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According to reporting by The Guardian, a Shakespeare festival in the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk opened with a demonstration, not a play. Hundreds gathered on the theater steps to demand the release of Ukrainian prisoners of war, as the ongoing conflict with Russia cast a shadow over the artistic proceedings. Later that day, the audience experienced Romeo and Juliet in a striking promenade performance staged in an abandoned factory and the crypt-like basement of the theater. One cast member had recently left the production after signing a military contract. Shakespeare’s plays have seen renewed popularity across Ukraine during the war. Kyiv theaters are currently staging King Lear, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet. Translator and poet Yuri Andrukhovych, who adapted the...

An Indian actress par excellence, Konkona Sen Sharma, needs no introduction today. She is not a quintessential Indian ‘heroine’; rather, she is a stellar ‘sustained’ actress who can be identified for her groundbreaking filmography and her prolific range of acting. Her performance is defined by her nuanced manner of presence, her piercing gaze, and exemplary portrayal of her characters.

She was ‘discovered’ by the Indian film industry a little after she got into Bengali films. Primarily making appearances in arthouse independent films, Konkona is a well-established name in contemporary parallel cinema. Besides, the uninhibited selection of her films, rife with fierce themes and social issues, has earned her enough laurels in the commercial Indian film industry as well.

Daughter of the filmmaker-actress Aparna Sen, Konkona is the recipient of two National Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards. Other than a singular child debut in the film Indira (1983), Konkona Sen Sharma...

Amazon has secured the rights to adapt Collision, a short novel from Don Winslow’s upcoming collection called The Final Score. According to Deadline, the bidding for the project was intense, but Amazon came out on top. Jake Gyllenhaal will both star in and produce the film, working alongside his Nine Stories producing partner Josh McLaughlin and Shane Salerno from The Story Factory.

Collision follows a devoted husband and father who makes a terrible mistake that lands him in prison. While inside, he must figure out how to survive. However, the story doesn’t stop there, after his release, he learns the reason he was protected during his time behind bars and is sent on a life-changing mission.

This film will mark another collaboration between Winslow and Amazon. The company is also teaming up with Working Title to release Crime 101, a movie based on a different Winslow story, set...

Exclusive: In a major deal that was highly competitive with multiple bidders, Amazon has bought the rights to Collision, a short novel in Don Winslow’s upcoming story collection The Final Score for Jake Gyllenhaal to star in and produce with his Nine Stories partner Josh McLaughlin and The Story Factory’s Shane Salerno.

Collision tells the harrowing story of a devoted husband and father with a great life who makes one terrible mistake that sends him to prison, where he must learn how to survive. But that’s only the beginning: When he finally becomes free, he learns why he was protected in prison and is a sent on a mission that will change him forever.

This is a reunion with Winslow and Amazon. Amazon and Working Title will be releasing Crime 101, based on another Winslow short story, on President’s Day weekend 2026. The film is written and...

Damson Idris has neither confirmed nor denied he has been cast as Black Panther.Following the passing of the previous T’Challa actor Chadwick Bosemen in 2020, the F1 star, 33, has been linked to the Marvel superhero, and Idris has now addressed the rumours he has taken on the role for the third Black Panther movie.During an appearance on the Today show, presenter Craig Melvin asked Idris if he had spoken to Marvel about becoming the next Black Panther, to which the actor said: “Yes, no!”The Snowfall star was then quizzed on if he would accept an offer to play Black Panther, to which Idris simply replied: “Yes!” Bosemen had portrayed T’Challa in Ryan Coogler’s 2018 blockbuster Black Panther, and had also appeared elsewhere in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) with 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War in 2018 and Avengers: Endgame in 2019.After a secret battle with stage III colon cancer,...

The Tony Awards effect has hit Broadway grosses.

Sunset Blvd saw the biggest post-Tonys bump last week with its grosses jumping up more than $400,000 from the prior week to reach $1.7 million.

Nicole Scherzinger, star of the show, won a Tony Award for her performance at the ceremony June 8 and also performed as part of the telecast. The show also won best revival of a musical. Sunset Blvd’s average ticket price also increased to $138 from $110 the week before and capacity increased to 92 percent from 89 percent.

Purpose, which took home the Tony Award for best play and one for featured actress Kara Young, also saw a $100,000 boost in grosses, hitting $636,381 last week, which is the highest gross of its run yet. The play opened March 17 at the Hayes Theater and has had a high capacity throughout its run.

Oh Mary!, which lost out on best play, but took home trophies for its lead,...

“We all live with terror inside of us,” says Judith Light. So does her character in the upcoming Season 3 of anthology series “The Terror” called “Devil in Silver” and out later this year.

“This woman has been put in an institution for 30 years – by her own husband. He didn’t want to deal with her ‘mood swings.’ She’s been desperate to find her voice and has sold herself out on so many levels within this institution in order to survive.”

