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Robby is Not okay, and neither am I.

However, I’ll be elated when Noah Wyle racks up enough Emmy nominations to last a lifetime because they’re well deserved, especially as The Pitt Season 1 Episode 13 concludes with Robby finally breaking down.

Please, someone, hug this man!

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The mass casualty doesn’t slow down in the slightest during another hour that sails by so quickly that I didn’t even make it through my own iced coffee. Sure, I had 32 oz worth of it, but that’s beside the point.

But let’s get into some of this installment’s MVPs —and there are so many.

We have my girl Mel, who is precious to my soul and was a total rockstar. She may have started the shift timid and unsure, but she’s proven through various crises that she’s the strongest of the interns.

The advent of streaming has changed the television game.

The rules that have held the medium together have been bent, broken, and changed.

The Pitt is one of those shows that changes the game, setting the bar for others in the genre.

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Sometimes, passing that bar becomes impossible, but when other shows catch on, a new style is born.

On the surface, the show is not doing anything new. Medical dramas have become increasingly popular, especially in the past decade and a half.

However, these dramas are almost exclusively made by broadcast networks, and the rules differ there.

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Very few series can introduce an entirely new subset of characters — or ones we’ve barely met — so late in the season and still leave us as thrilled as when the Avengers assembled in Endgame.

Naturally, The Pitt pulls it off, as it does everything else. This series is an unstoppable force, a masterclass in delivering on every front.

Somehow, The Pitt crafts characters you instantly connect with, even as they navigate the most high-stakes, nerve-wracking situations.

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Sure, Santos is polarizing, and Langdon benefits from “pretty privilege” while making questionable choices. But overall, The Pitt is a showcase of complex, compelling characters trying to survive the most nerve-wracking situations ever.

Goodness, it’s only been One Shift.

Noah Wyle cemented his Emmy-worthiness the second he opened his mouth in the first episode. Seriously, give that man All the Emmys.

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No one could’ve prepared for the sensational effect of The Pitt and how it’s taken off.

The hit medical drama is one of the year’s greatest series. It is heralded for its realism, authenticity, and ability to genuinely spotlight first responders as real medical heroes while telling their stories.

The Pitt bolsters an impressive cast of talented individuals playing a wide array of compelling characters whom viewers have instantly responded to, none more so than the interns who have embarked on what has to be the longest, most stressful first shift in history.

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Seriously!

We had the opportunity to catch up with Shabana Azeez, who plays the socially awkward prodigy Victoria Javadi, about her journey on the series, the impact of playing a character like Javadi, and the mass shooting event.

Check it out below!

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Here is a scene-by-scene recap of The Pitt Season 1 Episode 12.

Hour 12: 6:00 pm- 7:00 pm.

Robby desperately tries to reach Jake, but he’s not answering. Dana tries to reassure him because she’s the best, but it’s to no avail.

The hospital manager tells Robby about the mass shooter at Pittfest, and he tells her that they need more help, the night shift is coming in, and she says that they’re calling in more people. Despite all of their differences, these two are finally on the same page because there’s a much bigger problem ahead.

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Robby tells Dana to call Jake some more and reserve so that people can relieve them at some point since they’ve been on shift for so long. It truly is the longest shift in the history of mankind, my goodness!

Robby tells the hospital manager about other needs,...

If there were ever any doubts that this esteemed staff of individuals couldn’t rise to all occasions, we get our first glimpse of just how far that extends during The Pitt Season 1 Episode 12.

Somehow, it felt like time stopped and then went into overdrive as they braced for the mass casualties that would come in from the shooting, and there was an odd stillness as everyone wrapped their heads around all hell breaking loose.

The longest shift in mankind’s history got infinitely worse, and before you could blink your eyes, the hospital exploded in chaos.

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What’s exciting about this particular hour of The Pitt is how foes become allies on the turn of a dime when there’s a bigger cause at play.

Someone who irritates your entire soul at the beginning of the shift is suddenly your comrade in battle by the end of it.

A revival of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and of Oedipus, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, will be part of Roundabout Theater Company’s 2025-2026 Broadway season.

Created and directed by Robert Icke, Oedipus comes to Broadway after a West End run, also starring Strong and Manville, which has been nominated for four Olivier Awards and was the highest-growing limited run in the Wyndham Theatre’s history. The play, which sets Sophocles’ Greek tragedy in modern times on election night, is set to play Studio 54 for a 14-week run starting in November.

