‘Illinoise’ review: Moving Broadway show is about love, loss — and dance

Selena Kuznikov Jessica Gunning, who plays the haunting stalker Martha in Netflix’s “Baby Reindeer,” says creator and star Richard Gadd was on her radar even before she auditioned for the show — ever since she saw his one-man show “Monkey See Monkey Do” at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. “I just thought it was one of the most profound things I’ve ever seen really on stage,” she said. “Then I tried to go and see ‘Baby Reindeer’ the play, but it was sold out.

EXCLUSIVE: Phil Keoghan, host of The Amazing Race and Tough As Nails, is plotting another unscripted competition series for CBS.

Donald Glover and Maya Erskine on their own are forces to be reckoned with in Prime Video‘s Mr. and Mrs. Smith. But when they have to face off against one another, things really heat up.

Michal Douglas has shared his thoughts on intimacy coordinators, who liaise between the actors and producers while filming sensitive scenes.

Ryan Boyajian, who along with fiancée Jennifer Pedranti appears on The Real Housewives of Orange County, is reportedly caught up in the $16 million gambling and theft scandal surrounding the former interpreter of Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani.

Shohei Ohtani‘s former interpreter has agreed to plead guilty to two federal charges for stealing nearly $17 million from the Dodger slugger’s bank account to pay off illegal gambling debts, prosecutors announced today.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) triggered another intra party battle today, as she called for a vote on her motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.

An entertainment division of leading French union CGT has thrown its weight behind Cannes Film Festival and other French festival workers who are intending to strike and protest next week over pay and the nature of employment contracts.

TKO Group Holdings posted better-than-anticipated revenue but saw a March antitrust settlement with UFC fighters squeeze its bottom line.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem embarked this week on one of the more tumultuous book tours in recent memory, as she was peppered with questions about an anecdote about killing her dog Cricket, and another story about meeting North Korean leader Kim Jung Un. Major doubts were raised that the latter story was true.

The Office is to begin filming this summer.Peacock announced today (May 8) that the new, and as yet untitled, series will not be a reboot, as per previous rumours, but will be instead set in the same universe as the US version of the hit show. It will feature a new cast and have its own storyline.The US Office – a reboot of the British mockumentary series starring and created by Ricky Gervais – ran for nine seasons from 2005 to 2013, and followed fictional paper company Dunder Mifflin in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Noel Gallagher has created a playlist spanning Paul Weller’s entire career filled with “two hours of music, anecdotes, and impressions”.The former Oasis member was asked by BBC 6 to create a playlist of his favourite Weller tracks. According to the playlist’s description, Gallagher created a collection of tracks from Weller’s work in “The Jam to recent releases interspersed with personal recollections, anecdotes and impressions.”It continued: “The programme also includes highlights from The Jam recorded live during what Noel Gallagher describes as their ‘imperious phase’ at the Rainbow Theatre in 1979 and the Golders Green Hippodrome in 1981.”Noel was recently asked by @BBC6Music to put together a playlist of his favourite @paulwellerHQ tracks, which you can listen to now via @BBCSounds.

Funeral For A Friend, The Blackout, Holding Absence and more will come together to pay tribute to Linkin Park at a huge show in Birmingham later this year.Taking place at the Utilita Arena on August 18, the show is being put on by the Uprawr Foundation, a local charity founded by an alternative club night in the city to raise money to help provide free mental health counselling and services to the alternative community.The show was christened ‘1,000 Lights’ in reference to Linkin Park’s final album ‘One More Light’. Indeed, the Utilita Arena was the last place late frontman Chester Bennington performed before he took his own life in 2017 at the age of 41.The show will also feature talks and video messages from famous faces in the alternative music world as well as a performance from tribute band Linkin P4rk.Musicians can sign up to participate and will be tasked with fundraising for the charity via JustGiving.

Olivia Rodrigo has announced the Asia and Australia leg of her 2024 ‘Guts’ world tour set to kick off later this year.The Asian leg of the tour will kick off on September 16 at the Impact Arena in Bangkok. From there, the ‘Love Is Embarrassing’ singer will be making stops in Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore.

