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November 17, 2024

Directors remake 'Sunset Blvd.,' 'Romeo + Juliet' and 'Our Town' for a new Broadway era

New Broadway revivals of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Blvd," Shakespeare's "Romeo + Juliet" and Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" test how far these works can be refashioned for modern sensibilities.

Keke Palmer isn't worried about Keke Palmer. Why is everyone else?

Actor Keke Palmer, of "Akeelah and the Bee" and "Nope" fame, used to let other people control her story. No longer, as she explains in her new memoir "Master of Me."

Sting on his new trio, his old friend Billy Joel and why he'll never wear spandex

The musician and former Police frontman talks about his life and career.

Josh Rivera tells how Aaron Hernandez's CTE and sexuality informed 'American Sports Story' finale

The star of FX's limited series explains why he felt a sense of ownership over the show and how a scene provided an "acknowledgment of the complexity" of Hernandez's life.

Demi Moore: Ghosts, dreams and the tiniest dog you've ever met

With "The Substance," the star has a hit movie that speaks to the "violence we can have against ourselves in the pursuit of some idea of perfection."

Ted Danson and Mike Schur celebrate 'living a bigger life' with age in 'A Man on the Inside'

Schur and Danson have reunited for a tender, humorous meditation on loneliness and the search for late-in-life purpose with Netflix's "A Man on the Inside."

Wendi McLendon-Covey's side job kept her grounded and fed into her role on 'St. Denis Medical'

After playing overbearing mother Beverly in "The Goldbergs" for years, Wendi McLendon-Covey was ready for a departure. She found it in NBC's new mockumentary series as an oddball boss.

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