Tina Fey To Host NBC’s ‘One Night Only: The Best of Broadway’ Two-Hour Special

Vanessa Bryant continues to advocate for her late husband Kobe Bryant and their 13-year-old Gianna Bryant following their tragic deaths in 2020. As fans of the famous family already know, Gigi was following in her father’s footsteps and was already a promising basketball prospect in her own right.

Serena Williams is prepared for all outcomes. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the icon and professional tennis player discussed the possibility of retirement and why her father played an important role in her mindset to always have a plan for the future.Serena Williams’ daughter Olympia Ohanian shows off her impressive backhandSerena Williams stopped Ashleigh Barty from retiring with one simple text messageA post shared by Serena Williams (@serenawilliams)“I am prepared for that day, I’ve been prepared for that day for over a decade,” said Williams.

Naomi Osaka is the world’s highest-earning female athlete. The Japanese tennis player appeared in Forbes Magazine’s ranking this past Thursday, earning $57.3 million in prize money and endorsements over the course of the past year.Naomi Osaka acknowledges young fan after winning her first 2021 US Open matchNaomi Osaka’s dream car is the girliest, most glamorous, and magical ride everA post shared by 大坂なおみ (@naomiosaka)The Forbes list showed that the top-earning female athletes were all tennis players, with Osaka occupying first place by a significant margin, followed by Serena and Venus Williams in second and third place, earning $45.9 million and $11.3 million, respectively.

ScHoolboy Q has discussed how the game of golf changed his “mental” and has taught him a lot about life.Since the release of his last album, 2019’s ‘CrasH Talk’, the TDE rapper has been heavily involved in the sport, and more recently he’s been enjoying his time as a player in the 2022 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California.Speaking in a new interview during the competition, Q (real name Quincy Hanley) talked about how golf has impacted him.“Coming where I come from, the life that I had, I never thought about playing golf, and I got into it and it changed my mental,” he said. “It let me learn myself as a person, like this is why certain things in my life are going bad or why certain things are going good because of the attitude thing, you get what I’m saying? It fixed my attitude in life, it fixed a lot of things about me in life.”ScHoolboy added: “Life is a golf game – some good shots, some bad shots.

NME at the BRIT Awards 2022, Lola Young told us about the inspirational amount of female talent in today’s music, what to expect from her “indie” sounding debut album, and trying to run into Adele. Watch our full video interview with Young above.The South Londoner was at the ceremony where she was nominated for the Rising Star Award following the success of her 2021 EP, ‘After Midnight’ and the release of singles, ‘Fake’, ‘Ruin My Make Up’ and ‘Woman’.

A proud support system! As Shaun White made his Beijing Olympics debut in the men’s snowboarding qualifying round, girlfriend Nina Dobrev had a pair of special guests watching the event with her.

Machine Gun Kelly and Willow have shared a video for their new collaboration, ‘Emo Girl’ – you can watch it below.The track is the latest preview from Kelly’s forthcoming new album, ‘Mainstream Sellout’, which is set for release on March 25 and was previously titled ‘Born With Horns’.In the new video, Travis Barker – who has produced Kelly’s upcoming new album – stars as a tour guide for a group of young kids on a field trip to a museum. Once inside, the visiting students find themselves watching MGK and Willow perform via a number of screens dotted around the building.“I fell in love with an emo girl/ I’m in love with an emo girl/ I fell in love with an emo girl/ All I want is an emo girl,” the pair sing on the song’s energetic chorus.As the clip comes to close, both the kids and Barker find they’ve morphed into emo rockers after absorbing the electric energy put out by the pair.You can watch the Drew Kirsch-directed video for ‘Emo Girl’ below:‘Emo Girl’ marks Kelly’s first new single of 2022, and follows on from his August single ‘Papercuts’.

Men below.The movie is the latest from director Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation), also starring Rory Kinnear (No Time To Die) and Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), and is due to arrive in UK cinemas on May 20.The official synopsis for Men reads: “In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper (Buckley) retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her.“What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears in Garland’s feverish, shape-shifting new horror film.”In the trailer, Buckley’s character is scene walking through countryside, peering into tunnels, and repeatedly spotting an eerie figure in the distance.Watch the the trailer for Men below:The new trailer arrives the day after Buckley received her first Oscar nomination, making the Best Supporting Actress list for her performance in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter.Meanwhile, A’Ziah King, who wrote the 2015 Twitter thread that inspired A24’s 2020 film Zola, recently criticised the production company after being excluded from the film’s awards recognition.

