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• L.A. Prosecutors Reviewing Kevin Spacey Sex-Crimes Case

  11-04-2018 23:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Prosecutors at the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office are reviewing a case against Kevin Spacey. According to BuzzFeed News, the county’s sheriff’s department presented the case to prosecutors on April 5, and it is under review by the DA’s Sex Crimes Task Force.In October, actor Anthony Rapp went public...More »
  
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• Terrence Howard Invited Fans Into His Mansion, Which He Turned Into a Haunted House, But Don’t Worry, It’s for TV

  11-04-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not even close to Halloween yet, but do you want to take a trip to Terrence Howard’s Fright Club? Fox sure hopes you do! For a one-night TV special that will air on May 24, the Empire star invited a group of his “superfans” to his “remote estate” in...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Borg vs. McEnroe’ Revisits an Epic Court Battle

  11-04-2018 22:13 via nytimes.com
  A taciturn Swede (you know who) faces a volatile American (you know who) in Janus Metz’s feature about the 1980 Wimbledon final.
  
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• Review: ‘Rampage’ Turns to Rubble, Even Before the Mutant Animals Show Up

  11-04-2018 22:00 via nytimes.com
  Dwayne Johnson stars in this adaptation of a 1980s arcade game. But will he get a bonus round if he can save Chicago from a giant gorilla named George?
  
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• Avengers: Infinity War Cast Opens Up About Their Marvel "Family"

  11-04-2018 21:59 via feeds.eonline.com
  Ready for a behind-the-scenes look at Avengers?In a newly released "Family" featurette, the cast of Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War is opening up about their Marvel...
  
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• Annie Murphy Can’t Help But Bring Her Schitt’s Creek Vocal Fry Home With Her

  11-04-2018 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ew, David! The journey of Alexis Rose has unfolded in fascinating ways over the past four seasons of Schitt’s Creek, with the sassy materialistic heiress not only leaving her billionaire past behind, but downright thriving in her new boondock town. She’s finally a high-school graduate at the ripe age of...More »
  
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• Hulu, Spotify Will Offer $13 Bundled Subscriptions

  11-04-2018 21:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Congratulations, people who watch The Handmaid’s Tale and also listen to the Weeknd (or even those who stream Casual, subscribe to RapCaviar, and are currently listening to the Phantom Thread score). Spotify and Hulu are offering a dual subscription. “Spotify Premium, now with Hulu,” will include Spotify’s best plan with Hulu’s entry-level...More »
  
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• An Introduction to Spanish Horror: 15 Movies You Need to See

  11-04-2018 21:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spanish filmmakers — particularly those with a horror background — seem to be having a Stateside mini-moment in these early stages of 2018. This weekend, screenwriter Sergio G. Sánchez’s directorial debut, the eerie Marrowbone, hits theaters. It’s the story of a family down on its luck and battling both ghosts and...More »
  
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• Review: Children of a Lesser God Challenges Broadway to Really Listen

  11-04-2018 21:00
  Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff star in the Broadway revival of Mark Medoff's 1980 Tony-winning drama.
  
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• Tearful Witness Lashes Out at Bill Cosby in Court: ‘You Remember Me, Don’t You?’

  11-04-2018 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  In perhaps the most dramatic moment yet during the felony-sex-assault retrial of Bill Cosby, one of his accusers broke protocol and, in tears, spoke directly to the 80-year-old comedian.“You remember me, don’t you, Mr. Cosby,” said Chelan Lasha from the witness stand at noon on Wednesday. From the moment Lasha...More »
  
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• Rampage Is the Only Mutant Alligator Movie With the Guts to Re-create 9/11

  11-04-2018 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  I had no idea that Rampage was based on a video game until, somewhere around the point where a giant flying wolf eats Joe Manganiello, an arcade cabinet makes an extremely conspicuous cameo in the background of the villains’ penthouse lair. I have since learned that Rampage, a King Kong...More »
  
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• Netflix Will Skip Cannes, But Not Without Shading the Fest First

  11-04-2018 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The ongoing feud between Netflix and Cannes rages on. Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos confirmed to Variety that the streaming service will skip the prestigious festival altogether, following Cannes’s announcement that films without theatrical distribution won’t be allowed to compete. Speaking to Variety, Sarandos detailed the decision-making, but not...More »
  
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• After ‘Hamlet’ and ‘King Lear,’ Where Else Can Paapa Essiedu Go?

