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Any film festival worth its salt will program a movie or two that’s more rooted in delirium than common sense. If you had to choose the wildest, loopiest big swing of a movie to play at the Venice Film Festival this year, it would likely come down to two choices: “The Testament of Ann Lee,” Mona Fastvold’s 18th-century cult Shaker musical (imagine “The Crucible” set in a “Handmaid’s Tale” world where the women are their own puritan oppressors), and “In the Hand of Dante,” Julian Schnabel’s impossible-to-pigeonhole literary gangster mystery, which might be described as “The Da Vinci Code” retold as a violent underworld fairy tale with 14th-century footnotes. But “The Testament of Ann Lee” is a forbiddingly austere slow-motion ramble. “In the Hand of Dante,” by contrast, is a folly that pulsates with life. Even when it doesn’t add up, it’s the kind...

Exclusive: House of the Dragon and Supergirl actor Milly Alcock will star in Daina Oniunas-Pusić’s dark comedy Thumb.

The project, which was written by Cesar Vitale, winner of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, follows a lonely woman (Alcock) who mistakenly receives a severed thumb in the mail. She makes it her life’s obsession to return it to the hand it once belonged to, putting her on a collision course that will upend her world forever.

Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman and Greg Lessans will produce for Weed Road, and Richard Saperstein, Brooke Saperstein, Beau Turpin and Annie Saperstein will produce for Bluestone Entertainment. Cameras roll this fall in New York.

Goldsman said, “Cesar Vitale is a unique and exciting new voice on the page, Daina Oniunas-Pusić is an impossibly talented artist behind the camera and none of us can stop watching the extraordinary Milly Alcock.

Angelina Jolie just caught a performance of one of Broadway‘s hottest shows of the year!

The Oscar-winning actresses attended a performance of John Proctor Is The Villain this past weekend during the show’s final weeks on Broadway.

The play follows a “group of high school girls in rural Georgia who are studying Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and create a feminism club as they try to make sense of the greater #MeToo movement and their own relationships with the men — classmates, teachers and fathers — in their small community.”

John Proctor Is The Villain is directed by Danya Taymor, who directed the musical The Outsiders. Angelina was a producer on that show.

Daniel Day-Lewis has romanced many leading ladies of Hollywood, but his pairing with Winona Ryder will always have a special place in our hearts. However, the question is, did Lewis and Ryder ever date? While there is no concrete proof of a romance, rumors did arise at one point.

According to Letiquette, Lewis was a part of “more or less proven affairs with Julia Roberts and Winona Ryder”. The rumors claimed that their apparent romantic relationship was only brief, before they went their separate ways. Now, how much truth the reports cannot be known. Take a look at more of Lewis’ romances throughout the years.

Lewis, 68, and Ryder, 53, starred in...

Daniel Day-Lewis blamed his slow rhythm and style of working for delivering fewer films in his career, which is also why he probably has not done TV shows. The three-time Oscar winner announced his retirement from acting multiple times and was last seen in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread eight years ago.

When asked about his slow output and his work style, Day-Lewis said that he learned pretty early on that his energy would be depleted if he took on more than he could chew, so he became choosy with his projects. He also said that he could not work on someone else’s timeline (via BBC).

A lot of other people just think I’m a lazy bum [he laughs]. You’re sweet to say that. I think the reason I don’t work more often – I have a slow rhythm, a slothful rhythm even. You can’t work to somebody else’s rhythm.

Zach Cregger’s “Weapons” is, as of this writing, one of the most acclaimed motion pictures of 2025. It’s got a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, out of 214 reviews and counting. Which means only a handful of critics have seen Cregger’s film and didn’t give it their stamp of approval.

I am one of the handful.

That doesn’t make me special. That doesn’t make me right or wrong. It just means that I didn’t care for the film, no matter how much I may admire its various pieces. As a professional critic it is my responsibility to be honest about my opinion — whatever it is, whether anyone agrees or not — and explain how I got there. Without an explanation it’s not criticism, it’s just an opinion. Everyone’s entitled to an opinion, of course, but I’m not allowed to stop there. Getting into the nitty-gritty is my trade.

It's always interesting to get new perspectives of all the different lives that both world wars impacted. In the new drama movie The Choral, set during World War I, the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire, is dealing with a unique situation: most of their singers were recruited to join the army, and they need to find a way to find new talent. The movie stars Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), who is in another war drama after starring in titles like Schindler's List and The English Patient. The movie premieres in theaters this Christmas.

