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Where the Ugly Betty cast is now – Tragic suicide, death threats and Olympics glory Ugly Betty was recently added to streaming service Disney+, allowing fans new and old to binge the entire show. But on the anniversary of the final episode (April 14), what are the stars up to now? 09:00, 14 APR 2021 Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Daily Stars Inside Hot TV newsletter sees Ed Gleave send you tellys hot takes straight to your inbox every SundayInvalid EmailSomething ...

(© Allison Stock) Michael Urie and Ryan Spahn will star in a live production of Edward Albees The Zoo Story this summer at Guild Hall, the historic arts institution in East Hampton, Long Island. The outdoor staging will be directed by Nathan Winkelstein, associate artistic director of Red Bull Theater. The one-act, Albees first play, finds two men, one a successful publishing executive, the other, a desperate vagrant, meeting on a park bench and having a life-changing moment of connection. Ur...

th birthday party like this before. When Guild Hall, the East Hampton arts center, opens this summer, it’s going to celebrate its milestone birthday with a season packed with heavy hitting programming including theater, visual art, film, dance, and more. On May 23, the season at Guild Hall will open with a virtual poetry performance piece called “Reawakenings,” which will be directed by Paul Hecht and will feature an all-star cast—including Salman Rushdie, Cherry Jones, Michael Stuhlb...

February 19, 2021 at 6:08 am EST | by Philip Van Slooten REEL Affirmations screens ‘Nora Highland’ Feb. 26 (Screen capture via YouTube) REEL Affirmations on Demand presents a preview screening of “Nora Highland,” a film exploring praise given to straight actors in queer roles, beginning Friday, Feb. 26 at noon. A $10 virtual ticket grants unlimited access to the film until noon on Saturday, Feb. 27. It also grants access to a pre-recorded Zoom Q&A with Director Ryan Spahn and the cast...

Reconnected, an unforgettable evening of psychological astonishments by acclaimed mentalist, Jason Suran, has announced that virtual performances have been extended by popular demand. Since opening in OCTOBER, 2020, the hit show has been a sell out and now has been extended through JULY 23, 2021. Produced by Carl Moellenberg, Adam Rei Siegel and Alan Cumming, Reconnected is held every Friday night entirely on Zoom. For all information go to www.jasonsuran.com/reconnected. Reconnected is an inti...

For the first 50 minutes of “Gloria,” my stomach was in knots. Again. I had already seen the play, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, at its Vineyard Theater premiere in 2015. Despite its amusing opening dialogue — the sour-witty banter of editorial assistants at an upscale magazine — I was convinced by subtle quirks in its tone and pacing that something bad was going to happen. When it did, at the end of Act I, the staging was so vicious and efficient, involving lights, sound, movement and all...

Theater to Stream: Jerry Herman’s Tunes; Marisa Tomei, Twice The Pasadena Playhouse has a new tribute to Herman, the composer of “Hello, Dolly!,” and Tomei turns up in “Beirut” and “Three Hotels.” Nicholas Christopher, left, and Ashley Blanchet in “You I Like: A Celebration of Jerry Herman.”Credit...Jeff Lorch Jan. 20, 2021 One of the benefits of streaming theater — come on, we must think of that glass as half-full — is that we can now mix and ma...

The pandemic has disrupted nearly every aspect of life in New York City. It has also changed the usual format of campaigning for mayor and other elected offices.

12 of our top columns this week: ICYMI From Bidens Defense pick, to COVID, emotional support animals, and Trumps potential self-pardon, here are some of our top columns you may have missed. USA TODAY In todays fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, weve started in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the weeks top USA TODAY Opinion pieces. As always, thanks for reading, and for your feedback. — USA TODAY Opinion editors By Nicole Carroll ...

Whats It Like to Make a Movie During the Pandemic? The people behind a blockbuster thriller, a viral horror hit, and a timely conversation starter – all shot and set during lockdown – let us know how they did it. (Photo by © STX Films) Moviemaking is incredibly… complicated. A million things can – and often do – go wrong, myriad questions and unforeseen problems pop up, and all the while issues like budgeting and scheduling consistently hover around, like annoying flies you just ca...