The play is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Sue Wagner, John Johnson and Patrick Catullo, in association with Roundabout. This is the Broadway debut for Manville, who was an Oscar nominee for her role in Phantom Thread. Strong, known for his onscreen roles in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Zero Dark Thirty and more, last appeared on Broadway...

Oedipus, Robert Icke’s West End hit reimagining of the Sophocles tragedy starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, will transfer to Broadway this fall for a 14-week engagement as part of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2025-2026 season.

Produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, and Patrick Catullo, in association with the Roundabout, Oedipus will kick off the Roundabout’s upcoming season with performances beginning in November at the theater company’s Studio 54 Broadway venue.

Reprising their roles from the sold-out London staging, Strong plays Oedipus and Manville portrays Jacosta. Strong was last seen on Broadway in the 2015 Tony Award-winning A View From the Bridge (for which he earned a Tony nomination), and Manville, an Oscar nominee for her performance in 2017’s Phantom Thread, will be making her Broadway debut.

The official synopsis: “It’s Oedipus’s Election night. The polls predict a landslide victory. Everything is about to change.

One of the hottest TV shows on right now is Severance. The Apple TV+ drama has become a critical darling and fan favorite thanks to its unique setup. It revolves around the employees of a mysterious corporation who endure the daily grind of a soulless office job. The twist is that whenever they leave the office, they completely forget who they were and what they were doing. As their two personas blur, they have to figure out the truth about their double lives.

It's fascinating to watch actors change their "innie" to "outie" characters. Severance is mainly a drama, but it also sneaks in a lot of humor as it satirizes the bleakness of modern corporate life.

There are a lot of shows and movies like Severance out there. If you love Severance, you have to try these 10 shows and five movies with the same style and feel.

Dollhouse

This...

The tech millionaire Bryan Johnson is one of the most fascinating and perplexing people today. People admire and doubt his abilities all at the same time. Johnson founded Braintree and led the company to a $800 million sale to PayPal. He is rich, creative, and naturally interested, all typical Silicon Valley success traits. People are interested in him not because of his money but because of his radical quest for immortality, which blurs the lines between health, vanity, and existential questions.

At the heart of this quest is Project Blueprint, a carefully planned schedule that aims to slow down or even stop the march of time. John Son’s mission seeks to redefine the limits of human existence itself, going beyond mere longevity. This project has an annual budget of more than $2 million, making it both a personal and a financial effort. It also reflects a commitment that demands a lot...

Exclusive: Stereophonic, David Adjmi’s acclaimed Tony Award-winning play about a Fleetwood Mac-like ’70s rock band, has recouped its Broadway investment and will begin a West End engagement and national U.S. tour later this year, producers said today.

The twice-extended Broadway production is currently playing its final week at the Golden Theatre, where it will end its run Sunday, January 12, after 305 performances. The play made Tony history last spring by becoming Broadway’s most nominated play ever, going on to win five of its 13 nominations: Best Play, Best Director ( Daniel Aukin), Best Featured Actor (Will Brill), Best Scenic Design (David Zinn) and Best Sound Design (Ryan Rumery).

The West End engagement will begin in May 2025 at London’s Duke of York’s Theatre, and a U.S. national tour will launch in Seattle this October. Casting for the productions has not been announced.

The Broadway staging currently stars Benjamin Anthony Anderson,...

Hold On To Me Darling, the Kenneth Lonergan comedy-drama starring Adam Driver, has recouped its initial Off Broadway investment, producers announced today. The $1.8 million production opened October 16 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre and concludes its run on Sunday, December 22.

According to producers Seaview, Sue Wagner and John Johnson, the play, directed by Neil Pepe, has sold out every performance since beginning previews September 24.

In addition to Driver, the cast includes Heather Burns, Adelaide Clemens, Keith Nobbs, Cj Wilson and Frank Wood.

Driver stars as Strings McCrane, a self-obsessed country music star thrown into an existential midlife crisis after the death of his overbearing mother.

Producers of the Broadway play Stereophonic have settled a lawsuit brought by former Fleetwood Mac sound engineer and producer Ken Caillat.

In the initial suit, filed in the Southern District Court of New York in October, Caillat and his co-author Steven Stiefel alleged that the script of Stereophonic took copyrighted material from their 2012 book Making Rumours to create the play, which won the 2024 Tony Award for best play.

The parties have resolved the dispute “in principle” and said in a court filing earlier this week that two parties were working to finalize the settlement and get it in writing. The exact terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

In the suit, Caillat and Stiefel alleged that scenes in the play were “substantially similar” to passages from the book and say the premise of setting the play in the recording studio, with the audience having the point of view of the sound engineer,...

