Marcel Spears: Last News

The Neighborhood still hasn’t been renewed for an eighth season, but CBS has shown commitment to the franchise by eyeing a new spinoff of the comedy hit!

Pulitzer Prize winners to Tony-award winning plays performed by the Tony winners themselves, Audible — the audiobook service from Amazon — has a robust collection of theater available to listen to right now. All of these recordings were performed by full casts, too, so you can fully immerse yourself in the storytelling and the unique worlds of every production.If you can’t make it to New York to catch the Broadway premiere, you can even listen to David Henry Hwang’s “Yellow Face” with the current Broadway lead Daniel Dae Kim.

EXCLUSIVE: Skye Townsend (Black Lady Sketch Show) has joined the cast of the CBS comedy The Neighborhood for Season 6 in a recurring role. The show returns with new episodes on February 12.

went into labor while enjoying Monday’s Beyoncé concert in Los Angeles with her husband, actor Marcel Spears — giving birth to a healthy baby daughter just a few hours later.The crazy-in-love couple charmingly documented their experience on social media, posting a reel to Instagram which showed Jones in a silver dress and headband dancing along to the music, and then having to sit down due to labor pains.The video then cuts to Jones giving birth in the delivery room, with proud dad Spears holding their newborn, Nola, at the end.Jones also posted another reel capturing the moment, writing in the caption, “Turns out we were having a whole baby at @beyonce bday show.”A post shared by ⚜️Marcel from New Orleans (@mrmarcelspears)The Post reached out to the couple and representatives for Beyoncé for comment.On Wednesday, the proud parents told local news channel KTLA 5 that their adventure began shortly after the “mute challenge,” a fun part of the concert during the singer’s performance of the “Renaissance” track “Energy,” where everyone is expected to go silent after the line, “Look around everybody on mute.”“She wasn’t due for another week, and so I thought maybe they’re Braxton Hicks [contractions], and I said, ‘Um, something’s happening,’ ” Jones told KTLA. “Usually I like to dance at the concert, and I was like, ‘I think I need to sit down for a second,’ ” she added.As the concert went on, and when they got to their car after the show ended, the papa and mama-to-be realized it wasn’t a false alarm — and that Jones was really going into labor.“The biggest contractions were happening during ‘Virgo’s Groove,’ ” Spears said, referring to a song released on the “Renaissance” album.

Fat Ham, James Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy nominated for five Tony Awards, will add one week of performances to its Broadway run, producers announced today.

Some of the biggest names of Broadway (and Hollywood) won’t be receiving those phone calls of congratulations today, as this morning’s Tony Awards nominations included more than a few surprising (or, in some cases, not surprising) omissions.

Naveen Kumar New York stages are rarely without some version of Shakespeare’s mopey Danish prince, tormented by fatal family drama. But none has ever been quite like the protagonist of “Fat Ham,” Juicy, who is described by the playwright James Ijames as “gloriously and beautifully soft in both body and temperament.” Something is rotten in Juicy’s world, which, like Hamlet’s, pulses with violence, desire and scrutiny over the nature of existence. But this is also a classic cookout, where bloodspill is generally limited to the slaughtered hog on the grill. Not to mention that “Fat Ham” is a total gas — the funniest and most invigorating new show on Broadway, where the acclaimed Public Theater production, co-produced with National Black Theatre, has opened after an Off Broadway run last year. Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize, “Fat Ham” recasts its source material to imagine what Shakespeare did not — how people might overcome circumstances, expectations and their own demons to forge new paths through life. 

Wilson Chapman editorThe NAACP and BET have announced the performers and presenters for the 53rd NAACP Image Awards.Nine-time Grammy Award winner and recent Super Bowl halftime show headliner Mary J. Blige will perform at the live show. The ceremony will also feature Samuel L.