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New York’s Drama League named A Strange Loop as the season’s outstanding musical, with The Lehman Trilogy taking the honor for outstanding play. Among revivals, Take Me Out took the prize in the play category, and Company in the musical category. The 88th annual Drama League Awards, honoring Broadway and Off Broadway productions of the

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have made a glamorous appearance alongside Tom Cruise at the UK premiere of the long-awaited Top Gun sequel. The Hollywood legend introduced Prince William and Kate to the cast as a model jet loomed over the red carpet in Leicester Square. Cruise, 59, reprises his role as hot-shot Navy

As expected, A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical is heading to Broadway, with producers announcing today that previews will begin Wednesday, November 2, at the Broadhurst Theatre, with an official opening night on Sunday, Dec. 4. The musical, which features a score of Diamond’s songs, currently is in rehearsals in New York for its upcoming

Dancehall musician Sean Paul used to think of climate change as a distant threat, something he would likely not experience himself. “As a kid growing up in Jamaica, you’re always told, you know, climate change is something that [would happen] in the future,” he told Sky News’s Beth Rigby Interviews programme, airing tonight at 9pm.

EXCLUSIVE: A new, exclusive partnership between the prominent theatrical P.R. agency DKC/O&M and the newly formed production services outfit Built Productions was announced today, formalizing a collaboration that’s been responsible for some of Broadway’s splashiest opening night events this season. From the confetti-covered opening of Company to a Times Square marching band heralding the arrival

Top Gun was the film that rocketed Tom Cruise to superstardom back in 1986. Now the sequel, perhaps the most highly anticipated movie in decades, is due to arrive in cinemas here next week. But the actor admits it wasn’t the easiest follow-up to make. “Taking on the sequel to Top Gun was a daunting

When she was 23, Sonia Friedman was—to use her expression—thrown into a rehearsal room with Harold Pinter at London’s National Theatre. She was his deputy stage manager during production for the premiere of his one-act play Mountain Language starring theatrical royalty Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins. “I was the person sitting right next to [Pinter],”

Dame Deborah James has said she is “gutted” she will not live to see her second book published in a poignant Instagram post. The 40-year-old cancer campaigner, known online as Bowel Babe, has raised more than £6m through her internet fundraiser for cancer charities. She revealed on Tuesday evening that she has written book number

Broadway performers and stage managers who worked on four shows connected to producer Scott Rudin will be released from nondisclosure agreements under terms of a new settlement between the Broadway League and Actors’ Equity Association. The NDAs, Equity says, prohibited the union members from speaking about potential workplace abuses. The four productions mentioned in the

Johnny Depp’s legal team has tried to discredit Amber Heard by questioning the veracity of her claim that the actor sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle. Cross-examining Heard in court in Fairfax County, Virginia, his lawyer Camille Vasquez suggested it was actually her who had attacked Depp with a bottle. Depp, 58, is suing

A reality star has called for more mental health support for people who have cosmetic procedures as he described going to the “depths of despair” after his nose surgery went wrong. The Only Way is Essex star Charlie King described how his career was “floored” after his cosmetic surgery did not go as planned. The

Last week’s Tony Award nominations translated into box office sales for at least some of the contenders, with A Strange Loop seeing the biggest boost: The musical, which topped the Tony list with 11 nominations, saw a $213,871 increase in its weekly grosses, taking in $690,668 for the week ending May 15. Overall, the 35 Broadway

Photographs of Amber Heard with red marks, bruises and swelling on her face – the result, she alleges, of her and Johnny Depp’s final fight – have been shown in court. It came as Heard told jurors of the “torture” of re-living “the most intimate, embarrassing, deeply humiliating and personal things” she has ever gone

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker have reportedly married in Santa Barbara, California. Photos and video published by TMZ and People showed Kardashian, 43, and Barker, 46, outside “a courthouse in Anacapa”. The small ceremony is reported to have taken place just weeks after the couple’s “practice” wedding in Las Vegas. The reality TV star wore

Moulin Rouge! The Musical and Lincoln Center Theater’s The Skin of Our Teeth canceled performances over the weekend due to Covid cases within their companies, another sign that the virus isn’t finished with Broadway just yet. Moulin Rouge canceled its Friday night show, as well as two shows on Saturday and one on Sunday, while

After a week’s break, the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard libel trial resumes today – with the actor’s legal team set to begin their questioning of his ex-wife following her allegations of physical and sexual abuse. The hearing is taking place in Fairfax, Virginia, in front of jurors, who have now heard four weeks of

The lead singer of the Ukrainian band which won the Eurovision Song Contest has condemned the “sick lottery” of Russian missiles hitting residential buildings in his war-torn country.  Oleh Psiuk was speaking as Kalush Orchestra released a dramatic video of their winning song, Stefania, set against images from several cities near Kyiv – Bucha, Irpin,

Ukraine has won the Eurovision Song Contest in a huge show of support from the rest of the continent following Russia’s invasion of the country. Performing their folk-rap song Stefania, Kalush Orchestra stormed up the leader board, beating off strong competition from the UK and Italy. The group were out on the streets fighting off

Ed Sheeran helped to pay for some of Tom Parker’s treatment for an inoperable brain tumour, the late Wanted star has revealed in his autobiography. The 33-year-old singer told his fans that he was suffering from an aggressive from of cancer back in October 2020, and after battling the disease for 18 months, sadly died