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On June 16, the 77th annual Tony Awards named the best of the 2023-2024 Broadway season, bringing the pizazz and drama of the Great White Way into our living rooms. With Merrily We Roll Along and Stereophonic heavily favored, viewers went into the night wondering if it would be a sweep or if there would be some surprises. Either way it was a night designed to celebrate theatrical excellence.

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	Ron Simons, an actor and four-time Tony Award-winning producer, has died. He was 63.Mark James, Grammy-Winning "Always on My Mind" and "Hooked on a Feeling" Songwriter, Dies at 83




	His production company SimonSays Entertainment shared that Simons died Wednesday. His cause of death wasn’t immediately available.




	“It is with heavy hearts that we share the unexpected passing of our beloved, blessed, and highly favored friend, Ronald Keith Simons. Funeral details will be forthcoming,” the production company wrote in a statement on Facebook.




	Born in Detroit on Nov. 30, 1960, Simons didn’t initially pursue a career in acting and theater. After graduating from Columbia...

Ron Simons, Actor and Four-Time Tony-Winning Producer, Dies at 63

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	Joseph Hardy, the stage director who introduced the enduring charmer You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, won a Tony Award for 1970’s Child’s Play and, as an executive producer in daytime drama, attempted to rescue the fading serial Ryan’s Hope with some of the most controversial changes in soap history, has died. He was 95.Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2024: Photo Gallery & Obituaries




	His June 6 death was confirmed by New York’s Primary Stages Off Broadway theater company. A resident since 2020 at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, NJ, his passing last month was not widely reported.






	Born March 8,...

Joseph Hardy Dies: Tony-Winning Broadway Director, Exec Producer Of ‘Ryan’s Hope’ Was 95













	Ron Simons, who had a busy if low-key TV acting career before making his greatest impact producing such acclaimed Broadway plays as Thoughts of a Colored Man (2021) and the 2022 revival of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, died Wednesday. The four-time Tony Award winner was 63.Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2024: Photo Gallery & Obituaries




	His death was announced by SimonSays Entertainment, the production company he founded in 2009. A cause of death was not immediately available.






	“It is with heavy hearts that we share the unexpected passing of our beloved, blessed, and highly favored...

Ron Simons Dies: ‘Thoughts Of A Colored Man’ Broadway Producer With Four Tony Awards Was 63

Starring: Cole Escola, Conrad Ricamora, James Scully, Bianca Leigh, Tony Macht. About: The hit Off-Broadway comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln will transfer to Broadway for a 12-week run. JOB. Theatre: Hayes Theatre. First Preview: July 15, 2024. Opening: July 30, 2024. Starring: Peter Friedman, Sydney Lemmon. Writer: Max Wolf Friedlich.

Broadway’s Upcoming 2024-2025 Season: Plentiful and Full of Suprises

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MARK Harmon has been spotted out and about, and the NCIS star looked almost unrecognizable ahead of his Freaky Friday 2 role. The actor, known for playing Leroy Jethro Gibbs on the CBS crime drama, kept it casual amid a major heatwave in Los Angeles. The NCIS actor donned a red button-down shirt and dark-colored […]

Mark Harmon, 72, looks completely different from NCIS days as star seen out in LA ahead of Freaky Friday 2 casting

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Tony Mordente, the actor, dancer and choreographer who starred in the original Broadway and big-screen versions of West Side Story before carving out a long career as a TV director, has died. He was 88. Mordente, who lived in Henderson, Nevada, died Tuesday, his family announced. Mordente also worked on...

‘West Side Story’ Actor Was 88

Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni each marked a momentous personal occasion, and it had to do with two people who mean the most to them. The actors may occasionally work alongside one another on Law and Order: SVU and Law and Order: Organized Crime, but the two took their longtime friendship off-screen to celebrate their kids' respective graduations.

'Law and Order: SVU' Fans Loved the Sweet Way Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni Reunited

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Don't miss the fabulous red-carpet photos and stylish outfits  worn by Broadway stars at the 77th Annual Tony Awards

See the Best of the 2024 Tony Awards Red Carpet Fashions

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Three Chicago Med originals are officially coming back for Season 10: S. Epatha Merkerson, Oliver Platt and Marlyne Barrett have each closed a new deal to extend their run on the NBC medical drama through the 2024-25 season, TVLine has confirmed. TVLine Items: Garrett Dillahunt Joins High Potential, Harley Quinn Spinoff Trailer and More



Chicago Med follows the daily emotional chaos of the city’s newest trauma center and the lives of the doctors, nurses and staff who work together to keep it afloat. Merkerson (who won an Emmy in 2005 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for HBO’s...

