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Kanye West and Sunday Service Choir’s tribute to DMX has been hailed as a “genuine act of love” by Swizz Beatz.West performed alongside his gospel choir at DMX’s memorial at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in New York last month, opening the service with a rendition of Soul II Soul’s ‘Keep On Movin’ as well as the hymn ‘Jesus Loves Me’.During a recent interview with New York radio station Hot 97, Beatz said: “It was a very genuine act of love and support from Ye.

In an unusual joint announcement, producers for Broadway powerhouses Hamilton, The Lion King and Wicked said the three shows will resume performances on Tuesday, Sept. 14 – the first day allowed under New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s reopening guidelines announced last week.

Antonio Ferme editorSony Pictures Classics has updated its summer release plans for “I Carry You With Me,” “12 Mighty Orphans” and “The Lost Leonardo.” All three films are set to screen at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival both in person and virtually.The world premiere of the art documentary “The Lost Leonardo” will screen at Tribeca on June 13 at The Battery.

Chicago will return to Broadway just in time for its 25th anniversary: The musical is set to reopen at the Ambassador Theatre on Tuesday, September 14.

Elizabeth Lail and Nieku Manshadi, who tied the knot late last month! Lail, who played Beck on the hit Netflix thriller, , got engaged to Manshadi during the pandemic.

The Phantom of the Opera, at 33 years old the longest-running show in Broadway history, is the first post-Covid production to make it official: The musical will resume performances on Friday, Oct. 22. Tickets go on sale this Friday.

The full lineup of the Governor's Ball 2021 Festival has been announced. Billie Eilish, A$AP Rocky, and Post Malone will headline the three-day all-ages event, taking place on September 24-26 at Citi Field in New York City.

NEW YORK -- Billie Eilish completed the third stop of her massive tour, and was just two days away from headlining Madison Square Garden, before she had to cancel the trek because of the coronavirus pandemic last year.Now she's returning to New York City as one of the headliners of the Governors Ball Music Festival this fall.Founders Entertainment announced Tuesday that Eilish, A$AP Rocky, J Balvin, Post Malone, DaBaby and Megan Thee Stallion will perform on Sept.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBillie Eilish, Post Malone, Megan Thee Stallion A$AP Rocky, J Balvin, Da Baby and many more are scheduled to perform at the 10 th anniversary edition of Governors Ball, New York’s largest music festival, on the weekend of Sept. 24-26 at the the Citi Field complex in the city’s borough of Queens.Other top-billed performers include Rufus Du Sol, Ellie Goulding, Leon Bridges, 21 Savage, Young Thug, Phoebe Bridgers, Portugal.

Amazon’s free streaming service IMDb TV has unveiled a sizeable development slate with projects from the likes of The Good Place creator Mike Schur, All American showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll and CSI: New York star Melina Kanakaredes.

Princess Nokia has spoken about the boundary-less nature of modern pop culture and the liberating effect it can have on artists.The New York rapper discussed the melding of different genres and subcultures – something she has long done in her music – with NME for this week’s Big Read cover story.“I think it’s really special that there’s less pressure for people of colour to fit into a mould,” she said.

DMX” Simmons will take place this weekend.Following hospitalisation on April 3 after suffering from a heart attack brought on by a reported overdose, DMX remained in intensive care and on life support until he passed away, age 50, on April 9 in New York.In a post to the musician’s official Instagram today (April 23), it was revealed two memorial services will take place.The first, a Celebration of Life ceremony on Saturday April 24 at 10pm BST (4pm ET) at the Barclay Centre in Brooklyn, NY, will

The 2021 Tribeca Film Festival has revealed its feature-film lineup, highlights of which include the world premiere of Hulu's Ilana Glazer starrer False Positive and the New York premiere of Sony's based-on-a-true-story, Depression-era football drama12 Mighty Orphans.

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The Tribeca Festival is set to open its 2021 edition by turning the lights up on Washington Heights. The in-person New York event will kick off June 9 with the world premiere of Warner Bros.' In the Heights at the United Palace theater in Washington Heights, the neighborhood where the story is based.

James C. Nicola, whose tenure as artistic director of Off Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop included the development of such prominent stage works as Rent, Once,  Hadestown, What the Constitution Means to Me, Slave Play and David Bowie’s Lazarus, will leave the post next year, the company announced today.

The attendees of the ill-fated Fyre Festival are finally getting their payday.