The trailer for The Choral suggests that the movie will be an enjoyable one despite the scenario in which it all takes place. It makes sense, however, that people would look for a bit of art and emotion in the middle of a huge influx of bad news. In the story, Dr. Henry Guthrie (Fiennes) is recruited to...

Liam Neeson, best known for his dramatic and action roles, is currently earning rave reviews for his turn as the bumbling L.A. detective Frank Drebin Jr. in The Naked Gun. While the film may not be an Oscar contender, it boasts a strong A– CinemaScore and holds a solid 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Beyond his comedic chops, Neeson, star of Schindler’s List, Kinsey, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and Taken, is no stranger to awards and critical acclaim. Here’s a look back at his awards history.

The Irish-born actor earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Oskar Schindler in Schindler’s List (1993). Although Tom Hanks took home the statue that year for Philadelphia, Neeson’s performance was widely praised. The film itself received 12 Academy Award nominations and won seven, including Best Picture and Best Director for Steven Spielberg.

In addition to his Oscar nod,...

Stressed that it’s somehow already August? You’re not alone. But you can still ignore that stress, at least a little, with a good movie night. And there are a lot of options for you on Tubi this month.

Tubi is an entirely free streaming service, no subscription required to watch their offerings. You will have to put up with ads when you watch, but you don’t even have to create an account if you don’t want to. And this month, they have some old favorites, including the “Bring It On” franchise, and more recent hits too.

You can find a full list of what’s available on Tubi in August 2025 below.

Aug. 1

“21 Jump Street (2012)”

“22 Jump Street”

“A Low Down Dirty Shame”

“A Man Apart”

“Across The Universe”

“Annie (2014)”

“Baby Driver”

“Bandidas”

“B.A.P.S.”

“Barely Lethal”

“Bite The Bullet”

“Body Of Lies”

“Bottle Rocket”

“Bring It On...

Amid her rise to fame in the 1980s, Winona Ryder took on one of her most memorable roles when she joined the cast of Heathers. It came with a price, however, as it meant missing out on a chance to co-star in another big movie with Marlon Brando.

Per Elle UK, Ryder reflected on the early years of her career in a new interview. She brought up 1988's Heathers, in which she starred in the lead role as Veronica Sawyer. At the time of the movie's release, she had already been cast to appear in the 1990 film The Freshman alongside Brando. However, she was fired from the project before filming after the filmmakers watched Heathers, offended by its content.

"I was told I was never gonna work again if I did Heathers," Ryder said. "I did lose a job [because of Heathers]. They thought it was making fun of teen suicide. They were deeply offended and,...

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its August titles. The Tubi August 2025 slate includes Tubi Originals, TV series, and numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller, and Western titles.

As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library of over 250,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of exclusive Originals, and nearly 250 live channels.

You can watch the Tubi August 2025 lineup for free on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, and Cox Contour.

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The hit Broadway play John Proctor is the Villain will extend for a third and final time by one week, with the new closing date now Sunday, September 7.

The announcement was made today by producers Sue Wagner, John Johnson, John Mara Jr., Runyonland, and Eric Falkenstein. Kimberly Belflower’s play began previews at the Booth Theatre on March 20, and opened on April 14.

The critically acclaimed production routinely sells out, and for the week ending July 13 – original star Sadie Sink’s final week – grossed its highest amount – $1,128,804 – to date. Chiara Aurelia is now playing the lead role of Shelby Holcomb.

Last week, Universal Pictures optioned the film rights for the play, with Tina Fey and Eric Gurian producing under their Little Stranger Inc. banner, and Marc Platt, Adam Siegel and Jared LeBoff producing through Marc Platt Productions. Sink is executive producing.

On Broadway, the play is directed by Danya Taymor. John...

Our favorite ketchup and mustard duo, Millie Bobby Brown and Sadie Sink, are finally saying goodbye to Hawkins, with Stranger Things set to wrap its final season this year. While the Upside Down may be closing, the real drama is unfolding in real life, with their careers. Both launched into the spotlight through the Netflix phenomenon, but their post-Stranger Things journeys are playing out very differently.

Millie Bobby Brown was The breakout star. Eleven was the face of the show, and she rode that wave straight into global fame and rightfully so. Since then, she has been booked and busy, starring in the Enola Holmes franchise, swinging swords in Damsel, and headlining The Electric State. She has also built a personal brand empire, skincare, Florence by Mills, believe it or not, a best-selling WWII romance novel called Nineteen Steps, and a production company.

But while her resume is packed,...

The hit Broadway play John Proctor is the Villain is becoming a movie!

Sadie Sink starred in the stage production and earned a Tony Award nomination for her leading performance and she has joined the producing team of the upcoming film adaptation.

