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Emily in Paris star Ashley Park, Modern Family‘s Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Andrew Rannells braved the rain to witness the Broadway-bound production of Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends at the Ahmanson Theatre on Thursday (February 13) in Los Angeles.

Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends is a musical revue celebrating the legendary composer’s illustrious career, spanning “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” from Gypsy, a medley from Sweeney Todd,” “Somewhere” from West Side Story” and most unforgettably, “Being Alive” from Company. The show features an ensemble cast of Broadway veterans, including Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga, delivering heartfelt renditions of Sondheim’s most beloved works. The Los Angeles run serves as a prelude to the show’s Broadway transfer, with previews set to begin on March 25 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and an official opening on April 8.

Tickets for the Los Angeles performances, running through March 9, are available now at Center Theatre Group LA.

Even a torrential downpour couldn’t dampen the spirit of Stephen Sondheim that flowed through Center Theatre Group on Thursday night.

Ctg’s Ahmanson Theatre hosted the opening night performance of Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, starring Broadway greats Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga and a cast of stage veterans. Billed as a “great big Broadway show,” Old Friends landed in Los Angeles for a North American premiere after a run in London’s West End. It will be staged at the Ahmanson through March 9 before it sets off for the Great White Way with a Broadway run opening April 8 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre at 261 West 47th Street. Previews begin March 25.

The stars came out despite the rain, and The Hollywood Reporter spotted a number of industry insiders including Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ashley Park, Andrew Rannells, Ian Paget, producers Lauren Shuler Donner and Dan Jinks,...

Water for Elephants has set its closing date on Broadway and will take its last bow on Dec. 8.

The stage adaptation of the book was nominated for a Tony for best musical alongside Hell’s Kitchen, Illinoise, Suffs and The Outsiders, which took home the prize. It also received nods for best book of a musical, scenic design of a musical, costume design of a musical, lighting design of a musical best direction of a musical and best choreography.

The story follows an older man reflecting on his younger adventures when he jumped a moving train unsure of where the road would take him after losing what mattered most to him. Along the way, he found a new home with the crew of a traveling circus, as well as a life and love beyond what he ever could’ve imagined.

The musical marked the book’s second adaptation, following a 2011 movie of the same name,...

Water For Elephants, the Jessica Stone-directed musical adaptation of the bestselling Sara Gruen romantic novel, will play its final performance at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre on Sunday, December 8, having played 301 regular performances and 25 previews since February.

Though one of the better reviewed musicals of the spring 2024 season, the show didn’t quite attain the must-see status of some other spring arrivals like The Outsiders, Stereophonic, Hell’s Kitchen, The Great Gatsby or Cabaret. Still, the musical, which originally starred Grant Gustin, held its own, sometimes topping $1 million in weekly grosses, or coming close.

The figures have been slipping in recent weeks through, with Gustin ending his limited run to be replaced by Kyle Selig.

The most recent box office figures – for the week ending September 29 – were at the lower end of the Broadway roster, with just 62% of seats filled at the Imperial.

Released last Halloween, Nickelodeon’s live action Monster High: The Movie was a hit for Paramount+, and the brand new trailer for Monster High 2 unveiled today promises school is back in session sooner than expected.

Monster High 2 is set to premiere on Paramount+ on Thursday, October 5, 2023.

The movie will also premiere on Nickelodeon on the same day at 7 pm Et/Pt. Encores air every weekend in October on Nickelodeon, as part of their Monster Movie Madness programming.

The new trailer below reintroduces our favorite Monster High students, along with a feisty new student, werecat Toralei Stripe (Salena Qureshi). Expect ghoulishly fun songs for the Monster High fan as Clawdeen, Draculaura, and Frankie find their groove back at Monster High for their sophomore year.

Based on the popular Mattel toy franchise about the children of famous monsters and creatures, Monster High and Monster High 2 come from Nickelodeon and Mattel Television.

Monster High: The Movie...

Released last Halloween, Nickelodeon’s live action Monster High: The Movie was a hit for Paramount+, and it looks like a brand new sequel is on the way this Halloween season.

“Who’s ready for a ghoul-amorous return? Monster High 2 is coming soon to Paramount+,” the streamer’s official account tweets tonight. No premiere date at this time. Stay tuned.

Based on the popular Mattel toy franchise about the children of famous monsters and creatures, Monster High and Monster High 2 come from Nickelodeon and Mattel Television.