Ridley Scott and David W. Zucker executive produce via Scott Free Productions, with Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert (Emjag Productions), Guymon Casady (Entertainment 360), Brooke Kennedy and Dan Stevens, who’s also starring. As previously announced, Stevens plays a man wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital, where he needs to deal with other patients, doctors and maybe even the devil himself.

Based on a novel by bestselling author Victor Lavalle,...

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is June 6, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: But first... This Week's Call Sheet Sunday, June 8 The 2025 Tony Awards Good Night, and Good Luck closes on Broadway Othello closes on Broadway Wicked: For Good Trailer Breakdown- All the Hidden Details You Missed by Josh Sharpe Check out our in-depth guide to the trailer for Wicked: For Good, where we take a look at some of the most significant elements of the...

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is June 4, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: But first... This Week's Call Sheet Sunday, June 8 The 2025 Tony Awards Good Night, and Good Luck closes on Broadway Othello closes on Broadway Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 6/1/25: First Week of the 2025-2026 Season Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 6/1/2025.. (more...) Beetlejuice...

SNL Meets Blt. Is Michaels Adapting McNally’s Memoir?

Looks like Lorne Michaels may have found his next prestige project — and this one comes with steak frites and a side of passive-aggressive Instagram feuding. Sources tell Rambling Reporter that the Saturday Night Live creator has optioned Keith McNally’s dishy new memoir, I Regret Almost Everything, which charts the legendary restaurateur’s rise, fall, stroke, suicide attempt, recovery and general disappointment with humanity. In other words, comedy gold.

McNally, of course, is the onetime Brasserie King of Manhattan — the man who, as The New York Times once put it, “invented downtown” with such ’80s and ’90s hotspots as Odeon and Balthazar. More recently, he’s drawn attention for his unfiltered Instagram account — a kind of running off-off-Broadway one-man show where he’s taken aim at everyone from James Corden (banned from Balthazar in 2022 for alleged omelet-related rudeness) to Jessica Seinfeld...

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is June 3, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: But first... This Week's Call Sheet Sunday, June 8 The 2025 Tony Awards Good Night, and Good Luck closes on Broadway Othello closes on Broadway Gypsy, Death Becomes Her and More to Perform at the 78th Annual Tony Awards by Chloe Rabinowitz The 78th Annual Tony Awards will feature performances from the casts of some of this season's most celebrated new musicals and...

Valerie Mahaffey, the Emmy and Obie Award-winning actress known for playing eccentric characters on shows including Northern Exposure and Desperate Housewives, died on Friday. She was 71.

Her husband, actor Joseph Kell, said she died in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer, Variety reports.

Mahaffey won an Emmy in 1992 for her supporting actress role in the dramedy Northern Exposure, where she portrayed the hypochondriac Eve, the wife of Adam Arkin’s character, from 1991-1994.

Mahaffey’s recurring television roles include portraying the conniving Alma Hodge, the ex-wife of Orson Hodge...

Valerie Mahaffey, the Emmy-winning actor known for such TV series as “Northern Exposure,” “Big Sky” and “Desperate Housewives” and films including “Sully” and “Seabiscuit,” has died. She was 71.

Mahaffey’s husband, actor Joseph Kell, disclosed that she died May 30 in Los Angeles after a battle with cancer.

“I have lost the love of my life, and America has lost one of its most endearing actresses. She will be missed,” Kell said.

Mahaffey won the supporting comedy actress Emmy in 1992 for her work as a hypochondriac Eve in the fictional Alaskan town featured in CBS’ fish-out-of-water dramedy “Northern Exposure,” which aired from 1990 to 1995.

Most recently, Mahaffey was seen in the Apple TV+ series “Echo 3” and the 2020 indie film “French Exit” opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges. For the latter, she earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her role as the optimstic Madame Reynard in Azazel Jacobs’ dark comedy.

She co-starred...

Valerie Mahaffey, the Emmy-winning actress known for her work on such shows as Northern Exposure, Desperate Housewives, Young Sheldon and Dead to Me, died Friday. She was 71.

Mahaffey died in Los Angeles after a battle with cancer, publicist Jillian Roscoe announced.

Known for playing eccentric characters, Mahaffey received a Spirit Award nomination for her turn as widowed American expat Madame Reynard in French Exit (2020) opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges as mother and son.

From 1991-94, she appeared on five episodes of CBS’ Northern Exposure over three seasons and received a supporting actress Emmy in 1992 for portraying the hypochondriac Eve, wife of Adam Arkin’s character.

She played the manipulative Alma Hodge, ex-wife of Kyle MacLachlan’s Orson Hodge, on ABC’s Desperate Housewives from 2006-07; recurred as the teacher Victoria MacElroy on CBS’ Young Sheldon from 2017-20; and played Lorna Harding, Christina Applegate’s narcissistic mother-in-law, on Netflix’s...

