Miranda Lambert made sure to stay far away from ex-husband Blake Shelton during the Academy of Country Music Awards on Thursday night!
01.05.2024 - 00:59 / variety.com
Gordon Cox Theater Editor The new musical “Lempicka” has inspired a love-it-or-hate-it response from critics and audiences alike — and its two newly-minted Tony-nominated actors, Eden Espinosa and Amber Iman, love that everyone seems to have strong feelings at all — positive or negative. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: “It’s been a while since a show has taken the risks and the big swings our show has,” said Espinosa, the fan-favorite star nominated for lead actress in a musical. Speaking on the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast, she continued, “The show is so epic.
There’s so much information. It’s brand new. And because of that, it’s going to stir different things in different people.
That is the kind of art that I always want to be a part of. So I’m just happy people are feeling strongly either way about it, honestly.” She added, “Art is supposed to spark debate and controversy, and sometimes be polarizing.” Iman, up for featured actress in a musical, noted that one of the things that audiences have responded to has been the casting of their two roles. “You have a show led by two women of color, which you’re not seeing anywhere else,” Iman said.
“Some girls said to me last night, ‘I feel like I have a future in musical theater because of this.’ These girls whose voices are large or different or they do something that people don’t know what to do with. Now they’re like, ‘Oh, I can do that show. I can be like them.’ It’s really touching a lot of people.” Espinosa and Iman spoke to “Stagecraft” before the Tony nominations were announced Tuesday morning.
Miranda Lambert made sure to stay far away from ex-husband Blake Shelton during the Academy of Country Music Awards on Thursday night!
EXCLUSIVE: Andy Wilman looks like a man who’s not seen sunlight for a while. Peering down the barrel of a Zoom call, he’s got a touch of man flu after a spell in his editing bunker. Wilman is perpetually “in an edit.” He’s currently honing the final episode of The Grand Tour, but he could just as well be looking at rushes from Clarkson’s Farm Season 4. It is his happy place.
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Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned,” the Season 2 premiere of “Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire,” now streaming on AMC+. On the set of AMC’s “Interview With the Vampire,” showrunner Rolin Jones and star Jacob Anderson had a nickname for Anderson’s character, Louis de Pointe du Lac. “We used to call him Cuddles the Vampire,” Jones tells Variety with a laugh. But notice the past tense.
Robinne Lee dropped by a local L.A. news station for an interview promoting her role in “Fifty Shades Darker,” the second film in the steamy series based on books by E.L. James.
Coronation Street star Andy Whyment found himself addressing concerns about his welfare despite being seen living the noughties dream on a night out with his wife. The actor spent his weekend break away from the cobbles jumping on Manchester's new Bee Network and heading into town for the night.
The 2024 Tony Awards ceremony is one month away and the nominees gathered at a luncheon to celebrate their accomplishments!
Saffron Lempriere has found herself in the middle of drama on the latest season of TOWIE, which saw chaos brew when Dan Edgar and Ella Rae Wise embarked on a romance, to the dismay of Dan's recent ex Amber Turner. Weighing in to give her opinion on the situation during an exclusive chat with OK!, Saffron admitted that she has recently made up with Amber after years of animosity, leaving her in the middle of her pal Ella and Amber.The 31-year-old shared: "Me and Amber [Turner, Dan’s ex-girlfriend] have just settled our differences after many years, so I see both sides. But Ella’s really happy and hasn’t done anything wrong.
Holland Taylor and Ana Villafañe will star in the Off Broadway world premiere of Mario Correa’s new play N/A this summer, playing congresswomen of different generations in a production directed by Tony winner Diane Paulus.
The Roast of Tom Brady” was more like a raging inferno.Airing Sunday on Netflix, the show was filthy and vulgar. It was inappropriate and shocking. It was uncomfortable.
Former Love Island star Chris Hughes has shared his joy as one of his horses, named Annie, gave birth to an adorable baby foal.The reality star-turned sports presenter is big into horse racing and, thus, is into horses too, so, naturally, he was thrilled at the new addition to his life. Posting on Instagram, he shared a snap of chestnut mare, Annie, lying in the hay alongside her newborn baby foal, as he gushed: "The BEST news to wake to! Annie had her first foal this morning, at 5.15am and we couldn’t be happier.
Alex Ritman Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy have joined the cast of magical family adventure feature “The Magic Faraway Tree,” based on Enid Blyton’s beloved children’s classic. The film — from Neal Street Productions, Elysian Film Group and Ashland Hill Media Finance — has been adapted by BAFTA winner Simon Farnaby (“Wonka” and “Paddington 2”) and will be directed by Ben Gregor (“Britannia,” “Cuckoo”). Palisades Park Pictures are handling sales in Cannes.
Cher is a living legend, and at 77, she continues to make headlines. The singer has been dating 38-year-old singer Alexander Edwards, since 2022, and their age gap has fascinated many.In a recent interview with Jennifer Hudson, the “Believe” singer, revealed the hilarious and straightforward reason why dates younger men.
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In this week’s episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo gets swept up in the whirlwind romance at the heart of “The Idea of You” with writer/director Michael Showalter (“The Big Sick,” “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” “Wet Hot American Summer”). The movie is based on the book of the same name and follows a forty-year-old woman reeling from a divorce who stumbles into a romance with a twenty-something singer from the world’s biggest boy band.
Anitta didn’t think much about her death. Despite growing up in the notorious favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian multi-hyphenate just knew that her life would be as glamorous as she always imagined: she would sing, dance and act her way to global stardom.