When Mart Crowley’s 1968 play The Boys in the Band came to Broadway in 2018, it made history. For the first time, the production — directed by Tony-winner Joe Mantello — featured only openly gay actors. The production won a Tony for Best Revival of a Play in 2019 and …
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“I used to be a lot of things,” Army wife Jenny (Faith Alabi) admits. “Then I stopped being a lot of things. Truth is, I don’t know who I am anymore.” Jenny’s dilemma is one that applies to every character in We Are Who We Are, a lyrical coming-of-age drama …
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Marvel Studios and ABC will celebrate the life of Chadwick Boseman Sunday night, August 30th, with the network television debut of Black Panther followed by a tribute special to the late actor. Black Panther will air commercial-free on the network beginning at 8 p.m., with the blockbuster immediately followed by …
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Amy Poehler is set to direct a documentary on comedy husband-and-wife duo Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz for Imagine Documentaries and White Horse Pictures, the two companies announced Monday. The film, under the working title Lucy & Desi, will explore the rise of comedian icon Lucille Ball, her relationship with Desi …
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Known as the Russell Crowe road-rage movie, Unhinged hits theaters — or at least the ones that dare to open stateside — on August 21st. Is it worth going masked and still risk infection to sit in a poorly ventilated multiplex, no matter how socially distanced, to see Crowe play …
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Quarantining with the Osbournes is a lot like quarantining with anyone else. “It’s kind of just fucking boring with this pandemic shit,” Ozzy exclaims drolly. “It’s great at first, and then you get on each other’s nerves; then it’s great again,” says his wife and manager, Sharon. “Then the cycle …
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Hulu shared the second trailer form Season 2 of its offbeat comedy series Pen15 Friday as part of the streaming service’s CTAM Press Tour. “Pen15 is an R-rated ‘traumedy’ set in middle school as it really happened in the year 2000,” Hulu says of the series. “Anna Konkle and Maya …
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John Oliver delivered a detailed and devastating look at China’s treatment of the Uighurs, a predominately Muslim ethnic minority in northwest China, on Last Week Tonight. The Uighurs, as Oliver explained, live primarily in the Xinjiang province; they’re culturally and ethnically distinct from most of the rest of China (which …
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Trevor Noah opened hisDaily Show interview with Jim Carrey with an odd question: “Can you explain what you have written?” Noah had just finished readingCarrey’s new book,Memoirs and Misinformation, and was confused as to whether the contents of the book were truthful or not. And as is his typical style, …
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The Star Trek franchise enters a Rick and Morty-like universe in the new trailer for Star Trek: Lower Decks, an animated comedy series heading to CBS All Access this summer. The show, developed by Rick and Morty vet Mike McMahan, “focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s …
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