Broadway’s 2024-2025 season is officially the highest-grossing in the industry’s history, with total grosses of $1.89 billion surpassing the previous – and pre-Covid – record-holding 2018-2019 season’s $1.82 billion, according to statistics released today by the Broadway League.

Even accounting for the “leap year” nature of the just-ended season – 2024-2025 was a 53-week season while most seasons, including 2018-2019, are 52 weeks – the just-ended season would still be the new record-holder: The first 52 weeks of the most recent season grossed $1.85 billion.

Attendance, however, lagged a tad behind the previous 2018-2019 record-holder: 14,658,531 compared to 14,768,254. Theater-goers in the just-ended season paid about $5.25 more in average ticket prices – $129.12 compared to $123.87 – which accounts for the lower attendance-higher gross disparity.

“There is so much to celebrate about the 2024-2025 season,” said Jason Laks, President of The Broadway League, in a statement. “Looking back, it was never a given that audiences would return to their seats or that...

Broadway’s 2024-2025 season grossed $1.89 billion across all productions, marking the highest season on record and a recovery from the pandemic.

The gross totals are up 23 percent from last season, and, significantly, the numbers also come in above Broadway’s 2018-2019 season, which had held the record for $1.83 billion in gross revenue and had been the benchmark against which Broadway was measuring its post-pandemic recovery. Broadway first overtook the 2018-2019 season grosses in early May.

In the prior two seasons, Broadway grossed $1.54 billion and $1.58 billion respectively. The 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 seasons were both shortened due to the pandemic. The 2024-2025 season began May 20, 2024 and ended May 25, 2025.

Attendance for the 2024-2025 season came in at 14.66 million, below the 14.77 million from the 2018-2019 season, suggesting that increased ticket prices played a part in the higher grosses this past season. Average ticket prices were up 3 percent from last season and up 4 percent from the 2018-2019 season.

Neon CEO Tom Quinn took no chances this year en route to winning the company’s sixth Cannes Palme d’Or in a row, for Iranian dissident Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident.” He acquired the film just two days before Saturday’s award ceremony. Neon also collected the festival Jury Prize for “Sirât” (shared with Mubi’s recent buy “Sound of Falling”), and two awards for Brazil’s “The Secret Agent” — Best Director (Kleber Mendonça Filho) and Actor (Wagner Moura ).

Neon came out ahead on the acquisitions derby, as Mubi’s starry $23-million pick-up “Die My Love,” from Scottish/British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, came up empty-handed. A Cannes Actress win for Jennifer Lawrence could have fueled an Oscar campaign, but that loss won’t stop Mubi from pursuing that goal. Similarly, although Oliver Hermanus’ muted American drama “History of Sound” won nothing, Focus may still pursue acting...

Denzel Washington’s new movie Highest 2 Lowest is all set for theatrical release, and fans are not happy with its limited 2 week run before it hits 2 Apple TV+. Director Spike Lee and Denzel Washington have collaborated in several films before; this one, probably Washington’s last, needs a bigger theatrical run to honor the brilliant actor’s film journey.

Feels like a disservice to the artistic pedigree of the film, and is a huge misstep by Apple TV+. The movie has already debuted at Cannes 2025 to receive raving reviews and a standing ovation. The movie deserved a victory lap across theatres globally, rather than a discrete pit stop. A movie of this magnitude deserves a full theatrical rollout rather than just streaming credits.

Will Denzel Washington’s Highest 2 Lowest get a theatrical release?

Officially, yes, the movie is getting a theatrical release. It drops in theatres on August 22, 2025, in the USA.

Josh Hartnett has been cast in the lead role of an untitled limited series at Netflix that will be set and shot in Newfoundland, Canada. Both Hartnett and Jessica Rhoades have boarded the project as executive producers.

The official logline for the series reads, “When a mysterious sea creature terrorizes a remote Newfoundland town, a hard-bitten fisherman must fight to protect his family, his community and his vanishing way of life.”

Harnett is best known for projects he acted in throughout the late ’90s and early 2000s. He first broke out in 1998 for playing John Tate in the slasher film “Halloween H20: 20 Years Later” and Zeke Tyler in the sci-fi horror “The Faculty.” He then starred in Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides” (1999), Michael Bay’s “Pearl Harbor” (2001), Ridley Scott’s “Black Hawk Down” (2001) and Tim Blake Nelson’s “Othello” adaptation “O” (2001). His more recent credits include Christopher Nolan...

Tom Hanks will wear many hats this fall when he stars in a new off-Broadway play, This World of Tomorrow, based on his own short stories via a script he co-wrote with playwright James Glossman. Kenny Leon, who directed the production of Othello starring Denzel Washington and a recent revival of Our Town, will also direct.

