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Time Out
19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Celebrate 50 years of A Chorus Line with Annette Bening, Ariana DeBose and more
Several singular sensations have now been announced to be part of the upcoming one-night-only benefit concert celebrating 50 years of A Chorus Line. Sunday, July 27 will see the landmark musical return to its Broadway home, the Shubert Theater, to raise money for the Entertainment Community Fund, exactly five decades (and two days) after it opened in 1975. The Fund's Board Chair Annette Bening, season highlights Jennifer Simard (Death Becomes Her) and Mandy Gonzalez (Sunset Boulevard), and Gilmore Girls ' Lauren Graham are among the latest names to have just joined the lineup, along with triple-threat talents Ariana DeBose and Bebe Neuwirth. Whether those last two will get the chance to show off their award-winning dancing chops remains to be seen, as their involvement—and most details surrounding the concert—has not been specified. The glitzy event will be directed by Baayork Lee, an original cast member from the Pulitzer winner's off-Broadway debut at the Public Theater a few months before its instant success skyrocketed it uptown. Lee has overseen virtually every major production since, preserving Michael Bennett's original vision, and his and Bob Avian's choreography. She'll replicate their work here as well. Its storied history has allowed several major talents to share its story, many of whom will also participate in the concert, including Donna McKechnie and Kelly Bishop—who won acting Tonys for their work in the original production—and their former castmates Priscilla Lopez, Wayne Cilento and Lee. They'll share the stage with alumni from other productions, an embarrassment of riches that includes Tony Yazbeck, Charlotte d'Amboise, Krysta Rodriguez, Jessica Vosk and 2025 Tony winner Francis Jue (Yellow Face).Tickets to this special evening at the Shubert (which is currently occupied by Hell's Kitchen) are available here; front-row tickets and an invite to the after-party are up for auction at A Chorus Line shattered the boundaries of what musicals could be, and how they could feel. Inspired by hours' worth of interviews with Broadway dancers, it presents soul-baring glimpses into the hardships and glories of these undervalued dreamers. With music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and a book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante, it won nine of its twelve Tony nominations, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. When its 15-year run ended in 1990, it held the title of the longest-running Broadway production until Cats surpassed it in 1997; it is still the seventh longest running in history.
Hindustan Times
15-07-2025
- Business
- Hindustan Times
New York City's Hotel Market Is the Envy of the Country
Hotel owners across the U.S. are reeling from a decline in foreign visitors and domestic tourists scaling back their plans. Then there is New York City. Many of the city's major attractions are outdoing their performance of last year, when New York hosted a near-record 64 million visitors. This year, attendance at Broadway shows is at its highest level since at least 2019, and visits to museums like the Guggenheim on Fifth Avenue are also higher. More than seven million people passed through Times Square in June, up 6% from that month last year. Business travel, which accounts for about one in every five hotel rooms sold in New York, is expected to be stronger than last year, according to the NYC Department of City Planning. 'In terms of overall demand, New York is holding up well nationally,' said Gabe Buerkle, senior analyst at real-estate investment firm Cohen & Steers. 'New York has remained an outperformer, benefiting from domestic tourism and business demand.' Overall, the city's tourism organization said in May that it expects 52 million domestic visitors and about 12 million foreign visitors for 2025, roughly the same breakdown and total as last year. New York hotel owners also enjoy certain structural advantages that have helped boost business. A 2023 law that limits the construction of new lodging properties has greatly limited new supply. And the number of short-term rentals competing with hotel rooms has dwindled, after increased city enforcement of restrictions on Airbnb and similar rental listings. New York City hotels averaged an occupancy rate of 82% a week for roughly the first half of the year. That is on par with last year—and nearly 20 percentage points higher than the national rate, according to real-estate analytics firm CoStar. Revenue per available room, a key metric for the industry, at $238.93 was well above the national average figure of $99.94. Hana Kováčová, an 18-year-old student from Slovakia, said New York City looked busier than when she came three years ago. She visited the M&M's store in Times Square and toured the Statue of Liberty. She took in the play 'Death Becomes Her' on Broadway. 