Keep reading to find out more…

Playwright Kimberly Belflower will adapt her play for the screen and the movie is going to be produced by Tina Fey and Wicked‘s Marc Platt, with Sadie serving as an executive producer, according to THR.

The play follows a “group of high school girls in rural Georgia who are studying Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and create a feminism club as they try to make sense of the greater #MeToo movement and their own relationships with the men — classmates, teachers and fathers — in their small community.”

Sadie recently had her final performance in the play and was replaced by one of her real-life close friends.

The hit Tony-nominated Broadway play John Proctor Is the Villain is getting the big screen treatment thanks to Tina Fey and Marc Platt.

In a competitive situation, Universal picked up the film rights to the play, with Fey and Platt attached to produce. Playwright Kimberly Belflower will adapt her work for the screen, while Sadie Sink, who earned a Tony nomination for the show, will executive produce.

John Proctor is the Villain follows a group of high school girls in rural Georgia who are studying Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and create a feminism club as they try to make sense of the greater #MeToo movement and their own relationships with the men — classmates, teachers and fathers — in their small community.

“At its core, Belflower has constructed a poignant story of girlhood and empowering friendships,” reads The Hollywood Reporter’s review of the play, which earned seven Tony nominations, including best play.

Last night, television star Chiara Aurelia joined the company of John Proctor is the Villain on Broadway as 'Shelby Holcomb'. Check out photos and video of her opening night bow with the company! In John Proctor is the Villain, five young women – fueled by pop music, optimism, and fury – clash with their school, their Georgia town, and the stories they've been instructed to believe. As their class dissects The Crucible, they begin to question who we deem heroic, who we call a villain, and who gets burned in the process. With biting humor and a beating heart, this explosive new play – the “stunner of the season” (The New York Times) – shines a blazing spotlight on the eternal fight to claim your own narrative in a...

The 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival added several world premieres by prolific filmmakers including Netflix’s Rian Johnson threequel Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Sony Pictures Classics’ Nicholas Hytner title The Choral, Miramax/Paramount’s Derek Cianfrance caper The Roofman, Paul Greengrass’ AppleTV+ movie The Lost Bus, Searchlight’s The Rental Family from Beef episodic director Hikari as well as the Canadian premiere of Hament from Oscar winning Nomadland filmmaker Chloe Zhao.

In total TIFF unveils today 11 more Official Selections in the Gala and Special Presentations programmes. The fest, presented by Rogers, runs from Sept. 4-14.

“Since its inception, TIFF has championed global cinema that opens our eyes and brings us together,” said Anita Lee, Chief Programming Officer, TIFF. “We are delighted to share 11 more titles from our Gala and Special Presentations programmes that showcase the remarkable originality and excellence of today’s most exciting and acclaimed directors.

Beginning tonight, July 15, Chiara Aurelia joins the company of John Proctor is the Villain as 'Shelby Holcomb'. Tony nominee Sadie Sink played her final performance on July 13. Check out photos here! In John Proctor is the Villain, five young women – fueled by pop music, optimism, and fury – clash with their school, their Georgia town, and the stories they've been instructed to believe. As their class dissects The Crucible, they begin to question who we deem heroic, who we call a villain, and who gets burned in the process. With biting humor and a beating heart, this explosive new play – the “stunner of the season” (The New York Times) – shines a blazing spotlight on the eternal fight to claim your own...

Sadie Sink played her 104th and final performance on Broadway as ‘Shelby Holcomb’ in John Proctor is the Villain yesterday, Sunday, July 13. Check out photos of her final curtain call below! Performances for Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor is the Villain, with direction by Tony Award winner Danya Taymor, opened on Broadway at the Booth Theatre on April 14, 2025 and runs through Sunday, August 31 with Chiara Aurelia as ‘Shelby Holcomb.’ At a high school in a rural town in Georgia, an English class is studying The Crucible, but the students are more preoccupied with navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals. As they delve into the American classic, the students begin to question the play’s perspective and the validity of naming John Proctor the show’s hero. With...

Paul Libin, a major figure in the American theater for nearly seven decades whose leadership positions at Circle in the Square Theatre and Jujamcyn Theaters contributed some of Broadway’s most exciting and acclaimed stage productions, died June 27 in New York City after a brief illness. He was 94.

During the span of his career in theater Libin produced more than 250 Broadway, Off Broadway and touring productions. He lead Circle in the Square Theatre for 62 years until his death, serving as Executive Vice President and Producing Director of Jujamcyn Theaters for 28 years until 2017, and was President of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS for 24 years until 2018.