Producers of the Broadway hit Stereophonic have settled a lawsuit brought by a former sound engineer and producer of Fleetwood Mac who claimed the production used material from his memoir without authorization, specifically in the play’s depiction of a Mac-like 1970s rock band recording a Rumours-like album.

In a one-page joint motion filed today in United States Southern District Court of New York (read it here), the two sides indicated that they had resolved the dispute “in principle” and would have a finalized written settlement before the end of the month.

Terms of the settlement have not been disclosed.

The suit was filed in October by former Fleetwood Mac producer Ken Caillat and Steven Stiefel, Caillat’s co-author on the 2012 memoir Making Rumours, alleging that Stereophonic playwright David Adjmi had based certain incidents in the play on material from the memoir.

Adjmi has long insisted that while the Tony-winning...

George Clooney’s Broadway debut in Good Night, and Good Luck will begin performances March 12, 2025, at the Winter Garden Theatre, with an opening date of April 3.

The Winter Garden venue will be available as of January, with the recently-announced closing of the Back the the Future musical.

Clooney announced his Broadway project last May. He’ll star at Edward R. Murrow in the stage adaptation of his 2005 Oscar-nominated film.

The stage play is co-written by Clooney and Grant Heslov, based on their screenplay for the film. David Cromer (The Band’s Visit) will direct. Producing will be Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jean Doumanian and Robert Fox.

When the production was announced in May, Clooney said, “I am honored, after all these years, to be coming back to the stage and especially, to Broadway, the art form and the venue that every actor aspires to.”...

George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck will open on Broadway in April.

The play, which Clooney wrote with Grant Heslov, will begin previews at the Winter Garden Theatre March 12, 2025, with an opening night set for April 3. Clooney will also make his Broadway debut in Good Night, and Good Luck in the role of journalist Edward R. Murrow.

The stage play is based on the 2005 film written by Clooney and Heslov and follows Murrow’s clash with U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy as Murrow pushes to continue reporting on McCarthy’s anti-communist efforts. David Cromer, who won a Tony Award for his direction of The Band’s Visit, will direct the production.

Clooney directed the film and also played Fred W. Friendly, co-producer of Murrow’s television program, while David Strathairn played Murrow. The movie was nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture.

Heslov and Clooney have also worked...

Stereophonic, David Adjmi’s Tony-winning play, will extend its run through January 12, 2025, a move that producers say is the production’s final extension.

Also today, producers announced that three original cast members – Sarah Pidgeon, Juliana Canfield and Tom Pecinka – will play their final performances on Sunday, September 29, with Amy Forsyth, Rebecca Naomi Jones and Benjamin Anthony Anderson taking over the roles of, respectively, Diana, Holly and Peter.

The new cast members will begin performances at the Golden Theatre on Tuesday, October 1. Anderson currently is Pecinka’s understudy for the role of Peter. Emilie Kouatchou and Denver Milord will join the production as understudies.

Producers Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Seaview, Sonia Friedman Productions, Linden Productions, and Ashley Melone & Nick Mills cited popular demand as the reason for the extension. Stereophonic began Broadway previews on April 1 and opened April 19. The run initially was to have lasted for 14 weeks, but ticket sales, widespread...

One might think that a showrunner and director would feel an intense degree of pressure heading toward the finale of a series widely regarded as one of the greatest comedies in the history of television, but Jeff Schaffer was surprisingly relaxed when heading into the home stretch on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” “I think we would have felt a lot of pressure knowing this was the final season if we hadn’t had so much practice with final seasons,” Schaffer told IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “We have ended the show, I don’t know, seven times? I mean, the final episode of Season 5 was called ‘The End,’ and that was not ironic.”

Schaffer realized long ago that “Curb” star and creator Larry David tends to view each season as the last, for a logical reason. “He puts every joke he likes, every story he likes, into the season.

Former Saturday Night Live cast member Alex Moffat is joining the cast of Off Broadway’s The Big Gay Jamboree, the much-anticipated follow-up from Marla Mindelle, co-author and original star of the wildly popular musical comedy Titaníque.

Moffat will appear alongside the previously announced Mindelle, as well as newly announced Paris Nix, Constantine Rousouli (a Titaníque co-creator and original cast member), and Natalie Walker, with Jaden Dominique, Brad Greer, Jeremiah Ginn, Amanda Lee, Jillian Mueller, Olivia Puckett, Melvin Tunstall, Clyde Voce, Cortney Wolfson, and John Yi rounding out the ensemble.