'Walking through the city and seeing all the buildings has been my favorite thing to do,' she said. Visitors from Australia and Brazil lounge around the pool this summer at the Gansevoort hotel in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking district. Michael Achenbaum, president and founder of Gansevoort Hotel Group, said visitors to New York City arrive better informed today than in the past. 'They have done their research,' he said. 'They want a pastrami sandwich from a famous deli, a bagel and pizza.' Hotel owners in much of the rest of the country haven't been as lucky. Many foreign travelers say they are struggling to secure visas under the Trump administration's new policies. Some have delayed booking trips during the late summer months, a critical time for foreign tourists—who spend four times more than domestic travelers—to stay longer. The rooftop bar at the Gansevoort Meatpacking Hotel in New York City. Canadian travel to the U.S. was down 13% year-over-year in June, based on airport traffic through customs. European visitors were down 3%, Buerkle said. Americans, meanwhile, are taking shorter trips or cutting back on their summer travel plans because of economic uncertainty and rising prices, lodging analysts say. Still, it isn't clear how long New York City can remain an exception, especially in terms of drawing foreign visitors. In May, the city's official tourism organization said it lowered annual projections for international tourists to 12.1 million, which was two million fewer than its previous estimate. Both revenue per available room and the occupancy rate in New York City have fallen in recent weeks, according to CoStar. Hotel labor expenses could also soon rise. The Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, the powerful union representing nearly 40,000 hospitality staffers, is gearing up for tough contract negotiations in the coming year. The union's industrywide city agreement expires in July 2026, after more than a decade. New York City hotel wages are already among the highest in the nation, with housekeepers in the hotel union starting at nearly $40 an hour, according to Austin Shafran, a spokesman for the union. A front-desk agent at the Bowery Hotel in New York earlier this month. Hotels that had trouble filling rooms can no longer turn to the city and rent them out as migrant shelters. Two years ago, the city contracted more than 100 hotels to house migrants in around 12,000 rooms, or about 10% of all available rooms, according to the hotel association. The Row Hotel, with 1,200 rooms on the west side of Manhattan, is the only hotel still housing migrants. But for many of the city's more upscale properties, business still looks good. Richard Born, one of the city's biggest hotel owners with 28 properties including the Bowery Hotel, says business is booming at his downtown Manhattan spots. 'Every month this year has been equal or better than the corresponding month of the prior year,' he said. And especially for more exclusive boutique hotels, he added, 'no one is anticipating a falloff.' And many foreign travelers visiting New York are still booking extended trips. Marita Preder, a 68-year-old retired auditor from Germany, came to New York City for the first time in June with her husband on a 10-day trip. She strolled across the Brooklyn Bridge and watched the Michael Jackson musical 'MJ.' But she was particularly taken with the city's world-class museums. 'The Met has been our favorite so far,' she said. Write to Redmond Bernhold at New York City's Hotel Market Is the Envy of the Country
Time Out
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Ginger Twinsies
Photograph: Courtesy of the artist | Russell Daniels The extremely funny Kevin Zak—who has contributed jokes to Death Becomes Her , had a Kenneth Starr–ing role in Clinton: The Musical and created an Instagram industry of memes about Nicole Kidman and Amy Klobuchar—is the writer and director of this campily irreverent send-up of The Parent Trap. Russell Daniels and Aneesa Folds star as identical twins bent on reuniting their estranged parents, played by Lakisha May and Matthew Wilkas, and thwarting the plots of a gold digger played by Phillip Taratula. Tha cast is fleshed out by Jimmy Ray Bennett, Grace Reiter and Mitch Wood. Thu, Jul 10, 2025 Fri, Jul 11, 2025 Sat, Jul 12, 2025 Mon, Jul 14, 2025 Tue, Jul 15, 2025 Wed, Jul 16, 2025 Thu, Jul 17, 2025 Fri, Jul 18, 2025 Fri, Jul 18, 2025 Sat, Jul 19, 2025 Show more By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. 🙌 Awesome, you're subscribed! Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! Discover Time Out original video
San Francisco Chronicle
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Bay Area artists make Tony Awards history
Among the big winners at the 78th Tony Awards was the Bay Area, as three theater artists with ties to the region took home the nation's highest honors for commercial theater. Two San Francisco natives — and Saint Ignatius College Preparatory School alumni — won acting awards during the ceremony Sunday, June 8, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Francis Jue, who's performed locally with San Francisco Playhouse and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, nabbed best performance by a featured actor in a play for ' Yellow Face,' David Henry Hwang's semiautobiographical comedy about racial representation in theater. Darren Criss, an alumnus of American Conservatory Theater's Young Conservatory program, won best performance by a leading actor in a play for 'Maybe Happy Ending,' Hue Park and Will Aronson's sci-fi show about two robots who've been abandoned by their humans. Meanwhile, Oakland playwright Jonathan Spector won best revival of a play for 'Eureka Day,' his comedy about a mumps outbreak at a progressive Berkeley private school with anti-vaxx parents. Berkeley's own Aurora Theatre Company commissioned and premiered the play in 2018. It was each artist's first Tony Award, and Spector's marks the first such honor in recent memory for a current Bay Area resident. Spector in his acceptance speech thanked 'my theater community, who gave me space to find my voice as a writer.' Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director Josh Costello, who helmed the world premiere, revisits 'Eureka Day' at Marin Theatre in September. In his acceptance speech, Criss thanked Craig Slaight, the former director of ACT's Young Conservatory program, 'for shepherding me and so many people here.' Fellow nominee Julia Mattison, co-composer of 'Death Becomes Her,' is also a Young Conservatory alum, and the two helped Slaight, who retired in 2017, travel to New York and attend the ceremony. 'I was honored and humbled to be invited and to have the gift of the arrangements to make it possible,' Slaight told the Chronicle the morning after the ceremony. 'For (Criss) to mention me in his remarks was just so moving.' 'Maybe Happy Ending' is slated to tour to San Francisco as part of BroadwaySF's 2026-27 season, the operator of the Golden Gate, Orpheum and Curran theaters announced Monday, June 9. It joins previously announced titles 'Death Becomes Her' and 'The Outsiders.' Casting has not yet been announced. The Tony Awards ceremony, hosted by ' Wicked ' star Cynthia Erivo, also made history for Asian American representation. Jue's and Criss' wins, alongside Nicole Scherzinger's for best actress in a musical for her role in 'Sunset Blvd.,' doubled the number of actors with Asian heritage who have won Tonys throughout history. Criss' mother is Filipina, Jue is Chinese American, and Scherzinger has Filipino and Native Hawaiian ancestry. The only other winners of Asian descent are Chinese American actor BD Wong (1988), Filipina actor and singer Lea Salonga (1991) and Ruthie Ann Miles (2015), whose mother is Korean. In accepting his award, Jue told the audience he was wearing a tuxedo that the actor Alvin Ing had made for himself for the opening of ' Pacific Overtures ' on Broadway in 1976. Ing gave it to Jue 20 years ago, Jue said, telling Jue to wear it 'when I accepted my Tony Award.' In a statement to the press after walking offstage, Jue said, 'Isn't it interesting that it is still unusual, historic, groundbreaking to tell an Asian American story on Broadway? And to tell it at a time when this country is wrestling with its identity, with who gets to be American, who gets to say who gets to be American?' His character in 'Yellow Face,' an avatar for the real-life father of Hwang, who emigrated from China, begins the show as a fervent champion of what Jue called traditional American values such as 'freedom and inclusion and justice.' He continued, 'We're living in challenging times where we're being asked whether we still value those things that we always assumed make us American.' The Antoinette Perry Awards have honored Broadway plays and musicals annually since 1947. They're named for the actor, producer and director who co-founded the American Theatre Wing, which co-presents the awards with the Broadway League. Nominees are chosen by a committee of a few dozen theater professionals who serve three-year terms, and winners are voted on by a group of more than 800. Tony Awards can boost box office receipts or extend runs for shows still performing on Broadway as well as further career opportunities for winning artists. For Bay Area audiences, they also boost chances that a particular title might tour nationally.
