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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS:  Since the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020, The Actors Fund, the 140-year-old organization that offers emergency financial assistance and other support service to workers in the the performing arts industries, has distributed more than $26.8 million in emergency financial assistance – rent…

EXCLUSIVE: Two of Broadway’s biggest stars – Audra McDonald and Ariana DeBose – will be the guests of the season finale of Brian Stokes Mitchell's on demand streaming talk show Crossovers Live!, with portions of ticket sales, as always, benefitting The Actors Fund. The season holiday finale episode is set for Monday…

In the year since the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the Broadway industry, The Actors Fund has distributed more than $19 million in direct cash assistance to more than 15,000 people, with more than 40,000 individuals receiving assistance of one form or another from the Fund, a massive 71% increase from 2019. The 2020…

Tony winner Brian Stokes Mitchell took to social media this afternoon to inform his followers that he has tested positive for coronavirus. “I’ve been laying low for the last couple of days because I could feel my body fighting something unusual. I just got confirmation that I’ve indeed tested positive for the…

Brian Stokes Mitchell and Sheryl Lee Ralph have signed on for series regular roles in CBS comedy pilot Fam, from writer Corinne Kingsbury (The Newsroom), Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios. Written by Kingsbury, Fam is about a woman's younger half-sister who comes to live with her and her fiancé to escape their…

Brian Stokes Mitchell is set for a series-regular role opposite Noah Wyle in Perfect Citizen, CBS' legal drama pilot from The Good Wife executive producer Craig Turk. Written/executive produced by Turk and directed/exec produced by Paris Barclay, Perfect Citizen centers on Deck (Wyle), the former general counsel for…

UPDATE, Friday AM: Tributes are raining down like tears in memory of B.B. King,  the all-time greatest of cats, who departed from Las Vegas to the Heaviside Layer yesterday at the age of 89. I expect an especially emotional gathering at King’s Times Square outpost, B.B. King Blues Club & Grill and the Lucille Café…

EXCLUSIVE: The famed safe-house for developing theater writers will honor multiple Tony Award nominee (and winner for Kiss Me, Kate) and Actors Fund board chair Brian Stokes Mitchell with its 2015 Distinguished Achievement Award, to be presented at New Dramatists’ 66th Annual Spring Luncheon on May 14 in New York. The…