The plot centers on Bert Allenberry (Hanks’ character), a time-traveling scientist from the future visiting the 1939 World’s Fair in Queens in search of true love. Allenberry makes the trip through time again and again in the play,...

CAA has announced that the tenth annual CAA Moebius Film Festival, a two-day screening series showcasing graduate student filmmakers, will take place May 28–29, 2025.

Marking its tenth anniversary, this year’s festival features its broadest representation of film programs to date, with graduate student filmmakers from a growing list of distinguished institutions. For the first time, Columbia University joins a lineup that includes returning schools such as Chapman University, the American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory, New York University (NYU), England’s National Film and Television School (Nfts) and CalArts, among others.

The tenth edition of the Moebius Film Festival will spotlight 10 short films selected from a record-breaking 170+ submissions, showcasing both live-action and animated works. This year’s lineup explores themes of self-actualization, coming-of-age and family, spanning genres from drama and comedy to horror, all in service of the festival’s mission to champion cultural and artistic diversity.

Since its founding in...

CAA has announced the lineup for the tenth edition of the CAA Moebius Film Festival, a two-day screening series showcasing graduate student filmmakers, which is set to take place from May 28–29.

This year’s lineup features 10 short films, across live-action and animation, selected from 170+ submissions, the most ever for the festival. Themes explored, in genres ranging from drama to comedy to horror, include self-actualization, coming-of-age, and family. This year, Columbia University will be represented at the festival for the first time ever, alongside such returning institutions as Chapman University, the AFI Conservatory, NYU, England’s National Film and Television School, and CalArts.

Since its founding in 2015, Moebius has played a part in the developing careers of filmmakers like Felipe Vargas (Rosario), Oran Zegman (Honor Society), Max Barbakow (Palm Springs), to name just a few. Conceived by then-trainees and now CAA Motion Picture agents Christina Chou, Zach Kaplan, and Pete Stein,...

Tom Hanks will star in the Off Broadway world premiere this fall of This World of Tomorrow, a new play the actor co-wrote with playwright James Glossman based on short stories written by Hanks.

The limited eight-week run at The Shed’s Griffin Theater in Manhattan, will be directed by Kenny Leon, currently represented on Broadway by Othello starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal and a Tony winner for 2014’s A Raisin In The Sun.

Previews for This World of Tomorrow begin October 30, and the engagement will run through December 21.

Hanks and Glossman previously collaborated on the 2022 play, Safe Home.

This World of Tomorrow tells the story of Bert Allenberry (Hanks), a forlorn scientist from the future who embarks on a time-traveling quest for true love as he returns again and again to one special day at the 1939 World’s Fair in Queens, New York.

“To explore the themes of love and yearning,...

A rep for Denzel Washington is speaking out to explain why the actor missed his movie’s press conference during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

The Oscar-winning actor walked the red carpet, and then received a special Palme d’Or Award, for the premiere of his new movie Highest 2 Lowest on Monday night (May 19) in Cannes, France.

Denzel also made headlines for getting into an altercation with a photographer on the red carpet, but that has nothing to do with his absence at the press conference on Tuesday.

Keep reading to find out more…

Director Spike Lee and actors Jeffrey Wright and Ilfenesh Hadera were present for questions during the press conference, but Denzel and co-star A$AP Rocky both skipped the event.

Denzel‘s rep has explained that his absence was always planned.

The rep told Us Weekly that Denzel was “always scheduled to be in and out of...

Jake Gyllenhaal reunites with Broadway stars Annaleigh Ashford and Bernadette Peters in NYC!

On Monday (May 19), the three attended the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Annual Spring Gala in New York City. Jake and Bernadette hosted the event, which was a fundraiser for Mtc to “continue to develop and produce the highest quality of new work for the stage” and “bring the power of live theatre into the lives of learners of all ages.”

If you didn’t know, in 2017, Jake starred in the Broadway production of Sunday in the Park With George alongside Annaleigh. Jake played the titular role, while Annaleigh played Dot. Meanwhile, Bernadette played Dot in the original 1984 show.

Keep reading to find out more…

Jake is currently starring in the Broadway production of Othello alongside Denzel Washington. Find out if he got nominated for a Tony Award for his role.

Browse through the gallery to see the photos of Jake Gyllenhaal,...

Good Night, and Good Luck, starring George Clooney, remained the top grossing show on Broadway last week, bringing in $3.95 million and playing to more than 100 percent capacity at the Winter Garden Theater. 

The play announced last week that it plans to stream the show live on CNN on June 7.

As has been the trend, Othello, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, was the second highest grossing show of the week, with $3.2 million and playing to 100 percent capacity. The play commanded the highest average ticket price on Broadway with $384.23, compared to $315.52 at Good Night, and Good Luck, the next highest on the boards. 