Ethan Hawke has chastised young people for “not watching more movies” in a new interview.Speaking to MovieMaker, the actor said he can’t understand why they aren’t watching more movies at a time when they are readily available on streaming platforms.He told the publication: “The thing that I don’t understand — and this makes me sound old — but what I don’t understand about young people today is why they don’t watch more movies.“I mean, they’re perfectly willing to binge watch, for weeks of their life, something they know is really super okay, and the Criterion Channel is right there. Like, they could be watching Badlands as we speak,” he told the publication.He also went on to say that he thinks there is a lack of education surrounding great filmmakers.“They don’t know who Fassbinder is and they don’t know who Éric Rohmer is and they don’t know who Kurosawa is.

Hell’s Kitchen. Reviews were fairly solid, and plenty of buzz was generated when the jukebox tuner premiered at the end of last year at New York’s Public Theater.It didn’t even complete its run in January before Keys, along with producers, announced a transfer to Broadway, where it opened in April.New Yorkers — and specifically those who live in the midtown neighborhood the show is named for (now a predominantly gay mecca) — will appreciate that the locality is having a moment in the spotlight.

Olivia Rodrigo will tour Asia and Australia for the first time in her career, the singer announced Wednesday. Rodrigo has added nine international dates to her massive “Guts” world tour for a total of 82 shows globally. The new dates kick off Sept.

Katcy Stephan What really happened during the 48 hours leading up to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — at least according to mob bosses — is heading to the big screen in the upcoming film “November 1963: The Killing of a President.” The mob’s version of events were passed down to Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana’s nephew, Nicholas Celozzi, by Sam’s brother, the late Joseph “Pepe” Giancana, who drove around with his brother Sam during those two days. “The reason why there’s this fascination or anxiety is because people know that what they’ve heard so far doesn’t make sense,” Celozzi tells Variety of the ongoing interest in the circumstances surrounding JFK’s assassination, even 60 years later.

Murtada Elfadl The Millennium Docs Against Gravity Festival, taking place in Warsaw from Friday until May 16, has grown exponentially in the last few years. In fact it is now, as the people behind it proclaim, “the largest cultural event in Poland.” Artistic director Karol Piekarczyk explains, “There is a culture of watching films and of watching films with subtitles in Poland. It’s quite unique.

War for the Planet of the Apes,” continues this damn dirty science-fiction franchise’s reign as one of the best out there.Directed with visual splendor by Wes Ball, the meaty film’s combo of flawless zoological effects (unlike this year’s inferior primate picture “Godzilla x. Kong”), superbly crafted characters and a timeless story of emerging civilization and the fight for survival is remarkably riveting for what sets the groundwork of a whole new trilogy.This enduring series proves that, when handled properly, you just can’t beat talking monkeys.And yap, they do.

Police in San Antonio, Texas are beginning to piece together the awful timeline of a murder-suicide involving a 32-year-old woman and her 3-year-old son — and the details are truly bone chilling. Back on March 19, Savannah Kriger

Travis Kelce has no idea why Jana Kramer is coming for him now! In fact, he has no clue who she even is!

Melanie Martinez — who performs as her alter ego Cry Baby onstage — is kicking off her ‘Trilogy Tour’ at Seattle, WA’s Climate Pledge Arena.Midway through the 35-concert nationwide tour, the 29-year-old “Play Date” singer and Queens native will drop into NYC’s Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, June 5 and Thursday, June 6.At all shows, fans will likely be treated to tracks from Martinez’s three albums — 2015’s “Cry Baby,” 2019’s “K-12” and 2023’s “Portals” — hence, ‘The Trilogy Tour.’And if you want to see her ambitious stage show live, last-minute tickets are available for all upcoming shows.Some are shockingly cheap, too.At the time of publication, our team found tickets going for as low as $26 before fees on Vivid Seats.When you factor in that she’ll be joined by high-profile special guests Men I Trust, Beach Bunny and Sofia Isella on select dates, it’s easy to see how much of a steal catching the ‘Trilogy Tour’ live would be for any Cry Baby.Curious how much tickets will cost at the concert closest to you?We’ve got everything you need to know and more about Melanie Martinez’s 2024 ‘Trilogy Tour’ below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found here:(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday. “I honestly love John Mayer, and he loves me,” Cohen continued. “But because we’re so affectionate toward each other, people don’t know what box to put that in.

Austin City Limits Music Festival.On Oct. 4-6 and then Oct.