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Even the GOAT needs a break. Serena Williams has thought about when she will walk away from her tennis career.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticUPDATED with timeline: The 73rd annual DGA Awards, which will take place on April 10, 2021 much later than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic that has pushed back the annual awards season, has unveiled its key dates and timelines for its 2021 edition.It comes after the Directors Guild settled on the ceremony’s 2021 date back in July.For the Television, Commercial, and Documentary categories, nominees will be announced on March 8, the guild’s awards arm said Monday, with Theatrical Feature Film and First-Time Feature Film noms to be revealed the next day.Here’s the full timeline, per the DGA today: THEATRICAL FEATURE FILMFilms produced under the DGA Basic Agreement with a planned, scheduled,

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticSandy Dvore, the Emmy-winning graphic artist whose whose opening credit designs for such programs as The Young and the Restless, The Partridge Family and The Waltons are among TV’s most recognizable images, died Nov. 20 after a recent diagnosis of bone cancer.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticDespite what you may have read, The Right Girl is not a musical about Harvey Weinstein. Then again, having been created by one of the first women to speak out against the rapist, it’s not not a musical about Harvey Weinstein.Had Broadway not gone dark with the coronavirus pandemic last March, audiences might already be deciding for themselves how much Weinstein there is in the musical’s villain, and how much is Cosby or Lauer or any of the dozen or so famous men melded into the fictional predator The Right Girl calls Paul.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticRobert Garland, a Hollywood screenwriter who began his writing career with episodes of such popular sitcoms as That Girl and Sanford and Son before going on to write the big-screen hits The Electric Horseman and No Way Out, died Nov. 21 in Baltimore.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticSony Music Masterworks has announced a strategic investment in Seaview, the theater production company behind Broadway’s by Jeremy O. Harris and the Jake Gyllenhaal-Tom Sturridge double bill .Under the new agreement, Masterworks is acquiring a 50% ownership position in Seaview and will collaborate on the development of new theatrical productions as well as support Seaview in launching new verticals in film, television, and podcasting in the upcoming year.Greg Nobile, Seaview’s co-founder and C.E.O., will continue to oversee the company’s day-to day operations along with co-founder Jana Shea and Managing Director Carly Callahan.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticA wrongful death lawsuit was filed today in Ventura County Court on behalf of the four-year-old son of drowning victim Naya Rivera, claiming the county failed to adequately warn swimmers of the dangers at Lake Piru.The suit comes four months after the July 8 death of the Glee actress, who was swimming in Ventura County’s Lake Piru with her son, Josey, when the incident occurred. The boy was able to climb back onto the rented boat.The suit, which also names as defendants United Water Conservation District as well as Parks and Recreation Management (PMC), was filed by Josey’s father Ryan Dorsey, along with Naya Rivera’s estate and business manager.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEncores!, the acclaimed series of concert-style theatrical productions founded to rediscover overlooked Broadway gems of years past, announced plans to stage Into The Woods, the beloved Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical that is anything but overlooked.Into The Woods, which has been staged, revived and filmed many times over (including the 2014 feature film starring Meryl Streep and James Corden), will be the first of a new Encores! mission to celebrate iconic American musicals, the New York City Center announced today.No production timeline or target opening was announced; the city’s theater venues remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: Dylan McDermott and Phylicia Rashad will headline a streaming performance of the Tennessee Williams classic The Night of the Iguana, directed by Emily Mann and benefitting the Actors Fund.A presentation of La Femme Theatre Productions, the pre-recorded performance will stream December 2-6 and feature McDermott as Reverand Shannon and Rashad as Maxine. Also in the cast are Roberta Maxwell as Miss Fellowes, Austin Pendleton as Nonno, and Jean Lichty as Hannah, with Keith Randolph Smith, Carmen Berkeley, Eliud Kauffman, Julio Macias, Stephanie Schmiderer, Bradley James Tejeda and John Hans Tester.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThoughts of a Colored Man, the critically lauded new play by Keenan Scott II and directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, will open on Broadway during the upcoming season, producers announced today.The play, which had its world premiere at Syracuse Stage last year, will be staged on Broadway at a Shubert Organization theater to be announced.Broadway will remain under the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown at least until June.Unfolding during the course of a single day in Brooklyn, Thoughts of a Colored Man chronicles the lives of seven Black men as they confront and discuss any number of issues facing their community.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticToday show cohost and weatherman Al Roker plans to be back on the NBC morning show next Monday, he told viewers today while also sharing news that his prognosis after last week’s prostate surgery is “excellent.”The 66-year-old Roker underwent the five-hour surgery Nov. 9 to remove his prostate and surrounding tissue and lymph nodes at New York City’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.Providing an update on his health in an appearance on this morning on Today – watch it below – Roker said, “It was this great relief.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe Roundabout Theatre Company says it will resume production in Fall 2021 with two much anticipated shows – the COVID-delayed Jeanine Tesori/Tony Kushner musical Caroline, Or Change and Alice Childress’ Trouble In Mind. The planned musical revival of 1776 will now begin performances in Spring 2022.The nonprofit theater company does not have a date for its postponed production of Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles starring Debra Messing.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe Broadway premieres of Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Lackawanna Blues and Paula Vogel’s How I Learned To Drive have been set for 2022 and 2021, respectively, with producers at the Manhattan Theatre Club expressing “hopes high that we will be able to return to live theatre.”The nonprofit MTC announced the target openings today, along with plans to present an Off Broadway production of Simon Stephens’ Morning Sun starring Edie Falco and the American premiere of Anchuli Felicia King’s Golden Shield.MTC artistic director Lynne Meadow said, “With hopes high that we will be able to return to live theatre, we have created a season of diverse and exciting Broadway and Off Broadway premieres and we are honored