Monster High: The Movie is streaming on Paramount+. You can read Meagan’s review here.

Miia Harris, Ceci Balagot, Nayah Damasen, Case Walker, Kyle Selig, Marci T. House, Scotch Ellis Loring, Steve Valentine, Jy Prishkulnik, Lina Lecompte, Justin Derickson, Lilah Fitzgerald and Nasiv Sall lead the cast of the live-action franchise.

“Monster High follows Clawdeen Wolf (Harris), who was born half human and half werewolf,...

Cat Person, directed by Susanna Fogel and written by Michelle Ashford (Mayfair Witches), was one of the most buzzed-about showcases of this year's Sundance Film Festival. Stemming from the infamous short story by Kristen Roupenian, the film combines suble gender dynamic discourse from the source material with a layer of thriller tropes that takes over in the second half.

Starring Emilia Jones (who lit up Sundance and the Oscars last year with Coda) and Nicholas Braun (the butt of every joke as Cousin Greg in Succession), Cat Person follows what should be a run-of-the-mill young romance between college student Margot and vaguely older man Robert. But what starts as a meet cute in the movie theater when she works eventually devolves into a very uncomfortable situation for Margot when she realizes the man she's seeing in person is not the one she was getting to know over text. Cat Person also stars Geraldine Viswanathan,...

Cat Person Review — Cat Person (2023) Film Review from the 46th Annual Sundance Film Festival, a movie directed by Susanna Fogel, written by Michelle Ashford and starring Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun, Geraldine Viswanathan, Isabelle Rossellini, Hope Davis, Christopher Shyer, Liza Koshy, Josh Andres Rivera, Melissa Lehman, Isaac Powell, Jeremy Gill, Kyle Selig, Liz Colon-Zayas, [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: Cat Person: A Thought-Provoking Dramatic Film Led by a Brave Performance from Emilia Jones [Sundance 2023]...

Released earlier this month, Nickelodeon’s live action Monster High: The Movie has proven to be a big time success, and just like that a sequel has now already been ordered up!

Deadline reports, “Nickelodeon and Mattel Television have given a green light to a sequel to the live-action movie musical. Based on the Mattel franchise about the children of famous monsters and creatures, the feature-length TV movie will begin production in January in Vancouver, Canada, and will air on Nickelodeon and stream on Paramount+ in 2023.”

Monster High: The Movie is now streaming on Paramount+, where millions have tuned in to watch since the film’s premiere on October 6. You can read Meagan’s review here.

“We are ecstatic to tell the monstrous next chapter of this beloved franchise to our audience,” said Zack Olin and Shauna Phelan, Co-Heads of Nickelodeon & Awesomeness Live-Action. “Monster High’s message of embracing one...

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A sequel to Monster High The Movie, based on the popular Mattel toy line, is in the works from Paramount+, Nickelodeon and Mattel Television.

The latest live action TV movie will once again be based on the Monster High Mattel toyline that features teenage children of monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman undergoing the trials and tribulations of high school.

The feature-length TV movie will also again be produced in Vancouver and will air on Nickelodeon and stream on Paramount+ in 2023. The first live-action movie for the franchise, Monster High The Movie, successfully debuted on Nickelodeon and Paramount+ on Oct. 6, 2022.

The sequel is being penned by Matt Eddy and Billy Eddy, based on a story they wrote with Todd Holland, who will direct and executive produce the sequel.

“We are ecstatic to tell the monstrous next chapter of this beloved franchise to our audience.

Exclusive: On the heels of the successful premiere of Monster High The Movie, Nickelodeon and Mattel Television have given a green light to a sequel to the live-action movie musical. Based on the Mattel franchise about the children of famous monsters and creatures, the feature-length TV movie will begin production in January in Vancouver, Canada, and will air on Nickelodeon and stream on Paramount+ in 2023.

Monster High The Movie, which premiered on Nickelodeon and Paramount+ on October 6, was the No. 1 kids and family movie on Paramount+ during its launch week and reached more than 4M total viewers across its premiere weekend on linear. In L+3, the linear simulcast posted triple-digit increases, up more than +100 with Kids 6-11 and up 45 with total viewers.

The Monster High animated series is also slated to premiere on Friday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. (Et/Pt) on Nickelodeon.