Just a small sampling of the productions staged under Libin’s watch: Death of a Salesman starring George C. Scott in 1975; St. Joan with Lynn Redgrave in 1977; Tina Howe’s Coastal Disturbances starring Timothy Daly and Annette Bening in 1987; and, just in the last few seasons,...

If you happen to be walking by Radio City Music Hall, you just might get a glimpse into rehearsals for Heathers the Musical! Casey Likes has shared a fun video of himself and Lorna Courtney rehearsing for the upcoming return of the fan-favorite musical outside of Radio City Music Hall. See them take on the roles of Jd and Veronica while running through "Dead Girl Walking" and their fight choreography. rehearsing for heathers…outside? pic.twitter.com/ns9HDfVK8y — Casey Likes (@justcaseylikes) June 17, 2025 Joining them in the cast is McKenzie Kurtz as Heather Chandler, Olivia Hardy (Broadway: Kimberly Akimbo; National Tour: Summer: The Donna Summer Musical) as Heather Duke, and Elizabeth Teeter as Heather McNamara. Kerry...

At last year’s Tony Awards, Danya Taymor took Broadway’s biggest night by surprise with her victory for directing Best Musical winner The Outsiders. Only 18 Gold Derby users were predicting her to prevail, favoring instead Maria Friedman for Best Musical Revival winner Merrily We Roll Along and Michael Greif, a theater veteran looking for his first-ever Tony for musical Hell’s Kitchen.

Now on her second Tony nomination in as many years, Taymor looks to pull off another unexpected victory, this time for new play John Proctor Is the Villain. Even though Oh, Mary! helmer Sam Pinkleton is out front in Gold Derby’s odds, our users are not underestimating Taymor again, as she ranks second in the category with a contingent of backers. If she wins again this year, she would make Tony Awards history.

Watch our interview with Tony nominee Sadie Sink, ‘John Proctor is the Villain...

John Proctor Is The Villain is a Broadway hit and the show will now run through the end of the summer, though star Sadie Sink has set her final performance date.

The Stranger Things actress received a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play for her work in the new show, which was originally scheduled to close on June 22.

The play will now be running through August 31 due to popular demand and a surge in box office sales.

Keep reading to find out more…

Sadie will be leaving the show on Sunday, July 13 and new casting for the role of Shelby Holcomb will be announced next week.

In John Proctor is the Villain, five young women – fueled by pop music, optimism, and fury – clash with their school, their Georgia town, and the stories they’ve been instructed to believe. As their class dissects The Crucible, they begin to question who we deem heroic,...

A lot can change in four years for Nioh series director Fumihiko Yasuda. After stating that there were “no plans” back in 2021 for a third entry in the series, Koei Tecmo and developer Team Ninja have announced Nioh 3 for the PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam for an early 2026 release. In fact, an Alpha Demo is available now on the PlayStation Store until June 18.

Per PlayStation Blog, Nioh 3 centres around a young warrior poised to become the next Shogun. Details on the story are purposely being kept vague for now, but as the battles unfold, players will now be able to fight using two distinct combat styles: Samurai and Ninja, which can be switched instantly at any time.

The Samurai style provides a gameplay experience similar to previous Nioh titles. New actions such as Arts Proficiency, which enhances the power of martial arts, and Deflect, which allows players to block enemy...

John Proctor is the Villain and Cats: The Jellicle Ball received top honors in the group's third annual Dorian Theater Awards. Both productions won three awards each, making them the most awarded shows of the year. The Dorian Theater Awards, decided on by Galeca's theater wing, honor the best of Broadway and Off-Broadway, mainstream to LGBTQ+, for the 2024-2025 season. Kimberly Bellflower's new play John Proctor is the Villain earned three Dorian Theater Awards, more than any other Broadway production. The drama, in which contemporary high schoolers recontextualize Arthur Miller's The Crucible, was awarded prizes for Outstanding Broadway Play, Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play for Fina Strazza, and Outstanding Broadway Ensemble. In other Broadway categories, Jonathan Spector's Eureka Day picked up the...

While Sadie Sink rose to fame in Netflix’s Stranger Things, her roots are in the theater.

The 23-year-old actress appeared in a revival of Annie in 2013 and starred as young Queen Elizabeth in The Audience in 2015 before going on to play Max in Stranger Things, and taking on roles in films including The Whale. And now, Sink has returned to Broadway in John Proctor is the Villain, where she has received her first Tony nomination for her role as high schooler Shelby Holcomb.

Sink was nervous about returning to Broadway, especially with the fandom and expectations of Stranger Things surrounding her. But she was drawn back by Kimberly Bellflower’s play, in which a group of high school girls dissect The Crucible for English class, while also seeing parallels with their own lives. While the play is an ensemble piece, Sink’s character comes in like a wrecking ball...

