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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Disney’s streaming business is profitable. Has direct-to-consumer hit a turning point? by Tribune News Service

It took billions of dollars in losses, a company-wide overhaul, cost-cutting and price hikes to get there, but Bob Iger and Walt Disney Co. appear to have reached a long-awaited turning poin…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM

What to stream: Catch up on the contenders as award season nears by Tribune News Service

It may be the start of the holiday season, but for many movie lovers, it’s the most wonderful time of the year: awards season. While the awards shows themselves proceed from January (the G…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM

‘Wicked’ movie review: Highly awaited film adaptation takes its time before it soars by Tribune News Service

“Wicked” doesn’t need a movie adaptation to be relevant — it’s already a cultural phenomenon, even before the behemoth two-part film adaptation hits theaters. The beloved Tony-winn…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Rod Stewart announces ‘One Last Time’ tour by Tribune News Service

DETROIT — Legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Rod Stewart is hitting the road "One Last Time," including an Aug. 12 stop at Pine Knob, promoters announced Monday. Tickets for the show go…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Friday, November 15, 2024

Linkin Park’s massive 2025 tour taps Queens of the Stone Age for Dodger Stadium show by Tribune News Service

LOS ANGELES — Linkin Park is expanding its comeback tour, taking their From Zero road show across the globe. The Agoura Hills rap-rock group, which relaunched in September with singer Emil…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM

Sydney Sweeney is no fan of Hollywood girlbosses who ‘fake’ support for other women by Tribune News Service

LOS ANGELES — Sydney Sweeney, since her breakout role in HBO's "Euphoria," has worked to prove she has much more to offer than just her looks. The "White Lotus" actor in recent years has d…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM

This week’s bestsellers from Publishers Weekly by Tribune News Service

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Nov. 9, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Family guide to new movie releases by Tribune News Service

'RED ONE' Rated PG-13 (for action, some violence, and language) What it’s about: Santa Claus is kidnapped right before Christmas, so his head of security and a hacker go looking for him am…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Mel Gibson is in Georgia shooting a drama called ‘Mermaid’ by Tribune News Service

ATLANTA — Mel Gibson is in metro Atlanta shooting a drama that is going by the name “Mermaid.” It’s unclear whether that is the name the producers will use when the film is released.…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Saturday, November 9, 2024

Beyoncé makes history (again) with 11 nominations for 2025 Grammy Awards by Tribune News Service

LOS ANGELES — When Beyoncé took the prize for best dance/electronic album at the Grammy Awards last year with "Renaissance," the pop superstar became the winningest artist in the nearly s…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Friday, November 8, 2024

Judy Greer talks ‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ and loving Livonia by Tribune News Service

It's been awhile since Judy Greer was back in her hometown of Livonia, and she needs some answers. "Is Bates' Burgers still there?" the actress asks almost immediately at the top of a Zoom c…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM

Beatles for sale: Famous ‘Mad Day Out’ photos up for bid at Dallas Auction Gallery by Tribune News Service

DALLAS — In 1968, Tom Murray was a young photographer at The Sunday Times when history landed in his lap. “Don McCullin, the famous war photographer, said he was going to photograph some…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM

‘Hidden gem’ Seattle park is the surprising home of this art show by Tribune News Service

The first thing you notice about Seattle's I-5 Colonnade Park is the light. Or lack thereof: On a clear October morning, the freeway nearly 100 feet overhead eclipsed the sky, leaving only s…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Liam Payne friend, 2 others, charged in connection with his death: report by Tribune News Service

Nearly one month after Liam Payne’s fatal fall from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, three people — including a friend of the One Direction alum — have been charged in an ongoing inves…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:29PM

Who gave the best ‘SNL’ music performances? The Replacements and Prince rank near the top by Tribune News Service

MINNEAPOLIS — In honor of “Saturday Night Live” celebrating its 50th anniversary this fall, list-loving Rolling Stone has ranked the top 50 musical performances on “SNL” and, faste…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

‘Oregon Trail’ computer game being adapted into a movie by Tribune News Service

MINNEAPOLIS — In recent years, Hollywood has been mining Gen-X and millennial nostalgia to make movies based on beloved childhood toys and games. Following the box-office success of Barbie…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Family guide to new movie releases by Tribune News Service