The new casting was announced today by producers Sue Wagner, John Johnson, and LuckyChap. Directed and choreographed by Connor Gallagher, The Big Gay Jamboree, features a book by Mindelle and Jonathan Parks-Ramage, with music & lyrics by Mindelle and Philip Drennen.

Preview performances begin on September 14 at the Orpheum Theatre, with an opening night set for October 1.

The Big Gay Jamboree...

Adam Driver will star in a new Off Broadway production of Kenneth Lonergan’s Hold on to Me Darling this fall, producers announced today.

Neil Pepe will direct the limited 13-week engagement. Previews begin at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on Tuesday, September 24, ahead of an official opening night on Wednesday, October 16.

Additional casting will be announced at a later date. The creative team will include Walt Spangler (scenic design), Suttirat Larlarb (costume design), Tyler Micoleau (lighting design), and David Van Tiegham (sound design).

Producing are Seaview, Sue Wagner, and John Johnson.

The official synopsis: On learning of his mother’s death, country music icon Strings McCrane (Driver) finds himself in an existential tailspin. The only way out, he decides, is to abandon superstardom in favor of the simple life, so he moves back to his hometown in Tennessee. The simple life turns out to be anything but simple in this brilliantly observed tragicomedy,...

Adam Driver will star as a fictional country music icon in Kenneth Lonergan’s play Hold On to Me Darling this fall.

The play, directed by Neil Pepe, is slated to begin performances at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre on Sept. 24, ahead of an Oct. 16 opening night. The production is currently slated for a limited 13-week engagement.

The play follows Strings McCrane, played by Driver, who faces an existential crisis after learning about his mother’s death and decides to abandon his music career to move home to Tennessee. Upon moving there, however, he finds that it is still hard to escape the trappings of fame.

Hold On to Me Darling premiered Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company in 2016, with Timothy Olyphant in the lead role and directed by Pepe, the theater company’s artistic director.

Lonergan also penned the plays This Is Our Youth, Lobby Hero and The Waverly...

Anna Stubblefield served only 2 years of a 12-year sentence for aggravated sexual assault due to a technicality in her defense strategy. The documentary highlights the damage caused by Anna's abusive relationship with Derrick, impacting the audience intimately. Facilitated communication, used by Anna with Derrick, was deemed invalid by organizations, leading to her conviction being overturned.

This post contains mentions of sexual assault.

Netflix's documentary Tell Them You Love Me tells the story of former professor Anna Stubblefield and her complicated prison sentence for initiating a sexual relationship with Derrick Johnson, a non-verbal person living with cerebral palsy. They met in 2009 when Derrick's older brother, John, learned about facilitated communication. Anna became Derrick's communicator, which led to a sexual relationship that Derek could not fully consent to.

While the Netflix true crime documentary focuses on the story between Anna and Derrick from the beginning, the documentary only briefly mentions how much time Stubblefield actually served.

The 77th annual Tony Awards were handed out tonight in Manhattan, and Deadline posted the winners live as they were announced. Among the boldfaced names who took home trophies were Angelina Jolie, Daniel Radcliffe, Sarah Paulson and Jeremy Strong. See the full list of winners below.

Ariana DeBose hosted the ceremony for a third consecutive time, this year from Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater. CBS is aired the celebration of Broadway excellence live coast-to-coast.

Related: Tony Noms Snubs & Surprises: None For Big Names Steve Carell & Michael Imperioli; Little Love For Brit Hit ‘Patriots’ & Hearty Welcome For ‘Outsiders’

Here are the winners and remaining nominees for the 2024 Tony Awards:

Winners

Best Musical

The Outsiders

Producers: The Araca Group, American Zoetrope, Olympus Theatricals, Sue Gilad & Larry Rogowsky, Angelina Jolie, Betsy Dollinger, Jonathan & Michelle Clay, Cristina Marie Vivenzio, The Shubert Organization, Lachanze & Marylee Fairbanks, Debra Martin Chase, Sony Music Masterworks, Jamestown Revival Theater,...

George Clooney will make his Broadway acting and playwriting debut next spring in a stage adaptation of his 2005 film about journalist Edward R. Murrow.

In the play, which is also entitled Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney will play Murrow as he pushes executives at CBS to allow him to continue to deliver critical reporting on U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist efforts. Clooney wrote the Broadway play with Grant Heslov, who co-wrote the screenplay with Clooney.

Good Night, and Good Luck will premiere on Broadway in spring 2025 at Shubert theater to be announced.

“I am honored, after all these years, to be coming back to the stage and especially, to Broadway, the art form and the venue that every actor aspires to,” Clooney said in the press release.

