Louis Armstrong Musical Starring Tony Winner James Monroe Iglehart Sets Fall Broadway Opening

Illinoise, the acclaimed dance-musical stage adaptation of Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 concept album Illinois, will transfer from Off Broadway‘s Park Avenue Armory to Broadway’s St. James Theatre next month, arriving just a day before this season’s Tony Award eligibility cut-off date.

David Guetta and Jessica Ledon have welcomed their first child together.The DJ revealed that he and girlfriend Jessica have welcomed a son in a social media post - and shared his unusual name. In a post where David is cuddling up to Jessica and their newborn son, the DJ wrote: 'Love is in the air Welcome Cyan'.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Sufjan Stevens is bringing his musical talents to Broadway. The singer-songwriter’s show “Illinoise,” based on his album of the same name, will open at the St. James Theatre in the spring.

How far would you go for love? Eric Draven is about to test the limits of his soulmate. “The Crow” sees this antihero face life and death after brutal murders separate the pair.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, as well as a number of James Bond films, passed away on February 27, aged 85. A cause of death has not been disclosed.The news was announced by Alliance Agents on Tuesday (March 12), with the agency paying tribute to a career “spanning over 50 years with notable roles in Sherlock Holmes, A Passage to India, Secret Army and of course one of the most memorable death scenes in the Star Wars franchise.”Culver played Captain Needa in The Empire Strikes Back, the character who is Force-choked to death by Darth Vader after losing track of a rebel ship.“Apology accepted, Captain Needa,” Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones) says as Culver’s character drops to the ground clutching his throat.

Renowned singer-songwriter Eddi Reader is bringing her highly-anticipated spring tour to the Fair City.

ITV's This Morning has been criticised for falling for a prank about a new TV show featuring Kate Middleton, amidst the chaos caused by the Princess of Wales' Mother's Day snap. The 42 year old shared an image of herself with her and Prince William's three children, Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5, on Sunday, 10 March, but drama ensued after several photo companies pulled the images after it was accused of being Photoshopped.

Murtada Elfadl Juxtaposing the story of the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba with a musical tour of jazzman Louis Armstrong and with the expansion of the United Nations after the independence of many African countries in the 1960s might be tall order. Trickier still would be telling this complex story, full of many characters and plot swerves, in a nonlinear manner while filling the screen with written clues providing context like a bibliography of an academic thesis.

Celebrity Big Brother stars Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne slammed James Corden as a "name-dropper" during a candid chat on the show. In a teaser for the show on March 7, the pair sat down with Kate Middleton's uncle, Gary Goldsmith, who joked that Strictly pro Nikita Kuzmin drops many-a celebrity name, but he acknowledges: "He’s not showing off it’s just his life!” Sharon then says of James Corden, who hosted The Late Late Show in the US from 2015 to 2023 says: “I tell you who does that, the English guy, James Corden, he does that all the time.” Louis adds: “He’s even made a career out of it.” Sharon says of James' move to the States: “When he got to America, he played the LA game really well, you know, turned up at everything.” Louis agrees: “Kissing all the right people, Anna Wintour, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah” Sharon then says: “Oh, she loves him.

Drake has paid tribute to a mother and daughter who were killed outside his gig in St Louis last month.Laticha Bracero and Alyssa Cordova were hit by a speeding car who had driven through a red light outside the rapper’s show on February 13. Bracero died at the scene while Cordova passed away in hospital.Drake spoke about them at a show on Wednesday (February 28), encouraging his fans to connect with each other.“You never know what somebody else’s reality will be when they walk out of this building,” the rapper told the crowd in Buffalo, New York, according to a video published by TMZ [via MusicNews]. “So for this moment that all of us are together, all 18,000 people, I want you to turn to somebody that you do not know, I want you to look them in the eyes and I want you to prove that you’re grateful for your life.

Just five months after the baseball world mourned the untimely loss of longtime pitcher Tim Wakefield, his wife Stacy has now passed away, too.

Earlier this week, we described “Dune: Part Two” star Rebecca Ferguson as somewhat unpredictable and always outspoken, always willing to boldly speak her mind no matter the consequences. This was in reference to Ferguson, candidly sharing with The Playlist in a recent interview that the actress herself had decided to leave the “Mission Impossible” franchise after her three-picture deal had ended, and then the filmmakers decided to kill off her character.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Jack Harlow has announced the lineup for his two-day Gazebo Festival, scheduled to take place on May 25-26 in his native Louisville, KY. Gazebo Festival is slated to touch down at Louisville’s Waterfront Park, featuring 26 acts across two stages.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “I don’t know if you guys know this, but I just turned 21,” Olivia Rodrigo told her audience during the opening show of her 2024 tour Friday night. (They knew.) “I’m really fucking excited about it — big birthday.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The roll that country star Jelly Roll is on will make itself felt in arenas in the late summer and fall of 2024, as the singer has laid out an itinerary that has him headlining big-sized halls in 37 U.S. cities over a two-month period. The “Beautifully Broken” tour starts Aug.

Raine Allen Miller’s debut feature Rye Lane, Adjani Salmon’s Dreaming Whilst Black, and Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical were among the top winners at the sixth edition of the CDG Casting Awards. Scross down for the full list of winners.  

IFPI’s annual 2023 Global Recording Artists of the year list has been released, and this list gives an interesting look into the music industry!

Ella Beatty, currently appearing in the FX series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, will make her Broadway debut in Appropriate when the hit Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play transfers to the Belasco Theatre next month.

Colossal Biosciences, the company bringing wooly mammoths and other extinct species back to life, and production partner Teton Ridge Entertainment are teaming with acclaimed filmmaker James Reed on a multiyear docuseries.

The Devil Wears Prada.” The role was iconically brought to life in the original film by Meryl Streep. Anne Hathaway looks back at the moments she regrets from her Hollywood careerAnne Hathaway and Emily Blunt reunite after 17 years of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ releaseA post shared by Vanessa Williams (@vanessawilliamsofficial)The announcement was made on social media, with Williams and the production’s official Instagram account sharing a clip of her walking inside the Runway Magazine office and sitting down to work.