Christopher Durang Dies: Playwright With A Genius For The Absurd Was 75

Drew Afualo and her Two Idiot Girls podcast co-host, Deison Afualo, are embarking on a summer comedy tour. The Loud Tour will travel across the U.S. and make stops in 21 cities, supporting her first book, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve.

A small piece of contemporary cinema history was written last night in St Andrews, Scotland when Steven Soderbergh sat down with Joe and Anthony Russo on stage at the Sands International Film Festival to discuss their 2002 collaboration Welcome to Collinwood. 

Howie Schwab, a longtime ESPN producer and star of the ESPN trivia show Stump the Schwab, died today at 63, according to his family. No cause or location was given.

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The Specials‘ Lynval Golding delivered a speech about No Doubt backstage at Coachella 2024 ahead of the band’s reunion show at the festival – watch it below.The group played their first live gig since 2015 at the Indio, California event last Saturday (April 13), where they brought out Olivia Rodrigo to perform ‘Bathwater’ alongside frontwoman Gwen Stefani.Prior to the career-spanning, 16-song set, Golding gave an encouraging message to the camera about Stefani and co’s long-awaited return. “I can tell you one thing, right,” the musician began.

The Gospel Of The Beast, directed by the Philippines’ Sheron Dayoc, picked up the Golden Star Award for Best Southeast Asian Film at the first edition of the Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival (HIFF) in Vietnam. 

Eleanor Coppola, who won an Emmy for the Apocalypse Now documentary Hearts of Darkness, directed Paris Can Wait and Love Is Love Is Love and was married to Francis Ford Coppola for 61 years, diedFriday at her home in Rutherford, CA. She was 87.

O.J. Simpson, the college and NFL football legend, Hollywood actor, broadcaster and pitchman who famously was acquitted of murdering his wife and her friend in 1994, resulting in the televised trial of the century, died Wednesday of cancer, his family has announced. He was 76.

‘Keep The Party Going,’ a Jimmy Buffett tribute concert at Los Angeles, CA’s Hollywood Bowl featuring big names like Paul McCartney, The Eagles, Bon Jovi, Jackson Browne, and Sheryl Crow on Thursday, April 11, has shockingly affordable last-minute tickets available.At the time of publication, our team found some seats going for as low as $68 before fees on Vivid Seats.When we last reported on the concert, tickets started at $272 before fees.That’s a whopping $204 in savings.Better yet, lower-level promenade seats can be scooped up for a cool $231 before fees.The show, which will celebrate the legacy of Buffett, who passed in September 2023 at the age of 76, also has Zac Brown, Brandi Carlile, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Jack Johnson and more on its star-studded bill.In total, 17 acts — plus, unnamed special guests — will take the stage.For more information, we have everything you need to know and more about the ‘Keep The Party Going’ concert below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete breakdown of all the best ticket prices by section at the Hollywood Bowl (versus what they cost on March 15, 2024) can be found below.(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Jonathan Nolan (“Westworld”) is out in the world promoting his upcoming post-apocalyptic Amazon series “Fallout” and, of course, his time working on “The Dark Knight” trilogy with his brother Christopher Nolan is still a topic that journalists are insatiable curious about. While speaking with Josh Horowitz on his podcast, Happy Sad Confused, Nolan took a tour down memory lane, reflecting on all things Batman.

NME’s latest star of The Cover, Kanii, has shared a playlist exclusively to accompany the story’s launch – check it out below.The Washington DC artist is on this week’s (April 8) edition of The Cover, a renewal of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read the profile of Kanii here, written by Kyann-Sian Williams and featuring photography by Kristen Jan Wong.Accompanying the story is an exclusive playlist of songs Kanii has compiled to flesh out his musical vision of ‘retro-futurism’, featuring Steve Lacy, Hall & Oates, his hero Michael Jackson and more.

Another IATSE local has a tentative deal with the studios.

Some of the most hallowed names in contemporary showbiz have hosted Saturday Night Live five times. Christopher Walken, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Tina Fey are just some of them.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Christopher Durang, a Tony Award-winning playwright who specialized in a particular form of brainy and absurdist comedy, has died. He was 75. The cause was complications from a form of dementia known as logopenic primary progressive aphasia, according to his husband John Augustine.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Not very many years come along where we’d be talking about a presumptive winner for the album of the year Grammy 10 months before the award is given out. Neither do times come along very often where we would necessarily be considering someone a likely shoo-in for a major award when that person has famously been nominated for it four times and lost every time.

Jennifer Leak, the first wife of Tim Matheson who met when they played step-siblings in the 1968 film Yours, Mine and Ours, has died at 76. She died March 18 at her home in Jupiter, Florida,

John Patrick Shanley likes to run ideas past the people who populated his youth growing up in the Bronx.But one of his regular helpers isn’t even human.“I definitely confer with Bugs Bunny,” the Tony Award and Oscar winner told The Post.Shanley, 73, thinks the tricky rabbit exemplifies New York attitude.“He has a certain ironic thing that he brings to the most exciting or calamitous situation,” he said. “And he tends to find a way to enjoy whatever’s going on, even if it’s Yosemite Sam trying to blow his head off.”Like Bugs, Shanley is certainly loving the moment right now — he has an impressive trio of plays onstage in NYC this year.“It just happened,” Shanley said with a touch of disbelief.

Steve Clarke won’t throw the baby out with the bathwater after a Dutch drubbing as he looks to earn a first win in seven games when Northern Ireland visit Hampden for a friendly.

Ron Harper, whose career in TV spanned several decades with roles in Generations, Planet of the Apes, Land of the Lost and Another World, died March 21 of natural causes in West Hills, CA. He was 91.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is sending her love to the Princess of Wales. The Welsh actress penned sweet words for the royal after Her Royal Highness announced on March 22 that she is undergoing preventive chemotherapy.James Middleton’s message for his sister the Princess of Wales will bring tears to your eyes Meghan Markle and Prince Harry react to sister-in-law the Princess of Wales’ cancer news“Wales and the World is with you ♥️ HRH Princess of Wales.