Clooney directed the 2005 film and played Fred W. Friendly, co-producer of Murrow’s television program, See It Now, with Murrow,...

Stereophonic, David Adjmi’s Broadway play about a ’70s Fleetwood Mac-type group, has announced a six-week extension following a slew of rave reviews.

Initially set to close July 7, the play, directed by Daniel Aukin and starring Will Brill, Juliana Canfield, Eli Gelb, Tom Pecinka, Sarah Pidgeon, Chris Stack and Andrew R. Butler, will now play through August 18.

The extension was announced by producers Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Seaview, Sonia Friedman Productions, Linden Productions, and Ashley Melone & Nick Mills.

Producers also recently announced that Stereophonic, which features songs composed by Will Butler, will release an original cast recording through Sony Masterworks Broadway. The digital album arrives May 10, 2024, with the physical CD release set for June 14.

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Season 12, Episode 10, “No Lessons Learned” — the series finale.]

Would you date the Bearded Lady? Midway through the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” finale, when Larry David is on the ropes — facing a loss in court for violating Georgia’s Election Integrity Act — and his old friend, Jerry Seinfeld, shows up for a last-second assist, that’s the hypothetical question the two men bat back and forth. She’s gorgeous, Larry says. She’s charming. She’s got it all. “The kind of woman you used to dream about as a teenager,” he says. But, you know… the beard. “Fly in the ointment,” Jerry says. “And this is a big fly. And he’s alive.” “What’s the worst that can happen?” Larry asks. “The worst that can happen is it’s a paper napkin,” Jerry says, “and she wipes her mouth, and part of it snags.”

Larry can barely contain his laughter,...

With Larry David, even the simple act of sitting down can raise an issue.

“This is a constant problem for me,” David said, after taking his seat in a wide, plush, yellow chair at HBO’s Manhattan screening room for a conversation on the lifespan and legacy of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” “I’m a sloucher.”

Blaming the chair’s accommodating tilt, David slouched, smiled, and cordially accepted his fate. He’s a sloucher. He slouches. That’s who he is, and you know what? People love him for it.

Even when they don’t — like, say, for writing the now-infamous “Seinfeld” finale — David doesn’t let it get to him. When asked by an audience member whether the upcoming “Curb Your Enthusiasm” finale would serve as “redemption” for the last episode of “Seinfeld,” David scoffed and said:

“Yeah, like I care.”

The question didn’t come out of nowhere. “Curb...

Nominations for the 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards were announced today by Amber Iman and George Abud, two stars of Broadway’s “Lempicka.” The Lortels honor outstanding achievement in Off-Broadway theater. The 2024 ceremony will take place on Sunday, May 5 at NYU Skirball Center. The Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by Tdf.

It’s common for productions to begin their life Off-Broadway before transferring to the Main Stem, so many of this year’s Tony Awards hopefuls are among the list of Lortel nominations. Chief among these contenders is “Hell’s Kitchen,” the semi-autobiographical musical from Alicia Keys. That tuner garnered five Lortel nominations. These include Best Musical, Best Choreography for Camille A. Brown, a Lead Performer bid for Maleah Joi Moon, and Featured Performer bids for Shoshana Bean and Kecia Lewis. All performance categories at the Lortel Awards are gender neutral.

Stereophonic, the hit Off Broadway play about a Fleetwood Mac-esque ’70s rock band, will begin its Broadway transfer a day earlier than planned, with previews at the Golden Theatre now set to start on Tuesday, April 2.

All tickets for the added performance will be priced at $40.

“When I was a small boy, my mother took me to Broadway shows every other week,” stated playwright David Adjmi. “She could afford to do this only because theatre was so much less expensive back then. And those shows changed my life. In this spirit, we are excited to offer $40 preview tickets to Stereophonic. I am thrilled to be able to share our show with as many theatergoers as possible.”

The opening date of April 19 remains the same.

The additional preview date was announced today by producers Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Seaview, Sonia Friedman Productions, Linden Productions, and Ashley Melone & Nick Mills.

The play,...

There’s nothing unusual about throwing a convention in Las Vegas. But RePlatform Vegas, held at the Horseshoe hotel on the Strip this past weekend, was remarkable in its very premise: the event aimed to gather influencers and brands fixated on the problem of perceived censorship and “cancel culture,” giving them a public stage on which they could describe to an admiring audience all the ways they’ve supposedly been silenced.

But it wasn’t always clear what attendees wanted to accomplish by airing familiar grievances about the consequences of expressing or amplifying controversial views.