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Peacock is getting into the holiday spirit with The Housewives of the North Pole, a new original movie starring Kyle Richards (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) and Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad).

The highly-anticipated flick is set to launch on December 9 on the streaming service, and it looks like a lot of fun!

"The Christmas Queens of North Pole, Vermont, Trish (Kyle Richards) and Diana (Betsy Brandt), have won the Best Holiday House decorating competition every year for the past nine years," reads the intriguing synopsis.

"But days before Christmas, a friendship-ending argument sparks a town-wide feud and draws the attention of a national magazine writer hoping to make a name for herself with her scintillating exposé."

It is a compelling hook and somewhat interesting to have Richards move from one of the most successful reality shows to a movie with a similar title.

Richards and Brandt are clearly a...

HBO Max announced that “Search Party” will end with its fifth season, which will premiere with all 10 episodes on Jan. 7, 2022.

The thriller comedy, which premiered on TBS in 2016 before moving to HBO Max for Season 3, follows a group of 20-somethings who end up on a dark path while searching for a missing college acquaintance. Season 5 will see Dory (Alia Shawkat) enter a business partnership with tech billionaire Tunnel Quinn (Jeff Goldblum) after a near death experience, bringing her friends Portia (Meredith Hagner), Elliott (John Early) and Drew (John Reynolds) along in the venture.

Cast members newly joining “Search Party” in Season 5 include Kathy Griffin, John Waters, Aparna Nancherla, Angela Trimbur, Grace Kuhlenschmidt, Greta Titelman, Joe Castle Baker, Larry Owens and Michelle Badillo. Jeffery Self and Clare McNulty return as recurring guest stars.

Showrunners Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers executive produce with Michael Showalter and Jax Media’s Lilly Burns and Tony Hernandez.

Succession star Jeremy Strong is taking on a new role, headlining and exec-producing the 9/11 first-responder limited series The Best of Us, per The Hollywood Reporter.

The in-development project explores the human fallout from the Sept. 11 attacks, with a focus on the first responders, students, teachers, New Yorkers and volunteers who worked on “The Pile” and how they were affected and treated. A network is not yet attached to the series.

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Nickelodeon and Mattel have scared up a cast for its upcoming live-action TV musical movie Monster High, tapping Miia Harris, Ceci Balagot, Nayah Damasen, Case Walker, Kyle Selig and more.

Directed and executive produced by Todd Holland, Monster High follows Clawdeen Wolf (Harris), who was born half human and half werewolf, after she arrives at her new school, Monster High. She quickly makes friends with her classmates Frankie Stein (Balagot) and Draculaura *Damasen), and for the first time in her life, Clawdeen feels like she has finally found a place where she fits in and can truly be herself, despite keeping her human half a secret. When a devious plan to destroy Monster High threatens to reveal her real identity, Clawdeen must learn to embrace her true monster heart and find a way to save the day.

Also joining the cast are Marci T. House, Scotch Ellis Loring, Steve Valentine,...

Ho, ho, ho!

Do you hear the jingle bells ringing when it's not even Halloween?

Well, my friends, you are not alone! We're diving headfirst into the Christmas spirit this weekend.

On the eve of Hallmark Channel’s 12th Annual Countdown to Christmas – with 24/7 holiday programming kicking off tomorrow – Crown Media Family Networks is unwrapping the rest of its 2021 holiday movie slate of 41 all-new movie premieres.

Hallmark Channel serves up a double helping of holiday cheer during its first ever “Merry Thanksgiving Weekend,” with double-feature original movie premieres each night at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Et/Pt, Friday November 26 – Sunday, November 28.

Topping off the weekend’s movies are fan favorites Lacey Chabert and Candace Cameron Bure.

In her 11th Christmas movie for the network, Chabert whisks viewers away to Ireland in “Christmas at Castle Hart,” which premieres Saturday, November 27, and also stars Stuart Townsend.

On Sunday, November 28th Candace...

ABC announced that “Women of the Movement,” the upcoming limited series based on the true story of Mamie Till-Mobley, will premiere on Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. The six-episode series will air in three parts for three consecutive weeks.

