Cathy Bui (All I Ever Wanted), Lynn Kim Do (FBI: Most Wanted), and Jazelle Villanueva are set to lead the Freeform and 20th Television pilot from Natalie Chaidez and Dinh Thai.
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passed away in May 2010.This will mark the first time a Broadway theater has been named for a Black woman. The theater, which opened in 1926 as the Mansfield, in 1961 became the first venue named for a theater critic, the longtime New York Times reviewer Brooks Atkinson.
In fact, Atkinson famously praised a performance by then-newcomer Horne in the 1939 musical “Blackbirds.”Last fall, the owners and operators of 39 Broadway theaters — commercial and nonprofit — as well as the Broadway League and Actors’ Equity Association to improve diversity and inclusion in the industry. Broadway’s three biggest commercial landlords — the Shubert, Nederlander and Jujamcyn organizations — each promised at least one of its theaters would be named for a Black artist.
Jujamcyn already runs the August Wilson Theatre, which it renamed for the late “Fences” playwright in 2005, and the Schuberts in March agreed to rebrand the Cort Theatre as the James Earl Jones Theater. Horne, who began her career as a chorus line dancer at the famed Cotton Club in New York City, went on to star in a number of films, including “Panama Hattie,” “Stormy Weather,” “Cabin in the Sky,” and “The Wiz.”She was the first African-American person elected to the Screen Actors Guild board of directors and, in 1958, became the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in “Jamaica.”In 1980, James M.
Nederlander booked Horne into the Nederlander Theatre for “Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music,” which earned her a special Tony Award and two Grammys for the cast recording for her show. She was also given a Lifetime Grammy Award in 1989.“We are proud to take this moment to rename one of our theaters in honor
.Cathy Bui (All I Ever Wanted), Lynn Kim Do (FBI: Most Wanted), and Jazelle Villanueva are set to lead the Freeform and 20th Television pilot from Natalie Chaidez and Dinh Thai.
EXCLUSIVE Ozark actor McKinley Belcher III will join the cast of Broadway’s upcoming Death of a Salesman revival starring Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke this fall, producers announced today.
Sir Paul McCartney made history on Saturday as the oldest solo artist to headline Glastonbury Festival.
Paul McCartney duetted virtually with John Lennon during tonight’s Glastonbury headline set (June 25).Following the surprise arrival of Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen during his set on the Pyramid stage, he linked up with former Beatles bandmate, the late Lennon during ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’.Speaking to the crowd, McCartney revealed that the idea came from Peter Jackson, the director of the recent extensive documentary Get Back, which was based on the studio sessions for the band’s final album ‘Let It Be’.Check out previous footage below of the collaboration previously shot in Washington State.The pair traded verses in the song, with Jackson having isolated Lennon’s vocal for the team-up. McCartney first debuted the collaboration with his former co-songwriter on his recent US tour.“I’ve got a special little thing here,” he said introducing that track.
The Supreme Court’s striking down of a New York gun law that, for that last 100 years, restricted the issuance of carry-conceal permits to those citizens who proved they needed to carry a handgun. “Like maybe someone is making threats against you,” Noah said in his monologue.
Nirvana‘s Krist Novoselic, former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, Pink, Nandi Bushell and many more have been added to the line-up for the forthcoming tribute gigs for late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.Nile Rodgers, Greg Kurstin and LeAnn Rimes who performed with Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders on their 2019 album ‘Get The Money’, have also been added to the bill. You can view the updated line-up for the two shows at Wembley Stadium on September 3 and LA’s Kia Forum on September 27, below.Tickets for the show in London is on sale now and tickets for the LA show will go on sale at 9am local time.
Tesla and SpaceX founder and would-be Twitter owner Elon Musk fielded questions from employees of the social media company today in a virtual town hall where he said he’d like to see at least a billion people on the platform and was a bit ominous when it came to questions on job cuts.
tribute concert in honour of their late drummer, Taylor Hawkins. The band will be celebrating his memory and legacy with concerts at Wembley Stadium and in Los Angeles this September. Dave Grohl and co will be joined by Liam Gallagher, Brian May and special guest, American comedian Dave Chappelle at the home of English football on September 3.
Liam Gallagher and Brian May are among the acts who will pay tribute to late Foo Fighters rocker Taylor Hawkins at a special concert later this year. Hawkins died in March at the age of 50 when the Foo Fighters were in the middle of their tour in Colombia. The band recently announced a tribute concert will be taking place at London’s Wembley Stadium on September 3, and they have now confirmed the star-studded line-up.
Having already starred in three ‘To All The Boys’ films before, Netflix and its algorithm seem to love young Asian American actress Lana Condor. Netflix already has seemingly corned the YA rom-com, and they love a genre twist, and all those forces seem to swirl into a confluence of things for their new film, “Boo Bitch.” READ MORE: ‘Glass Onion’: Rian Johnson’s ‘Knives Out’ Sequel Gets An Official Title & Will Arrive This Holiday Season.
Wilson Chapman editorJosh Lucas will return to the ranch this November. The actor will return to hit drama series “Yellowstone” for Season 5, Paramount Network announced on Friday. Lucas plays the younger version of main character John Dutton (Kevin Costner).
Josh Lucas and Jacki Weaver are among the many “Yellowstone” recurring cast members being brought back for season 5, Paramount Network announced on Friday. Lucas will reprise his role as a young version of the widowed ranch patriarch, John Dutton (Kevin Costner), while Weaver will return as Market Equities CEO Caroline Warner after first being introduced in season 4.
9-1-1: Lone Star actor Ronen Rubinstein will never forget; it's the day he came out as bisexual, a day when the time was right and he felt "comfortable and safe" - and one he now sees as his "calling". A year on, the 28-year-old admits he still feels disbelief when he considers the impact his decision had on fans across the globe, and how his continued activism and desire to communicate directly can help people.Exclusive: 9-1-1 Lone Star's Ronen Rubinstein shares Tarlos wedding plans after emotional season three finale "There is a boy in Canada who I call my real life TK, his journey is very similar and I inspired him to move away from his small town in Canada to Vancouver where I knew he would feel more included and welcomed," Ronen tells HELLO! "His mom used to always tell him to be 'be extraordinary' and now he has those words, in my handwriting, tattooed on him.""I fully embrace it and I think I understand what it means, and that it is something that is a calling.
Roy Trakin May Fung Lee Pang will be 72 in October, but was barely out of her teens when she boldly entered Apple’s New York offices, lied about being able to type, and secured a job at the Beatles’ multimedia company. She would soon become famous for a much more intimate tie to the group than that, as her very public 18-month affair with John Lennon in the mid-’70s is still a subject of great fascination to his fans, 50 years later.“Music was my passion,” explains the Spanish Harlem-born author and subject of the upcoming documentary, “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story,” premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival for a sold-out show on June 10.