Scottish Sun
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Over 1,000 FREE movies and TV shows added to popular Fire Stick app with hits including Death Becomes Her and The Purge
You can easily sign up for free to access their catalogue of 40,000 films and TV episodes DREAM STREAM Over 1,000 FREE movies and TV shows added to popular Fire Stick app with hits including Death Becomes Her and The Purge A POPULAR streaming app has added over 1,000 movies and TV shows to its catalogue - and they're all free. It even includes cult classics like Resident Evil, Death Becomes Her and The Purge. 2 The Tubi app can be easily added to your Fire Stick or mobile device Credit: Getty 2 The streamer is free and boasts a catalogue of over 40,000 movies and TV shows Credit: Alamy Tubi offers a free ad-supported video-on-demand library which is compatible with Fire Sticks and mobile devices. Since launching in the UK in July 2024, the streamer has expanded to include more than 40,000 movies and TV episodes. The latest additions to the platform's extensive material comes from its deals with major distributors like AMC Networks, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, New Regency and Sony Pictures. It includes films like Baby Driver, Zombieland, The Purge, and Mama - as well as a range of TV shows. Ross Appleton, General Manager of Tubi's UK service, said: "Since launching nearly a year ago in the UK, Tubi has doubled its library size, cementing its position as offering the biggest collection of free movies and TV series in the UK. "With rising costs and fragmentation in streaming, Tubi will continue to offer viewers extensive content choice and a highly personalised viewing experience. All for free." Sam Harowitz, SVP of Content Acquisitions and Partnerships at the company said they had looked at performance data to help them choose which genres to focus on. He said: "With these latest studio library deals we have further invested in robust existing partnerships and doubled down on providing fandoms with a deep catalogue of movies and TV series across top performing genres such as horror, action, thrillers, and comedies." In addition to its licensed content, the streaming service has also produced more than 300 exclusive originals. This includes the adult animation The Freak Brothers which was met with positive reviews. Roku reveals brand new streaming stick TV device packed with free channels With a star-studded cast including Woody Harrelson, John Goodman and Pete Davidson, the show followed three Freak brothers and their cat as they adjust to life in 2020 after a magical strain of marijuana put them to sleep for 50 years. If you're looking for a more family-friendly show, viewers can enjoy the popular animated series RoboForce which boasts a 9.2 / 10 star rating on IMDB. The streamer has also debuted an extensive list of original documentaries for those looking for a more hard-hitting TV show. Housing the largest collection of on-demand content, with 275,000 movies and TV episodes, the popular streamer has amassed a fanbase of 97 million monthly active users. With a range of foreign language films, and availability in countries including Ecuador, Mexico, Canada and Australia, it's no wonder the platform has amassed such a global viewership. The service was founded in 2014 as a revolutionary stand out in the streaming sector. Instead of a subscription-based model, the company relies on ads to provide a free service to its millions of users. Platforms like this have become increasingly popular as the cost of living has gone up and households have cut down on the number of services they pay for. All you need to do to access the seemingly endless free content is sign up to an account online. You can then download the app across a range of compatible devices - including Fire Sticks and mobile phones - to make the most of their content, wherever you are. The streamer is also running a competition for indie filmmakers that could launch their career. In a collaboration with Kickstarter, their FilmStream Collective gives filmmakers the opportunity to access funding with guaranteed distribution on the platform.