Adrienne Warren stars as Mamie, the mother of Emmett Till (Cedric Joe), who was brutally lynched in 1955 in the Jim Crow South. The series sees Mamie risk her life seeking justice for Emmett, keeping his name and murder in the news and igniting the Civil Rights movement. Tonya Pinkins plays Mamie’s mother Alma Carthan; Ray Fisher plays Gene Mobley, Mamie’s husband who was a father figure to Emmett; Glynn Turman plays Mose Wright, Mamie’s uncle; Chris Coy and Carter Jenkins play Emmett’s murderers J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, respectively, and Julia McDermott plays Carolyn Bryant, the white woman Emmett was falsely accused of sexually harassing.

“My son, he’s a good boy,...

Exclusive: Peacock has rounded out the supporting cast for its original holiday movie The Real Housewives of the North Pole. Jearnest Corchado, Kyle Selig, Tetona Jackson, Carlos Ponce, Alec Mapa and Damon Dayoub will join Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Kyle Richards and Betsy Brandt in the movie spawned by the reality franchise. It’s set to premiere later this year on Peacock.

In The Real Housewives of the North Pole, the Christmas Queens of North Pole, Vermont, Trish (Richards) and Diana (Brandt), have won the Best Holiday House decorating competition every year for the past nine years. But days before Christmas, a friendship-ending argument sparks a town-wide feud and draws the attention of a national magazine writer hoping to make...

Mean Girls won’t be back when Broadway reopens, producers announced today. The musical based on Tina Fey’s 2004 film suspended production when Broadway went dark due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The musical, with a book by Fey, music by Jeff Richmond, lyrics by Nell Benjamin and direction and choreography by Casey Nicholaw, opened on Broadway in 2018 and grossed $124 million by the time it close in March. Plans to adapt it for a new Paramount Pictures film version were announced previously.

“We remain excited to bring this musical to the big screen, relaunch the tour and prepare for a London production,” said Lorne Michaels, who produced the musical with Stuart Thompson, Sonia Friedman, and Paramount Pictures. “I look forward to the day, hopefully soon, when theaters can open their doors again.”

The producers said the permanent closing was due to the ongoing Broadway shutdown. The show had recouped its capitalization...

Broadway is once again mining the digital media well in a bid to garner buzz and ticket sales.

Vlogger and musician Cameron Dallas is set to make his Broadway debut in the musical adaptation of Mean Girls -- the Lindsay Lohan-starring cult film that opened as a theatrical piece in April 2018.

Dallas will play the role of ‘Aaron Samuels’ -- a popular high schooler who becomes the protagonist’s love interest. He will appear in that role at the August Wilson Theatre beginning Jan. 14 for a four-week run, temporarily replacing actor Kyle Selig. The gig marks another venture for the multi-faceted star, who first rose to fame on Vine and has subsequently pursued venturesin music, modeling, and acting. More recently, Dallas has been open about his struggles with substance abuse and sobriety.

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Social media icon and musician Cameron Dallas will make his Broadway debut in the role of “Aaron Samuels” in Tina Fey’s Mean Girls, the show’s producers have announced.

Dallas will play the role in a four-week run during Kyle Selig’s leave of absence starting Tuesday, January 14 at the August Wilson Theatre on 245 West 52nd Street in Manhattan.

“Cameron is a tremendously talented young performer,” said a statement from the show producers. “We’re thrilled to welcome him to the cast of Mean Girls and know he will be as captivating on stage as he is on screens all over the world.”

Dallas rose to fame through his creative use of Vine, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, where he has over 40 million combined followers. He has starred in fashion campaigns for Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabanna and Carolina Herrera. In 2016, he starred in and executive produced a documentary series for Netflix called Chasing Cameron.

Tonight's the night The 11th annual Jimmy Awards ceremony will be presented tonight, June 24 at 730Pm at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre. The six presenters will include Derek KlenaJagged Little Pill, George Salazar Be More Chill, Jimmy Awards alumni and current Broadway stars Andrew Barth Feldman Dear Evan Hansen, Renee Rapp Mean Girls, Kyle Selig Mean Girls, and Stephanie Styles Kiss Me, Kate.

Second Stage Theater has announced Sommer Carbuccia, Matt Dallal, Jakeim Hart, Erika Henningsen, Kennedy Kenagawa, Alec Mathieson, Sarah Naughton, Gabriella Perez, Jonathan Raviv, Nathan Salstone and Kyle Selig will perform Saturday Night as a part of the special concert series, Musical Mondays, in celebration of the acclaimed company's 40th anniversary. Noah Brady directs the performance on Monday, March 11th, featuring musical direction by Alexander Gemignani.