‘Sweeney Todd’ review: Josh Groban is a gentle demon on Broadway

The critically-acclaimed HBO Max comedy series “The Other Two” returns with its third season next month. Starring Heléne Yorke, Drew Tarver, Case Walker, and Molly Shannon, the show was created by former “Saturday Night Live” co-head writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider.

Love Is Blind is coming under even more fire!

Fox News is draining the swamp!

Desiigner is facing the law after exposing himself to a flight attendant.

parting ways, and the reactions range in creativity on Twitter.“This is an earth-shaking moment in cable news,” Brian Stelter wrote.Jon Stewart simply tweeted the eyes emoji staring off suggestively. Another user tweeted a photo of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen doing the three finger salute from “The Hunger Games” which serves as a send-off, especially when Rue (Amandla Stenberg) dies.The announcement of Don Lemon’s exit from CNN has spawned even more tweets about the coincidental firings of two major news anchors.“MSNBC executive leadership scrambling to figure out who they should fire today to keep pace with rivals at Fox and CNN,” wrote Jake Whitaker.Another user posted a Simpson’s gif that fits the current situation at the news networks.One user called Carlson’s exit the “succession season finale stunner.”Another Twitter user touted the recent “Succession” storyline that had Kerry vying for an on-air role saying, “It’s her time.” Several people connected Carlson’s departure to this plotline of the hit HBO show.Cliff Schecter wrote a verse set to “We Didn’t Start the Fire” about Fox:Still another user called the announcement “The end of an era” because “Tucker was too much for them to bear. Too much truth about COVID, vaccines, Ukraine, January 6 was probably the last straw.

Meghan Markle publicly showed face for the first time since announcing she would not be attending King Charles' coronation on May 6. Markle, 41, appeared via video to introduce her friend and photographer Misan Harriman ahead of his TED Talk.

William Earl Jackie Chan contains multitudes. Although many American filmgoers know Chan best for his Hollywood blockbusters (the “Rush Hour” franchise, 2000’s “Shanghai Noon”) and family-friendly fare (2010’s “The Karate Kid,” voicing Master Monkey in the “Kung Fu Panda” series), his profound impact on global cinema cannot be denied.

Angelique Jackson Christina Hodson (“The Flash,” “Bumblebee”) and Oren Uziel (“The Lost City,” “22 Jump Street”) will co-write the next ‘Fast and Furious’ movie with “Fast X” helmer Louis Leterrier returning to direct. The 11th film in the Vin Diesel-starring franchise will mark Hodson and Uziel’s first official collaboration together. Last week, Variety exclusively revealed that “The Transporter” helmer would return to serve as director of the next installment of “Fast and Furious” franchise, which serves as a companion film to “Fast X,” opening May 19. Hodson is represented by CAA and Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment; Uziel is repped by Curate and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light LLP.

Adele and James Corden reunited for the last  segment, and it was a wondrously touching final drive.In the 21-minute long video, the «Someone Like You» songstress surprises the  host in his home before the duo buckles up and takes a drive down memory lane, reminiscing on previous guests like Mariah Carey and Stevie Wonder, and giving viewers an intimate peek inside their close friendship.Adele reveals that Corden and his wife, Julia, have been her two greatest confidantes for years, especially after she relocated to Los Angeles after her split from Simon Konecki, the father of her son, Angelo. The singer explains that a conversation between her and Corden inspired the song «I Drink Wine,» which she boasts has some of her «best writing.»   «We'd been on vacation together with the kids and we were on our way home and my mood had changed. And it was the first year that I felt like I had to hold myself accountable for being an adult whereas the year before that, I had just left Simon and stuff like that,» she recalls.

Tucker Carlon's departure from Fox News on Monday, CNN revealed that it has «parted ways» with longtime anchor Don Lemon, who had become the subject of controversy while co-hosting . According to an email from CNN CEO Chris Licht, «Don will forever be a part of the CNN family, and we thank him for his contributions over the past 17 years. We wish him well and will be cheering him on in his future endeavors.» Following the announcement, Lemon took to Twitter to share that he was «stunned» by the decision. «I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN,» he shared in a statement posted on the social media platform.

star Tori Roloff shared a series of pictures featuring her, her husband, Zach Roloff, and their three children.«Little bread-and-butterflies kiss the tulips, and the sun is like a toy balloon.

