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'The Young and the Restless' celebrates 50 years of drama

NEW YORK (AP) — It all started on a late morning on a highway. A camera panned to the cab of a large semi-trailer truck. The driver wore a plaid shirt and a day's growth of beard. Next to hi...

DATE: Mar 22, 2023 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Once a TV show, 'Smash' to make its Broadway bow in 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — The glitzy, fictional Broadway musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe that formed the heart of the TV show “Smash” will make the leap to an actual Broadway stage next seaso...

DATE: Mar 22, 2023 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Review: John Wick gets even more stylish in fourth episode

A trip to Paris should be on everyone’s bucket list, even John Wick. The Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre — what better way to refresh your soul, even as you kick everyone else’...

DATE: Mar 21, 2023 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Reborn Ringling Bros. circus to leap on tour — minus animals

NEW YORK (AP) — The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus has been reimagined and reborn without animals as a high-octane family event with highwire tricks, soaring trapeze artists and b...

DATE: Mar 21, 2023 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Anthony Fauci documentary on PBS covers a career of crises

NEW YORK (AP) — There's a moment in the new PBS documentary about Dr. Anthony Fauci when a protester holds up a handmade sign reading, “Dr. Fauci, You Are Killing Us." It says something abou...

DATE: Mar 20, 2023 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Lance Reddick, 'The Wire' and 'John Wick' star, dies at 60

NEW YORK (AP) — Lance Reddick, a character actor who specialized in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures on TV and film, including “The Wire,” "Fringe” and the "John Wick” fr...

DATE: Mar 17, 2023 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Posthumous album set from 'Gangsta’s Paradise' rapper Coolio

NEW YORK (AP) — The estate of rapper Coolio plans to release a studio album later this year that the Grammy-winning hitmaker had been working on in the days before he died. “Long Live Coolio...

DATE: Mar 17, 2023 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Stephen Sondheim's last musical finds a New York City stage

NEW YORK (AP) — The late Stephen Sondheim's last stage musical — an adaptation of two films by Spanish surrealist director Luis Buñuel — will be given an off-Broadway stage this year, offeri...

DATE: Mar 16, 2023 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

'Quantum Leap' star Caitlin Bassett jumps from Army to TV

NEW YORK (AP) — Caitlin Bassett plays a woman who jumps through time and space on NBC's “Quantum Leap,” a fitting job for an actor who has lived many lives already. Bassett, who spent seven ...

DATE: Mar 15, 2023 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Cat Stevens to return this summer with a new album

NEW YORK (AP) — Legendary British singer-songwriter Cat Stevens will release a new album of original songs this summer that took the “Peace Train” hitmaker over a decade to make and revisits...

DATE: Mar 15, 2023 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Review: U2 reworks past in thrilling 'Songs of Surrender'

“Songs of Surrender,” U2 (Universal) Imagine walking into your living room and all your stuff is there, but it's different. The sofa has moved, the bookcase is leaning on a different wall an...

DATE: Mar 13, 2023 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Review: 'Scream VI' goes to the big city and strikes out

In “Scream VI,” the psychotic, knife-wielding serial killer known as Ghostface is set loose on the streets of New York City. Yawn. The former terror of the fictional California town of Wood...

DATE: Mar 8, 2023 | CATEGORY: Associated Press