Broadway’s Second Stage Theater Names Arena Stage’s Khady Kamara Exec Director

Like most aspects of life, the New York Film Festival looks a little different this year, switching to a mostly virtual format in light of the pandemic.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorWith moviegoing in limbo in key markets like New York and LA, a trio of movie theater boosters see the COVID-19 operating environment staying murky for at least a few more weeks.

Naomi Osaka is a US Open champion once again!

Naomi Osaka is a US Open champion once again!The 22-year-old tennis star, who came into the tournament ranked No.

Ben Brantley, the influential New York Times theater critic, will leave the job next month. “This pandemic pause in the great, energizing party that is the theater seemed to me like a good moment to slip out the door,” Brantley said in a statement.News of Brantley’s departure was announced on Twitter by the newspaper’s theater reporter, Michael Paulson.Brantley joined the Times as its second-string theater critic in 1993, taking the chief critic job three years later.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticBen Brantley, the influential New York Times theater critic, will leave the job next month. “This pandemic pause in the great, energizing party that is the theater seemed to me like a good moment to slip out the door,” Brantley said in a statement.News of Brantley’s departure was announced on Twitter by the newspaper’s theater reporter, Michael Paulson.Brantley joined the Times as its second-string theater critic in 1993, taking the chief critic job

Thom Yorke has postponed his upcoming US solo ‘Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes’ tour.The dates, which have been pushed back once already from spring to autumn, were due to take place across September and October.Now, due to ongoing concerns over the coronavirus crisis, the dates have been postponed indefinitely, with shows in Washington DC, Denver and Chicago cancelled altogether.The Radiohead frontman, who released his third solo album ‘ANIMA’ last year, was also forced to move his summer 2020

boycotting a previous tournament match to show her support for the victims of police violence, Naomi Osaka is taking more steps to raise awareness during the US Open.The Japanese tennis star — who is currently the highest-paid female athlete in the world — took the court at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York on Wednesday night with a black face mask emblazoned with the name «Elijah McClain.»The mask is Osaka's second tribute to victims of police violence this week — at Monday's first round

Viewers of the 2020 MTV VMAs took to social media to express their disappointment at the absence of late NBA star Kobe Bryant in the awards show’s “In Memoriam” segment. The ceremony was broadcast from New York on Sunday and the segment honoured stars who have passed away in recent months.

2020 MTV VMAs took to social media to express their disappointment at the absence of late NBA star Kobe Bryant in the awards show’s “In Memoriam” segment.

Jordan Moreau “Call Me by Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino is moving to TV with “We Are Who We Are,” and the upcoming HBO drama has released its first trailer on Sunday.The limited series stars Jack Dylan Grazer, Chloë Sevigny, Alice Braga, Kid Cudi and Jordan Kristine Seamon, who makes her acting debut in the series.The eight-episode show explores the upbringing of 14-year-old Fraser Wilson (Grazer), who moves from New York to a military base in Veneto, Italy, with his mothers, Sarah

Netflix is set to release Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, one of Chadwick Boseman's final films, later this year. Denzel Washington produced the film, but he and Boseman go back a lot further than this project.

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefIn 2018, I interviewed Chadwick Boseman and Ryan Coogler for the cover of Variety, a few weeks before “Black Panther” opened in theaters.At the time, neither of them knew that the Marvel movie — the first studio superhero film with a Black director and mostly Black cast — would shatter box office records, grossing $1.4 billion worldwide.At our photo shoot that afternoon, at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, Boseman climbed on a boulder in his socks, as a Disney

New York has honoured the memory of the late Marsha P Johnson, LGBTQI activist and a leader of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, and dedicated a park to her – the first state park in the country to be named after an LGBTQI person and a trans person of colour.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo made the announcement on Monday, which would have been Johnson’s 75th birthday, that the East River State Park in Brooklyn will now be known as Marsha P. Johnson State Park.

The Mothers. The novel, which she began writing while still an undergraduate at Stanford, became a New York Times Bestseller and was optioned by Warner Bros., with Kerry Washington signed on to produce.

If you’re hoping to see Tenet at your local drive-in movie theater on September 3, you might be out of luck.

Rachel McAdams is reportedly expecting her second child. The 'Notebook' star showed off her burgeoning baby bump as she went shopping at the Reckless Unicorn, a children's store in Los Angeles.