The image on the Stratford Festival stage is familiar: the weary salesman in the Brooklyn doorway wearing a hat and holding a bag. His head is bowed, shoulders stooped, suit shabby. This could be Lee J. Cobb or Brian Dennehy, but when this Willy Loman raises his head and speaks, he is Chinese and his words are in Mandarin.

In 1983, the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Outside the Honda Center in Anaheim in early September, a group of a dozen or so protesters shouted at black-clad Marilyn Manson fans as they filed into the arena.

This was Manson’s first tour in years, after at least four women alleged in civil suits and other court filings that the singer 55, sexually and physically ...Read more

Over the past 17 years, the world has come to know Jhayco as one of the writers behind Cardi B’s chart-topping rap single “I Like It,” a composer behind J Balvin‘s Latin-Grammy winning album “Vibras” and one of Bad Bunny’s most frequently featured artist. Now, with “Le Clique: Vida Rockstar (X)” (released last month), Jhayco is...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It took a parenthetical phrase on an online ad to sharpen into focus the disparate ideas that Jesse Eisenberg was pulling together while writing what would become his second feature film as director, "A Real Pain."

It was an ad for a Holocaust tour that touted in parentheses "with lunch."

"And I thought, that's what these two ...Read more

"Joker: Folie à Deux" is a box office dud.

Warner Bros. Pictures' comic book sequel stumbled to first place at the domestic box office this weekend, grossing a weak $40 million, according to studio estimates.

The highly anticipated film failed to match the success of its Oscar-winning predecessor, which opened to $96.2 million in 2019 and ...Read more

Garth Brooks’ Tennessee mansion sold mere hours before he and his wife’s former makeup artist accused the country star of rape and sexual harassment in a lawsuit filed on Thursday.

One day earlier, the 62-year-old Grammy Award winner and his wife Trisha Yearwood sold their sprawling property in the Nashville suburb of Brentwood, which ...Read more

"Crazy Rich Asians" was a standout cinematic and commercial success, but a rare one. Asian representation on screen may have improved in recent years, but to capitalize on growing audiences, we need to be behind the cameras as well. Ignoring this market means potentially writing off billions of dollars in lost revenue, but also, importantly, ...Read more

Donald Glover has pulled the plug on the remainder of his Childish Gambino touring commitments to focus on his health, including an upcoming surgery.

The Grammy-winning “This Is America” singer and “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” star tweeted Friday about the recent health concerns that have now led him to call off shows across Europe and Australia....Read more

NEW YORK — Paul Simon is not giving up hope that the show will go on as he continues to learn how to deal with his recent hearing loss.

The Newark-born, Queens-raised singer, who last year revealed he suddenly lost most of the hearing in his left ear about two-and-a-half years earlier, has embraced a positive outlook about getting back ...Read more

Halle Bailey and DDG will no longer be part of each other's worlds — at least not romantically.

The "Little Mermaid" star and the "I'm Geekin" rapper have called it quits after two years of dating and recently welcoming a baby boy. "After much reflection and heartfelt conversations, Halle and I have decided to go our separate ways," DDG (born...Read more

DENVER — Bluegrass artist Billy Strings is offering refunds to attendees of his music festival in Buena Vista after he skipped his headlining sets at the last minute.

Ticketholders to the Sept. 27-28 event at The Meadows in Buena Vista event got to see openers such as Molly Tuttle, Full Cord and Jerry Douglas Band, as well as Strings’ own ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Garth Brooks returned to the stage Thursday after denying rape and sexual misconduct allegations lobbed at him in a civil lawsuit brought by a former employee.

The country music superstar posted a message to fans after playing his latest Las Vegas residency show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, telling them how much he needed...Read more

Sebastian Stan can thank oodles of noodles for helping him bulk up for his biggest role to date.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe star revealed in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly that he gorged on ramen and soy sauce to “puff up” his face to play Donald Trump in the upcoming film “The Apprentice.”

“We were getting closer to ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Quinta Brunson teased fans on Instagram Thursday evening.

“Season 4 of Abbott Elementary gets real sunny,” the post read. With it, a photo of Brunson posed like she should be on the cover of a hip-hop album with "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia" stars Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day. The actors are the epitome of happy ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — If "Megalopolis," Francis Ford Coppola's $120 million sci-fi epic/epic box office flop, has largely confounded viewers and critics — "What the hell did I just watch?" went the headline of one review — the film's real star may end up being the music.

Not that the score is any less strange than the film, but it's a good-...Read more

[This article contains spoilers for Episode 4 of "Agatha All Along."]

"It's just a stupid song," says a witch in the second episode of "Agatha All Along." However, as viewers of the new Marvel series know by now, "The Ballad of the Witches' Road" is anything but stupid. It's a cultural touchstone for the centuries-old witches, an instruction ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — My 17-year-old daughter occasionally reminds me that if I had been more supportive of her early success on Musical.ly, she might be a TikTok star by now and I could retire. Presumably to be her manager.

I regret nothing.

Certainly not after watching the FX docuseries "Social Studies." As schools reopened after the COVID-19 ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego-bound Eric Clapton is keeping very busy for someone who, over the past decade, has declared his intention to retire more than a few times.

How busy?

Let’s take a quick tally.

In April, the 79-year-old guitar legend, singer and three-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee released “To Save a Child: An Intimate Live ...Read more

You may find yourself watching “Joker: Folie à Deux” wondering if its subtitle (which roughly translates as “a shared madness”) applies to the characters or the filmmakers. Todd Phillips’ sequel to his 2019 hit “Joker,” which brought Joaquin Phoenix an Academy Award in the title role, is a big swing: It’s a courtroom drama/...Read more

Country superstar and long-running Las Vegas headliner Garth Brooks, saying he feels like he’s “having a loaded gun waved in my face,” has been accused of sexual assault and battery.

The allegations have been leveled in a lawsuit from an unidentified woman who claims to have worked as a hairstylist and makeup artist for the country artist...Read more