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Jack White has joined the 2024 lineup for Corona Capital in Mexico City, where he’ll appear alongside the Paul McCartney, Green Day, New Order, Iggy Pop, Beck, Empire of the Sun, Melanie Martinez, and Shawn Mendes, and more.

The three-day music festival will take place November 15th-17th, 2024 at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City. White joins the lineup on Sunday, the 17th, in place of Queens of the Stone Age, who recently canceled the remainder of their 2024 tour so that Josh Homme could “receive essential medical care.” White will presumably take the stage prior to McCartney’s Sunday night headlining set.

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Corona Capital’s 2024 lineup also boasts Primal Scream, St. Vincent, Toto, Zedd, Kim Gordon, Cage the Elephant, The Mars Volta, Explosions in the Sky, American Football, Warpaint, Badbadnotgood, Tyla, Travis, Blonde Redhead, Leon Bridges, Huray For the Riff Raff, Mannequin Pussy, Sophie Ellis-Bextor,...

After a wildly successful run in Philadelphia, Cooper Jordan Entertainment will bring Saw The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw Off–Broadway this fall.

It will begin performances on September 16, 2023 in advance of its opening on Sunday, October 1, 2023; the limited run is slated to run through January 1, 2024 at the Amt Theater (345 West 45th Street) in Midtown’s Theater District. Grab your tickets now.

Created by Cooper Jordan, Saw The Musical has a book by Award -Winning Writer Zoe Ann Jordan (Virtuoso – Nychff) and music & lyrics by Patrick Spencer & Anthony De Angelis (An Axemas Story), and directed by Tony Award Winner Stephanie Rosenberg with music direction by Leigh Pomeranz (Dex! A Killer Musical).

Saw The Musical hilariously captures the events of the first movie, parodying the Saw that started it all, following from where Lawrence Gordon and Adam Stanheight find each other for the first time in the bathroom trap. Will...

Riot Fest has shared a killer 2023 lineup, with Foo Fighters, The Cure, Queens of the Stone Age, and a double dose of The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie topping the bill. The rock festival takes place September 15th through 17th at Douglass Park in Chicago.

Foo Fighters and Turnstile mark the headlining acts on Friday, September 15th, while The Postal Service, Death Cab, and Qotsa close out Saturday, and The Cure and The Mars Volta top Sunday. Complete day lineups have not yet been announced, but the general 2023 Riot Fest bill includes, among others:

Insane Clown Posse (!), Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Kim Gordon, Mr. Bungle, The Breeders, Tegan and Sara, Parliament Funkadelic ft. George Clinton, Death Grips, The Gaslight Anthem, Dresden Dolls, 100 gecs, AFI, Ride, Code Orange, The Exploited, Corey Feldman (!!), Warpaint, Jehnny Beth, Earth Crisis, Gorilla Biscuits, Pinkshift, Quicksand, Head Automatica, Ls Dunes, Pup, Steve Ignorant Band / Crass,...

The American Theatre Critics Association (Atca) announced that “Good Night, Oscar” by Doug Wright is a finalist for their 2023 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/Atca New Play Award. This prize honors plays which had their professional premiere outside of New York City, with this new work debuting at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago this past spring. With one awards body already giving their stamp of approval, is “Good Night, Oscar” headed for a Tony nomination for Best Play?

This new work will open on Broadway on April 24, just days before the eligibility window closes for the 2023 Tony Awards. The story is set in 1958 on the set of “The Tonight Show” hosted by Jack Parr. The host has booked his most coveted guest: the witty talk show staple Oscar Levant. Emmy winner and Tony nominee Sean Hayes portrays Levant after a string of rave notices in Chicago, making this one of the...

The new musical “The Prom” won over industry folks with its big heart and bevy of Broadway insider jokes. But many wondered where each member of the ensemble cast would compete at this year’s Tony Awards. While the Tony Administration Committee decided Brooks Ashmanskas would be the sole Lead Actor contender, they went the opposite route with the women. Beth Leavel and Caitlin Kinnunen will each compete for Lead Actress in a Musical. So can they both land bids?

Leavel, a Tony winner for “The Drowsy Chaperone,” plays vain Broadway diva Dee Dee Allen. She and her fellow thespians head to a small town in Indiana to help Emma (Kinnunen) bring her girlfriend to the high school prom…and scoop up some much needed press in the process. It’s the type of over the top, scene-chewing role in which Leavel always excels. Two of her big numbers bring...

Four of Broadway's most celebrated stars will join Mark Cortale's Broadway The Art House concert series this month in Provincetown. Judy Kuhn, Tony-nominated star of Fun Home and Broadway's original Les Miz and the voice of Disney's Pocahontas returns to P-Town on July 15 amp 16 at 700 Pm Adam Pascal, star of the original Broadway cast of Rent, as well as the film version lights up the Art House stage on July 17 at 600 Pm Christine Ebersole, the two-time Tony Award winning star of Grey Gardens and War Paint appears on July 19 amp 20 at 600 Pm Will Swenson, Tony nominee for the revival of 'Hair' and most recently a star of the hit musical comedy Disaster, performs on July 28 amp 29 at 700 Pm. Sirius Xm radio star Seth Rudetsky joins each performance as pianist and host.

Actress Joan Taylor, best remembered for two sci-fi / horror B movies of the late 1950s, died March 4 in Santa Monica, in Los Angeles County. Taylor was 82. According to various sources, Taylor was born Rose Marie Emma in Geneva, Illinois, on August 18, 1929. She was the daughter of Austrian vaudeville player Amelia Berky and an Italian-born immigrant who later became a Hollywood prop man. Curiously, last Friday night I watched for the first time the 1957 Columbia release 20 Million Miles to Earth. Though wasted in a non-role in this King Kong rip-off with stop-motion animation by Ray Harryhausen, Taylor looked quite pretty (as an Italian) whether angry at leading man William Hopper (son of gossip columnist Hedda Hopper) or screaming at the ballooning Martian creature. I guess it says something about her screen presence that I was rooting for the Martian Monster to gobble up the film's director (Nathan Juran), writers (Robert Creighton Williams...

American actor and star of television's Mission: Impossible who made fun of his image in Airplane!

Despite his long career as a serious actor in dozens of films and television shows, Peter Graves, who has died aged 83, might be most remembered for a role that lampooned his square-jawed, stolid screen persona. As the captain of a plane heading for disaster in the spoof movie Airplane! (1980), Graves got laughs by playing it as straight as his other roles. (Although his roles in a number of trashy, low-budget science fiction movies in the 1950s had produced unintentional laughs.)

Audiences around the world were also familiar with Graves as the tall, gruff, deep-voiced, silver-haired Jim Phelps, head of the Imf (Impossible Missions Force), an elite American espionage group, in the TV series Mission: Impossible (1967-73). He won a Golden Globe in the role in 1971.

The show famously opened with the words: "Your mission,...