There are so many startling, perspective-shifting scenes in Kimberly Belflower’s Tony Award-nominated play John Proctor Is The Villain that two people discussing the plot can easily make incorrect assumptions about exactly which shocking scene they’re addressing. Read on for a perfect example in this conversation with star Sadie Sink.

For her unsettling and remarkably affecting performance in John Proctor, Sink, who shot to fame in 2016 when she joined the second season of Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things as Maxine “Max” Mayfield, has been Tony-nominated for Best Leading Actress In A Play.

To say Sink is on a career roll is an understatement. In addition to starring in one of the Broadway season’s most acclaimed productions, she’ll be back in Hawkins, Indiana, when Stranger Things returns for its fifth and final season later this year. And she recently joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe with her casting...

Mia Farrow is a first-time Tony nominee this year and she is checking out the other nominated shows!

The 80-year-old legendary actress, who is the oldest acting nominee this year, went to a performance of the play John Proctor Is The Villain this week in New York City.

Mia visited with the cast backstage after the show and chatted with Sadie Sink, who is up against her for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, and Fina Strazza, who is nominated for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play and is the youngest acting nominee of the season.

Mia earned a Leading Actress nomination for her work in The Roommate, which ran at the Booth Theatre last year. John Proctor Is The Villain is currently at the same venue!

In John Proctor is the Villain, five young women – fueled by pop music, optimism, and fury – clash with their school,...

The complete cast and creative team have been announced for Heathers The Musical. Tony Award nominee Kerry Butler, a veteran of 12 Broadway shows including Hairspray, Xanadu, Mean Girls, and Beetlejuice The Musical, will play Ms. Fleming/Veronica’s Mom. As previously announced, Tony Award nominee Lorna Courtney will star as Veronica Sawyer, and Casey Likes will star as Jason “J.D.” Dean. The Heathers are McKenzie Kurtz as Heather Chandler, Olivia Hardy (Broadway: Kimberly Akimbo; National Tour: Summer: The Donna Summer Musical) as Heather Duke. and Elizabeth Teeter as Heather McNamara. Erin Morton, a senior at University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (Ccm) whose viral performance of Radiohead’s “Creep” amassed over 13 million views on TikTok, will...

Sadie Sink might be swinging straight outta the Upside Down and into the Spider-Verse. Rumors are flying faster than Spidey on a webline that the Stranger Things breakout could be joining Tom Holland in the next Spider-Man flick.

While Marvel’s keeping her role under tighter wraps than a Demogorgon in a lab cage, fans are already flipping out over the idea of Max Mayfield teaming up—or facing off—with Peter Parker. Holland even dropped a sneaky hint about the project during a Good Morning America appearance last year.

Now, the fandom’s in full spec mode: Is she a friend? Foe? Or something far stranger?

Is Sadie Sink playing Mayday Parker? All about the new Spider-Man Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield in Stranger Things | Credits: Netflix

Sadie Sink might be trading her skateboard for web-shooters. Not just any web-shooters, but Tobey Maguire’s. Word on the Multiverse streets...

Casting has been announced for the three Heathers, in the off-Broadway return of Heathers: The Musical! McKenzie Kurtz will play Heather Chandler. Olivia Hardy (Broadway: Kimberly Akimbo; National Tour: Summer: The Donna Summer Musical) will play Heather Duke. Elizabeth Teeter will play Heather McNamara. As previously announced, Tony Award nominee Lorna Courtney will star as Veronica Sawyer, and Casey Likes will star as J.D. Additional casting will be announced next week. Featuring book, music, and lyrics by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe,...

“I hadn’t read it since college,” says playwright Kimberly Belflower of Arthur Miller’s iconic play The Crucible. She drew inspiration for John Proctor Is the Villain from that 1953 drama and found herself compelled to reread the work — an allegory of the McCarthy era in American politics told through the lens of the Salem Witch Trials — in 2017 at the height of the #MeToo movement. A comment by Woody Allen comparing the movement to a “witch hunt” sparked the idea to revisit Miller’s play because she says her “brain just thinks in fiction.” Belflower recently sat down with Gold Derby and other journalists at the 2025 Tony Awards Meet the Nominees press event.

Set in 2018 in a small town in Georgia, John Proctor Is the Villain centers on a group of high school juniors reading The Crucible in English class when accusations of sexual misconduct begin rippling through their community...