The top five grossing shows were rounded by Glengarry Glen Ross, starring Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk, with $2.4 million, Wicked with $2.1 million and The Lion King with $1.8 million. 

In its closing week, Redwood, starring Idina Menzel, saw its grosses gain momentum, swinging up $200,000 to gross $818,697 and playing to 85 percent capacity.

It was moving to watch Denzel Washington lope up to the Lumière stage at Cannes and tear up as he accepted his Honorary Palme d’Or from Cannes veteran Spike Lee Monday night at the “Highest 2 Lowest” premiere. It was a surprise to the actor, as he watched a clip reel that ranged from his four prior roles with Lee to “Philadelphia,” “Flight,” “The Book of Eli,” “The Hurricane,” “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” “Fences,” and more.

Festival director Thierry Frémaux knows how to make the most of a Hollywood movie star, who flew into France and out again on his one day off from doing eight sold-out shows a week as Shakespeare’s “Othello” on Broadway. If the man looked weary, it’s understandable. At 70, he’s at the peak of his powers, and if the Oscar gods are smiling, he’ll land his third Oscar (after “Training Day” and...

Spike Lee is calling out a bad call from the Academy more than 30 years later: The auteur, along with most cinephiles, is convinced that Denzel Washington was snubbed for the Best Actor Oscar for “Malcolm X.” Al Pacino instead won over Washington for “Scent of a Woman.”

During the Cannes press conference for Lee’s latest (and allegedly final) collaboration with Washington, “Highest 2 Lowest,” the director compared the Academy’s decision to a poor referee call in basketball, something that Lee also knows all too well about given his status as the patron saint of the Knicks.

“‘Malcolm X,’ what he did with that film was amazing,” Lee said of Washington, as reported by Variety. “And no disrespect to my brother Al Pacino, I love him. But Denzel, in my opinion, should have won.”

Lee continued, “With these awards, it’s like basketball, where the ref blows a call and...

Spike Lee got off to a strong start.

“No fuck ups today!” the director quipped, kicking off his press conference to Highest 2 Lowest, his electrifying new crime thriller that premiered out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The director was referencing his last time in Cannes, when he was president of the 74th Cannes jury, and accidently announced the winner of the Palme d’Or ahead of schedule at the festival’s closing ceremony.

But Cannes has welcomed him back. Highest 2 Lowest was greeted with a wildly enthusiastic response following its unveiling at the Palais on Monday night. The Cannes festival surprised Highest 2 Lowest star Denzel Washington, in town for only a few hours in between Broadway performances of Othello, presenting the two-time Oscar winner, and cinema legend, with an honorary Palme d’Or for his life’s work.

Denzel Washington stars as David King, a...

Jake Gyllenhaal is enjoying a day out in sunny NYC.

The 44-year-old Love & Other Drugs actor grabbed coffee and a treat while out walking his dog on Monday afternoon (May 19) in New York City.

For his outing, Jake wore an unbuttoned green shirt over a white T-shirt paired with tan pants and sunglasses.

Last month, it was announced that Jake will be reuniting with The Covenant director Guy Ritchie, who signed on to direct the upcoming Road House sequel! Jake previously confirmed that he will be reprising his role as ex-UFC fighter Dalton in the sequel to the 2024 Prime Video movie.

Jake is currently starring on Broadway in the play Othello alongside Denzel Washington. See photos from opening night here!

Who needs another Oscar nomination when you can get an honorary Palme d’Or? Screen legend Denzel Washington received the surprise career achievement badge from Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux for his amazing contributions to cinema, currently represented on the Croisette in his starring role in Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest,” a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic “High and Low,” which is screening out of competition at the fest.

Honorary awards are not unheard of, as Robert De Niro received an expected one at the top of this year’s festival, and Frémaux similarly bestowed one upon Tom Cruise in 2022, the last time this distinction was given under wraps.

Video was captured of the event (which you can watch below), where a quite-moved Washington accepts the honor from Frémaux and Lee, his longtime collaborator, who has worked with him in “Mo’ Better Blues,” “He Got Game,” “Inside Man,...

Laurence Olivier was an Oscar-winning thespian best remembered for his psychologically intense Shakespeare adaptations, both as an actor and a director. Yet his filmography extends well past the Bard's work. Let's take a look back at 15 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1907 in Surrey, England, Olivier first came to prominence on the British stage. A series of acclaimed theatrical performances, most notably in Noel Coward's "Private Lives," caught the attention of filmmakers both in the UK and the US.

He earned his first Oscar nomination as Best Actor for William Wyler's "Wuthering Heights" (1939), competing the very next year for Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca" (1940). Having firmly established himself as a formidable talent in front of the camera, he stepped behind it to great success with "Henry V", the first of three films he would direct and star in based on the works of William Shakespeare.