Photograph by John Johnson/HBO A lot of the humor on both Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm has been derived from some of the peculiar habits of ordinary people. And what do those shows both have in common? Larry David, who had a large hand in creating, producing, and writing both series. And that’s given David a bit of a reputation as someone who’s constantly watching people to get new ideas. Is that reputation deserved? According to David himself, absolutely not. (Click on the media bar below to hear Larry David) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Larry_David_people_Show_.mp3 Curb Your Enthusiasm airs Sunday nights on HBO and streams on Max.

The post ‘Curb’ Your Paranoia — Larry David Isn’t Writing About You appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.

There’s a scene in the new season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” where Larry David (played by who else but Larry David) is on the golf course, having a pretty, pretty, pretty good day. He’s swinging the club well (thanks to a casually stolen coaching session), and he’s well on his way to a high score. But when he steps to the next tee box, there’s a group of players in the fairway ahead of him. So he waits. It’s what any good golfer would do — you don’t want to risk hitting anyone with your shot — except Larry’s friends (Richard Lewis loudest among them) don’t think he can hit it that far. They want him to swing away, egging him on until he’s basically dared to take the shot, consequences be damned. Larry being Larry, his drive is perfect: straight, long, and...

Apparently time really does heal all wounds. How else do you explain Charlie Sheen’s role in Chuck Lorre’s latest comedy?

Nearly 13 years after Sheen’s infamous meltdown led to his dismissal from CBS’ Two and a Half Men, the three-time Emmy nominee is reuniting with Lorre on Max’s Bookie, a single-camera series headlined by stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco.

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Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott will find love in a Bronx bar with an upcoming Off-Broadway production of John Patrick Shanley’s “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.”

The “White Lotus” Emmy nominee and “Poor Things” actor, respectively, will star in the revival of the 1984 play, set for the Lucille Lortel Theatre in the West Village this fall. “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea” will start previews on Monday, October 20 with an opening night set for Monday, November 13. Actor Jeff Ward will make his stage directing debut with the production, while Plaza will make her own stage acting debut as well.

Many know John Patrick Shanley for his Oscar-winning original screenplay for “Moonstruck,” but he also won the Pulitzer Prize and Tony for Best Play in 2005 for “Doubt,” which he adapted to the screen in 2008. “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea” first premiered Off-Broadway at Circle in the Square Theatre...

Aubrey Plaza, making her stage debut, and Christopher Abbott will star in an Off Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s 1984 classic Danny and the Deep Blue Sea this fall, with a producing team that includes Sam Rockwell.

The revival will begin previews Monday, October 20, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, with an opening night set for Monday, November 13. The 10-week limited engagement will be directed by Jeff Ward, in his stage directorial debut.

Rockwell said in a statement, “My life and career have been profoundly impacted by Off-Broadway theater – like John Malkovich and Gary Sinise in True West at the Cherry Lane; Stanley Tucci in Scapin at Classic Stage Company; Phil Hoffman and Justin Theroux in Shopping and F*cking at New York Theatre Workshop; and Blasted with Reed Birney and Marin Ireland at Soho Rep, to name a few. I really do believe it’s the beating heart of this city.

During a star-studded promotional screening of “Deep Throat,” Joan Didion shares a prescient observation. She doesn’t want to — at least, not in that moment. All she wants is to enjoy the lavish party put on to promote Minx magazine. Check that: All she really wants is to be left in peace to use the restroom, but Joyce Prigger (Ophelia Lovibond), the editor-in-chief of Minx, can’t contain her giddy inquiries long enough for the acclaimed journalist to relieve her bladder. Joyce wants Joan to write for the magazine; something about “Deep Throat” and what it reflects about the shifting ‘70s culture, if not society at large. Joan isn’t all that interested, and instead encourages Joyce to pen the piece herself — but not before offering her reluctant, rushed assessment of the landmark porno being screened in the adjacent auditorium. “I don’t think it was their intent,” Joan says,...

Updated, 11:20 Am: The producers of Here We Are have announced the cast for the first production of Stephen Sondheim’s final musical.

Francois Battiste, Tracie Bennett, Bobby Cannavale, Micaela Diamond, Amber Gray, Jin Ha, Rachel Bay Jones, Denis O’Hare, Steven Pasquale, David Hyde Pierce, and Jeremy Shamos are set for the show, which opens September 28 for a limited Off Broadway engagement at The Shed.

Read details of the show below.

