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'Emilia Pérez' and 'Wicked' advance in Oscars shortlists
The Selena Gomez ballad “Mi Camino,” the Will Ferrell and Harper Steele road trip documentary “Will & Harper” and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s pulsating “Challengers” score are one step closer to an Oscar nomination. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled...
How the Roxies are made: Behind the iconic role in Broadway's megahit 'Chicago'
NEW YORK (AP) — There's only one Roxie Hart. And yet — stay with us here — there are many Roxie Harts. The murderous, washed-up chorus girl is the beating, biting heart of Broadway's mainstay musical “Chicago,” but no single actor owns her. She instead belongs to a...
Stage spoofs of Hallmark TV movies are Christmas gifts for theaters
PHOENIX (AP) — A career woman from the big city gets stranded in a quaint town just before Christmas but somehow finds love on the holiday with a prince in disguise ... or a high school crush ... or a widowed father. Sounds like a plot line from a Hallmark Channel holiday movie?...
The Associated Press names its Breakthrough Entertainers of 2024
If there was one thing that united us during a polarized 2024, it was likely the solar eclipse, a reminder of the awesome forces in our galaxy as one star disappeared, albeit briefly. Throughout the year, luckily, we saw the birth of more stars on Earth. Aaron Pierre announced...
AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Myha’la doesn't take being #1 on the call sheet for granted
NEW YORK (AP) — Myha’la is best known for playing a steely, manipulative investment banker on HBO's “Industry,” so the thought of her breaking into song seems antithetical. Yet the graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s prestigious drama school says when she told friends and former...
AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Broadway star Maleah Joi Moon enjoys a 'cupcake' of a year
NEW YORK (AP) — As a young woman, Maleah Joi Moon used to join the crowds outside Broadway stage doors to cheer the stars and maybe get an autograph. Now she's the one that people line up to meet. “It all feels like a very vivid dream, if that makes sense,” says the New...
10 new TV shows from 2024 that are worth watching before the new year
It could be argued that 2024 wasn't the best year for television. Highly anticipated shows like the final season of “Stranger Things," “The Last of Us” and “The White Lotus” didn't even make it on the calendar and will instead return in 2025. Streamers and networks...
'Emilia Pérez' leads Golden Globe nominations with 10, followed by 'The Brutalist' and 'Conclave'
Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical “Emilia Pérez,” about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirming surgery, led nominations to the 82nd Golden Globes on Monday, scoring 10 nods to lead it over other contenders like the musical smash “Wicked,” the papal thriller “Conclave”...
Kate Hamill delivers a 'feminist primal scream' with her new play 'The Light and the Dark'
NEW YORK (AP) — The inspiration for Kate Hamill's latest play came from across centuries and the planet. The actor-playwright was honeymooning in Italy in 2020 when she walked into the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and spotted a painting by pioneering Baroque painter Artemisia...
'Anora,' 'I Saw the TV Glow' lead Spirit Award nominations
“Anora,” Sean Baker’s odyssey of a New York stripper, and Jane Schoenbrun’s psychological horror “I Saw the TV Glow” dominated nominations for the Film Independent Spirit Awards with six nods each, including best film and best director. The nonprofit organization announced nominations...
