Paper Mill Playhouse is now in performances for West Side Story. Marking the final production of Paper Mill’s current season, West Side Story officially opens this Sunday, May 31 at Paper Mill Playhouse in a run continuing through Sunday, June 28. Get a first look at production photos! Directed by Paper Mill Producing Artistic Director Mark S. Hoebee, West Side Story is led by a young cast of newcomers alongside several stage veterans, including Noah Henry as Tony, Sarah-Anne Martinez as Maria, Mikaela Secada as Anita, Antony Sanchez as Bernardo, Sean Harrison Jones as Riff, Hugo Pizano Orozco as Chino,…

An Ohio woman scored a year’s worth of free Dave’s Single burgers after taking first place in a Wendy’s mascot lookalike contest held on World Redhead Day. Nearly 20 contestants took to the stage at New York City’s Seaport Square (a nod to Wendy’s square burger patties) to compete. Over three rounds, contestants modeled their best Wendy’s looks. They then read aloud social media posts written in the brand’s signature, playful style.  The finalists performed their own original Wendy’s commercials. One of the contest judges was Wendy Thomas — daughter of founder Dave Thomas and the real-life inspiration for the brand.…

Kendra Wilkinson is firing back after body-shamers suggested she ‘downsize’ her breast implants. The former Playboy model, 40, posted about her weight-loss journey via an Instagram post on Tuesday, May 26, prompting some of her followers to offer up unsolicited advice about the size of her bust. “Month two on my GLP-1 journey and I’m still being really intentional about how I approach this. For me, it was never just about the number on the scale,” Wilkinson captioned the post. “It’s about feeling like myself again, having real energy, and actually learning to trust the process without trying to fast…

Go onstage at KENREX with Drama Desk Award winner John Patrick Elliott. Watch how one musician and one desk bring Skidmore to life through sound and music in the acclaimed Off-Broadway production. The new video shines a light on how the production’s onstage musician creates a live soundtrack at every performance. Direct from three acclaimed, sold-out runs across London – at the Southwark Playhouse Borough, Sheffield Theatre, and, most recently, The Other Palace – KENREX is the blistering true-crime thriller about the thin line between justice served and justice taken. Jack Holden slips in and out of 35 characters, all set against…

DEAR ABBY: I have witnessed many events at funerals that shouldn’t happen but seem to continue to happen. An example is a woman who has had a child with a married man showing up at the man’s funeral, acting as if they’re part of the family.  The woman usually shows up with a grown child, using the excuse that she’s there for her child. If the child is a minor, I think they should sit quietly at a discreet distance from her lover’s family, and if the child is an adult, she should stay away entirely.  The widow has had…

The U.S. military said it carried out another strike Friday on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men in the third attack this week and pushing the overall death toll above 200 people.U.S. Southern Command — which manages U.S. military operations in the region of Latin America south of Mexico, and the Caribbean — announced the latest strike in the monthslong campaign against alleged drug boats traversing the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific with its usual language that the vessel was “engaged in narco-trafficking operations” and operated by a designated terrorist organization. It provided…

Sullivan’s Crossing could be losing another cast member if the show returns for season 5. Amalia Williamson, who is currently starring alongside Brooke Shields on Acorn TV’s You’re Killing Me, spoke exclusively to Us Weekly about her future on Sullivan’s Crossing, saying, “I don’t know.” Williamson, 26, noted that she has to work around her filming schedule for You’re Killing Me, which was recently renewed. “It depends on when we film our second season,” she shared. “I don’t know. I would love to go back. I love my Sullivan’s Crossing family. I miss them.” Season 4 of Sullivan’s Crossing is…

