11 actors who won Oscars for their first-ever film roles
Sometimes, the first time is the charm. Julie Andrews, Lupita Nyong’o, and several other actors won Oscars for their very first film roles, even though many had already built successful...
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Review: ’44,’ a musical satire about Barack Obama by one of his campaign insiders, cuts up at the Kirk Douglas
“44 the Musical,” an affectionate spoof of the Barack Obama White House years, had its premiere at the Bourbon Room Hollywood in 2022. The show has returned to L.A. for...
Socialists abandon Parisian theater after alleged sex-related violence from African refugees who refuse to leave
The socialist managers of a theater in Paris, France, are being forced to abandon it after welcoming in refugees who have refused to leave and are allegedly committing acts of...
Movie theater ceiling collapses during screening of ‘Captain America: Brave New World’
Two moviegoers got an extra taste of action Tuesday night — and not just from their choice to view “Captain America: Brave New World.” During a showing of the latest...
Kennedy Center says J6 Prison Choir is not a ‘confirmed event,’ despite what Steve Bannon says
Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon told a cheering CPAC crowd in Washington, D.C., this week that the J6 Prison Choir — composed of men jailed after the riot at the...
Russell Peters is used to being ignored by Hollywood. It’s only made him funnier.
Russell Peters has done the requisite Netflix stand-up specials (and a Prime Video one to boot), but he was making a point in 2016 when he called his second one...
Review: ‘Old Friends’ pay tribute to Sondheim in a luxurious pre-Broadway celebration at the Ahmanson
Our love of Stephen Sondheim is approaching the “Beatlemania” phase. One wonders what the Broadway maestro would have made of “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends,” which opened Thursday at the Ahmanson...
New Kennedy Center board makes Trump chairman, prompting Shonda Rhimes and others to resign
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ newly appointed board consisting of President Trump allies voted Wednesday to make him chairman and fired the center’s longtime president, Deborah...
Douglas Lyons writes comedies centering Black women. How his trilogy could change theater
1 Douglas Lyons stays booked and busy. The seasoned stage actor, also a musical composer-lyricist and a writer on Apple TV+’s “Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock,” is currently in...
‘Smash’ Was a Cult TV Hit. Now Steven Spielberg and Friends Are Bringing It to Broadway
In May 2022, theater writers Bob Martin and Rick Elice organized an informal reading of their stage adaptation of the television series Smash. More than a decade before, Smash had...
