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UPDATE, with cause of death Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, keyboard player and founding member of the British band Depeche Mode, died after suffering an aortic dissection while at home on May 26, the band said in a statement on Instagram today.
The cause of death was disclosed by the band at the request of Fletcher’s family…
UPDATE, with Sweetin comment and videoJodie Sweetin said on E!'s Daily Pop today that while she understands "people are shocked” to see “Stephanie Tanner” — her character on Full House — subjected to she describes as “a very minor incident of police brutality,” she hopes the public focus will remain on the larger…
Kenneth “Ken” Williams, who wrote or co-wrote more than 500 songs including the classic 1972 hit "Everybody Plays the Fool" recorded by The Main Ingredient with lead vocals by Cuba Gooding Sr., died June 17 following a long non-Covid illness at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, NY. He was 83.
His death was…
Following its acclaimed run at The Bridge Theatre in London, David Hare’s Straight Line Crazy starring Ralph Fiennes as New York powerbroker Robert Moses will make its Big Apple Off Broadway debut this fall at The Shed. Directed by Nicholas Hytner and Jamie Armitage, the play will run October 18-December 18.
The…
Sutton Foster, who stars opposite Hugh Jackman in the Broadway hit revival The Music Man, has tested positive for Covid for a second time since December and will miss performances until Wednesday, July 6.
Jackman returned to the show June 22 following his own second bout with the illness, which he announced the day…
EXCLUSIVE Ozark actor McKinley Belcher III will join the cast of Broadway’s upcoming Death of a Salesman revival starring Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke this fall, producers announced today.
Belcher will play Happy Loman, son of Willy (Pierce) and Linda (Clarke) Loman. The revival begins previews September 19 at…
With the end nearing for some of Broadway’s limited engagements and the annual post-Tony Awards ax-fallings, the roster of summertime departures is heating up along with the temperatures. From the planned end-dates of American Buffalo and Plaza Suite to unexpected closing announcements for Company and Dear Evan…
The Broadway revival of American Buffalo, performed at the in-the-round Circle in the Square Theatre, will continue to require audience masking through July 10, the production’s closing date.
In a statement released today, producers said, “Due to the close proximity of the audience to the actors as a result of the…
Refresh for updatesHollywood and the Beltway were quick to respond to today’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe V. Wade.
“Ready for birth control and same sex relationships to go away too?,” Jimmy Kimmel tweeted. “THE CRAZY PEOPLE ARE TAKING OVER BECAUSE WE DON’T ACT!” Clarence Thomas WROTE that justices "should…
Former President Barack Obama has denounced today’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and abortion rights, releasing a statement saying, “Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians…
UPDATE: As promised, Taylor Swift released her new song "Carolina" from the soundtrack of the upcoming film Where the Crawdads Sings at midnight ET. It marks her first newly written original song since her 2020 album Evermore.
The song, revealed in a lyric video, comes as Sony Pictures gears up for the July 15…
UPDATE with Broadway League response In a letter sent to members of Actors’ Equity Association and obtained by Deadline, the union says that the Broadway League’s decision to adopt a “mask optional” policy for audience members beginning in July was “made unilaterally, without input” from the union.
In a response…