Ariana Grande has shared her highly anticipated new single, “hate that i made you love me,” the first release from her forthcoming eighth studio album, “petal,” arriving July 31st via Republic Records. The new song is co-written and produced by the Wicked star alongside ILYA and Max Martin. The official music video, directed by Christian Breslauer with Academy Award winner Janusz Kaminski serving as director of photography, will premiere globally on Monday, June 1 at 8a PT. Listen to it below. The new album comes ahead of Grande’s ‘eternal sunshine tour,’ kicking off in June 2026 in Oakland, CA. This is her first headlining run since 2019’s Sweetener World Tour. The…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. () — A large fire broke out at an apartment complex in Riverside Friday, forcing the evacuation of two buildings and displacing about 150 people.The fire was reported at the University Riverside Gardens apartment building near Iowa Avenue and University Avenue around 11:13 a.m. It’s a complex where many students live and it’s just blocks from the UC Riverside campus.Riverside fire officials believe the blaze started accidentally, saying a contractor using a blowtorch to repair plumbing unknowingly sparked a fire behind a wall. The fire burned up to the attic, with flames later bursting through the roof.AIR7 was…

Keanu Reeves’ longtime partner, Alexandra Grant, knows better than anyone how committed the actor is to getting his characters right — even at home. “I think we share [just] the belief in [our] projects,” Grant, 53, a visual artist, told People on Thursday, May 28, of her and Reeves’ dedication to their creative pursuits. “Every project has its own autonomy, its own team, it has its own sort of rules, and it has a beginning, middle and end.” She explained, “So we both are people who do projects, and you know, I’ve lived with John Wick, I’ve lived with Neo,”…

You can now get a first look at The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of ROMEO & JULIET, directed by Associate Artistic Director/Resident Director Saheem Ali. The production includes Spanish translations by Alfredo Michel Modenessi and choreography by Mayte Natalio. ROMEO & JULIET began performances at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park on Friday, May 22. The production officially opens on Thursday, June 11 and runs through Sunday, June 28.  The Public’s Associate Artistic Director and Resident Director Saheem Ali brings Shakespeare’s legendary star-crossed lovers to Central Park for the first time in nearly 20 years. Never…

President Trump’s physician said in a letter released late Friday that the president is in “excellent health,” following a physical earlier this week at Walter Reed National Military Hospital.The president’s visit to Walter Reed on Tuesday was his third known checkup at the military hospital since returning to the White House. Describing it as a semi-annual physical, Mr. Trump said on social media everything “checked out PERFECTLY,” but the White House did not release a detailed summary until Friday.Friday’s letter from Capt. Sean Barbabella, a Navy captain who serves as physician to the president, said Mr. Trump demonstrated “strong cardiac, pulmonary,…

Mackenzie Shirilla racked up numerous prison violations after being convicted in the “Hell on Wheels” fatal car crash that left her boyfriend and a close friend dead. Shirilla is the subject of Netflix’s 2026 documentary The Crash, in which she breaks her silence about the July 2022 car crash that killed her boyfriend Dominic Russo and high school friend Davion Flanagan in Strongsville, Ohio. (Shirilla drove her Toyota Camry at over 100 mph into a brick wall and was the only one to survive despite sustaining severe injuries.) While Shirilla has always denied that she intentionally sped up and steered…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Eight riders were left dangling near the top of a towering roller coaster for more than three hours before firefighters rescued them one by one at a Texas amusement park, officials said.The Galveston Police Department said authorities responded around 5:35 p.m. Thursday to Pleasure Pier in Galveston, where the Iron Shark roller coaster malfunctioned.Officials said eight people were aboard the ride when it became stuck.The Galveston Fire Department used a ladder truck to remove the stranded passengers one by one using safety harnesses, a process that took roughly three and a half…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin publicly confirmed for the first time that her organization received an inquiry from the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), seeking detailed information about its March trip to Cuba.The inquiry, which is often called an administrative subpoena, comes as the Trump administration signals a broad effort to increase federal scrutiny of nonprofit organizations operating in foreign-policy and activist spaces. Last October, after the murder of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump directed federal agencies to strengthen enforcement against nonprofit entities that facilitate support for political…