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‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Musical Heading to Broadway
New musical Buena Vista Social Club is transferring to Broadway this winter. The musical follows a group of musicians from Cuba’s golden age and is inspired by the true story of the artists who came together in 1996 to record the Grammy-Award winning album. Buena Vista Social Club comes to Broadway after a well-reviewed world […]
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From ‘Traitors’ to Theater: Alan Cumming Sets New Gig as Artistic Director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Fresh from winning an Emmy for hosting Peacock’s The Traitors, Alan Cumming has lined up a new gig. The multi-hyphenate talent, a veteran and Tony Award-winning star of the stage, has been named artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre, known as “Scotland’s theater in the hills.” Cumming replaces Elizabeth Newman who is departing in November […]
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Lear deBessonet Named Next Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater
Lear deBessonet will be the new artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater, succeeding André Bishop after his 33-year tenure. DeBessonet is currently the artistic director of Encores! at New York City Center, which produces revivals of musicals and has seen a number of its productions, including the recent revivals of Into the Woods and Once […]
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John Mulaney Returns to Broadway With Fred Armisen, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Chloe Fineman
John Mulaney is returning to Broadway this winter as part of a comedic show with a rotating cast. The show, All In: Comedy About Love, will be led by Mulaney for the first five weeks, with a cast including SNL stars Fred Armisen and Chloe Fineman, Girls5Eva‘s Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Richard Kind, who has […]
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Melania Trump Teases Upcoming Memoir in New Video: “I Feel a Responsibility to Clarify the Facts”
Melania Trump will be leaning hard into “truth” in her forthcoming memoir Melania. “Writing this memoir has been a deeply personal and reflective journey for me. As a private person who has often been the subject of public scrutiny and misrepresentation, I feel a responsibility to clarify the facts,” the former first lady says in […]
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L.A.’s Top Museums Turn Sci-Fi Into High Art
Tech moguls want us to believe that they’re ushering in the rosy AI-smoothed world of Spike Jonze’s Her. Alarmists, on the other hand, warn that they’re bringing on a Terminator-like dystopia. Silicon Valley may build the software, but when it comes to envisioning the future, it’s to Hollywood we turn. The interplay between technology and […]
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Coco Mellors on Sophomore Success and Seeing Her Own Book on ‘And Just Like That’: “Who Needs a Pulitzer?”
Coco Mellors knows about the slow burn. While living in New York and working as a copywriter, the author spent years crafting her debut novel and submitting the manuscript to publishers, only to get turned down by every single one. She put the book through a rewrite and eventually sold Cleopatra and Frankenstein, about the gradual […]
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Emmy Rossum, Zoë Winters to Star in Off-Broadway Play ‘Walden’
Emmy Rossum and Zoë Winters will star in the Off-Broadway play Walden this fall. The play, written by Amy Berryman and directed by Whitney White, will play the Tony Kiser Theater starting Oct. 16, before an opening night of Nov. 7. Walden is set in the “near future,” and follows Stella (played by Rossum), with […]
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Tilda Swinton-Narrated Installation Leads London Film Festival’s Immersive Art and Gaming Program
An installation narrated by Tilda Swinton will lead London Film Festival Expanded, a new lineup of immersive art, extended reality, and gaming experiences at this year’s event. The 68th BFI London Film Festival, running Oct. 9-20, has in partnership with American Express unveiled the fest’s program addition in a bid to celebrate moving images “in […]
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Cate Blanchett to Return to Theater in Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ on London Stage
Cate Blanchett will return to the stage for the first time in six years. The Australian Oscar winner will perform as Arkadina in a new version of Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull at the Barbican Theatre in London for six weeks from February. Blanchett will be joined by Tom Burke (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga) […]
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Sasha Velour on New Coming-of-Age Play: “This is the Hardest I’ve Ever Worked”
We’re Here star Sasha Velour is starring in a new play at the La Jolla Playhouse. Velour: A Drag Spectacular, described as a “sweeping, coming-of-age tale interwoven with the radical history of drag and queer expression,” is inspired by Velour’s own life. In the latest season of We’re Here, the RuPaul’s Drag Race alum and […]
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This Mickey Mouse-Obsessed Ceramicist Is Getting Her First Retrospective at Age 95
“I’m a survivor,” says Magdalena Suarez Frimkess. “Since I was a kid, that’s been the definition of my life. Whatever I have to do, I do it. I’m still surviving at 95.” For decades, this feisty nonagenarian toiled away in relative obscurity at the Venice studio that she shared with her husband and longtime collaborator, […]
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The Most Indelible Pics of Classic Hollywood Stars All In One Book
Here’s something to tide us over until Karlie Kloss and husband Josh Kushner launch their planned reboot of Life magazine. On Aug. 27, Taschen’s Life. Hollywood will be available for purchase — a stunning compendium of more than 600 Tinseltown images, carefully selected from the seminal photography magazine’s archives and spanning the industry’s Golden Age (1936-72). […]
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Adam Epstein, Tony-Winning ‘Hairspray’ Producer, Dies at 49
Adam Epstein, who won a Tony Award for producing Hairspray before he was 30 and received other nominations for his work on revivals of Amadeus and The Crucible and adaptations of The Wedding Singer and Cry-Baby, has died. He was 49. Epstein died Tuesday at Adventist Health hospital in Glendale after a brief battle with […]
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Phylicia Rashad to Direct New Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Play on Broadway
Phylicia Rashad will make her Broadway directing debut with a new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The play, Purpose, marks Jacobs-Jenkins return to Broadway after his play, Appropriate, a family drama about siblings returning to their father’s home, starring Sarah Paulson, won the 2024 Tony Award for best revival of a play. Purpose follows the Jasper […]
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Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr to Star in Broadway Revival of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’
Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr will star in a Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross in spring 2025. The production will be directed by Patrick Marber, who won a 2023 Tony Award for his direction of Leopoldstadt. Odenkirk and Burr will make their Broadway debuts in the play. The David Mamet play is […]
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