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Times Square in New York will be closed to the public Thursday night for New Year’s Eve celebrations, the first time there won’t be a crowd at the iconic locale on December 31 since the first ball drop in 1907 (the first celebration at One Times Square in Manhattan was in 1904). But in a year in which the…

Orion Pictures has set its first feature film project since its relaunch, securing Emmy-winning Pose star Billy Porter to direct What If?, a high school coming-of-age drama penned by Alvaro García Lecuona. Pic, billed as a cross between coming-of-age features Booksmart and Love Simon, follows high school senior KHAL…

The upcoming season of Encores! at New York’s City Center will include an adaptation by Pose‘s Billy Porter of The Life, a musical last seen in New York on Broadway in 1997. Porter’s adaptation, which he’ll direct, is one of two upcoming Encores! productions reviving rarely staged Broadway musicals centering on Black…

Billy Porter made Emmy history last year when he won the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series award for his game-changing role as Pray Tell in FX’s Pose. This year he is once again nominated in the category for season two of the series and could be pose-d to make more history . No matter what happens Billy…

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will each make appearances on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, which will be a bit of a feat of staging such a large scale event in a time of COVID-19. The program lineup will feature a mix of live and taped segments and, in addition to political figures and “real-life&#8221…

Last year, Billy Porter made history as the first openly gay Black man to win the Emmy Award for Lead Actor in a Drama for his turn as Pray Tell, the no-nonsense ballroom MC with a heart of gold, on FX’s critically acclaimed Pose. This year, he is nominated again and although he says the win would be amazing, Porter…

Billy Porter, Pete & Chasten Buttigieg, Rosie O'Donnell, Jonathan Van Ness, Brian Michael Smith, Ross Mathews, and Tyler Oakley are the newest additions to GLAAD’s upcoming event Together in Pride: You are Not Alone. The online special, which will be co-hosted by Billy Eichner and Lilly Singh, will stream live on…

Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, will headline a fundraiser later this month with a list of guests that include Billie Jean King, Billy Porter, Kristin Chenoweth and Melissa Etheridge. The April 23 event will be a virtual fundraiser, in which guests participate by video chat and listen to comments from…

Emmy, Grammy and Tony award-winning actor Billy Porter is continuing to change and challenge perspectives when it comes to gender norms, this time in Kay Cannon's forthcoming live-action iteration of Cinderella at Sony. The Pose star is set to play the fairy godmother in the feature, and in a recent interview with CBS…

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2020 has added a couple of names to their hosting roster. Lucy Hale will usher in 2020  in Times Square as Seacrest’s co-host while Billy Porter and Ciara will join in on the celebration in other parts of the country. Emmy-winning Pose actor Porter will lead the…

Saturday Night Live took on CNN’s LGBTQ Town Hall, with a little help from Emmy-winning Pose actor Billy Porter. Porter served as the ultra-dramatic announcer on SNL’s version of the Democratic town hall, which took place Thursday in Los Angeles. Impeccably dressed in a red and black smoking jacket and bedazzled…

Emmy Award-winning Pose actor Billy Porter said when he tried to break into Hollywood in the 1980s, the industry was only looking for three types of African American actors — "James Earl Jones, the patriarch. Denzel Washington, the sex symbol, or genius clown, Eddie Murphy." Porter was none of the above, he told the…