Which actor gave the shortest oscar-winning performance ever? (Photo Credit – Wikipedia)

As far as the Oscar awards are concerned, longer screen time is often interpreted as a more impactful performance. But every once in a while, an actor delivers such an impactful performance that they win laurels across the globe despite a significantly shorter screen time. While many know Anthony Hopkins’

The 16-minute role in The Silence of the Lambs was one of the shortest to win an Oscar, another performance quietly holds the record for the shortest Oscar-winning performance. Curious to know which actor/actress made Oscar history in a lesser time than it takes to drink a cup of tea? Read on to know the details.

The Shortest Oscar-Winning Performance

Without beating around the bush, we’ll come straight to the point. The Oscar-winning performance, which had the shortest screen time, was delivered by Beatrice Straight in the 1976 film Network.

World of Wonder (Wow) founders Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato – two of the most successful creators in the documentary and unscripted spaces – have been named Guests of Honor at the upcoming Sheffield DocFest.

The Emmy-winning executive producers of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and directors of documentaries The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Inside Deep Throat, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, fact-based drama Party Monster (starring Macauley Culkin and Seth Green), and many other films, will be honored at the cinematic event that runs from June 18-23 in the north of England. Sheffield DocFest, the U.K.’s leading documentary festival, has programmed a 20th anniversary special screening of Inside Deep Throat, which investigated the notorious porn classic starring Linda Lovelace. DocFest calls the film “thought-provoking and hugely entertaining.”

In addition, the festival will preview the first episode of Murder in Glitterball City, the upcoming HBO docuseries directed by Bailey and Barbato. “The...

“When I first read The Crucible, I think it was in high school, and I was just trying to make it through the year, honestly” shares Sadie Sink with a laugh. The actress stars in the new Broadway play John Proctor Is the Villain, which draws inspiration from the famous Arthur Miller play from 1953. In Kimberly Belflower’s drama, Sink stars as Shelby, a high school junior who takes a leave of absence from school and returns in time for her class discussion of The Crucible, which coincides with the #MeToo movement rippling through her small community in Georgia. Sink recently sat down with Gold Derby to discuss the complexity of her character and her reaction to Stranger Things: The First Shadow.

Although only 23 years old, Sink is a Broadway veteran, appearing in the 2012 revival of Annie and later starring opposite Helen Mirren in her Tony-winning role in The Audience.

Priscilla Pointer, the co-founder of the San Francisco Actor’s Workshop and a theater, TV and film actress who often played memorable mothers — especially to her daughter Amy Irving — died Monday in her sleep at age 100, according to family.

Pointer’s most prominent work over her eight-decade career includes roles in Carrie, Blue Velvet, The Onion Field, The Falcon and the Snowman, Looking for Mr. Goodbar and Dallas.

In 1947, she met and married director Jules Irving. The duo, along with Herbert Blau, were among the founders of the San Francisco Actor’s Workshop, which played a seminal part in the modern theater movement in America. A local independent professional theater troupe, the Actor’s Workshop became the first theater group outside of New York City to sign an “Off Broadway” Equity agreement. It was also the first professional theater on the West Coast to premiere modern American classics such as Arthur Miller...

Priscilla Pointer, the character actress who portrayed Amy Irving’s mother in the Brian De Palma horror classic Carrie, then appeared with her daughter in six other movies, has died. She was 100.

Pointer died Monday at an assisted living facility in Ridgefield, Connecticut, her son, writer-director David Irving, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Pointer also portrayed Diane Keaton’s mom in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Sean Penn’s in The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) and Kyle MacLachlan’s in Blue Velvet (1986), and on television, she was Rebecca Barnes Wentworth, the mother of Victoria Principal’s character, on CBS’ Dallas in the early 1980s.

Pointer also appeared with Irving in Honeysuckle Rose (1980), The Competition (1980), Blake Edwards’ Micki + Maude (1984), Rumpelstiltskin (1987) — which was directed by her son — A Show of Force (1990) and Carried Away (1996).

In the 1960s and ’70s, Pointer worked on Broadway with the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center company under the direction of her first husband,...

Numerous actors appeared in several of the series that followed Star Trek: The Original Series, among them Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, Jonathan Frakes, Vaughn Armstrong, Randy Oglesby, Steve Rankin, Tim Russ, Clint Howard, Armin Shimerman, and Lee Arenberg. And a few guest-starred in The Original Series And several of the shows that followed, including Barrett-Roddenberry, Howard, and the late Joseph Ruskin.

