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Alex Newell of Shucked and J. Harrison Ghee of Some Like It Hot broke ground Sunday night as the first openly nonbinary Tony Award winners. Newell won for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical and Ghee for Best Actor in a Lead Role in a Musical. Both drew huge ovations with acceptance

Following Phillip Schofield’s dramatic exit from This Morning, ITV bosses are now set to face questions from MPs. The broadcaster’s chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall will appear at a parliamentary committee this morning to answer questions about its approach to safeguarding and handling complaints. Kevin Lygo, ITV‘s managing director for media and entertainment, and Kyla

Lin-Manuel Miranda wants to keep directing movies, but don’t look for him to mount any large-scale spectacles. “My responsibility as a filmmaker — and I really hope to make more movies — is to make the weird little musicals that no one else can get made,” he told Rosie Perez during an appearance Tuesday at

Artificial intelligence has been used to create “the last Beatles record”, set to be released later this year, Sir Paul McCartney has revealed. The Beatles star, 80, said his late bandmate John Lennon‘s vocals from an old demo had been extricated and made “pure” thanks to the technology. It came about during the making of

The 76th annual Tony Awards is underway in New York, and Deadline is updating the winners list as they are announced. Have a look below to see which shows, stars and crew have taken trophies so far, followed by the list of remaining nominees for productions staged on Broadway during the 2022-23 season. And keep

Jodie Comer has scooped the Tony Award for best leading actress for her performance in the one-woman play Prima Facie.  The role was her Broadway debut, coming hot on the heels of her West End debut in the same role. The live cinema version of the show – part of National Theatre Live series –

The 76th annual Tony Awards managed to persevere on Sunday despite the ongoing writers strike, drawing a three-year high of 4.31M viewers. The three-hour telecast, which almost didn’t happen due to the strike, aired live on CBS coast-to-coast for the second year in a row and streaming on Paramount+ and the CBS digital platforms, according

The use of artificial intelligence in TV and film production could potentially render actors unnecessary, according to industry experts. Actors – including motion capture master Andy Serkis – have spoken to Sky News about their concerns for the impact of AI, with the acting union Equity insisting the government’s pro-innovation stance isn’t thinking about the

While she was ebullient about Leopoldstadt‘s Tony Awards wins, including a crowning one for Best Play, producer Sonia Friedman offered some sobering thoughts about plays of its scale and cost Sunday night. “Oooh, this is a big conversation,” Friedman said when asked about the challenges of producing a show like Tom Stoppard’s multi-layered look at

Actor Paul Geoffrey, who starred in 1981 film Excalibur and the TV series Better Call Saul has died from cancer at the age of 68.  Geoffrey also starred in the 1995 adaptation of Anna Karenina, Wuthering Heights, Poirot and Inspector Morse. He portrayed King Arthur’s ally Perceval in the medieval fantasy film Excalibur alongside Helen

Like live theater itself, the Tony Awards has had ample opportunity of late to accustom itself to curve balls, upsets and all sorts of real-world intrusions onto Broadway’s rarified and beloved stages. Forget Covid – well, actually, don’t forget Covid, it’s still here one way or another – this year’s big potential disruption came with

Several people have been injured on the set of the Gladiator film sequel after a “stunt sequence” went wrong. The film’s production company Paramount Pictures said: “While filming a planned stunt sequence on the set of the Gladiator sequel, an accident occurred during which several crew members experienced non-life threatening injuries. “The safety and full

Breaking Bad actor and comedian Mike Batayeh has died aged 52. Batayeh died on 1 June, according to a family statement released last week on social media. The Instagram post was captioned with an image of the actor and his dog. It said: “It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that my sisters and

Have you ever wanted to watch a film based on crisps? Well, that’s exactly the basis of Eva Longoria’s feature directorial debut. Flamin’ Hot tells the story of Richard Montañez, a janitor at Frito-Lay who helps establish the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos brand and climbs his way up the ladder to become an executive at the

Broadway will dim its lights on Saturday, June 17, to honor the memory of Robin Wagner, the triple-Tony Award winning scenic designer who died May 29 at age 89. The traditional memorial marquee dimming will last for exactly one minute beginning at 7:45 p.m. ET. In a statement, Charlotte St. Martin, President of The Broadway

Soap star Nikki Sanderson suffered abuse as a young woman over tabloid stories insinuating she was “promiscuous”, the High Court has heard – including people “screaming insults” and one incident when her hair was “set on fire”. The actress, who now stars in Hollyoaks but rose to fame as a teenager when she landed the

The 76th annual Tony Awards are set for Sunday, June 11, with plenty of musical performances, returning host Ariana DeBose, a new location venue — and no writers. Airing live from the United Palace theater in New York City’s Washington Heights, the Broadway awards ceremony is scheduled for 8-11 p.m. ET/5-8 p.m. PT on CBS

Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden has issued an update after undergoing surgery as part of her cancer treatment. The 32-year-old dancer from Caerphilly, South Wales, said “surgery went well” on Instagram. Ms Dowden, who got married to her partner Ben Jones last year, recently announced she had been diagnosed with cancer. “Big thanks to

Suzan-Lori Parks’ acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning play Topdog/Underdog debuted Off Broadway in 2001, so it’s a safe bet that a significant portion of the audience at last fall’s limited engagement Broadway revival knew how things would end for the brothers Booth and Lincoln. Those character names alone leave little room for uncertainty. And yet the gunshot

Britain’s Got Talent star Kerri-Anne Donaldson has died aged 38. Her death was announced by her older sister, Cara, who posted a selection of pictures of the dancer on Facebook. She wrote: “My heart hurts and my world has just collapsed around me. My beautiful baby sister is no longer with us and I don’t