Previously, March 16: Stephen Sondheim’s final, long-awaited musical Here We Are will make its world premiere September 28 in a strictly limited Off Broadway engagement to be directed by two-time Tony winner Joe Mantello.

Formerly known as Square One, the final musical composed by Sondheim before his death in 2021 will be staged at The Shed, the Manhattan arts center that opened in 2019.

Additional information including specific production dates and casting will be announced soon. Producer Tom Kirdahy made the premiere announcement today.

The 76th annual Tony Awards were handed out Sunday night.

Kimberly Akimbo won best musical, Leopoldstadt was named best play, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog won best revival of a play, and Parade won best revival of a musical.

In the lead acting categories, Jodie Comer won best performance by an actress in a play for Prima Facie, while openly nonbinary actor J. Harrison Ghee made history (along with Alex Newell) for winning best performance by an actor in a musical for Some Like It Hot. Sean Hayes won best actor in a play for Good Night, Oscar, while Victoria Clark won best actress in a musical for Kimberly Akimbo.

Oscar winner and Tony nominee Ariana DeBose returned to host the ceremony, which this year moved to the new location of the United Palace in New York City’s Washington Heights. See the red carpet arrivals here.

The show was split into two parts,...

CNN’s Donald Trump town hall went over like a lead balloon with most viewers, judging by the overwhelmingly negative reactions.

But while viewers were put off by the debacle, the studio audience, which appeared to consist primarily or even solely of Trump supporters, was decidedly the opposite. As the disgraced former president lied nearly nonstop, with only mild, frequently shouted-down pushback from moderator Kaitlan Collins, (the exception being whenever Trump tried to lie about the 2020 election), the crowd whooped and cheered and laughed.

That was especially the case in two of the town hall’s nastiest moments. First, early in the broadcast when Trump defamed E. Jean Carroll just 24 hours after a jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting her and defaming her. And second, when he lost his cool and called Collins, a “nasty person.”

Trump was of course found guilty on Tuesday of sexually battering Carroll in...

Some Like It Hot, the musical comedy based on the classic MGM film, topped the Tony Awards nominations list with 13 nods.

The musical, which features a score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, was nominated for best musical, best original score, best book of a musical (written by Matthew López & Amber Ruffin) and best direction of a musical, as well as in the acting categories, with nominations for both Christian Borle and J. Harrison Ghee in the category of best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical and for Kevin Del Aguila and NaTasha Yvette Williams in the featured roles categories.

The plot, which has been revised from the 1959 film, sees two struggling jazz musicians, Borle and Ghee, on the run after witnessing a mob hit. The two disguise themselves within an all-female band and, as they travel across the country, they explore their own identities,...

Refresh For Udpates: The nominations for the 76th Annual Tony Awards will be announced on CBS Mornings today by Funny Girl star Lea Michele and Mj‘s Tony Award winner Myles Frost. The complete list of nominations will be posted here at 9:10 a.m. Et./6 a.m. Pt.

The nominations announced so far:

Best Musical

& Juliet

Producers: Max Martin & Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page, Jenny Petersson, Martin Dodd, Eva Price, Lukasz Gottwald, 42nd.club, Independent Presenters Network, Jack Lane, Library Company, Shellback, Shivhans Pictures, Sing Out, Louise!, Kim Szarzynski, Taylor/Riegler, Tenenbaum/Keyes, Barry Weiss, John Gore Organization

Kimberly Akimbo

Producers: David Stone, Atlantic Theater Company, James L. Nederlander, Lachanze, John Gore, Patrick Catullo, Aaron Glick

New York, New York

Producers: Sonia Friedman Productions, Tom Kirdahy, Wendy Federman & Heni Koenigsberg, Crossroads Live, Playing Field, Stephanie P. McClelland, Ambassador Theatre Group, Waiting in the Wings Productions, Colin Callender, Gilbert and DeeDee Garcia/Sue Vaccaro,...

The current Broadway season schedule seemed done and dusted at the start of this month: With an opening night of April 26, the new Kander & Ebb musical New York, New York would be the final production of 2022-23, arriving just a day before the April 27 Tony eligibility cut-off date.

But on April 4, a newcomer entered the ring, with an opening night set for the very date of the Tony cut-off. Well, not exactly a newcomer. The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window is a rarely performed 1964 play by Lorraine Hansberry, a mostly forgotten work forever overshadowed by the playwright’s 1959 masterpiece A Raisin in the Sun. Hansberry died at 34 shortly after Sidney opened, and it would take nearly 50 years – and two very popular stars – before the play would return to Broadway.

The new production of The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window will star Oscar Isaac (the Dune and the Star...

Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan will bring The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window to Broadway this April in a late entry for the season.

The play, written by Lorraine Hansberry, will begin performances on April 25 and open on April 27, the final day for this season’s Tony Awards eligibility, at the James Earl Jones Theatre. Isaac and Brosnahan are reprising their roles from the play’s Off-Broadway run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which ended in March.

The play, produced by Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jeremy O. Harris and Bam, is scheduled to play 80 performances only. It was able to find a slot at the James Earl Jones Theatre after the show Room, which was meant to occupy the theater starting April 3, was unable to start performances due to a lack of funding.

This will mark the Broadway debut for Isaac, who most recently appeared on screen...

Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan are heading to Broadway later this month in Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, producers announced today.

The production, which opened a sold-out run Off Broadway at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in February, is now set to be the final production of the 2022-23 Broadway season. Opening night for the limited, 80-performance run is Thursday, April 27, at the James Earl Jones Theatre.

Directed by Anne Kauffman, the revival will mark the first time the Hansberry play has been produced on Broadway in more than 50 years, and the first Bam-produced production to transfer to Broadway since The Gospel at Colonus 35 years ago.

Producing on Broadway will be Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, with Jeremy O. Harris and Bam.

The follow-up to Hansberry’s landmark 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window debuted on Broadway...

Stephen Sondheim’s final musical will have its world premiere in New York this fall.

The musical, which was formerly known as Square One and is now titled Here We Are, is inspired by two Luis Buñuel films, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel. Joe Mantello (Wicked, Assassins) directs the musical, which features a book by David Ives.

Performances will begin in September for a strictly limited engagement off-Broadway at The Shed’s Griffin Theater.

Sondheim, who died in November 2021 at the age of 91, had been working on this project for years. A production of a musical, created by Ives and Sondheim, was set to premiere off-Broadway at The Public Theater in 2017, but never made it to the stage.

In September 2021, the legendary composer told Stephen Colbert that he was writing Square One with Ives and hoped to stage it in the next season. In what...

Former President Donald Trump confused author E. Jean Carroll with his second wife Marla Maples during a deposition for the sexual assault case Carroll brought against Trump. According to a report from The Washington Post, Trump, who has long insisted Carroll is not his “type,” mistook his accuser for his second wife when shown a photo from the ‘90s during questioning last year.

In 2019, Carroll, the journalist and author famed for her “Ask E. Jean” Elle magazine column, accused Trump of having assaulted her in the dressing room of New...

Gravebit: A New Series by John Johnson

John Johnson has been making movies since the early 2000s. Known for his work on the “Skeleton Key” series and the “Plan 9″ remake, he has also created a bunch of web series. “Spade,” “Spooky Tales From The Dark”, “Bath Salts”, “House on the Hill”, and now “Gravebit”. From his press release:John Johnson and Darkstone ...

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Early on in Plan 9, a character complains that a remake of Plan 9 From Outer Space is the mother of all bad ideas. And really, it's hard to think of anything that could top Ed Wood's incompetent, legendary cheesefest for sheer camp value. But then again, pretty much anything can be considered an improvement.Writer/director/actor John Johnson decided to give it a shot, and wisely knew that if something isn't broke, it doesn't need fixing. Ten minutes in, and you've already got purposely bad special effects, self-aware bad acting and boobs. That should tell you all about this movie's M.O.In this update, the town of Nilbog (how's that for a bad movie reference?) is hit by an energy pulse that reanimates the dead, all part...

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A remake of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) has been completed. The remake's title has been reduced to Plan 9. And, the film has been partially developed by John Johnson (Skeleton Key 3: The Organ Trail). The film stars: Brian Krause (Sleepwalkers), James Rolfe and Matthew Ewald. As well, Monster Pictures will distribute this title on DVD in February. A preview of that release is hosted here. The remake, just like the original, deals with an alien invasion. An extraterrestrial force utilizes the recently deceased, to do the fighting for them. Now, the entire world is in peril as the dead come back to life. Few will survive this bloodbath! The first trailer for Plan 9 hosts several actions shots. The alien zombie army uses everything in its arsenal to trap and later capture the few survivors who remain. B-movieish, the full trailer for Plan 9 is hosted below.

With the post production for Plan 9 almost complete, Darkstone Entertainment held its first private cast and crew screening August 24th, 2013 at the Grandin Theater, located in Roanoke, Virginia where the film was shot. Now that director John Johnson film has successfully launched with its first screening, Plan 9 will be going to market, shopping for distribution to find it the proper home.

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