EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed actor, director, writer, performer, and producer Eugene Lee Yang.
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Robin McNamara, a struggling New York singer-songwriting in the late 1960s who answered a casting call for a new show called Hair and landed a starring role with the replacement cast on Broadway, died Oct. 21. He was 74.
His death was announced today on his official website, though additional details were sparse.
“On October 21, 2021, Robin McNamara gained his angel wings,” a statement on the page says. “This gentlest of gentle souls was predeceased by his loving wife, Suzie, who departed the
EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed actor, director, writer, performer, and producer Eugene Lee Yang.
Robin Roberts lives with her partner Amber Laign in Connecticut during the weekends, but is based in New York during the week for work. MORE: Robin Roberts marks end of an era with partner Amber as she returns to GMA studioThe Good Morning America star has a beautiful apartment in the Upper West Side of the city, and shared a glimpse inside it on social media recently.
Jonathan Reynolds, a playwright and screenwriter whose string of film credits in the 1980s included the comedies Micki & Maude, Switching Channels, My Stepmother Is an Alien and the notorious flop Leonard Part 6, died Oct. 27 of organ failure at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, N.J. He was 79.
EXCLUSIVE: Myha’la Herrold, one of the stars of HBO’s banking drama Industry, has signed with UTA for representation.
Last week, a Twitter meme gave New York theater its best tickle in ages: With news that the brilliant, unconventional and decidedly non-parade-like plays Is This A Room and Dana H.
Stockwell’s death.
Eboni K. Williams is getting candid about the status of her relationship with Leah McSweeney.
Celebrity chef Sandra Lee has made her return to New York following the ousting of former governor Andrew Cuomo. She was previously in California.
EXCLUSIVE: Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to Paul Riccio’s dramedy Give or Take, toplined by Norbert Leo Butz (Fosse/Verdon, Bloodline), Joanne Tucker (American Rust, The Report) and Cheri Oteri (Saturday Night Live), with plans to release it in theaters in multiple markets in February.
NEW YORK -- One of musical theater's most exciting new writing partnerships started with a breakup song.Composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Steven Sater bonded while creating “Ready to Be Done With You,” cementing a collaboration that has now produced a 13-track concept album sung by some of Broadway's best.“It's just been a thrill ride for me and the thrill of a lifetime to work with Burt,” says Sater, the Tony-, Olivier- and Grammy-winner behind “Spring Awakening,” which paired his story and
Actor James McAvoy will finally reprise his performance in the title role of director Jamie Lloyd’s Olivier Award-winning revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, with the pandemic-delayed staging at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York now set for April 5 to May 22, 2022.
Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentLongtime NBC press-publicity exec Gene Walsh died Sept. 1 at his home in Burbank.
Gene Walsh, who rose to head NBC’s Press & Publicity departments on both coasts during a three-decade career at the network, has died. He was 87.
Welcome to parenthood. Amanda Knox announced the arrival of her first child with husband Christopher Robin on Friday, October 22.
the Sun reported.The fragment was apparently part of a dummy shell that became lodged in the barrel — in what is known as a “squib load” — during a previous scene without anyone realizing and hit Lee with virtually the same force as a live round.The actor died on the operating table after six hours of emergency surgery, leaving Massee devastated and forcing him to take a lengthy sabbatical, the New York Times reported in a 2016 article about the character actor’s death from stomach cancer at age
Peter Scolari, best known for starring alongside Tom Hanks in the ’80s sitcom Bosom Buddies, died on Friday, October 22. He was 66.