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticTony Award-nominated actor Chad Kimball, among Broadway’s first wave of performers to contract the coronavirus last spring, is finding little support among his Broadway colleagues after he pledged to “respectfully disobey” Washington State COVID-19 guidelines limiting religious services and participation.Kimball, a Seattle native, star of the hit, now-suspended, Broadway musical Come From Away and Tony-nominated for his performance in 2011’s Memphis, tweeted his opposition to Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s newly announced wide-ranging anti-COVID restrictions that, among other measures, limit religious services to 25% indoor occupancy or no more than 200 people, with face coverings required at all

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticPete Wright, the 54-year-old Broadway stagehand who fell to his death last Thursday from a ladder on the fly floor above the Winter Garden Theater stage, is being remembered as “a force of nature, often doing the work of three men when he ran load ins and load outs” of theatrical sets.In an online tribute posted by friend and coworker Dylan Foley, Wright was called a “legendary flyman” and mechanic with “a dry wit, an unstoppable work ethic and a trademarked grin.”“If you asked for something from Pete,” Foley wrote on Facebook and his New York Stagehand Glossary blog, “his line was, ‘For you, the grid’s the limit.’ He was completely fearless in how he lived his life as a stagehand.” Wright also was

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticSteppenwolf’s Broadway production of Tracy Letts’ The Minutes is exiting the Cort Theatre, its pre-COVID home, with plans to re-open in 2022 at another Broadway venue.The move signals yet another way the pandemic shutdown has impacted Broadway’s shuffle of theater tenants and reopening schedules.The Minutes, a political comedy directed by Anna D. Shapiro and starring Ian Barford, Blair Brown, Cliff Chamberlain, K.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: “You thought you knew Scrooge,” an ominous voice intones. “You don’t know this Scrooge.” So get acquainted with Estella Scrooge, the upcoming world premiere streaming musical with a heavy-hitting Broadway pedigree.This first-look trailer (watch it above) features Betsy Wolfe (Waitress) singing the show’s “Never Look Down” as clips and characters from the cleverly filmed production take us through this new musical spin on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticA 54-year-old stagehand fell to his death from scaffolding inside Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre this morning as workers were removing props from the Beetlejuice musical in preparation for the arrival of the revival of The Music Man.A representative for the Shubert Organization, which owns and operates the venue, confirmed the incident.“At 8:45 a.m. Thursday morning, November 12, a stagehand fell from the fly floor above the stage at the Winter Garden Theatre and died from injuries sustained,” the organization said in a statement.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticPlaywright Israel Horovitz, whose Off Broadway productions provided early stages for such soon-to-be-stars as Al Pacino, Marsha Mason, John Cazale and Richard Dreyfus but whose later career was severely damaged by repeated accusations of sexual assault, died at his Manhattan home of cancer on Nov. 9.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: Isaac Powell, the star of Ivo van Howe’s 2020 Broadway revival of West Side Story, has joined the cast of Universal’s Dear Evan Hansen. The project will mark Powell’s feature film debut.Powell will play high school jock Rhys in the feature adaptation of the six-time Tony winning Broadway musical. He joins a cast that includes Ben Platt, Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Amandla Stenberg, Danny Pino, Nik Dodani, Colton Ryan, DeMarius Copes and Gerald Caesar.