  11-04-2018 20:31 via nytimes.com
  One director said “the canon is wide open” for this young British actor, who is onstage at BAM this month and at the Kennedy Center in May.
  
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• Netflix pulls out of Cannes film festival after rule change

  11-04-2018 20:28
  Streaming giant says it hopes Cannes reconsiders after festival insists film premieres must receive French theatrical distributionNetflix will not bring any films to this year’s Cannes film festival after a new rule change.In an interview with Variety, the company’s chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, said Netflix will not change its release strategy after Cannes insisted competing titles at the festival receive theatrical distribution in France. Of the company pulling out, Sarandos
  
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• Tim Allen Is Not a Working-Class Hero

  11-04-2018 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thanks to the success of Roseanne, there’s been a wave of speculation about which new reboots could best speak to working-class Americans. And whatever else you may think of the show, Roseanne does create a portrait of a family on the brink of real financial disaster. Roseanne and Dan can’t...More »
  
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• Spotify to offer TV and movies in drive to boost growth

  11-04-2018 19:40 via ft.com
  Deal with Hulu is one of several moves planned to win new users and satisfy investors
  
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• EU raids media groups in sports rights antitrust probe

  11-04-2018 19:26 via ft.com
  Officials visit London office of Fox Networks and Netherlands office of Ziggo Sport
  
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• Mitzi Shore, Owner of the Comedy Store, Dead at 87

  11-04-2018 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mitzi Shore, founder and owner of the iconic Los Angeles comedy club the Comedy Store, has died at 87. According to TMZ, Shore died Wednesday morning from an unknown neurological disorder. TMZ reports that Mitzi had been in hospice for some time, and her son, comedian Pauly Shore, took her...More »
  
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• Elaine May Returning to Broadway in Kenneth Lonergan Play

  11-04-2018 18:41 via nytimes.com
  “The Waverly Gallery” will feature Michael Cera and Lucas Hedges along with Ms. May, who has not appeared on Broadway in more than 50 years.
  
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• Review: ‘The Rider’ Is an American Regional Film to Savor

  11-04-2018 18:31 via nytimes.com
  This exceptionally sensitive movie set on the Dakota plains features nonprofessional actors playing versions of themselves.
  
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• Review: ‘The Rider’ Gracefully Follows a Young Rodeo Champion

  11-04-2018 18:31 via nytimes.com
  This exceptionally sensitive movie set on the Dakota plains features nonprofessional actors playing versions of themselves.
  
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• The Story Behind Liquid Sky, the Heroin-Fueled New Wave Alien Invasion Time Forgot

  11-04-2018 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1976, three years after leaving his native USSR for Israel, Vladislav “Slava” Tsukerman relocated for good to New York City. In terms of Gotham’s gloriously filthy heyday, he had arrived right in the sweet spot: a bit closer to the release of The Velvet Underground and Nico in 1967...More »
  
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• Actors Push for Two New Tony Awards: Ensembles and Choruses

  11-04-2018 18:22 via nytimes.com
  “Everybody onstage needs to be able to compete to receive recognition for their performance,” said Mary McColl, executive director of Actors’ Equity.
  
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• Review: A Girlhood Interrupted in ‘The Edge of Our Bodies’

  11-04-2018 18:17 via nytimes.com
  First produced in 2011, this coming-of-age story about a pregnant teenager lands uncomfortably in the wake of #MeToo.
  