Ruskin’s direct association with Star Trek spanned from 1968 to 2001, as he appeared on Tos, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise, as well as two video games and the feature film, Star Trek: Insurrection. His first appearance, as Galt in the second-season Tos episode “The Gamesters of Triskelion,” was probably his most famous outing. He also played a Klingon, Tumek, in the DS9 installments “The House of Quark” and “Looking for par’Mach in All the Wrong Places,” a Cardassian in the DS9 hour “Improbable Cause,” a Vulcan in Voyager’s “Gravity,...

For playwright Kimberly Belflower, there’s countless individuals that helped turn her play John Proctor Is the Villain from a collaborative college workshop into the hit play currently running on Broadway. But the person she uniquely credits the core of the show might take people by surprise: New Zealand-born global superstar Lorde.

John Proctor Is the Villain premiered on Broadway on April 14, dropping audiences straight into the middle of a Georgia school year. Led by their fearless teacher Mr. Smith (Gabriel Ebert) and a bucketful of Southern twang, high school...

Seventy-two years after its debut and Tony Award win for Best Play, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible has received new life on Broadway. No, not in the form of a revival — the last one in 2016 starred Saiorse Ronan and Ben Whishaw — but rather through Kimberly Belflower's play John Proctor Is the Villain. The drama interpolates Miller's classic work into its plot, which revolves around a 2018 English classroom in Georgia, where the 1953 play becomes the topic of intense discussion of the newly established feminism club.

Last year's Tony winner Danya Taymor directs the ensemble, which boasts Stranger Things star Sadie Sink in her return to Broadway, Tony winner Gabriel Ebert, and seven other performers. John Proctor opened at the Booth Theatre on April 14 for a limited run and is currently slated to play through July 6.

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Sadie Sink is officially back on Broadway and her Stranger Things co-stars are there to cheer her on!

The 22-year-old actress celebrated the opening night of her new play John Proctor Is The Villain on Monday (April 14) at the Booth Theatre in New York City.

Sadie walked the red carpet following the performance.

Stranger Things actors Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, and Maya Hawke were all in attendance at the opening night event!

In John Proctor is the Villain, five young women – fueled by pop music, optimism, and fury – clash with their school, their Georgia town, and the stories they’ve been instructed to believe. As their class dissects The Crucible, they begin to question who we deem heroic, who we call a villain, and who gets burned in the process.

The play opened to rave reviews! It’s a New York Times critic’s pick and Entertainment Weekly gave it an “A” grade.

It’s a testament to the subtle brilliance of Kimberly Belflower’s writing and Danya Tamor’s direction that you can hardly feel the 105-minute, no-intermission runtime of John Proctor Is the Villain.

The play, now on Broadway, follows a group of junior girls at Helen County High, a small school in northeast Georgia, who start a feminist club at the height of the #MeToo movement. At first, their plans are almost thwarted by anonymously concerned community members who worry the group will alienate boys. The girls insist that their male peers can, and in fact should, become members. “If we were able to foster a meaningful dialogue with them, we could find common ground,” intones Beth (an impressive Fina Strazza), the high-strung but well-meaning one of the crew. “That’s like, the whole purpose of this club, that’s why it’s so important.”

Lucky for these teens, their beloved English teacher,...

‘Mary Poppins,’ ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ and more top titles are coming to BroadwayHD starting April 1.

If you’re a lover of the spectacle of Broadway musicals, and you haven’t checked out the BroadwayHD streaming service, you cannot wait a moment longer. BroadwayHD has more than 300 professionally recorded performances available, from prestigious theaters the world over. The streamer’s library is getting even more tempting this month, as it has announced the addition of 10 Disney musicals to its catalog.

Key Details: Contemporary and classic Disney titles are joining BroadwayHD. Live musicals from NBCUniversal have also streamed on BroadwayHD. Viewers can sign up for $20 per month if they go directly through the service’s website, but Prime Video offers it for only $9. 7-Day Free Trial $19.99+ / month BroadwayHD via amazon.com

Starting on April 1, BroadwayHD will welcome 10 contemporary and classic musicals and dramas from the Disney archives. Movies will continue to...

Update, with statement from ‘Fellow Travelers’ team: The composer, lyricist, director and producer of Fellow Travelers, an opera based on Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel about the anti-gay lavender scare of the 1950s, have withdrawn the work from the 2025-26 season of the Washington National Opera at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., citing concern over Donald Trump’s takeover of the institution’s leadership.

Novelist Mallon also signed on to the decision to withdraw the opera.

The withdrawal was confirmed by Tim O’Leary and Francesca Zambello, Washington National Opera General Director and Artistic Director, respectively. In a statement obtained by Deadline, O’Leary and Zambello said, “We deeply regret that the creative team of Fellow Travelers has decided to deprive Wno audiences of the chance to experience this opera. Art and music have the power to rise above division and bring people together to find common ground. The Wno...