Chicago Med’s S. Epatha Merkerson, Oliver Platt and Marlyne Barrett Have Officially Signed On for Season 10

Kevin Bacon is serving up some serious praise for his Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F costar, Eddie Murphy. The actor told PEOPLE that he jumped at the chance to star as Beverly Hills PD Capt. Cade Grant in the upcoming action-comedy because working with Murphy had been on his "bucket list" for a while.

Kevin Bacon calls working with Eddie Murphy on Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F a 'bucket list' moment

Comtemporary Theater Company is my family's go-to Improv theater and considering I have three teens, having a go-to anything is pretty impressive for kids who hate everything. To Be Continued...An Improvised Soap Opera Medical Drama, which continues every Thursday night at 8 p.m to August 15 combines the excitement of live improv with an evolving narrative as the story continues each week, "creating a unique and immersive experience for theatergoers", according CTC General Manager Maggie Cady. She said the show promises a captivating journey through the ups and downs of a fictional medical setting, where the plot will develop and transform each week, keeping audiences eagerly.

Review: TO BE CONTINUED...AN IMPROVISED SOAP OPERA MEDICAL DRAMA at Contemporary Theater Company

The premiere date and key art have both been unveiled for Hulu’s Onyx Collective series, How to Die Alone, created by and starring Natasha Rothwell. The official description of the series is as follows: How to Die Alone follows Mel (Rothwell), a broke, fat, Black JFK airport employee who’s never been in love and forgotten how to dream, until an accidental brush with death catapults her on a journey to finally take flight and start living by any means necessary.

Natasha Rothwell Hulu Series 'How To Die Alone' Sets Premiere Date And Drops Key Art

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The actor donned a disguise to see what life was like as a regular person
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Kevin Bacon Tried to Be a Regular Person for a Day, Said ‘This Sucks’

1984’s Footloose is one of the most beloved movies ever. The musical drama follows Kevin Bacon’s character, teenager Ren McCormack, as he moves to the fictional small Utah town of Bomont from Chicago. There, he makes it his mission to overturn a ban on dancing imposed by John Lithgow’s strict local minister, Reverend Shaw Moore.

Did Kevin Bacon dance in ‘Footloose?’

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CBS has truly found a hit in NCIS, a crime procedural that solves cases while giving insight into the lives of men and women investigating them. Among these agents were Michael Weatherly’s Tony and Cote de Pablo’s Ziva whose will-they-won’t-they love story kept fans intrigued for years. Sadly, their story had to come to an end after de Pablo decided to exit the series, and Weatherly also took his leave a few years later.

NCIS: Tony & Ziva casting a mix of new characters including teenage Tali

Broadway Palm's production of MARY POPPINS is now playing. Directed and choreographed by Amy Marie McCleary, this charming tale tells the story of the Banks family, and what happens to them when Mary Poppins flies into town. Mary Poppins is played by Leah Spurlock. Mary Poppins sings about how she...

Review: MARY POPPINS at Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre

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Kevin Bacon 64, made it a family affair on Monday while attending the MaXXXine premiere in Los Angeles with his wife Kyra Sedgwick and their offspring.

Kevin Bacon makes rare whole family outing with wife Kyra Sedgwick and children Sosie and Travis at MaXXXine premiere in Los Angeles

The Weathervane Theatre will present Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew. The play performs in alternating repertory July 3-18, 2024. 2008, Detroit. A small automotive factory is on the brink of foreclosure, and a tight-knit family of workers hangs in the balance. With uncertainty everywhere, the line between blue-collar and white-collar becomes blurred, and this working family must reckon with their loyalties, survival instincts, and ultimate hopes for humanity. Nominated for three 2022 Tony Awards, including Best Play.

SKELETON CREW is Now Playing at The Weathervane Theatre

Acclaimed actor, singer, and writer, Julie Benko, has announced she is expecting her first child with husband Jason Yeager! Benko made the announcement on her Instagram page, writing, "A Broadway baby… for real this time! @jyeagermusic and I cannot to meet you, baby, and start clowning around." See the...

Julie Benko Announces Pregnancy!

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Ana Gasteyer, Will Chase, Daniel Breaker, and More Join Cast of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS on Broadway

The producers of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS have unveiled the principal cast joining Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, reprising her performance as Winnifred the Woebegone, and...

Ana Gasteyer, Will Chase, Daniel Breaker, and More Join Cast of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS on Broadway

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