‘Chicken & Biscuits’ Broadway Review: New Comedy Serves Up Reheated Leftovers

The copper-green Confederate Soldier statue that holds the stage before the cast of Broadway’s wondrous revival of Caroline, Or Change assembles looks as if it could rouse itself with the slightest provocation, perhaps through a spark of the same theatrical magic that will soon give life to a washing machine, a radio, a clothes dryer.

Steve Coogan has been spotted filming in Manchester for a new BBC drama which will see him transform into paedophile Jimmy Savile.

Whether or not you know, or think you know, the real-life story of Dana Higginbotham, about her five-month abduction and torture, about her famous playwright son transforming the horror into art and testimony, about the actress who gives voice to unthinkable trauma without uttering a single word, Lucas Hnath’s Dana H. will throw you again and again in its fewer than 90 minutes.

The Office's Stephen Merchant has opened up about his new BBC One comedy thriller The Outlaws, explaining how it tries to look beyond 'demonising' its characters. The Bristol-set show follows seven different strangers from all walks of life who are forced together for a Community Payback sentence, and stars the likes of Poldark's Eleanor Tomlinson, Killing Eve's Darren Boyd and actual Christopher Walken.

Money, the pop song says, changes everything, and as Broadway’s magnificent The Lehman Trilogy so splendidly demonstrates, everything means everything, from the most private of personal circumstances to – if you’ve got enough cash (or even the suggestion of it) – the grand sweep of history.

Stormi happy, Kylie Jenner doesn’t play! The reality TV personality and beauty mogul recently took social media to reveal that she is upgrading her daughter’s playroom before giving birth to her second baby.The 24-year-old pregnant mother gave her fans a glimpse of the renovations happening in her lavish $36 million LA mansion. On her Instagram Story, Jenner showed the entire room covered in plastic sheeting.

This Broadway season, as stop and start as it has been, has been blessed with some truly stellar moments – and spotted with blessedly fewer disappointments. The vibrant Pass Over was an ideal curtain raiser for an industry waking up. Lackawanna Blues felt like a tonic, and Is This A Room is as wrenching a work of art as any with roots in the Trump era to date.

Michael Appler The Circle in the Square Theatre — a Broadway house that last opened a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” — transformed on Sunday in the ebullient and nourishing setting of a Black church as “Chicken & Biscuits,” a new comedy by Douglas Lyons, took its opening-night bow.Attended by guests including Lynn Nottage, Molly Wingwald, Jessie Mueller, Krysta Rodriguez, and Shereen Pimentel, Sunday’s opening night met the occasion of “Chicken & Biscuits” quiet revolution

Gordon Cox Theater EditorThe fan-favorite Broadway veteran Norm Lewis is doing something he’s never done before: starring on Broadway in a play.

If only she had paused to consider the consequences. If only she had plotted more carefully. If only she had asked for a lawyer.

Drake threw his son an epic fourth birthday party on Oct. 10, and took to Instagram to share a photo from the fun day.

Emma Raducanu has issued a public appeal for a top coach to join her team after losing her first match since her US Open triumph to the world No 100 Aliaksandra Sasnovich. The British No 1 became the first qualifier in history to win a Grand Slam without even dropping a set.

Ayanna Prescod “Chicken & Biscuits” is a feast of a production, and there is enough sustenance and libation for the entire family.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson summons a world of ghosts, or at least as many as will fill a couple boarding houses and a lifetime of gratitude, in his affectionate Lackawanna Blues, the one-man autobiographical tour through a childhood made golden by the presence of a strong and loving guardian angel.

Dave Chappelle‘s new comedy special is coming to Netflix!

Gallows humor – and after the last 18 months, can there be any other kind? – is in exuberant form at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where the terrific new musical Six just had its long-in-coming opening night.

As previously reported, George Clooney and Brad Pitt are working on a brand new project together.

Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas have joined the producing team of Douglas Lyons’ Broadway comedy Chicken & Biscuits, currently in previews at Circle in the Square Theatre.