Broadway Newcomers Draw Audiences: ‘The Outsiders’, ‘The Who’s Tommy’, ‘An Enemy Of The People’, ‘The Notebook’ Fill Seats

Sabrina The Teenage Witch's Caroline Rhea is barely recognisable in her age-defying look.The star, who turned 60 recently, looked absolutely stunning as she posed in a vibrant pink blazer and lace bra.The 90s sitcom legend showed off her curves in the eye-catching pink jacket paired with matching trousers and coral lingerie, confidently smiling for the camera in an Instagram snap. Her blonde locks were styled sleek and straight, and her makeup was flawlessly glamorous.

Their whirlwind romance has captured public imagination - and now boxer Ricky "Hitman" Hatton and Corrie star Claire Sweeney have stepped out on the red carpet together for the first time.

Celine Dion has opened up about the heartbreaking reality of her Stiff Person Syndrome.The star admitted that she doesn't know when she will be able to return to her world tour after being diagnosed with the disease.The Canadian singer cancelled her Las Vegas residency due to health to her health woes in 2021, before revealing her SPS diagnosis in December 2022 and cancelling her Courage World Tour.The Vogue France cover star, whose best-known hits include My Heart Will Go On from the film Titanic, said that she is learning to live with the condition, but hopes “that we’ll find a miracle, a way to cure it”. “Five days a week I undergo athletic, physical and vocal therapy,” the 55 year old told Vogue France.

EXCLUSIVE: Cinetic Media has signed New York-based documentary filmmaker Contessa Gayles for management across all media.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ retained its lead at the top of the South Korean box office on what was the quietest cinema-going weekend in more than a year. The animated franchise movie held up reasonably. It maintained a nearly 44% market share, dropped only 32% week-on-week and was untroubled by competition from new releases. The film earned $1.91 million between Friday and Sunday, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic).

reunion—but we're the ones who received a gift.In a video shared on her Instagram grid, , Geri Halliwell-Turner, Emma Bunton, Melanie "Mel C" Chisholm, and channeled Posh, Ginger, Baby, Sporty, and Scary Spice for a surprise dance performance of their hit song “”—and yes, they still know the choreography from the iconic 1997 . The women were perfectly in sync as the pop jam played in the background and recorded the moment gleefully.“Best night ever! Happy Birthday to me,” she captioned the clip from her birthday party in London.

Variety‘s annual Power of Law breakfast, presented by City National Bank, featured speakers discussing the radical changes that have rocked the entertainment industry in recent years and how insiders are adapting to the uncertainty surrounding Hollywood. The event honored Cliff Gilbert-Lurie, Ziffren Brittenham LLP co-managing and senior partner, with the Power of Law Award recognizing his long career and his impressive track record of philanthropic work in Los Angeles County and beyond.

The Broadway play Stereophonic is officially open and it’s expected to be the big hit of the season!

Netflix hit Baby Reindeer has revealed that he “feels sorry” for the stalker character in the show.The show has been created by comedian Richard Gadd, and is based on his 2019 one-man play of the same name. It depicts a version of the real-life story of his own stalking ordeal.The synopsis clarifies that the show focuses “on struggling comedian Donny Dunn’s (Gadd) strange and layered relationship with a woman named Martha (Jessica Gunning), whose initially friendly demeanour unravels as she begins to stalk Donny relentlessly”.“Their first interaction is innocent enough: While working his shift as a bartender, Donny shows an act of kindness to Martha, a customer whose vulnerability is readily apparent,” the synopsis adds.“But, as the saying goes, ‘no good deed goes unpunished,’ and this casual encounter sparks a suffocating obsession that threatens to wreck both their lives and forces Donny to face his deeply buried trauma.”In a new interview with Variety, Gadd said that he intended to make the Martha character somewhat sympathetic, based on his experiences.“Stalking usually is depicted as someone who is kind of evil, whereas I felt like there was a vulnerable person who genuinely couldn’t stop, who for whatever reason had believed the reality that was inside her head and no matter what couldn’t change from that,” he said.“I mean, it is a mental illness and I wanted to portray that.

Billie Eilish has shared that her Lana Del Rey Coachella collab was “literally a hallucination”, adding that ‘Ocean Eyes’ “wouldn’t exist” without her.Eilish took the time to reflect on her surprise appearance during Del Rey’s headlining set at weekend one of the annual music and arts festival on her Instagram Stories.The ‘Bad Guy’ singer opened up about the creation of her debut single ‘Ocean Eyes’, writing: “This song wouldn’t even exist without her,” (per Billboard).