Sadie Sink is officially back on Broadway!

The 22-year-old Stranger Things actress made her Broadway debut back in 2012 in the cast of Annie and now she’s leading the new play John Proctor is the Villain.

Sadie took her first bow in the show on Thursday (March 20) at the Booth Theatre in New York City.

Here is the synopsis of the play: “At a high school in a one-stoplight town in Georgia, an English class is studying The Crucible. The students, however, are more preoccupied with navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals than what’s in their syllabus. But as they delve into this literary classic, the class begins to question the play’s perspective, especially whether John Proctor is the hero they’ve been taught he is.”

Sadie stars alongside Tony winner Gabriel Ebert, Nihar Duvvuri, Molly Griggs, Maggie Kuntz, Hagan Oliveras, Morgan Scott, Fina Strazza,...

SadieSink has become a rising star in the last decade. Beginning her career on stage by performing in shows including Annie and TheAudience, she then transitioned into on-screen roles. Sink is best known for her portrayal of Max Mayfield in StrangerThings from 2017's season 2 to the upcoming final outing with Stranger Things season 5, alongside FearStreet and TheWhale.

Beyond StrangerThings final season, however, Sink's career is set to make another major pivot. While Sink's upcoming slate of projects is clear, she is set to return to her Broadway roots with a role in John Proctor Is The Villain, a modern retelling of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Before she returns to the stage, her new post-apocalyptic movie has seen reviews begin to be released.

Sadie Sink's O'dessa's Rotten Tomatoes Score Has Been Revealed The Musical Is Divisive Among Critics

Featuring Sink, Murray Bartlett, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Regina Hall, O'dessa...

Robert De Niro is set to make his TV debut in “Zero Day.” The Netflix series follows a former U.S. president who’s tapped to lead a commission tasked with tracking down the perpetrators of a devastating cyberattack responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans, only to discover a vast web of lies and conspiracies.

The limited series, which premieres Feb. 20, comes from co-creators Eric Newman (“Griselda”) and Noah Oppenheim (“Jackie”). Lesli Linka Glatter is an executive producer and director of all six episodes. De Niro, Michael S. Schmidt and Jonathan Glickman also executive produce the series.

Below is a round-up of the star-studded “Zero Day” cast joining De Niro in the political thriller and where else you may have seen them.

George Mullen (Robert De Niro) Robert De Niro in “Zero Day” (Netflix)

George Mullen is a hugely popular but complicated former US president who’s pulled...

If you missed Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein production, Sky Arts is bringing it to TV for your convenience. More below.

Going to the theatre still feels like a fancy, special occasion. It can also be a bit on the pricey side, but the National Theatre has taken great steps to making the productions more accessible with special cinema screenings of selected shows.

Sky Arts is now making National Theatre productions even more accessible by bringing three different plays to TV for the very first time. Othello, The Crucible and two versions of Frankenstein will be aired on Sky Arts, Freeview and Now.

Othello, directed by Clint Dyer, stars Giles Terera, Rosy McEwen and Paul Hilton, while Erin Doherty and Brendan Cowell star in The Crucible which was directed by Lyndsey Turner. Both plays were originally performed in 2022 and captured on the stages of the National Theatre.

Joan Plowright, the heralded actress of stage and screen who was also the widow to Laurence Olivier, has passed away. Dame Joan Plowright was 95.

A native of Lincolnshire, England, Joan Plowright – who studied at the famed Bristol Old Vic Theatre School – first made her London stage debut in the mid-’50s. Soon after, she was working alongside Laurence Olivier, then already a well-established icon of the stage and screen himself, having combined these talents in an almost unprecedented way with Henry V and Hamlet. (He was also fresh off of his divorce from Vivien Leigh.)

The month after Joan Plowright married Olivier, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for A Taste of Honey. Plowright remained committed to the stage, steadily appearing in productions into the early ‘90s. Some key productions include The Crucible; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; Saturday, Sunday, Monday; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, died on Thursday. She was 95.

Plowright was a prominent actress of stage and screen in her own right, especially in her native England, and was a Tony winner for “A Taste of Honey.” The actress had retired in 2014 after going blind due to macular degeneration.

Her family confirmed the news of her death to The Guardian on Friday, writing: “It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan Plowright, the Lady Olivier, inform you that she passed away peacefully on January 16 2025 surrounded by her family at Denville Hall aged 95. She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades until blindness made her retire. She cherished her last 10 years in Sussex with constant visits from friends and family, filled with much laughter and fond memories. The...