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The Broadway production of Chicago has canceled two additional days of performances due to cases of Covid at the venue, producers said today. The musical is now scheduled to resume performances on Thursday, Dec. 2. Over the weekend, producers canceled the Saturday night performance after employees at the Ambassador…

Kanye West – who recently filed to legally change his name to just Ye – had his third stadium listening party for his evolving album, Donda, on Thursday night. After two similar events at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, West gathered about 40,000 fans inside Chicago’s Soldier Field, according to a local NBC report…

After almost 45 years in the business, Dick Wolf has nothing to prove. He has television’s longest-running primetime live-action series with Law & Order: SVU. He is behind more successful broadcast drama franchises than anyone with Law & Order, Chicago and FBI. Yet, he has found another gear with a slew of new series…

Chicago will return to Broadway just in time for its 25th anniversary: The musical is set to reopen at the Ambassador Theatre on Tuesday, September 14. The Kander-Ebb-Fosse musical becomes the third Broadway production to set its reopening since New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that theaters could reopen…

Ann Reinking, a Broadway veteran who starred in the 1990s revival of Chicago, won a Tony Award as its choreographer and also co-starred in the films Annie and All That Jazz, has died. She was 71. Her death Saturday was announced by a family friend on social media and confirmed by a relative to our sister site. "The…

David Rodriguez, a writer-producer-director for film and television whose credits include The Chi, Queen of the South, and Dick Wolf’s Chicago franchise, died October 29 from complications of a stroke. He was 50. Rodriguez was born in 1970 and raised in the Bronx by parents Millie and J.B. “David” Rodriguez. He spent…

Michael Jordan and his dominant Chicago Bulls remain a huge draw more than two decades after their last NBA title. The final two episodes of the 10-part ESPN docuseries The Last Dance drew 5.89 million and 5.4 million viewers, respectively. Sunday’s hourlong ninth episode watch the most-watched since Episode 3 on…

Chicago is hardly the Second City when it comes to streaming. Also, who needs primetime when there’s now the 2 PM time slot? Those are a couple of the takeaways from a new, market-by-market look by Nielsen at COVID-19 viewership trends. Of all markets with  non-linear viewing on Internet-connected devices or smart…

Google has been ordered to turn over a year's worth of Jussie Smollett's emails, private messages, photographs and location data to a prosecutor investigating the dismissal of his criminal charges over an alleged attack early last year. The Chicago Tribune reported that it obtained two search warrants submitted by…

On the eve of the House vote on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, crowds large and small gathered at rallies across the nation calling for Trump’s removal from office. Organized by MoveOn.Org and Common Cause, the rallies drew adults, children, the elderly, immigrants, veterans, and…

An autopsy performed Monday on Juice WRLD was inconclusive and additional tests are needed to determine the up-and-coming rapper’s exact cause of death, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office in Illinois said. "Additional studies are required to establish the cause and manner of death for 21-year-old Jarad A…

UPDATED, 3:37 PM: A federal judge has tossed out Jussie Smollett’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed against him by the city of Chicago tied to overtime for police working on his alleged hoax assault case. The city is seeking $130,000 from the ex-Empire star. U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall rejected Smollett’s…