Winners of the 2025 Drama League Awards were announced today in a ceremony hosted by Emmy-winning NY1 reporter Frank Dilella at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. In a competitive year for theater awards, both Maybe Happy Ending and Sunset Boulevard added important feathers to their caps on their march to the Tony Awards.

Nicole Scherzinger took home the Drama League’s highly coveted Distinguished Performance prize for her radical reinterpretation of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. Actors can only win this catch-all performance award once in their careers.

The winner of this award repeats that victory at the Tonys more often than not. Last year, Sarah Paulson won the Drama League before clinching a Tony win for her role in the play Appropriate. Other recent Drama League winners who went on to win a Tony in the same year include Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge!), Bryan Cranston (Network), Glenda Jackson (Three Tall Women), Ben Platt...

Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar-Jones are to star in the Netflix thriller Here Comes The Flood, directed by City Of God's Fernando Meirelles.

Netflix has announced quite a coup this morning, having attracted Denzel Washington to headline its upcoming heist thriller, Here Comes The Flood. Washington’s potent star power will be buttressed by two other impressive names, with Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar-Jones joining the project.

It’s said to be a ‘non-linear’ and ‘unconventional’ heist thriller about “a bank guard, a teller and a master thief in a deadly game of cons and double crosses” according to a plot description on The Hollywood Reporter, which broke the story.

The script is by Simon Kinberg, one-time steward of the X-Men series and potential overseer of a new Star Wars trilogy. In the director’s chair will be Fernando Meirelles, who made 2002’s City Of God, the...

Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Daisy Edgar-Jones are starring in a Netflix movie!

The three actors are set to lead an upcoming heist film titled Here Comes the Flood. It will be directed by Fernando Meirelles, and the screenplay was written by Simon Kinberg.

Here Comes the Flood tells the story of “a bank guard plotting with a master thief to steal, the rise and fall of his relationship with a bank teller and a series of twists that unveil the con game at the center of it all,” per Variety.

Keep reading to find out more…

Robert recently played the lead role in the sci-fi comedy Mickey 17, while Daisy recently starred in the movie On Swift Horses, which was released last month. As for Denzel, he is currently starring as the titular role in Othello on Broadway.

If you didn’t see, Denzel recently responded to the extremely high ticket prices for Othello.

The world premiere production of The Balusters by Kimberly Akimbo writer David Lindsay-Abaire has been added to Manhattan Theatre Club’s 2025-2026 season, joining the previously announced Broadway premiere of James Graham’s acclaimed Punch.

The Balusters, to be directed by Kenny Leon, will open at Mtc’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in spring 2026 (Punch opens there in the fall). Lindsay-Abaire won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Rabbit Hole, a Manhattan Theatre Club production.

Mtc today also announced an Off Broadway addition to its 2025-2026 season: A newly imagined version of Queens by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok (Cost of Living), to be directed by Trip Cullman with an opening in fall 2025 Off-Broadway at NY City Center Stage I. Queens joins Mtc’s spring 2026 Off Broadway production The Monsters, written and directed by Ngozi Anyanwu in a co-production with Two River Theater.

Additional productions for Mtc’s 2025-26 season will be announced soon.

Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar-Jones are set to lead heist film “Here Comes the Flood” at Netflix. The feature directed by Academy Award nominee Fernando Meirelles tells the story of a bank guard plotting with a master thief to steal, the rise and fall of his relationship with a bank teller and a series of twists that unveil the con game at the center of it all.

The project was announced during Netflix’s Upfront presentation on Wednesday. Simon Kinberg (“Mr. & Mrs. Smith”) penned the script for “Here Comes the Flood.” Producers include Kinberg and Audrey Chon for Genre Films and Meirelles. Samson Mucke serves as executive producer. According to Netflix’s official logline, “Here Comes the Flood” is an “unconventional heist movie about a bank guard, a teller, and a master thief in a deadly game of cons and double crosses.”

Washington will next appear in...

Michael Gambon was an Irish-English actor with an impressive career spanning six decades. When he passed away in 2023 at 82, many knew him best for playing Albus Dumbledore in the "Harry Potter" franchise, but there was much more to him than wands and wizards. Gambon was one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre and was initially known for his performances in Shakespeare productions. Throughout his career, he won three Olivier Awards and was nominated for a Tony Award. As for his history with film and television, Gambon had over 170 credits to his name, and his first onscreen role was playing various parts in "Othello" (1965) alongside the legendary Laurence Olivier.

Gambon went on to make many appearances in movies and television shows. He was nominated for two Emmys and received much acclaim for playing Philip Marlow in "The Singing Detective," which earned him his first of four BAFTA Awards.

Last week, Broadway grosses for the season-to-date surpassed 2018-2019’s record season-to-date box office for the first time.

