot"; "Memphis"; "Million Dollar Quartet," and "Fela!"The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford,...

"Ragtime" and "The Scottsboro Boys" came up big as the nominees for the 55th annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today. The short-lived Broadway revival of the Terrence McNally musical and the new Off-Broadway tuner each received nine nominations, more than any other production.The nominees were announced by actors Brian Stokes Mitchell and Cady Huffman at the Friars Club in New York. It was also announced that Drama Desk members have voted this year to present special ensemble awards to the casts of "Circle Mirror Transformation" and "The Temperamentals." The awards will be presented May 23 in a ceremony hosted by Patti LuPone at the Laguardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center.The complete list of nominees is below.Outstanding play:Alan Ayckbourn, "My Wonderful Day"Annie Baker, "Circle Mirror Transformation"Lucinda Coxon, "Happy Now?"John Logan, "Red"Geoffrey Nauffts, "Next Fall"Bruce Norris, "Clybourne Park"Outstanding musical:"American Idiot""Everyday...

In a rare move, the New York Drama Critics Circle has issued an award for best play, but no honors for best foreign play or best musical. After three ballots, "The Orphan's Home Cycle" by the late Horton Foote emerged as the choice for best play. Runners up were "Next Fall" by Geoffrey Nauffts, "Clybourne Park" by Bruce Norris, "Circle Mirror Transformation" by Annie Baker and "In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)" by Sarah Ruhl.Having voted an American play as the best of the season, the critic went on to consider a choice for best foreign play. After two ballots of voting, "Enron," "The Pride," "My Wonderful Day" and "When the Rain Stops Falling" had all received votes, but non received enough to take the award. The critics voted on the second ballot not to give an award.Similarly, after two ballots there was no consensus formed over best musical,...

Last Wednesday, at precisely 10:04 p.m., G.W. waded into the scrum at the Royalton Hotel, inside its long lobby that swarmed with theater folk awash in bubbly. Broadway hoi polloi at the behest of Sir Elton John and his “husband,” David Furnish, had gathered here—at what historians consider the very first boutique hotel ever created—to celebrate the opening night of Next Fall, the compelling new play by Geoffrey Nauffts. “The play is superb,” declared our fabulous new acquaintance, the investment banker/fashion bessie Irene Walsh, who saw it on opening night, at the Helen Hayes Theater. Irene, the divine, was in the company of G.W.’s much loved and respected peer Roger Friedman. “George, the Vanity Fair Oscar party was really good this year,” he said. “I was one of the last to leave.” Good for you, Roger. This year G.W. didn’t make the trip.

One powerful message of the play Next Fall is contained in its title. Simply, don't put things off: life may not wait till next fall. Or, as one character Holly (Maddie Corman) says, "One minute you are doing the crossword puzzle, and the next you are here." Here is a hospital waiting room where Luke, a friend and employee at her flower shop, languishes in a coma after a hideous accident. As hope for Luke remains uncertain, we see him in flashback played energetically by Patrick Heusinger in this multilayered play by Geoffrey Nauffts and directed by Sheryl Kaller that had its world premiere in a sold-out Naked Angels production last summer. Extended several times, Next Fall --with its original ensemble cast --is now on Broadway in the intimate Helen Hays Theater. In the spirit of the title, see it now. Waiting...

This week saw the London opening of Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's eagerly awaited sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. EW's Mark Shenton described the show as "frequently clunky and clumsy," with a score "that seems like a rehashed parade of pastiche and throbbing crashing-chord melodies." (He gives it a C.) Back in New York City, a new musical by John Kander and Frank Ebb (the renowned composer and lyricist of classics such as Chicago and Cabaret) opened Off Broadway: The Scottsboro Boys depicts the true story of nine African Americans falsely convicted of raping two white women.

Sir Elton John has revealed on Whoopi Goldberg's chat show The View that his new play, Next Fall, reflects some of the struggles he had coming out as gay. John, 62, produced the play, which is a bittersweet comedy that opened on Broadway on March 12, with his partner David Furnish. It was written by Geoffrey Nauffts, and tells the story of a gay couple, one of whom hasn't come out as gay to his parents and struggles with the conflict with his religion. John told Goldberg, 54, that he could totally identify with the troubled protagonist. "I came out...at ...

London, Mar 13 – Sir Elton John has revealed on Whoopi Goldberg’s chat show The View that his new play, ‘Next Fall’, reflects some of the struggles he had coming out as gay.

John, 62, produced the play, which is a bittersweet comedy that opened on Broadway on March 12, with his partner David Furnish.

It was written by Geoffrey Nauffts, and tells the story of a gay couple, one of whom hasn’t come out as gay to his parents and struggles with the conflict with his religion.

John told Goldberg, 54,.

Due to the continued demand for tickets, Naked Angels (Geoffrey Nauffts, Artistic Director; Brittany O'Neill, Managing Director) has announced another extension of the world premiere engagement of Geoffrey Nauffts' play, Next Fall, directed by Sheryl Kaller. Next Fall opened to rave reviews and is nearly sold out through Sunday, July 5th. Next Fall will now continue performances through Saturday, July 11th at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street).