NEW YORK — As fans of “The Crown” know well, the British writer Peter Morgan is singularly adept at explaining how the most basic human emotions — pride, pique, greed, sexual need, raging insecurity — impact magnitudinous global events. In “Patriots,” Morgan’s newest Broadway play, he turns his attention to the Kremlin and the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Kid Cudi is just chilling since he busted his ankle on the final night of the Coachella music festival in Indio last weekend. And he’s keeping it positive, even though the injury might affect his upcoming tour.

“Layin n bed w my moms like when I was a kid,” the rapper — born Scott Mescudi — wrote Tuesday morning on ...Read more

Rapper Chris King is being remembered by former housemate Justin Bieber, and other stars, after he was fatally shot in Nashville, Tennessee, last weekend. He was 32.

The Snotty Nose Records CEO and founder, born Christopher Cheeks, was found in the parking garage of the Hayes Street Hotel and transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center,...Read more

NEW YORK — The 2024 season of the Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage will officially kick off with a free concert performed by Andra Day in Central Park on June 1.

The Grammy Award-winning singer is one of the featured headliners for this year’s outdoor performing arts festival, which will include close to 100 free and benefit ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At the start of her career, Anne Hathaway said she didn't want to be labeled "difficult" so she went along with some of the crazy things the Hollywood audition process threw at her.

One such thing, the "Les Misérables" Oscar winner said, involved chemistry tests that required her to kiss several actors. It was a "normal" ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The death of contemporary Christian singer Mandisa, the “American Idol” alum whose body was found in her home last week, is still being investigated by police in Tennessee.

“At this time, there is no indication the death was the result of suspicious or criminal activity,” public information manager Max Winitz of the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Actor Alec Baldwin smacked away a phone belonging to an anti-Israeli protester who cornered him at a Manhattan coffee shop demanding he say “Free Palestine,” a recently surfaced video of the exchange shows.

Unshaven and talking on his cellphone, Baldwin, 66, is minding his own business at the coffee shop when the protester ...Read more

Is there anyone in cinema right now who has a gaze as coolly assured as Zendaya’s? In Luca Guadagnino’s tennis love triangle “Challengers,” she owns the movie and the camera, eyeing it as if daring it to reveal her thoughts. As Tashi Duncan, a tennis megastar-turned-coach after an injury, she’s utterly believable as a young woman ...Read more

Italian director Luca Guadagnino has become an art house darling over the past 15 years, making films about desire, longing, relationships and identity that have resonated with audiences and catapulted his actors to superstardom. His latest film, “Challengers” is his biggest yet, starring Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor in a steamy ...Read more

By the time Luca Guadagnino’s erotically charged tennis film “Challengers” reaches its breathless, sweaty, pulse-pounding and deeply satisfying climax, you’ll be reaching for a cigarette, so to speak. Rarely is a film so sensorially captivating, every element of cinema, including script, cinematography, editing, score and performance ...Read more

Sydney Sweeney isn't letting critics ruin a vacation filled with "good times and tan lines."

That's how the "Madame Web" and "Immaculate" actor captioned a post on Sunday that could be construed as a subtle clapback to producer Carol Baum's disparaging comments about her talent and looks earlier this month.

The "Euphoria" actor posted a series...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The massive LED video screen that forms the interior surface of Sphere can be used to transport audiences to the tops of mountains, to outer space, to beneath the feet of an elephant standing as tall as a 20-story building.

On Friday night, Phish turned the place into a car wash.

Playing the second date in a sold-out four-night ...Read more

In the remote Alaskan village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, students are allowed 10 excused absences a year for subsistence activities, primarily hunting. “If you don’t do subsistence activities, you die,” says the school principal in the documentary “One with the Whale,” airing this week on public television as ...Read more

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

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23: The Beekeeper

23: Drive-Away Dolls

23: American Star

23: Harley Quinn: The Complete Fourth Season

23: Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 2

23: Monolith

23: I Am Cuba

30: Mean Girls (2024)

30: Mean Girls (2004)

30: Madame...Read more

Two years ago, Swifties were Googling Joni Mitchell due to “whispers” of Taylor Swift portraying the folk legend in a biopic.

Mitchell responded with “If she’s going to sing and play me, good luck.” But that’s neither here nor there.

The association inspired many among her fan base to dig into one of the greatest singer-songwriters...Read more

Celine Dion has objectives as she battles Stiff Person Syndrome.

“I want to be the best I can be, ” Dion says in an interview in the new edition of Vogue France. “My goal is to see the Eiffel Tower again!”

A return to live performance, someday, is also motivating the superstar resident of Lake Las Vegas. But while Dion is steadfast in ...Read more

By any reasonable measure, David Fincher had made it by 1990. He was directing rapturous music videos for Madonna ("Express Yourself," "Vogue") and doing lucrative ads for top brands worldwide. The production company he co-founded, Propaganda Films, had cornered the MTV market, helping launch the careers of such future notables as Spike Jonze ...Read more

An updated take on a beloved high school comedy tops the DVD releases for the week of April 23.

"Mean Girls": An adaptation of the musical based on the 2004 film, starring Angourie Rice as Cady Heron and Reneé Rapp as Regina George.

"There’s a lot of fun onscreen in this 'Mean Girls' ... but it also feels like a condensed skim of the story ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The release of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department introduced a new crowd to vintage typewriters last week. But a lack of understanding around how the machines were first built is causing a flurry of miscalculated fan theories.

In promotional videos for Swift’s new album, she’s seen using an old typewriter. When ...Read more