Naveen Kumar When Eddie Redmayne’s slithering Emcee assures the audience at “Cabaret” that “here, life is beautiful,” he’s telling a half-truth. The August Wilson Theater, done up like the Kit Kat Club for a bracing, high-style, Broadway revival that opened there Sunday, has indeed been transformed into a house of pleasure.

Baby Reindeer have been reacting to a hidden reference to another show.The series follows a struggling comic named Donny (played by Richard Gadd) who is being stalked by a woman called Martha (played by Jessica Gunning).The harassment appears to take place over four and a half years, involving a series of invasive behaviour from Martha to Donny, including following him home, turning up to his workplace and sending him multiple emails a day.One scene in the seven-episode series shows Donny’s inbox, filled with emails from his stalker, using an email address consisting of a series of random numbers.The Independent’s Chief Culture Reporter and co-host of The Lost Boys podcast noticed that the numbers are not as random as it first seems.Stolworthy posted on X: “The ‘random series of numbers like spam’ used in the stalker’s email address are, in fact, the cursed numbers from Lost”.Baby Reindeer: the 'random series of numbers like spam' used in the stalker's email address are, in fact, the cursed numbers from LOST pic.twitter.com/JksoAJwLJs— Jacob Stolworthy (@JacobStolworthy) April 18, 2024The numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42, appear consistently throughout Lost, the six-season series which will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in September.Following survivors of a plane crash who find themselves on a mysterious island, Lost refers to those specific numbers throughout the show, typically featured in background shots of flashback sequences.Users on X have been responding to Stolworthy’s observation, with several calling it a “brilliant spot”.Another user reposted Stolworthy’s tweet, which showed the number series’ appearances in each show side by side, writing: “2024 and we still getting Lost Easter eggs.

The most competitive genre this Emmy season is Limited Series or Anthology Series and it’s not even close. There are likely four to five highly acclaimed programs that won’t make the five-nominee field.

Neil McCann reckons a foul from Celtic star Cameron Carter-Vickers against Aberdeen should have seen a penalty awarded.

Hilary Duff‘s baby will arrive when the time is right.

A huge new shuffleboard bar from the team behind Flight Club has announced when it will open its doors in Manchester. Electric Shuffle has taken over a prime spot on Deansgate ready to open in the summer.

When it comes to low effort cooking on a budget, most people these days will look to an air fryer. The nifty kitchen gadget has seen a wave of popularity over the past few years, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a household without one.

NCT Dream‘s Renjun will be taking a hiatus amid health concerns, his label SM Entertainment has announced.In a statement, per Xsports News, SM Entertainment announced that NCT Dream singer Renjun would be taking a break from his scheduled activities for the foreseeable future, following medical advice he’d received from doctors.The K-pop agency said that the singer was told by doctors that he requires “plenty of rest and stability”, after having recently visited the hospital “due to a recent worsening of his physical health and symptoms of anxiety”, per Soompi.“We deemed our artist’s health our top priority and after careful discussion with Renjun, we decided that he would focus on his treatment and recovery,” SM Entertainment said, adding that the company would “make another announcement in the future when he is able to resume his activities”.As part of this newly announced hiatus, Renjun will also miss NCT Dream’s upcoming three-date May concert at Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome, as part of their ‘The Dream Show 3: Dream( )scape’ world tour. It’s currently unclear if the singer will join the boyband on the tour’s other dates.In addition, SM Entertainment also added that it will take legal action against malicious commenters who post content involving hateful slander, sexual harassment, defamation and more for not only Renjun but for all SM artists.In other K-pop news, aespa has dropped the first trailer for their upcoming studio album ‘Armageddon’, slated for full release on May 27.

Frank Rizzo In Peter Morgan’s tantalizing but disappointing new play “Patriots,” Boris Berezovsky is presented as a larger-than-life oligarch in a post-Soviet Russia who transforms Vladimir Putin from a middling “nobody” to an autocrat who will transform his country in ways unforeseen at home or globally. There’s an expectation that in Morgan’s latest merging of historic fact and fiction that the writer of “The Crown” on TV, “The Audience” on stage and “The Queen” on film will once again provide an intimate and revealing look behind another well-guarded curtain, this time one that is made of iron.

Thousands of summer holidays could be disrupted as Just Stop Oil activists plan a series of protests at airports across the UK and Europe.

Unknown Soldier, by Daniel Goldstein and the late Michael Friedman, so poignantly depicts.A gripping mystery sparked by an ages-old news photograph, the show marks its D.C. premiere at Arena Stage in a new production staged with dexterity by Trip Cullman.The photograph in question — of an unidentified U.S.