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The director also delivers the best ensemble performing on the New York stage right now

This is the first year Marjorie won’t be at the celebration. A well-known local artist, she died in August, just a month short of her 110th birthday.

At the helm since 2003, Bob Taylor will also retire from his out-of-state executive posts

The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) will present AAFCA Salutes Broadway. The event will honor The Merchant of Venice and Till star John Douglas Thompson, Topdog/Underdog writer Suzan-Lori Parks, Death of a Salesman's Wendell Pierce, and The Piano Lesson's LaTanya Richardson Jackson.

While many of us are still finalizing our Halloween costumes and drinking our pumpkin spice lattes, others are preparing for an early start to the Yuletide season where they will cozy up by a fire watching a Hallmark holiday movie with a hot chocolate. And this year, the University of Kentucky family is being gifted with a Hallmark Channel movie featuring one of its own — UK Opera Theatre alumna Reshma Shetty. "Jolly Good Christmas" premiers Oct. 29.

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Olivia Wilde's second feature as director is at last available for audiences. But have they had enough of the movie after months of controversy?

An influential, complicated life is smoothed over for inspirational bromides

With the series set to wrap, the legendary actor returns on set.

How Spike Lee and set designer Wynn Thomas created the look for Spike’s masterpieces such as “She’s Gotta Have It,” “Do The Right Thing,” and “Jungle Fever.”