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• First Cosby Witness Says She Woke Up to Him Forcing Himself Into Her Mouth

  11-04-2018 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first of six witnesses against Bill Cosby took the stand at the Montgomery County Courthouse outside of Philadelphia during the famous comedian’s felony sexual-assault retrial. Tuesday and again Wednesday morning, Heidi Thomas, a teacher from Colorado, recounted in graphic detail what allegedly happened when she met Cosby as an...More »
  
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• Elaine May Is Coming Back to Broadway for the Sweet Chance to Do a Play With Lucas Hedges

  11-04-2018 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Presumably, after being stunned by that high-school performance of Merrily in Lady Bird, the legendary Elaine May has decided to come back to Broadway to do a play with Lucas Hedges. Well, that’s probably not the primary reason, but per the Chicago Tribune, May — who rose to fame on...More »
  
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• Wild Wild Country review – Netflix’s take on the cult that threatened American life

  11-04-2018 17:00
  Chapman and Maclain Way’s absorbing six-parter covers the rise and fall of the notorious Rajneeshpuram community more extensively than any show before itAt the start of the first episode of Wild Wild Country (Netflix), John Silvertooth is remembering how it all began, back in 1981. John, now a smiley old dude with a moustache and dungarees, was the mayor of Antelope. Sounds like a big deal, but the population of Antelope, in Wasco County, Oregon, was about 40, most of whom had probably bee
  
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• America’s Next Top Model Season-Finale Recap: Hangar in There

  11-04-2018 16:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, at least it’s over. In a bizarre, convoluted, and self-congratulatory finale to a season that was all of those things, it’s inspiring that the cycle’s undisputed front-runner could be felled by the lazy insults of a tacky-ass Damien Hirst wannabe. Philipp Plein is dumb and lame, as we’ve previously...More »
  
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• Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville Are Making an Irish Romance

  11-04-2018 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  We now pronounce you Les-I-Am (pronounced like Will.I.Am, maybe — it’s just a working title, we’ll fix it in post): Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson will play an Irish married couple in a new movie called Normal People. Per Deadline, the movie “charts the story of a long-married couple, Joan...More »
  
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• Patti LuPone Just Wants to Say Uma Thurman Was No Good in The Parisian Woman

  11-04-2018 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Patti LuPone, never one to hold back about anything (and especially her thoughts on movie stars), has arrived at a new opinion. Speaking at an event for Marianne Elliott’s upcoming gender-flipped production of Company in London, LuPone decided it was time to tell the world what she really thought about...More »
  
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• Olivier Awards Renames Prize Following Tribute Reel Oversight

  11-04-2018 16:11 via nytimes.com
  The best director category will now honor Peter Hall, who died in September, after he was omitted from a video montage at this year’s ceremony.
  
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• Theater News: Rattlestick Playwrights Theater F*ck!ng Good Plays Festival Announces Lineup

  11-04-2018 16:00
  The event will feature work by Jiréh Breon Holder, Kia Corthron, and more.
  
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• Theater News: "Master Harold"…and the Boys Begins Performances at Round House Theatre

  11-04-2018 16:00
  Performances of Athol Fugard's classic play continue through May 6.
  
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• Theater News: Larry Owens to Star in World Premiere of Liza '79 at Joe's Pub

  11-04-2018 16:00
  The immersive theater experience is conceived and directed by Ben Rimalower.
  
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• Theater News: Actors' Shakespeare Project Begins Performances of Much Ado About Nothing

  11-04-2018 16:00
  Christopher V. Edwards directs the production, running through May 6.
  
