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Five-time Emmy winner and Grammy Award nominee Wayne Brady will play the title character in The Wiz revival when it lands on Broadway in spring 2024, producers announced today, with Doom Patrol’s Alan Mingo Jr. (Kinky Boots) taking the role during many of the production’s pre-Broadway tour dates.

EXCLUSIVE: The Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Northern Greece will cancel its closing ceremony Sunday as the country continues to mourn following a fatal train crash that killed at least 57 people, Deadline can reveal.

Organizers of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival said Wednesday that they are canceling their opening ceremony and “all festive events and concerts” related to the event following a tragic train crash in Greece late Tuesday that killed at least 38 people and injured more than 60.

Close call! Tim McGraw took an unfortunate tumble while performing at a concert in Arizona — but fans and security had his back.

Tim McGraw worried fans at his Arizona show after taking a spill off the stage.

Biffy Clyro fans in America were gutted after frontman Simon Neil had to pull out of the Arizona date after losing his voice.

their current world tour, Interpol delivered the live debuts of four songs from their upcoming seventh album, ‘The Other Side Of Make Believe’.The show took place at The Factory in Deep Ellum, Texas on Monday (April 25). In addition to singles ‘Toni’ and ‘Something Changed’ – both of which dropped earlier this month with the announcement of their new record – Interpol performed two previously unheard songs, ‘Fables’ and ‘Into The Night’.For their performance of ‘Toni’, lead guitarist Daniel Kessler played the song on electric piano – a live first for Kessler, who has played piano on the band’s albums since 2010, but never performed the instrument live with them.The rest of the 20-song setlist featured tracks from all six of Interpol’s previous albums.

Bauhaus have announced their first tour in over 16 years.After breaking up in 1983, Bauhaus reformed and have had a number of different formations over the years. Following a 20th anniversary tour in 1998, the band returned for a performance at Coachella in 2005 before going on to support Nine Inch Nails the following year.Peter Murphy, Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins, and David J officially reunited again in late 2019, playing three shows in Los Angeles.

Sidney Poitier New American Film School, the university announced on Tuesday. Boone Isaacs, also a former film marketing and public relations executive, will take the reins as director of the three-campus film school on Jan 1, 2022.

Austin, Texas-based, dine-in movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse has filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware Court.

By Anthony D'Alessandro