NEW YORK — The anticipated Broadway comeback for Mia Farrow has been suspended due to COVID — and there’s no telling if she will return.

The 79-year-old actress, last seen on stage in 2014’s “Love Letters,” abruptly exited the recently opened production of “The Roommate” after announcing she tested positive for the coronavirus ...Read more

Taylor Swift and boyfriend Travis Kelce attended Patrick Mahomes’ 29th birthday party, thrown by wife Brittany, further putting to rest any talk of a political-based feud after the former pro soccer player reportedly liked Donald Trump’s post last month.

The pop star, 34, donned red sunglasses as she posed alongside Sheawna Weathersby and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Ezra Edelman did his homework.

The documentary filmmaker had piles of clippings in front of him. Apparently, he had read every article this hometown music critic had ever written about Prince. That’s hundreds of them, dating back to 1977.

For his six-hour authorized Netflix documentary about the Minnesota music icon, Edelman ...Read more

DETROIT — Club kids Charli xcx and Troye Sivan made Little Caesars Arena throb Saturday night at the kickoff of their joint "Sweat" tour, a high energy 30-song outing that saw the pop pair trading off stage time every few songs, and coming together in front of a hyped-up crowd of 13,000-plus for a couple of collaborations at the end of the ...Read more

Jane’s Addiction has canceled the rest of their tour after lead singer Perry Farrell took a swing at guitarist Dave Navarro at a Friday night show.

“The band have made the difficult decision to take some time away as a group,” read a message posted Monday on social media. “As such, they will be canceling the remainder of the tour.”

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Lord knows I don’t want to sound like Kanye West, but when megastar Beyoncé is snubbed by the Country Music Association despite topping the charts in that genre all year, well, somebody has to say something.

It was West who famously — and controversially — interrupted Taylor Swift to come to Beyoncé’s defense after Swift beat out ...Read more

Tito Jackson, one of the original members of the seminal Motown group the Jackson 5, has died. He was 70.

Jackson’s death was announced late Sunday by his three sons. They did not disclose a cause of death for the late guitarist and background singer, but said they were “shocked, saddened and heartbroken.” Representatives for Jackson did ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Only at the Emmys can you catch a glimpse of TV producer and writer Mike Schur talking in the main aisle of the Peacock Theater as a mass of people, including “Hacks” star Jean Smart and “Baby Reindeer” breakout Jessica Gunning, make their way past him to their seats. “I’m just trying to process all this,” Gunning ...Read more

NEW YORK — Atlantic Records should change its name to Pacific Records now that half its staff and its new boss are in Los Angeles.

Atlantic, founded by legendary Turkish-American Ahmet Ertegun, is now run by Elliot Grainge, 30, who is married to Sofia Richie, daughter of Lionel Richie.

The couple live in L.A. and one source said, “Elliot ...Read more

A crime occurs. The cops are stumped. If only they had the services of a colorful outside investigator to solve their case. A common subgenre of the police procedural, “High Potential” on ABC suggests the limits of this premise. Whether mildly theatrical or even absurd, the character needs to be more than their quirks. I wonder if Hollywood ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On Sunday night from the Peacock Theater, the 76th edition of the Primetime Emmy Awards was broadcast, and let’s all take a moment to appreciate the fact that there have been 76 of these things. Three-quarters of a century! Seventy-six years before the first Emmys, whose host, Walter O’Keefe, would become a minor running joke...Read more

CHICAGO — In the theater, success typically is associated with expansion, with going bigger, broader, grander. And yet with the theatrical sequel to J.K. Rowling’s stunningly successful series of novels about a bespectacled boy-wizard and his dramatic school friends, the British director John Tiffany has, at first glance, gone in precisely ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Mackenzie Davis knows the power of a horror movie.

The 37-year-old Canadian actress stars in the American version of “Speak No Evil,” which is a remake of the 2022 Danish film of the same name. The new “Speak No Evil," now in theaters, stars Davis, James McAvoy, Scoot McNairy and Aisling Franciosi.

Davis has been a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Saturdays are usually busy days for Alma’s Place, a soul food restaurant in Compton across from the city’s courthouse.

But roughly an hour into opening on June 22, Corina Pleasant, who runs the business with her mother Alma, noticed no customers were filing in. Their parking lot, which is shared with other small businesses ...Read more

NEW YORK — It’s near-impossible to look away from Mia Farrow’s enveloping performance as a lonely but feisty Iowan in director Jack O’Brien’s staging of Jen Silverman’s quirky one-act, one-set play “The Roommate.” One fears looking down at the floor for a second and missing an implosion.

Maybe “explosion” is the better word....Read more

LOS ANGELES — It was a typical day on the set of Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice," and a dead mime was screaming.

The most unsettling problem? The actor's tongue still had a visible and decidedly not-ghostly shade of pink.

Christine Blundell and her hair and makeup team quickly got a blue food dye concoction for the actor to gargle and...Read more

When Roy Wood Jr. played sports in high school, he spent a lot of time warming the bench — an experience that primed him for a career in comedy.

"Your job as a bench warmer is to come up with the heckles against the other team. I took pride in writing insults to hurl at other 15-year-olds," Wood recalled in a recent Zoom interview. "If I ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Netflix’s “Baby Reindeer,” the controversial British drama that was a massive hit while also making headlines about its real-life influences, has won Emmy Awards for limited series, writing and two of the acting categories.

Creator, star and executive producer Richard Gadd won a pair of Emmy Awards, his first, for writing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — "Shōgun" had a historic 2024 Emmy night.

FX's historical drama set in feudal Japan won the Emmy for drama series on Sunday. The win caps off a night that also saw series stars Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada awarded the prizes for lead actress and lead actor in a drama series, respectively, as well as an Emmy for director ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Writer, producer and director Greg Berlanti, who has long helped increase LGBTQ+ visibility in television, was presented the Governors Award at Sunday’s Emmys ceremony. The award is given to creators who make a “profound, transformational and long-lasting contribution” to television.

Berlanti was introduced by Matt Bomer, ...Read more