Musical, which originated on Broadway in 1981, will return in 2026 with auditions taking place in cities across the world
The hit musical Dreamgirls will return to Broadway with a global search to find its new stars.
The show originated in New York in 1981 and played until 1985, winning six Tony awards as well as two Grammys. The song And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going was also a No 1 hit on the R&B chart.
Netflix’s breakout drama Adolescence has triumphed at this year’s Emmys, winning six awards.
The series, which became the streamer’s second most-watched show ever, won for limited series, directing and writing and also picked up three acting awards.
The acclaimed drama, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel, stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal and tells a fictionalised account of William Shakespeare and wife Agnes as they grieve for their young son.
Toronto film festival: Elizabeth Olsen must choose who she spends eternity with in an often ingenious throwback that can’t quite stick the landing
As we return to the 1990s, with Scream, Clueless, Buffy, Practical Magic, Happy Gilmore and My Best Friend’s Wedding having either returned or set for it, there’s also a broader sense of nostalgia that’s seeing the resurrection of certain genres. Already at this year’s Toronto film festival, Aziz Ansari admirably tried, and I would say sadly failed, to recall the spirit of the high-concept star-led comedy with fantastical elements in Good Fortune. There’s a far more convincing attempt from the Irish writer-director David Freyne with Eternity, an ambitious afterlife romance that could more neatly play alongside films of the era like Heart and Souls, What Dreams May Come and Ghost.
It’s not just the thought-through ingenuity of the set-up but also the gloss and grandness of the film-making, an A24 production that feels like it should have the Touchstone Pictures logo at the start. It’s the surprising next step for Freyne whose endearing queer comedy Dating Amber got a little buried in the hellish summer of 2020. That film – about queer high schoolers faking a relationship to kill suspicion – was small and semi-autobiographical for Freyne, and for his follow-up he’s gone from rooted in truth to floating in fantasy.
Mr and Mrs Smith writer Francesca Sloane reportedly tapped to bring back A-list cast of hit series
A third season of the award-winning drama series Big Little Lies is now in development.
According to Deadline, Francesca Sloane has been tapped to write the first episode and she will also act as executive producer alongside series creator David E Kelley. Sloane is best known for co-creating Amazon’s Mr and Mrs Smith series with Donald Glover. Her credits also include writing for Atlanta and Fargo.
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