Total industry box office hit $1.8 billion for the season, propelled by hits such as Good Night, and Good Luck, starring George Clooney, which was last week’s highest earner, with $3.8 million, followed by Othello, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, with $3.2 million and Glengarry Glen Ross, starring Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr, with $2.4 million.

Good Night, and Good Luck and Glengarry Glen Ross both announced that they had recouped their capitalizations, with Glengarry Glen Ross breaking the Palace Theatre box office record with a gross of $2.4 million.

Some shows also appeared to get a boost from the Tony nominations, including Death Becomes Her, which saw its grosses shoot up close to $270,000 from the prior week to $1.3 million, Buena Vista Social Club, which saw a close to $90,000 gain to $1.2 million, Maybe Happy Ending,...

Glengarry Glen Ross, the hit Broadway revival of the David Mamet play starring Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk, has recouped its investment, producers announced today.

The recoupment marks the third such announcement in recent weeks, following similar announcements for Othello starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal , and Good Night, And Good Luck starring George Clooney. The three starry productions are among the biggest hits of Broadway’s spring 2025 season.

Glengarry‘s recoupment coincides with the production’s record-breaking weekly gross at the Palace Theatre. For the week ending May 11, the revival took in $2.4M.

The $7.5 million Glengarry Glen Ross officially opened Monday, March 31 at The Palace Theatre and plays a strictly limited engagement through Saturday, June 28.

Glengarry Glen Ross producers also announced that the play raised a total of $238,343 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids during its annual Red Bucket campaign, making it the first runner up for a Broadway play.

Pauletta Washington is sharing her thoughts on husband Denzel Washington‘s Tonys snub.

Earlier this month, the nominations for the 2025 Tony Awards were announced and fans were shocked to learn that Denzel, 70, didn’t receive a nomination for his role in Othello despite receiving good reviews.

In a new interview with People, Pauletta, 74, was asked to share her reaction to her husband’s snub.

Keep reading to find out more…Now see, that’s not something you want to ask me,” Pauletta said with a laugh. “I can’t say that I was surprised that they didn’t.”

“In my family we’ve been through this a lot of times. A lot of times,” Pauletta continued. “And I think I can speak honestly and truthfully and artistically that it was denied, you know, so you wonder why.”

She added, “But we don’t have to wonder why: It’s narrow-minded...

Following the success of 2024's Trap starring Josh Hartnett, M. Night Shyamalan joined forces with Jake Gyllenhaal for his upcoming project. However, the upcoming film will also feature an unexpected collaboration.

Shyamalan, famous for his unique directorial style, will add a new unexpected genre to the mix as he works with romance author Nicholas Sparks. Their upcoming project will be a supernatural romantic thriller, and will also include a joint novel they co-wrote. Per Deadline, the upcoming film, titled Remain, has set a release date for Oct. 23, 2026.

The upcoming movie from The Sixth Sense filmmaker will be distributed by Warner Bros., with whom Shyamalan has a deal. The film's competition on its opening weekend will be Jordan Peele's untitled fourth project with Universal Pictures, also set to premiere on Oct. 23, 2026.

The upcoming Remain will feature Gyllenhaal in the leading role, who co-stars with Bridgerton's Phoebe Dynevor and Adolescence's Ashley Walters.

Good Night and Good Luck, starring George Clooney, brought in $4,003,481.50 on Broadway last week, becoming the first play to surpass $4 million in a single week. 

The play also broke its own record, yet again, as the highest grossing play in Broadway history. The milestone came as the production, which is playing the Winter Garden Theater, received five Tony Award nominations, including one for Clooney. 

The average ticket price for the production also keeps inching up each week, reaching $319.36 last week, but still below the $367.42 commanded at Othello, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Denzel Washington, which still had the highest average ticket price in the industry, despite being snubbed by the Tony Awards. The production still brought in just over $3 million, as the second highest grossing show in the industry last week, and continued to play to 100 percent capacity.

Glengarry Glen Ross was the third highest grossing show last week, at $2.3 million,...

Denzel Washington's lone franchise in his distinguished career, The Equalizer, finds new life on another streaming service. The gory action film, The Equalizer 2, debuts strongly on Netflix shortly after landing on the popular platform.

Via Collider, The Equalizer 2 now ranks third on Netflix's top 10 movies chart after debuting on the streamer this past weekend, challenging Tom Hardy's new action film, Havoc. This marks the second time The Equalizer 2 has found instant success in the streaming world this year, hitting the top 10 of Prime Video's charts in January.

Released in 2018, The Equalizer 2 sees Denzel Washington reprise his main role as Marine Corps veteran and former Dia officer Robert McCall. The film finds McCall in a vengeful mood as he hunts down the perpetrators who murdered his friend, returning to his violent ways while working as a Lyft driver. The Equalizer 2 features Washington opposite his Gladiator II co-star,...

