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Producers of Broadway’s Take Me Out starring Patrick J. Adams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams have set an opening date of April 22, 2021, with previews beginning March 22. The Second Stage Theater staging of the Richard Greenberg play is the latest production targeting a Spring opening after being interrupted…

Selah and the Spades, a new teen film Amazon Studios picked up at the 2019 Sundance Film Fesitval, where it was well-received, is the perfect movie for the Trump era in that it is all about a lot of self-possessed high school teens in an elite Eastern boarding school who carve themselves up into factions dividing the…

EXCLUSIVE: Grey’s Anatomy‘s Jesse Williams is set for a recurring role opposite Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Rosemarie DeWitt and Joshua Jackson in Little Fires Everywhere, Hulu's upcoming limited series based on Celeste Ng's bestselling book. Developed and written by Casual's Liz Tigelaar, the series hails…

EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Jackson Avery is sticking around Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital. Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams has inked a new two-contract to continue on the hit ABC medical drama. Williams was the only major Grey’s Anatomy cast member without a deal beyond this season when ABC in May gave the series a record-b…

Modern Family‘s Jesse Tyler Ferguson has joined the cast of the Broadway-bound Take Me Out, the Richard Greenberg play being revived next spring with director Scott Ellis and starring the previously announced Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy). The Second Stage Theater production will begin previews April 2, 2020, at the…

First-time feature director Tayarisha Poe made her Sundance debut with boarding school drama Selah and the Spades, a film that for Poe, hits close to home. “I went boarding school in Central Jersey and I loved it. It was a really formative experience for me. I think it was because of the independence that we had and…

EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Williams, one of the stars of ABC’s long-running series, Grey’s Anatomy, is marking his feature directorial debut with Till, a film centered around Mamie Mobley Till, the mother of Emmett Louis Till, a Black teen who was lynched after being accused flirting with a white woman in the Jim Crow-era…

EXCLUSIVE: Grey's Anatomy's Jesse Williams and The Fast and the Furious star Jordana Brewster have signed up to star in Jay Baruchel's Random Acts of Violence. Man Seeking Woman and This Is The End star Baruchel has writes and directs the road-trip horror feature and also will star. Baruchel, who wrote Seann William…

EXCLUSIVE: With the recent furor over NFL players staying on the bench or taking a knee during the national anthem in protest, John Legend and Jesse Williams want to shine a contextual spotlight on one of the most famous examples of athletics and politics controversially coming together. The Oscar winner, his Get…

There was a showstopper of an opener by Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar on the BET Awards last night, plus a passionate call to action from Grey's Anatomy's Jesse Williams, a full tilt tribute to Prince performed by Bilal, Erykah Badu and The Roots, and strong words for Donald Trump from Best Actress winner Taraji P…

The BET Awards held tonight produced several memorable moments – including an epic opening by Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar that blew the roof off, and a tribute to Prince performed by Bilal, Erykah Badu and The Roots. But the highlight happened later in the evening when Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams accepted BET’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Beharie, one of the main stars of Fox’s Sleepy Hollow who was surprisingly killed off in the season finale two weeks ago, and Grey Anatomy’s Jesse Williams have been set to star opposite Michael Ealy in the re-imagining of the 1990 thriller Jacob’s Ladder for director David M. Rosenthal. Williams has…