County Williamsburg Showbiz Latest News and Updates

Comedy institution The Second City plans to open its first venture in New York City in Summer 2023. Located in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, the planned 11,900 square-foot entertainment space will feature a newly built mainstage theater, seven classrooms, and a full service restaurant and bar.

Dinner and drinks with a view! Hotel Hendricks has it all – with the new and improved Isla & Co and Daintree Rooftop bar, it is an obvious NYC hot spot.

Jennifer Lawrence is opening up to Vogue!

Marta Balaga Following the world premiere of “Six Weeks” at Sarajevo Film Festival, about a teenage mother who decides to give her child up for adoption, but still has some time to change her mind, director Noémi Veronika Szakonyi will continue to explore the subject in “Little Ones.” In the documentary, which she will produce, the focus will shift to the complicated workings of international adoption.“We have been working on it for eight years now; we will shoot for four more,” she says. Her husband and frequent collaborator Máté Vincze will direct.“I have a subconscious connection to this topic, which I have realized only later.

The Breakfast Club” with DJ Envy and Charlamagne tha God, is becoming a serial real estate investor — and she’s urging other women to get in on the game too, calling it “empowering.”Yee recently partnered in the purchase of an upstate New York home in the Catskills for $1.9 million with her friend and broker, Sara Golan of Nest Seekers International, Gimme Shelter can reveal. “I realized how important it was to have a place to get away from the city during the pandemic,” Yee told Gimme. The seven-bedroom, four-bath midcentury-modern home is 2,750 square feet and sits on 9.5 acres in the town of Roxbury. The listing broker was Katherine “Cricket” Keys, of the Catskill Dream Team.At the height of the pandemic, Yee, a graduate of Connecticut’s prestigious Wesleyan University, bought a $2.8 million landmarked Brooklyn brownstone. It originally asked $3.2 million. She also owns another Bed-Stuy brownstone and an investment condo in Williamsburg.

No upcoming concerts for John Hinckley Jr., it seems.

Japanese Breakfast recently joined New York chiptune-based rockers Anamanaguchi to perform a cover of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World song ‘Black Sheep’.The original version of the song was written by Metric for the 2010 film adaptation of Scott Pilgrim Vs.

Penn Badgley plants a kiss on his wife Domino Kirke‘s cheek at the Stitcher’s “Podcrushed” launch event at Baby’s All Right on Thursday night (June 2) in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

Two premiere screenings of rock documentary Freakscene: The Story Of Dinosaur JR

Related: Olivia Colman: ‘Portraying a murderer? It was less pressure than playing the Queen’ Young was single-minded in her ambition. She had had her big career break at 16, playing the eponymous runaway teenager in Sue Brooks’s Looking for Grace, before a week later filming the part of Hedvig in Simon Stone’s film The Daughter, based on Henrik Ibsen’s play The Wild Duck. But the gamble would take time to pay off.

Patricia MacLachlan, author of the best-selling and award-winning 1985 children’s book Sarah, Plain and Tall and its sequels that were turned into three popular early 1990s Hallmark Hall of Fame TV-movies starring Glenn Close, died March 31 at her home in Williamsburg, Mass. She was 84.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe transition from bedroom pop to one of New York’s biggest stages is not an easy one — the intimate sound and emotions of the loosely defined style are almost the polar opposite of the big gestures and loud volume it takes to fill a major venue. Yet two of the genre’s most popular (and youngest) artists, Clairo and Arlo Parks, did it with ease Thursday night before an impressively full crowd at New York’s historic, 6,000-capacity Radio City Music Hall.Parks, 21 — who is nominated for two 2022 Grammys — is already a major star in her native England and is the more animated performer of the two, although Thursday’s show represented a big step up from her last area performance (at the 650-capacity Music Hall of Williamsburg in September).

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWhile A+E’s History Channel sets out to tell the story of Abraham Lincoln in a documentary over three nights  it will also tell the stories of formerly enslaved people who were also an important part of that era in a mini-series backed by one of its advertisers.Ancestry is sponsoring a three-part miniseries that will accompany the Lincoln work, which debuts February 20, the latest in A+E’s efforts to craft bespoke programming segments that burnish ad messages while at the same time keeping viewers tuned to the programing for which they originally came.“To me, this is not a commercial break, this is not a ‘brought to you by,’” says David DeSocio, executive vice president of ad sales marketing and partnerships at A+E Networks, in a recent interview. “It’s a continuation of the story, but on a very personal level.” Each of the content segments accompanying the “Lincoln” project will be introduced by Christy Coleman, executive director of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation in Williamsburg, VA, and a contributor to the documentary.

