New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that a Broadway Covid-19 vaccination site reserved for theater industry workers will be included in the city’s drive to get the industry back on stage by September. “This is going to be a year to turn things around,” de Blasio said. “It’s time to raise the curtain
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Black comedy Promising Young Woman, one of the frontrunners for this year’s Oscars, is the story of a woman avenging the rape of her best friend. But as well as being part of the awards conversation – along with five Academy Award nods it has six BAFTA nominations and a heap of gongs already won
Shawn Mendes’ Netflix documentary ‘In Wonder’ dropped Monday and gives fans an inside look at his relationship with Camila Cabello.
EXCLUSIVE: Grammy-winning country music star, actress and longtime Sugarland vocalist Jennifer Nettles has made no secret of her passion for Broadway – she once said her dream gig would be playing Elphaba in Wicked – and now she’s opening up about her next step in that direction: Nettles tells Deadline that she’s spent the year
Britney Spears has officially asked a judge to permanently end her father’s control over her finances and personal life. The singer, 39, has been subject to a court-ordered conservatorship since 2008 after suffering two mental breakdowns. This means her father Jamie Spears, 68, has been in charge of all her financial and personal affairs ever
Dramatists Play Service, the theatrical licensing and publishing agency formed in 1936 that represents scores the stage’s most prominent playwrights, has been acquired by Broadway Licensing in what the companies are calling a landmark agreement. Broadway Licensing, a full-service theatrical licensing partner specializing in the development, production and worldwide distribution of new and established theatrical properties,
Demi Lovato opens up about her 2018 overdose in a new interview with ‘CBS Sunday Morning.’ In a sneak peek at the sit-down, which will air in full on Sunday, the 28-year-old singer says she was within minutes of dying and she’s ‘grateful’ to be alive. The former Disney star’s new docu-series, ‘Demi Lovato: Dancing
Johnny Depp has been refused permission to appeal a High Court ruling that he assaulted his ex-wife Amber Heard and made her fear for her life. In November, three months after the end of a high-profile trial, the judge rejected Depp‘s claim that The Sun newspaper had libelled the actor in a 2018 article calling
EXCLUSIVE: Jon Hartmere, writer of the Broadway-bound Britney Spears musical Once Upon a One More Time and the 2017 film The Upside, has signed with Verve. The Spears jukebox musical, with a Hartmere-penned book, sets hit songs including “Oops! I Did It Again,” “Stronger,” “Toxic” and “Lucky” to an irreverent take on classic fairy tale
ET has the latest on the college admissions scandal. Exclusives from #ETonline : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQwITQ__CeH2Y_7g2xeiNDa0vQsROQQgv
The debut of new film Death on the Nile has been pushed back to 2022, Disney says, amid more changes to the company’s release schedule. Cruella, Marvel’s Black Panther and Pixar’s Luca have also seen their release dates move, as the company continues to navigate the pandemic and shift more of its content online. The
Meryl Streep, Mary-Louise Parker and Carla Gugino have joined the line-up of actors taking part in this year’s virtual Spotlight on Plays series benefitting The Actors Fund, with Streep reuniting with her Sophie’s Choice co-star Kevin Kline on Sarah Ruhl’s Dear Elizabeth. Parker is set to perform in Paula Vogel’s The Baltimore Waltz. Gugino will
ET’s Deidre Behar played a rapid fire game with CNCO and PRETTYMUCH on the music video set for their collab track, ‘Me Necesita.’
Actor George Segal, best known for starring in US sitcom The Goldbergs, has died at the age of 87. Segal, who was Oscar-nominated for 1966 black comedy-drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, died on Tuesday in Santa Rosa, California. His wife Sonia Segal said: “The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal
Los Angeles County’s Covid-19 case rate continued to fall on Tuesday, putting the region on pace to move into an even less-restrictive tier of the state’s economic-reopening Blueprint by early April. That would allow for higher capacity in many business sectors including movie theaters, restaurants, concerts and sporting events. L.A. and Orange County currently sit
Cardi B tries ballet in her new ‘Cardi Tries’ Facebook series! Watch as she trades her ‘WAP’ moves for something more traditional. New episodes of ‘Cardi Tries’ will air on Facebook every Thursday through Feb. 4. Exclusives from #ETonline : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQwITQ__CeH2Y_7g2xeiNDa0vQsROQQgv
A Banksy original offering an “image of hope” during the pandemic has sold for a record £16.8m, auction house Christie’s has said – with the proceeds going to health charities. The anonymous artist’s Game Changer work appeared at Southampton Hospital as a thank you to staff during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis. While
The drag superstars and hosts of ‘UNHhhh’ sit down for a one of a kind interview experience. New episods of ‘UNHhhh’ premiere weekly on the WOW Presents Plus app. Exclusives from #ETonline : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQwITQ__CeH2Y_7g2xeiNDa0vQsROQQgv
Jamie Foxx will play Mike Tyson in a TV series based on the former heavyweight boxing champion’s life and career, producers have said. The Oscar-winning actor joins movie legend Martin Scorsese and another Hollywood director, Antoine Fuqua, as executive producer. Fuqua, a filmmaker best-known for 2001 crime thriller Training Day, will also direct the limited
Three of the nation’s great regional theaters will change ownership this month, with the Ambassador Theatre Group acquiring San Francisco’s Golden Gate and Orpheum theatres and Detroit’s Fisher Theatre from The Nederlander Co. The transaction is scheduled to close on March 29. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition was announced jointly today by Nederlander