Month: March 2023

The revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne, is firmly in Broadway’s $1 million club, with receipts for the week ending March 5 at a bloody good $1,526,254. And that’s just for six performances. The Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical filled every
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Actors’ Equity Association has condemned Tennessee’s new legislation restricting drag performance, urging theaters in the state to “join us in rejecting it entirely and lobbying for its elimination.” The union, which represents actors and stage managers in live theater, also said it is “monitoring the progress of similarly dystopian laws in other states.” Tennessee recently
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SPACE GOBLINS is the first in-house MegaCity Media production of a live-action feature length film. Written and Directed by series co-creator and founder of MegaCity Media, Ams Overton. Starring: Bill Hutchens (Curse of the Blind Dead), Richard Blenkiron (Guardians of the Galaxy), Kamary Phillips (Dard Divorce). Music by JESUS HOOLIGAN & Stephen Brunton. The film
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EXCLUSIVE: There’s nothing genteel about Afghanistan’s national sport, called buzkashi. It’s a contest between powerfully-built men on powerful horses packed onto a field, skirmishing to score goals with an animal carcass. It’s almost rugby on hooves. Buzkashi is the backdrop to the film Riders on the Storm, directed by Jason Motlagh and Mark Oltmanns, which
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In June 1994, the small town of Henley, Ohio, was devastated by a tornado, a flash flood and its first and only murder—still unsolved—all in the span of one week now known as “the long stretch of bad days.” Thirty-ish years later, aspiring journalist Lydia Chass learns that she is one history credit shy of
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Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish decided to, in his words, “cross the line” and address a recent bid the company received for Showtime. In an appearance at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, the exec said the company doesn’t typically comment on M&A. But he acknowledged the unsolicited bid, which was in the
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Across the globe, women’s freedom is under attack. In the past year, as highlighted in the most recent UN Women’s Gender Snapshot Report, access to education, equal pay, financial independence, and religious choice were still denied to most women around the world. To inspire, embolden, give a voice to those who have none, in the
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American actress Cozi Zuehlsdorff was just 12 years old when she was first cast as Hazel Haskett — the bubbly and talkative little girl who works at her father’s aquarium — in the family/adventure movie “Dolphin Tale” back in 2010. Zuehlsdorff shared the big screen with Harry Connick Jr. as Cozi’s protective father and the
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have officially christened their 21-month-old daughter Lilibet! In a statement to People, their spokesperson confirmed, “I can confirm that Princess Lilibet Diana was christened on Friday, March 3 by the Archbishop of Los Angeles, the Rev John Taylor.” The site reports that it was
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For a textbook sitcom, Night Court Season 1 Episode 9 is practically Shakespearean in its savagely dramatic irony and role reversals. Guest star Stephnie Weir chews up the scenery as the surgically precise podcast journalist, Remecca, whose plan to expose the dirty secrets of our good-hearted — if curmudgeonly narcissistic — public defender nearly succeeds.
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