Tucker Carlson and Fox News have agreed to part ways, the media company said in a statement on Monday, less than a week after Fox News and parent company Fox Corp FOXA.O settled a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million.

Delivered in partnership with Healthy Valleys, NHS Lanarkshire’s family education and learning programme has received £150,000 of Scottish Government funding to continue working with families to improve their health and wellbeing.

A police investigation is underway after a woman awoke to a naked man sitting next to her on a train to Edinburgh.

A councillor is calling for close scrutiny of flood mitigation measures in plans to halve Craigie Hill Golf Course and develop a community sports hub and 200 homes.

Meghan Markle has issued a statement and put to bed some rumours about the reason she's not attending the King's coronation. The mum-of-two denied the issue was because of a letter she sent expressing concern over unconscious bias in the royal family, writes The Mirror.

Tesco customers should know the supermarket giant is making some big changes that will affect online shoppers.

Bella Thorne, the Cuban-American multi-talented actress, radio host, entrepreneur, writer and director, who has rightfully earned the title of Coachella Queen, spoke to HOLA! USA in an exclusive interview. The 25-year-old candidly opened up and discussed a variety of things, from all her current projects, the festival, her Latin heritage, fashion and film.

Willie Nelson.On April 29-30, the legendary country singer is going all out for his 90th putting on a two-day concert at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl featuring some of the biggest names in music to help him celebrate his entry into life as a nonagenarian.Just a few of the superstars taking part in the festivities include Neil Young, Chris Stapleton, Snoop Dogg, Kacey Musgraves and The Chicks.That’s not all though.Mega headliners like Beck, The Lumineers, Sheryl Crow, Billy Strings and Miranda Lambert will be there too.Heck, even Roseanne Cash and Tom Jones are performing.We’re still barely scratching the surface — there are still 17 more huge acts you won’t want to miss.And the best part of all is you can still grab last-minute tickets.At the time of publication, two-day passes to the the multi-day extravaganza start at $303 before fees on Vivid Seats.For those that want to get up close and personal, tickets are a bit more expensive.$3971 before fees is the cheapest pass in the section closest to the stage.But if you love the Red Headed Stranger, you can’t put a price on seeing him live.Need to know more about the year’s biggest birthday bash?We’ve got all the details for you below.As noted earlier, Nelson really has invited the entire industry to the party.In addition to the musicians listed above, here’s who is set to perform at his 90th Birthday Party on April 29-30 (the highlighted artists are currently on tour; you can find more information about their tours by clicking on them):Allison RussellBob WeirCharley CrockettEdie BrickellLeon BridgesLukas NelsonLyle LovettMargo PriceNathaniel RateliffNorah JonesOrville PeckParticle KidSturgill SimpsonThe Avett BrothersTyler ChildersWarren HaynesZiggy MarleyYou can find the

shared a steamy picture of himself Saturday wearing nothing but a cowboy hat and a handcuff necklace while on the set of his Amazon Prime show “Outer Range.” “Prepping for a scene for Outer Range Season 2. We are taking things in a different direction now,” teased the 55-year-old in the caption. “It’s a shifting world and we have to be sensitive to all.

Taylor.After another dazzling weekend of high-profile ‘Eras Tour’ concerts at Houston’s NRG Stadium, mega pop star Swift will swing into Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium on April 28, April 29 and April 30.And, as you may have expected, tickets are not cheap.At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on seats at the Falcons’ stadium turned Taylor’s home for a single weekend was $724 before fees on Vivid Seats.That’s quite a bit heftier a price tag than when we originally reported on ticket prices for the shows and prices started at $455 before fees.However, given the glowing reviews for the ‘Eras Tour,’ elaborate costume changes, stunning set design and relationship drama surrounding Taylor, it’s obvious:Swift truly puts a show you can’t put a price on — these aren’t concerts; they’re events.Want to know more about how to see Taylor live in Atlanta from April 28-30?Keep reading.We’ve got everything you need to know and more below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete breakdown of all the best prices on upper-deck, lower-level and floor seats for each of Taylor’s three Atlanta concerts can be found below.(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time.

