Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater To Receive 2024 Regional Theatre Tony Award

UPDATE: Skylar Astin, who made his Broadway debut in 2006’s Spring Awakening, will host the American Express Broadway Fanfare simulcast event this Sunday in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Running back Josh Jacobs of the Green Bay Packers said that the team and its fans will have to be cautious about which colors they wear when they take on the Philadelphia Eagles on Sept. 6 in Brazil.

Gordon Cox Theater Editor Emmy-winning actress Sarah Paulson is no stranger to entertainment industry awards shows — but even so, her current Tony nomination, for her lead performance in the Broadway play “Appropriate,” is a big deal for her. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: “I won an Emmy for ‘American Crime Story’ and it was an extraordinary experience, but I don’t remember anything about the night.

Julianne Hough and Utkarsh Ambudkar will host The Tony Awards: Act One, the live pre-show airing on Pluto TV that will include exclusive content and the presentation of a first round of awards.

More than 50 beaches all across Scotland have received recognition at the prestigious Scotland's Beach Awards.

K.J. Yossman Will.I.Am and “Clarkson’s Farm” executive producer, Andy Wilman are among the lineup at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival it was confirmed today. They will be joined at the festival’s 49th edition by “The Handmaid’s Tale” producer Warren Littlefield.

her popular musical “Hell’s Kitchen.” Keys was the star of Broadway’s spring road conference, an annual convention in which hundreds of out-of-town presenters who book shows around the country come to NYC to be feted.There’s swag, multiple boozy parties per day — just what these people need — and glad-handing celebs galore. But Broadway is campaigning for more than just two weeks in Cincinnati.Beyond shopping for productions to bring to their markets, “the road” also makes up about 15% of the 800 or so Tony Award voters who will decide Best Musical on Sunday, June 16.

When you think of Philadelphia, the boring straight white men you learned about in history class may come to mind. In truth, Philly is so much more. Boasting a vibrant LGBTQ community, an eclectic arts scene, and history that isn’t boring, straight, and white, Philadelphia is the perfect backdrop for your travels this summer.

On the 25th anniversary year of SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob himself (voiced by Tom Kenny) and Patrick Star (voiced by Bill Faberbakke) will host the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2024. The slime-filled, immersive broadcast will air live from the pair’s undersea home of Bikini Bottom on Saturday, July 13, at 8 p.m. ET/(PT) on Nick. This marks the first time the animated characters will host a full-length awards show.

Rachel McAdams and Sarah Paulson showed support for the theater community during their night off from Broadway.

Michaela Zee Judi Dench is skeptical about the need for trigger warnings in theater. In an interview with Radio Times magazine, Dench was asked about her opinion on content advisories before watching a stage production.

Today’s announcement of the full league 2024 schedule sees the NFL continue its expansion into the overseas market. Three games are slated for London, the first league venture into South America comes opening weekend, and a game in Munich, Germany is also on tap.

Jason Clinkscales The NFL’s annual schedule release, which features enticing playoff rematches, made waves with the announcement that its Christmas Day doubleheader will be streamed live on Netflix, marking the company’s biggest foray into live sports. The league only has two games on the docket Christmas Day compared to its tripleheader last year—the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs will visit the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens head to Houston to face the Texans.

Naman Ramachandran ProSiebenSat.1 Group, which owns one of Germany’s leading broadcasters and one of its top streaming platforms, has had an encouraging start to 2024 after a rough 2023 financial year that saw revenues dip by 7%. Financial results for the first quarter of 2024, reported on Tuesday, reveal that group revenues increased by 6% to €867 million ($935 million) in the first quarter of 2024 and adjusted EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) grew by 35% to €72 million ($77.6 million) despite higher programming expenses. The group said that in addition to revenue growth, the positive numbers are due to the cost control program implemented in the previous year.

Naman Ramachandran ProSiebenSat.1 Group, which owns one of Germany’s leading broadcasters and one of its top streaming platforms, has had an encouraging start to 2024 after a rough 2023 financial year that saw revenues dip by 7%. Financial results for the first quarter of 2024, reported on Tuesday, reveal that group revenues increased by 6% to €867 million ($935 million) in the first quarter of 2024 and adjusted EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) grew by 35% to €72 million ($77.6 million) despite higher programming expenses. The group said that in addition to revenue growth, the positive numbers are due to the cost program implemented in the previous year.

Nilüfer Yanya has announced a 2024 UK, European and North American tour set to kick off later this year.Kicking off on September 28 at the Underground Arts in Philadelphia, Yanya will make her way across the US with stops in major cities such as Washington D.C., New York, Boston, Montreal, Chicago, Nashville and more. The North American leg of the tour will wrap up on October 24 at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles.From there, she will make her way to Europe with shows in Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin and Paris before heading over to the UK for gigs in Brighton, Bristol, London and Nottingham.

With support from the Nancy P. & Richard K. Robbins Family Foundation and Resonance Philanthropies, DocPitch 2024 has awarded five independent documentary filmmakers cash awards totaling $100,000 to help them complete their feature documentary film projects currently in development or post-production.

E!, USA Network and Oxygen True Crime have revealed their programming slates for the 2024-25 season which include a docuseries that follows the daughter of Snoop Dogg and a true crime series about homicides in Philadelphia.

Carolina Herrera will be honored with the 2024 Hispanic Heritage Award for Fashion at the 37th Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards (HHAs). The ceremony is scheduled at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts‘ Opera House on September 5th, 2024.In 1988, The White House established the HHAs to honor Hispanic Heritage Month in America.

Tony-winning directors George C. Wolfe and Jack O’Brien will each receive the 2024 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre next month, Tony administrators announced today.