Just under five months after Michael K. Williams was discovered dead in his Brooklyn home, four men have been arrested and charged with narcotics conspiracy in The Wire star’s death.

The would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan will seek his freedom on Monday from court-ordered restrictions that limit his movements.

found dead in his Brooklyn penthouse on Sept.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaNitehawk Cinema is expanding its programming team.The chain, which has branches in Williamsburg and Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, N.Y., has hired Cristina Cacioppo and Desmond Thorne to augment its programming staff.

Michael K. Williams, an accomplished actor most well known for his exceptional work on The Wire, was found dead of a suspected heroin overdose in his Brooklyn penthouse apartment on Monday afternoon. He was 54 years old.

Ashley Darby's  tagline might call out her tendency to get messy, but the mom of two promises she was not trying to stir up the mess she did on the cast's trip to Williamsburg, Virginia. «It was all really surprising to me,» Ashley tells ET over video chat, cradling her 5-month-old son Dylan during the chat. «I am not a drama starter, first of all.

It was 1999 when Fabio was injured while riding a roller coaster as a goose flew into his face. And 22 years later, the Italian model is speaking out about the bloody mishap.

Fabio knows you “can’t take life seriously” but one matter wasn’t a joke.

Federico Castelluccio, 57, who played DiMeo crew member Furio Giunta on Seasons 2 to 4 of “The Sopranos,” dropped by Anthony & Son Panini Shoppe in Williamsburg to celebrate a new hero named after his character.

Tyler, The Creator has published the live-streamed recording of his Brooklyn show, held to celebrate his recent album, ‘Call Me If You Get Lost’.The one-hour video showcases the rapper performing tracks off the album at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.

celebrity cycling director, Rigsby was dubbed the “king of quarantine,” bonding with more than 100,000 people who remotely tuned into classes he taught in isolation from the main spin studio.Now he’s just closed on a $1.46 million Williamsburg penthouse, according to property records.

Kelly Lee Owens has announced that she’ll embark on a US tour later this year – see the full list of dates below.The Welsh musician will kick off the tour in Brooklyn, New York at Music Hall of Williamsburg on September 8 before heading to Chicago for this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival on September 10.The tour will then pick back up in Philadelphia and touchdown in Cambridge, Washington DC, Minneapolis, Denver, Seattle, Portland, Oakland and, finally, Los Angeles.

announced it would be moving from its former location back in January, saying a new New York location would be revealed later in the year.It was previously located in an enormous, 10,000-square-foot warehouse space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and contained both a record store and concert venue. The store opened in 2013 as an offshoot of the UK chain.As the New York Times reports, the store’s new Rockefeller Center location is 2,100-square-foot, and previously housed a shoe store.

TanNa Young, a longtime TV producer and production executive, passed away March 17 in Williamsburg, VA of cancer with complications from Covid-19. She was 51.

Elizabeth Lail and Nieku Manshadi have tied the knot!

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFor the second time in just over six months, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer stood at a nightclub in his home borough of Brooklyn and stumped for independent music venues.

City Hall and the NYPD knew in advance that an Orthodox synagogue would hold a massive funeral in Williamsburg Monday, and begged leaders to comply with COVID-19 restrictions — to no avail, The Post has learned. In pleas before the event, Mayor de Blasio’s representatives, including Pinny Ringel, the mayor’s liaison to the Orthodox Jewish community, asked the Yetev Lev D’Satmar temple at 152 Rodney St.

Actress Victoria Racimo, who starred in John Frankenheimer’s 1979 horror sci-fi film Prophecy and Mike Nichols’ 1973 The Day of the Dolphin, died Nov. 29 in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was 69.

Victoria Racimo, who starred in the 1979 environmental horror-thriller Prophecy and worked opposite Charlton Heston in The Mountain Men a year later, died Nov. 29 in Williamsburg, Virginia, it was announced.

Also on this day: The first scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, is organized at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna at age 35.George Washington is reelected president; John Adams is reelected vice president.

Pamela Tiffin, who was a Golden Globe nominee for her film work in Hollywood and later made many Italian films, has died. A friend confirmed her death, but no cause was given.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo slammed a Hasidic synagogue for a massive secret wedding in Brooklyn earlier this month as a "blatant disregard of law." “If that happened …It was a blatant disregard of the law.

A Hasidic synagogue in Brooklyn planned the wedding of a chief rabbi’s grandson with such secrecy it was able to host thousands of maskless celebrants without the city catching on. Despite a surge in COVID-19 cases, guests crammed shoulder-to-shoulder inside the Yetev Lev temple in Williamsburg for the Nov.