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• Carrie Underwood Returns to the Spotlight With a Classic Carrie Power Ballad

  11-04-2018 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Slowly but surely, Carrie Underwood is coming out of hiding. Following a “freak random” accident last November that left her with a broken wrist and a “gruesome” facial injury that required 50 stitches, she’s returning to music. Underwood has released her new song, “Cry Pretty,” a gorgeous, classic Carrie power...More »
  
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• Mariah Carey Opens Up About Her Bipolar Disorder

  11-04-2018 15:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mariah Carey revealed for the first time that she has struggled with bipolar II disorder. In an interview with People, she said she finally sought treatment after “the hardest couple of years I’ve been through.”Carey was first diagnosed in 2001 after she was hospitalized for a breakdown, but “didn’t want to believe it.”...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Boatload of Problems

  11-04-2018 15:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week on our favorite show, Rich Women Doing Things, the rich women did things. They squatted down in a half-empty warehouse like they were about to soil themselves when they discovered that the catwalk at their fashion show would be eight feet shorter than they originally anticipated. They took...More »
  
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• Theater News: Rainn Wilson Stars in The Doppelgänger at Steppenwolf Theatre

  11-04-2018 15:00
  The production runs through May 27, with an opening night set for April 15.
  
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• Theater News: Off-Broadway's Afterglow to Sponsor 2018 AIDS Walk

  11-04-2018 15:00
  The production will also have its own walk team for the event.
  
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• Theater News: Actors' Equity Starts Campaign for Best Ensemble Tony Award Category

  11-04-2018 15:00
  A petition is being circulated and the organization is asking for support.
  
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• A Guide to Broadway’s Jessie Mueller

  11-04-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Performers of the kind whose names run above the title on Broadway musicals often have a signature — an idiosyncrasy, some way of essentially playing themselves. Jessie Mueller’s performances diverge to the extent they seem to come from different people. She’s played characters drawn from everything from farce to biography,...More »
  
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• Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, After #MeToo

  11-04-2018 14:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Billy Bigelow says he does not beat his wife. “I wouldn’t beat a little thing like that — I hit her,” he explains to the Starkeeper, head man in heaven’s waiting room. But I’ve gotten ahead of myself.Bigelow is the protagonist in Carousel, the second work by Richard Rodgers and...More »
  
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• Theater News: Full Casting Announced for Broadway Transfer of Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song

  11-04-2018 14:00
  Ward Horton, Roxanna Hope Radja, and more will reprise their roles with Michael Urie and Mercedes Ruehl.
  
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• Theater News: A Noise Within Announces 2018-19 Season

  11-04-2018 14:00
  Plays by Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare, and more are on tap.
  
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• Should Little Britain and The Simpsons change with the times?

  11-04-2018 13:29
  David Walliams says Little Britain would be unrecognisable if he made it today, while The Simpson’s creators have doubled down on their stereotypical depiction of Apu. Should some shows have their comic licence revoked?In an interview with the Radio Times, David Walliams has admitted that Little Britain would probably be unrecognisable if it were made today. Following Matt Lucas’s claim that the show featured “a more cruel kind of comedy than I’d do now”, Walliams s
  
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• Rewind: Revisiting the Downtown Scene Through Alien Eyes in ‘Liquid Sky’

  11-04-2018 13:22 via nytimes.com
  This movie, which opened 35 years ago, is more than a time capsule. It’s a sci-fi spectacle with a “ferocious fashion sense.”
  
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• From Renters to Peak Season: what I learned from the world's reality TV

  11-04-2018 13:22
  Beyond Love Island and Big Brother, there’s a whole globe full of strange and often mundane reality television. Here’s what one writer learned about countries from their tellyThanks to the loosening up of pesky regulations, British holidaymakers will be able to watch some UK TV abroad. No more missed episodes of Corrie, no need to record your football team’s failures for consumption at a later date. As liberating as that is, it also means there is no need for a half-hearted att
  
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• Theater News: Neon Trees Singer Tyler Glenn to Make Broadway Debut in Kinky Boots

  11-04-2018 13:00
  Wicked veteran Carrie St. Louis will also join the Broadway cast as Lauren.
  
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• Photo Flash: Come From Away Kicks Off NHL Playoffs With Visit From Stanley Cup

  11-04-2018 13:00
  NHL playoffs begin April 11, and performances of Broadway's Come From Away continue at the Schoenfeld Theatre.
  
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