ABC revealed.The much-anticipated crossover will air on ABC at 9 p.m. following the “Jeopardy! Masters” tournament, which will see the return of some of the game’s top contestants, including Amy Schneider, Matt Amodio, Mattea Roach, Andrew He, Sam Buttrey and James Holzhauer. Fans are thrilled to get to see Jennings, 48, Bialik, 47, and White, 66, face off in the game show, solving puzzles to win $1 million for charity.A thread on the “Jeopardy!” Reddit forum even has people making predictions.“Watch Vanna absolutely smoke both of them and leave us all confused,” one person said, to which another quipped in response, “She does have all the answers.”Someone said seeing White win wouldn’t be surprising considering “she’s spent decades studying by way of being on the show.”“Vanna knows the writers’ thought processes when creating puzzles. Pat [Sajak] has said she even submits puzzles of her own for possible use on the show.

told Sky News. Wootton noted that the recent news of Markle, 41, penning letters to King Charles III, 74, about her concerns of racism in the royal family seems conveniently timed as the coronation draws closer.While Prince Harry, 38, attends his father’s big day solo, Markle will stay behind in California with their kids Prince Archie, 3, and Princess Lilibet, 1. “What they wanted wasn’t achieved,” a source told People, referring to a family reconciliation.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Only a few months have passed since Ice Spice and PinkPantheress locked in their first top 10 single with “Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2,” and now the two rising stars front a new Skims campaign, alongside singers Nessa Barret and Raye. “I’m excited to launch this next generation of Skims shapewear with a campaign that celebrates these incredible musical artists,” Kim Kardashian said in a statement. “Ice Spice, Nessa Barrett, Pinkpantheress, and Raye are super talented women and truly reflect our Skims community.” The campaign is composed of minimalistic earth-toned imagery, featuring each of the artist’s modeling the brand’s newest assortment of shapewear such as the Seamless Sculpt Brief Bodysuit, Seamless Sculpt Catsuit, Seamless Sculpt Bandeau and Seamless Sculpt Shorts — all available to shop on the Skims website starting Apr. 27.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to star in “Expendables 4” filmmaker Scott Waugh’s upcoming action thriller “Breakout,” which Anton will sell at the upcoming market in Cannes.  Schwarzenegger will lead “Breakout” in the role of Terry Reynolds. After Terry’s stepson is framed and sentenced to serve 25 years in a foreign country, he makes it his mission to break him out of jail. Terry will have to dodge prison wardens and the race of time if he wants to aid his stepsons flee from the country.  “Breakout” serves as Schwarzenegger’s return to action films since the blockbuster franchise installment “Terminator: Dark Fate” and ahead of his Netflix series “Fubar,” which is set to release in May. 

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s “Black Flies” starring Sean Penn, and Catherine Corsini’s “Le retour” have been added to the competition lineup of the upcoming 76th Cannes Film Festival. As many as 13 movies have been peppered across several sections, including the competition, special screening, Un Certain Regard and out of competition. Robert Rodriguez’s “Hypnotic” and Kim Tae-gon’s “Project Silence” are joining the Midnight Screening roster, while Amat Escalante’s Mexican drama “Perdidos en la Noche” and Argentinian helmer Lisandro Alonso’s thriller “Eureka” starring Viggo Mortensen and José María Yazpik, will bow at Cannes Premiere, a non-competitive section launched in 2021. Alonso previously won Cannes’ Un Certain Regard with his 2014 movie “Jauja.” Also slated for Cannes Premiere is Valerie Donzelli’s drama “L’Amour et les forets.”

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The Apple drama series “Truth Be Told” is done after three seasons at the streamer. Series star Octavia Spencer announced the news in a statement on her Instagram account. “Hey y’all. I wanted to share the news that after three seasons of seeking truth and justice, Poppy Scoville is going on a much-needed vacation,” she wrote. “I want to thank my partners at Orit Entertainment, Hello Sunshine, Chernin Entertainment, Fifth Season, and everyone at Apple for being so supportive over the past three seasons. Nichelle Tramble, Maisha Closson, Mikkel Norgaard and our incredible cast and crew – thank you for your creative vision during this incredible journey. Poppy Scoville signing off.”

The Italian embassy got dressed up Monday night, April 3, to celebrate Signature Theatre’s 2023 Sondheim Award honoree, theater legend, and homegrown D.C. icon, Chita Rivera.