GQ. “I identify as a straight man, but I have been a part of some incredible queer stories,” he said in a story published Wednesday.

likening her Vetements look to an Ikea towel, inspiring the Swedish home goods giant to reimagine Doja Cat’s ensemble with their own products, likely costing much less than the cotton couture.“Have you MET the newest addition to our range. Introducing the DÖJA Towel dress,” Ikea UK wrote on Instagram alongside the carousel of images featuring a model parading around an Ikea store while dressed as the “Demons” singer.In one photo, Ikea’s inked model posed in front of a store pushing a branded cart wearing stilettos and a stark white bath towel.

to Pitchfork.Albini is best known for producing Nirvana’s 1993 cult-classic album In Utero, in which he helped craft the record’s abrasive and metallic tones. He is also credited as a pioneer who brought 80s indie outfits like Pixies to the mainstream, leading the way for other underground acts’ success.More recently, the Chicago-based icon produced Foo Fighter’s “Something From Nothing” in 2014.During Albini’s decade career, he engineered multiple underground classics, including The Jesus Lizard’s Goat, PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me, Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy and dozens more.In addition to his production work, Albini was the guitarist and frontman for Shellac — who are set to release To All Trains, their first album in a decade — next week.Albini began his professional music career in 1981 when he founded the often-confrontational punk group Big Black, an aggressive act famous for their industrial use of drum machines and icy guitar riffs.In his final years, the performer criticized exploitative music industry practices, according to Pitchfork.Celebrities across the internet shared their condolences after the rocker’s death.“Ugh man, a heartbreaking loss of a legend.

People magazine. Four days after the restraining order was granted, Valli received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Gleeson has previously terrorized Carrell onscreen (in Hulu’s “The Patient”). The show isn’t returning to Scranton, Pennsylvania.

how the iconic picture of her and Taylor Swift at Coachella went down.“I didn’t want to ask her for a photo because I didn’t want to bother her,” the 51-year-old Bravo star told “E! News.”Giudice explained that her husband, Louie Ruelas, encouraged her to speak with the 34-year-old pop star at the festival on April 13.“Jennifer Aydin [who’s] on my show, she loves her,” Giudice said about her co-star. “I’m like, ‘All right. I’m doing this for Jennifer Aydin.'”When she finally approached Swift, Giudice awkwardly asked: “Do you know who I am?” When the “Cruel Summer” singer said yes, the rest was history.

exiled royal. As Harry went down the line of spectators, a woman moved one of two phones that she was holding toward Harry’s face. Harry touched the woman’s arm, which prompted her to pull her hands back away from him.

Our Yorkshire Farm's Reuben Owen and his girlfriend Sarah Dow are back on our screens in the brand-new series, and fans are a little concerned about the lovebirds. Reuben, who is becoming a star in his own right following the demise of Our Yorkshire Farm after parents Amanda and Clive Owen split, has set up shop at Ravenseat with his 19 year old belle. In a recent episode, Reuben was training Sarah to manoeuvre diggers for their new venture on the latest episode.

Sienna Miller has been spotted rocking a spring-ready trench coat from Victoria Beckham's Mango collection, with the actress seen out and about in London wearing the 100% Cotton Long Trench Coat, priced at £300 here.The Victoria Beckham X Mango collaboration has been turning heads since its launch, with its unique take on classic styles.The range features deconstructed shapes and unusual details, all crafted from premium materials to reflect the modern woman.Trench coats are a must-have for any fashionista's wardrobe, and this one is a timeless piece that will never go out of style. Despite many items from the collection being sold out, this trench coat is still available in all sizes - perfect for the unpredictable spring weather we're currently experiencing.

Davina McCall doesn’t often call out detractors on social media - so it had clearly got too much for the TV presenter and fitness guru recently, when she furiously hit back at cruel trolls, who slammed her about her weight. Evidently upset at the unwarranted comments she received - after she uploaded a seemingly innocent post about a food shop - the 56 year old was targeted by nasty trolls, who left comments on the mum-of-three’s Insta on a recent Instagram video post, claiming she looked 'too skinny' and 'gaunt' - comments which the My Mum, Your Dad host admitted left her ‘furious’.

The 1% Club was taken off air this weekend following the sad news that contestant Steven Wong passed away shortly after filming the ITV game show.The programme, which is hosted by comedian Lee Mack, had to pause its broadcast after the tragic event. Steven, who nearly snagged a role in the iconic Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom as a child, didn't get to see his episode when the hit show aired last Saturday.The show sees 100 hopefuls compete for a whopping £100,000 prize by answering questions that only 1% of people can get right.