After making what many people cite as the greatest film ever made, "Citizen Kane" (1941), multi-talented actor, writer, director and producer Orson Welles struggled to live up to the success he achieved when he was just 26 years old. Yet seen today, many of the films he made afterwards have attained a similar acclaim. Let's take a look back at all 13 of his completed feature films as a director, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1915, Welles first came to prominence as a stage director, mounting groundbreaking productions of "Macbeth," "Dr. Faustus," and "The Cradle Will Rock" before forming his own repertory company, The Mercury Theater. In addition to Welles, the Mercury Theater Players included Joseph Cotten, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorhead, Everett Sloane, George Coulouris, Norman Lloyd, Martin Gabel and Paul Stewart, many of whom would go onto appear in the director's films.

It was the Mercury Theater's transition into radio that brought them the most acclaim.

The 2025 Tony Awards nominations were announced on Thursday morning and made waves with its snubs and surprises. Out of all the nominees spread across 26 categories, there are 22 fascinating facts, stats, trivia and achievements that stand out as particularly noteworthy.

1. Many noteworthy names are nominated for producing at least one Broadway show this year, including two-time Emmy-winning filmmaker J. J. Abrams (Sunset Boulevard), Tony-winning director Michael Arden (Maybe Happy Ending and Sunset Boulevard), three-time Emmy nominated producer Greg Berlanti (Sunset Boulevard), four-time Emmy-nominated actress Kerry Washington (Gypsy), three-time Oscar nominated producer Jason Blum (Death Becomes Her), Emmy-winning actor Darren Criss (Maybe Happy Ending), nine-time Tony nominated director Scott Ellis, Tony-winning actress Lachanze (Buena Vista Social Club and Purpose), Emmy-winning actor John Leguizamo (Buena Vista Social Club), Tony-winning director Kenny Leon (Our Town), three-time Tony nominated director Jamie Lloyd (Sunset Boulevard), five-time Oscar-nominated producer Frank Marshall (Buena Vista Social Club), two-time Tony...

Well, big weekly grosses and even bigger stars can’t guarantee a Tony Awards nomination.

Broadway does what Broadway wants, so no Best Play nominations (or anything else) for huge moneymaker Othello, and no Best Play noms for Good Night, and Good Luck, Stranger Things: The First Shadow and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Same for the critical favorite Cult of Love.

While Good Night and Dorian Gray weren’t nominated for Best Play, their big stars — George Clooney and Sarah Snook, respectively — were nominated for their performances, as expected. In fact, Dorian Gray, in which Snook plays all the characters from the Oscar Wilde novel, has the distinction of being the most nominated solo show in Tony history, placing in six categories: Snook’s performance, Kip Williams’ direction, and nods for scenic, lighting, sound and costume design.

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The new Broadway production of Othello, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal under the direction of Kenny Leon, has recouped its initial investment after just nine weeks on Broadway. Having opened at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) on Sunday, March 23, this strictly limited engagement has played to sold-out audiences at every single performance since its very first preview on Monday, February 24. Last month, it broke the weekly record for top-grossing play in Broadway history. It is now, officially, the highest grossing play revival in world history. Othello is lead produced by Brian Anthony Moreland and co-produced by Kandi Burruss & Todd Tucker, Score...

The 2025 Tony Awards nominations were unveiled Thursday morning, with the musicals Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her, and Maybe Happy Ending leading the way with 10 bids apiece in a loaded season on the boards.

There was plenty of expected good news for the likes of Audra McDonald (landing her record 11th nomination for Gypsy), Mia Farrow (scoring the first major peer-group awards nomination of her storied career for The Roommate), and fellow first-timers Nicole Scherzinger (Sunset Boulevard), Sarah Snook (The Picture of Dorian Gray), and Sadie Sink (John Proctor Is the Villain), it wasn't all bows and bouquets for stage set.

But with 42 musicals, plays, and revivals eligible — six more productions than last season — and several legitimate contenders vying for limited slots, there were more than a few notable snubs to go along with a handful of surprises that defied the odds. Here's our breakdown of the biggies.

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Othello, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Denzel Washington, was entirely shut out of the 2025 Tony Award nominations.

While the play received mostly mixed reviews, it has been drawing crowds on Broadway and has frequently had the most expensive average ticket price in the industry, at $374.17 last week.

The new musical Redwood, starring Idina Menzel, was also entirely shut out of the Tony nominations, as was the musical The Last Five Years, starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren. McNeal, led by Robert Downey Jr. in his Broadway debut, did not receive any Tony nominations.

Though George Clooney got his first Tony Award nomination for his role in Good Night, and Good Luck, the play, which he co-wrote, did not receive a nod for best play, even as it has also been the highest grossing production on Broadway for the past several weeks.

Similarly, the celebrity-driven Glengarry Glen Ross did not get a...