With two weeks left in its 35-year Broadway run, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera posted a huge box office gross last week of $3,247,106, nearly 10% of Broadway’s total take for the seven-day period ending April 2.

Broadway’s The Phantom of the Opera had yet another smashing, down-to-the-wire week at the Majestic, grossing more than $3 million for the second consecutive week as the countdown to its April 16 closing continues.

The Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd is officially open!

In a Broadway season that might be remembered for a lovely, pared-down minimalism – the intriguing starkness of A Doll’s House with Jessica Chastain, the less-is-more near-concert-style presentations of Into the Woods and Parade – director Thomas Kail’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will stand out for, among many other attributes, its full-on, unabashed ambition. A prodigious theatrical event that aims for greatness and achieves it, this revival of the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler masterpiece is not to be missed.

Naveen Kumar The cannibalist startup in “Sweeney Todd” kills two birds: For Sweeney, the ruined barber who holds a grudge as steadily as he does a blade, it means turning enemies into actual mincemeat. For Mrs. Lovett, who laments that alley cats were too quick and meager to carve up anyway — well, it’s a living, innit love?  Slitting throats and baking bodies into pies is a wild and wicked business. But in the stately and star-filled revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s macabre 1979 musical that opened on Broadway Sunday night, the people-to-pastries pipeline quickly assumes a grim air of mundanity.  For its stars Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford, this lushly orchestrated and opera-scale production, from “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail, proves a magnificent showcase for their respective, jaw-dropping talents. Groban’s weighted-blanket baritone makes the prospect of reclining in his company and never waking up again seem like a great way to go. And Ashford’s fleet, agile instinct for comedy, which earned her a Tony Award for “You Can’t Take It With You,” is like a dippy bird for dopamine. But only one of them is a genuine thrill.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic It’s an interesting, telling choice that “Up Here,” Hulu’s new musical sitcom starring Mae Whitman and Carlos Valdes, is set in 1999. Not merely is the turn of the century, according to the roughly 20-year nostalgia cycle, currently in vogue, but the particular sort of moment the Y2K era was lends texture and meaning to the story “Up Here” tells. Assaying a time just before the social web allowed loners to find one another, “Up Here” presents a winning and lovely pair of oddballs singing their hearts out, in disbelief at having found one another. Here, Whitman plays Lindsay, who was lectured in childhood to shield her spiky and odd side from peers in order to be liked. “You show people the nice parts, because believe me, that’s all that people want to see,” her mother (Katie Finneran) tells her; grown up, she’s terrified to show vulnerability at all.

Patti LuPone, 73, has nine huge shows remaining on her ongoing ‘Don’t Monkey With Broadway Tour’ all over the U.S.That includes two stops in the Garden State followed by a pair in New York.First, the three-time Tony winner will belt standards by Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and more at Englewood, NJ’s Bergen Performing Arts Center on Thursday, March 23.Then, on March 25, she’ll perform at New Brunswick’s State Theatre.Come summer time, the tour will drop into Poughkeepsie’s Bardavon Opera House on June 17.For those willing to wait over a year, you can see the show in Manhattan — ‘Don’t Monkey With Broadway’ is scheduled for a night at Carnegie Hall on April 8, 2024. And the best news of all is you won’t have to pay Broadway-like prices to see LuPone live on the road.At the time of publication, we found some seats going for as low as $58 before fees on Vivid Seats.So, if you want to see LuPone deliver what Front Row Reviewers called “autobiographical snippets (and) powerful song(s)” live, here’s everything you need to know.A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to the cheapest tickets available for all remaining concerts can be found below.(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time.

Pacific Overtures (★★★★☆) sounds doubly refreshing to ears eager to venture somewhere less familiar in Sondheim-land.The score, with music and lyrics by Sondheim, also simply sounds lovely filling the openness of director Ethan Heard’s in-the-round staging, grazing the graceful, watercolor-hued screens set designer Chika Shimizu has wrapped around the Max Theatre. Alexander Tom conducts a nine-piece orchestra — complete with a booming taiko war drum — that breathes vitality into those plunking, repeated quarter notes that so sing of Sondheim.Heard’s talented cast sings with passion, too, caressing the stories inside the songs to find touching notes of humor, pathos, pride, and prejudice.