LOS ANGELES — "Hamilton," the musical sensation about the titular Founding Father and the birth of the United States, will no longer play at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts amid President Donald Trump's new role as the chairman.

Trump announced in February that he intended to appoint himself chairman and immediately ...Read more

NEW YORK — Tom Llamas will be the next anchor of "NBC Nightly News" after Lester Holt departs the role this summer.

The son of Cuban immigrants, Llamas, 45, will be the first Latino to anchor a weekday English-language broadcast network evening newscast, a role that will make him one of the signature personalities of NBC News.

Llamas will ...Read more

NEW YORK — Here we go again, “Mamma Mia!” is making its much-anticipated return to Broadway a decade after closing.

Producers of the international hit musical — which spawned a blockbuster movie franchise — announced Tuesday the show will go on for a second time in New York City starting this summer.

Set to the music of ABBA, the ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Blink-182, Deftones, Korn, Bring Me the Horizon and Gojira are among the bands set to perform at the 2025 Aftershock festival in Sacramento.

The Aftershock lineup, which was announced on Wednesday, also features A Perfect Circle, Bad Omens, Rob Zombie, Good Charlotte, Turnstile, Marilyn Manson, Knocked Loose and many others...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Surprise! Turns out reality TV’s Gabriela Windey and comedian Robby Hoffman took a cue from the universe in January, getting married in Las Vegas after evacuating with their cat during the devastating firestorms in Los Angeles County.

What a difference a fancy hotel room can make?

Fleeing smoke, ash and flames with one of ...Read more

“GLOW,” a series from Netflix that ran for three seasons in the late 2010s — before, frustratingly, seeing its announced fourth season canceled during the pandemic— showed that women’s professional wrestling could be a colorful backdrop for storytelling.

Now comes “Queen of the Ring,” an uneven but relatively entertaining film in ...Read more

In "Deli Boys," a surprisingly sweet, deceptively subtle comedy of violence and panic premiering Thursday on Hulu, Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh play Pakistani American brothers Mir and Raj Dar whose father, Baba (Iqbal Theba), owns a chain of convenience stores throughout the Delaware Valley — Philadelphia is the center of the action — and ...Read more

There’s something strangely moving about the filmography of Paul W.S. Anderson and his muse, wife Milla Jovovich. The couple have been making absolutely flabbergasting sci-fi and fantasy B movies for 23 years — of the 14 features Anderson has directed, Jovovich has starred in seven, including the “Resident Evil” franchise, and the pair ...Read more

'MICKEY 17'

Rated R for violent content, language throughout, sexual content and drug material.

What it’s about: Seeking to escape his problems on Earth, Mickey joins an expedition to another planet where he becomes an "expendable" — his body reprinted again and again when he dies.

The kid attractor factor: This edgy social satire does ...Read more

NEW YORK — Jennifer Hudson was hit in the face by a basketball during Tuesday’s New York Knicks game in a courtside experience that was anything but common.

The 43-year-old titular talk show host and rapper beau Common were caught off guard when the ball flew into the crowd, with Knicks point guard Miles McBride rushing over to try and stop...Read more

[This story contains spoilers for "Daredevil: Born Again" Episodes 1 and 2.]

LOS ANGELES — It's been nearly seven years since audiences saw Wilson Fisk and Matt Murdock come to blows for the last time in Netflix's "Daredevil." The bloody brawl concluded with the crime lord heading back to prison after losing the fight to the Man Without Fear....Read more

“You’re guilty. That guilt, that shame — that’s my home, Red. And I can see it on you. I can smell it on you. It’s all over you.”

Guilt, particularly the Catholic variety, is a living, breathing thing in “Daredevil: Born Again.” The new TV show — a revival and continuation of the three-season Netflix series now streaming on ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Alamo Drafthouse is inviting movie-goers to take a deep dive in the fascinating world of David Lynch.

The cinema chain is saluting the equally visionary and iconic director — who died in January at the age of 78 — by showing several of his greatest works in March and April.

“He was a singular artist who peeled back ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Five years ago, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho stood on the Oscars stage, stunned as his movie "Parasite" made history as the first non-English-language film to win best picture. The darkly satirical thriller about class struggle and deception had already won three other Academy Awards that night, for directing, original ...Read more

Q. I bought some Sbode sport wireless earbuds that you recommended many years ago, and it is time to replace them. I really liked that they were affordable, sounded good and had an ear hook that kept them in place, as earbuds don't typically like to stay in my ear by fitting the earpiece alone. Do you have any new recommendations that would ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It’s easy to be fooled into thinking Andrew Schulz is living his best life when he’s in the spotlight. Whether that’s on stage in front of thousands or on a screen in front of millions during an episode of one of his popular podcasts — ”Flagrant” and “The Brilliant Idiots” — there are fewer things comics desire ...Read more

We will never see another Hazel Scott.

Though you may not have heard that name until right now, you can meet her any time you tune into the public television series “American Masters: The Disappearance of Miss Scott.” You will have a maddening time though, learning how this woman — with her immense musical talents, considerable physical ...Read more

A garden. Is there a more potent image, carrying as it does such hefty biblical weight?

Certainly British writer Nick Newman would have been hard-pressed to keep the implications out of mind as he put fingers to keyboard to create “The Garden.” Like the one populated by Adam and Eve, two people reside in Newman’s version: sisters Evelyn (...Read more