NEW YORK — In the promotional run-up to director Sam Gold’s production of “Romeo + Juliet,” much effort was made to promote the intensity of its young stars’ feelings, justifying the exorcism of that prosaic ampersand in the title in favor of an additive plus sign. That’s code for way cooler, kids, than any of the 30 or so prior ...Read more

Jon Stewart will remain the Monday night host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” throughout 2025, the network announced.

Stewart, 61, will also remain in his role as executive producer for the show at large, with its team of correspondents — including Jordan Klepper, Michael Kosta, Desi Lydic and Ronny Chieng — taking over hosting ...Read more

Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny signaled his support for Vice President Kamala Harris Sunday, sharing a video clip of Harris’ plans for the island moments after a speaker at a Trump rally called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage.”

“There is so much at stake in this election for Puerto Rican voters and Puerto Rico,” Harris says ...Read more

CHICAGO — “Some Like It Hot” still begins in Prohibition-era Chicago as musicians Joe and Jerry, one a sax man, one a bass, disguise themselves as members of the all-female band Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators so they can escape from Mafiosi looking to rub out two unlucky witnesses to a murder.

But thereafter, the 2022 Broadway ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new David Geffen Galleries will open to the public in April 2026, the museum announced as scaffolding is coming down around the Peter Zumthor-designed building, revealing the most expansive view yet of the 900-foot-long, poured concrete structure spanning Wilshire Boulevard.

During The ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Al Greenwood surveyed the backstage scene at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland and became appreciably star struck. The lifelong rock musician was overcome by the power of the moment, and the music of his past.

“These are legends that I’ve looked up to, all being inducted at the same time, Dionne ...Read more

The family of former “Friends” star Matthew Perry are “thrilled” the people who provided the actor with the drug blamed for his death are facing justice.

“I’m thrilled,” Perry’s mother Suzanne Morrison said about the March 2025 trial date set for “Ketamine Queen” Jasveen Sangha and a physician tied to the actor’s death one...Read more

NEW YORK — Late Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin, who was sent letters from Son of Sam in 1976, is remembered in “Jimmy Breslin: The Man Who Told the Truth.”

The book published this month is by Richard Esposito, who was at New York’s hometown paper from his copyboy days to metro editor and then editor of the Sunday News.

It’s an ...Read more

Pete Davidson has apparently cleaned up his act — figuratively and literally.

The 30-year-old comedian was photographed this week for the first time since checking himself into a mental health facility in July. Stepping out alongside Machine Gun Kelly, the former “SNL” star attended at a sneak preview of The Room at Intuit Dome, the newly...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Taylor Swift played three Eras Tour concerts over the weekend at New Orleans' Superdome, the stadium that will be host to Super Bowl LIX in February.

The Chiefs’ objective is to be in New Orleans for that game as they hope to win an unprecedented third straight Super Bowl championship. Swifties think the singer may have ...Read more

Fergie’s viral rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” may have finally been overshadowed.

Indie singer Loomis has been taking over social media after botching the national anthem during a live telecast of the Free & Equal Elections Foundation presidential debate featuring third-party candidates Chase Oliver, Jill Stein and Randall Terry....Read more

David Harris, who played gang member Cochise in the 1979 film “The Warriors,” is dead at 75.

Harris’ daughter told the New York Times her father died from cancer. The New York City native attended the Manhattan School of Performing Arts before pursuing a career that included a role in the 1980 Robert Redford vehicle “Brubaker” and TV ...Read more

CHICAGO — Playwright August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” comes down to this: A sister and brother, haunted by the violent disruption of their Mississippi childhoods, reunite in 1936 Pittsburgh.

It’s a tense reunion, with the family heirloom’s destiny at stake. The piano of the title either stays put in the parlor, where sister ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Even Bruce Springsteen has been booed in Philadelphia.

Not "Bruuuuuce!"-d but actually booed. As in informed by the audience that they've had enough, and would you please go home.

That incident happened on South Broad Street in June 1973, the first of 32 times that Springsteen played the Spectrum before it closed in 2009.

It ...Read more

Jazz saxophone legend Charles Lloyd is having a moment. Again. At age 87. And it’s remarkable.

Not only was he voted by DownBeat critics as artist of the year (for the second consecutive year) but also album of the year, top tenor saxophonist and named to DownBeat’s Hall of Fame. (He first won DownBeat’s artist of the year in 1967.)

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NEW YORK — Not so long ago, Heather Gay was a middle-aged mother of three, struggling to reclaim her sense of self. She'd spent most of her adult life embodying the "Molly Mormon" stereotype — a devoted wife, mother and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Then her marriage fell apart, and with it her entire identity. ...Read more

I imagine that when you imagine a TV critic, you picture some hard-boiled, crusty, even heartless type. But I have always been a sensitive, delicate, please-leave-the-light-on sort of fellow.

So Halloween is a holiday I greet with mixed emotions. I am fine with its brighter expressions — candy, pumpkins, cute costumes on little children, "It'...Read more

There was a time when "The Simpsons" was a universal pop culture touchstone. President George H.W. Bush criticized it from the White House; millions tuned in in 1995 to find out who shot Mr. Burns; words and phrases coined for the show, like “meh,” entered the common lexicon.

Nearly four decades after it started, the series is still ...Read more

As Jennifer Lopez has often said about herself, Ben Affleck has not given up on love either, and he’s contemplated dating again.

But the 52-year-old actor, director and producer reportedly has one strict requirement for his next significant other: She must be sober or in recovery.

Affleck, who is well-known for his struggles with alcohol ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — "Deliver Me From Nowhere," the forthcoming movie starring "The Bear’s" Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen, needs extras for scenes to be shot in Asbury Park, New Jersey, in December.

The film focuses on the Boss’ 1982 "Nebraska" era, when he recorded the stark, interior masterpiece in his makeshift bedroom studio in ...Read more