'HERE' Rated PG-13 for thematic material, some suggestive material, brief strong language and smoking. What it’s about: An innovative domestic drama looking at one house and one place from…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

‘Real Housewives’ reality stars don’t do well on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ by Tribune News Service

ATLANTA — The people who vote for their favorite dancers on “Dancing with the Stars” over the years have not been kind to “Real Housewives” contestants. Not a single one has made i…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer reunites with band on Las Vegas Strip by Tribune News Service

LAS VEGAS — Al Greenwood surveyed the backstage scene at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland and became appreciably star struck. The lifelong rock musician was o…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Saturday, October 26, 2024

Nicole Scherzinger was texting Liam Payne on the day he died, calls him a ‘blessing’ to work with by Tribune News Service

Former "X Factor" judge Nicole Scherzinger broke her silence Thursday about the unexpected death of One Direction alum Liam Payne. In a missive addressed to Payne, who died Oct. 16 after plu…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Friday, October 25, 2024

Tyler, the Creator is selling $5 tickets to watch him lip sync at Intuit by Tribune News Service

LOS ANGELES — Tyler, the Creator is bringing his new album — and only his new album — to Inglewood’s Intuit Dome. The genre-blurring Los Angeles musician wrote on X early Thursday th…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Thursday, October 24, 2024

‘Venom: The Last Dance’ review: Trilogy closer stronger than ‘Carnage’ at least by Tribune News Service

Maybe it’s that Sony’s Spider-Man-adjacent “Venom” movie franchise had nowhere to go but up after 2021’s “Venom: Let There Be Carnage.” Maybe I simply can’t help but be drawn…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM

Civil suit against Roman Polanski alleging 1973 child rape won’t go to trial; settlement reached by Tribune News Service

LOS ANGELES — A civil lawsuit brought against Roman Polanski that alleged the filmmaker sexually assaulted a child in the 1970s — a separate case from his conviction for assaulting a 13-…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Friday, October 18, 2024

Jane Fonda to receive the 2025 SAG Life Achievement Award by Tribune News Service

LOS ANGELES — Over her career, Jane Fonda has collected honorary awards from the Cannes and Venice film festivals, the American Film Institute, the Producers Guild of America and, just thr…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Kenny Ortega and Alan Menken revise ‘Newsies’ songs to encourage voting — with lots of cameos by Tribune News Service

Now is the time to seize the day — and vote. Such is the message of a timely and galvanizing "Newsies" short film from Broadway Votes, the national theater industry's nonpartisan get-out-t…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Man shot during filming of Atlanta rapper’s music video files lawsuit by Tribune News Service

ATLANTA — One of three men shot during the filming of a music video for Atlanta rapper Lil Baby at a northwest Atlanta shopping complex has sued the production, security and property compa…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Michael Stipe gives rare performance in Athens at Kamala Harris event by Tribune News Service

ATHENS, Ga. — Juliana Hartley had a peak Athens experience on Thursday. The University of Georgia senior saw Michael Stipe, frontman of the band R.E.M. that famously formed here in the 198…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM

Scrapple Sculpting Contest brings swine artists to Philly market by Tribune News Service

PHILADELPHIA -- You may not be able to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, but on Thursday at Philadelphia's Reading Terminal Market, sculptors made the Rocky statue, a Philly soft pretz…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Friday, October 11, 2024

Combs, Church on Helene benefit: ‘We wish we didn’t have to be having this conversation’ by Tribune News Service

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In the grand scheme of things, fellow North Carolina natives and country music stars Luke Combs and Eric Church are happy to be co-headlining a concert at Bank of America…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM

This week’s bestsellers from Publishers Weekly by Tribune News Service

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Oct. 5, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Harry Partch’s priceless musical instruments return to San Diego after 33-year odyssey by Tribune News Service

SAN DIEGO — A treasure trove of unique musical instruments invented and built by pioneering composer Harry Partch between 1930 and 1972 were quietly returned to San Diego last week, ending…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic