The more some things change the more they stay the same for the NAMM Show, which this week celebrates its 125th anniversary as the world’s largest annual trade event for the creators, manufacturers, retailers and distributors of music instruments, equipment, technology, sound, lighting and recording gear.

It will take place Tuesday through ...Read more

NEW YORK — “Hell’s Kitchen,” the Tony- and Grammy-winning musical based on Alicia Keys’ story, will close on Broadway next month.

The former moneymaker, nominated for 13 Tonys in 2024 including Best Musical, will end its Shubert Theatre run on Feb. 22, Playbill.com reports.

Grammy winner Keys, 44, contributed music and lyrics to the ...Read more

Bethenny Frankel has blamed hotel towels after she contracted a bacterial infection on her face.

The Real Housewives of New York City star has vowed to "never ever" use hotel towels or sheets again after she was struck down with skin inflammation while on holiday St. Barths.

She said on TikTok: "I need you to know that a doctor had to come on ...Read more

Stephen Graham's Golden Globe Awards win felt "exceptionally surreal".

The 62-year-old actor won Best Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television for his work on Adolescence at last weekend's star-studded ceremony in California, and he has admitted the moment "didn't feel real".

Asked if his Golden...Read more

Bella Hadid has set her sights on Hollywood because it's her "dream" to become an actress.

The 29-year-old model makes a her small screen debut in Ryan Murphy's new TV series The Beauty - playing a model on a murderous rampage - and Bella has now confessed she's hoping to land more acting roles in the future.

She told The Hollywood Reporter: "...Read more

Pitbull is back on tour this year, and Lil Jon will be joining him.

The “Timber” hitmaker announced the “I’m Back Tour” in a post on social media Thursday. The tour will take him to nearly three dozen cities across North America this spring and summer.

The trek kicks off on May 14 in West Palm Beach, Fla. before wrapping on Sept. 26 ...Read more

Cersei chose violence. Rhaenyra commandeered dragons. But the protagonist of HBO's new "Game of Thrones" spinoff, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"? Don't expect vengeful wildfire or shouts of "Dracarys!" Wanna-be knight Dunk is earnest, gentle and enjoys sleeping under the stars.

There are no magic spells, dragons or major wars in Dunk's (Peter...Read more

Cinephiles, assemble.

Nominations for the 98th Academy Awards will be revealed Thursday in a livestream that's sure to spur some chatter. While critics seem to agree on a few locks, as this month's Golden Globes — and last year's Oscars, for that matter — proved, there's always room for surprise.

Here's everything you need to know about ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It was another tough year for film and television production in Los Angeles as the total shoot days for 2025 dropped 16.1% compared to the previous year, according to a new report.

Last year's 19,694 shoot days was the lowest total since 2020, according to the nonprofit FilmLA, which tracks filming in the greater L.A. area. In ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Even after 40 years of jazzy harmonizing, Moore By Four still needs to rehearse.

So bandleader Sanford Moore prepared a scrumptious spread of bruschetta and a charcuterie board for a rehearsal in his downtown Minneapolis loft last week. As he perched behind his piano and laptop with the food in front of him, he pulled up an old ...Read more

Melissa Leo is convinced winning an Oscar was "not good" for her career.

The 65-year-old screen star took home the Best Supporting Actress trophy at the 2011 Academy Awards for her role in The Fighter opposite Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, but she has now admitted winning Hollywood's most prestigious trophy had a detrimental effect on her ...Read more

Channing Tatum "peed on" Amanda Seyfried's leg and then "ran away" while they were filming Dear John.

The 40-year-old actress has opened up about working with Tatum, 45, on their 2010 romance movie and she revealed the shoot was full of laughs as the pair "effed with each other" throughout filming - and Seyfried recalled one particular prank on...Read more

After Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was seized by United States forces on Jan. 3, one song became a celebratory anthem for many Venezuelan nationals, but it came from an unconventional source: a meme account.

The track “Maduro Renuncia” reached the top spot on the Spotify Viral chart in Venezuela, which keeps a daily tab of the 50 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In 1911, a Broadway playwright wrote a snarky letter about a teenage actor who had recently train-tripped from New York to Los Angeles.

"The poor kid is actually thinking of taking up moving pictures seriously," William C. deMille scribbled to his theater colleague, David Belasco. "So I suppose we'll have to say goodbye to ...Read more

What do a homoerotic hockey melodrama on HBO and a genre of Japanese manga comic books have in common? Die-hard women followers.

The popularity of HBO’s "Heated Rivalry" — a sudsy, sexy, titillatingly explicit melodrama involving closeted professional hockey players — has stunned show business experts. Since its inception on Nov. 28, "...Read more

Even a prominent indie filmmaker like Gus Van Sant, the two-time Oscar-nominated director of films such as "Good Will Hunting" and "Milk," can have a hard time getting a project off the ground these days.

But that wasn't the case with "Dead Man's Wire," which tells the story of a real-life 1977 Indianapolis hostage stand-off and stars Bill ...Read more

Aimee Lou Wood says meeting Julia Roberts "surpassed" her dreams.

The Sex Education actress has hailed the After the Hunt star as "the ultimate human" after she met her at the Golden Globe Awards, which took place at The Beverly Hilton, California, last weekend.

Aimee took to Instagram to share a picture of her and the Hollywood icon, and she ...Read more

James Van Der Beek is planning to make new year's resolutions this spring, because he doesn't believe January should be the first month of the year.

The 48-year-old actor - who has stage 3 colorectal cancer - insists it "makes absolutely no sense" to celebrate a new year "in the dead of winter" when animals are hibernating, and he believes ...Read more

Ozzy Osbourne's family has picked a "phenomenal actor" to play the late rocker in a new biopic.

A film about the Black Sabbath's star life has been in the works for many years and it's moving ahead following Ozzy's death last summer and his son Jack has now revealed they've already chosen a leading man and a director.

During an appearance on ...Read more