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Danny DeVito, Phantom Thread actress Vicky Krieps, Peter Sarsgaard, John Leguizamo, Saro Emirze, and Dar Zuzovsky are set for Harry Haft, the Barry Levinson-directed film based on the novel Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano by Alan Scott Haft. The group joins previously announced titular…

John Leguizamo, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., who next appears opposite Hailee Steinfeld in Paramount’s standalone Bumblebee film, and The Wire alum Michael K. Williams will star in the indie film Critical Thinking, with Leguizamo also directing. It’s a true story, set in 1998, of how a group of disparate kids from a…

A three-time Emmy nominee recognized this year for the first time in almost 20 years, Waco's John Leguizamo dove head first into Paramount Network's limited series, investigating the psychology of David Koresh's Branch Davidians, and those who fell under their spell. With this true-crime series from John Erick Dowdle…

EXCLUSIVE: As the hours tick away until the 2018 Primetime Emmy nominations are announced later this week, the 2019-launching Central Park Five from Ava DuVernay cast some likely major contenders for next year in the Netflix limited series today. Michael K. Williams, Vera Farmiga and John Leguizamo have all joined the…

Oscar winner Helen Hunt, Ana de Armas, and John Leguizamo are set to join Tye Sheridan in The Night Clerk, which Sheridan is also producing. Michael Cristofer wrote the screenplay and is directing the film as production began this week. Sheridan stars as Hotel night clerk Bart Bromley, a highly intelligent young man…

Emotions — mostly the good kind, like ebullience, delight and satisfaction — ricocheted around today’s press event honoring the 2018 Tony Award nominees. Time, though, was in very short supply. Dozens of nominees, including several whose work stretches well beyond Broadway, like Tina Fey, Denzel Washington, John Leguiz…

Bruce Springsteen’s sold-out run on Broadway was ineligible for the Tony Awards by design. Given the scarcity of tickets, producers (and the Boss) didn’t want to take seats from fans and hand out comp tickets to the awards voters and press who take up a chunk of prime real estate this time of year. Even so, Tony night…

Beginning with Mambo Mouth, the 1990 solo show at The American Place Theatre that marked his debut with the quiet subtlety of a cherry bomb in a trash can, John Leguizamo has filled his down-time between movies (the Ice Age franchise; Summer of Sam) with some of the most deceptively funny riffs on matters of…

UPDATE Tuesday: The average price paid for Come From Away tickets last week was $156.12. EARLIER: A slowish week at the Broadway box office didn’t have much impact on the established order of things (see Top 5 below), but it did allow a few others to grab some sunshine. Come From Away, the feel-good holdover from last…

John Leguizamo‘s free-wheeling tour through the history of Latinx people, especially in North and South America, will re-open on Broadway this fall, after acclaimed runs at the Public Theater in New York and California’s Berkeley Repertory Theater. Latin History For Morons will begin performances October 19 and open…

Following up on the popularity of its One Book, One New York program, in which New Yorkers were invited to share in reading and discussing a single, New York-centric book, Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment Commissioner Julie Menin today announced "One Film, One New York." New York Times chief film critics A.O…

In an often funny, moving and profanity-laced keynote address this week, actor, playwright and memoirist John Leguizamo denounced the entertainment industry’s ghetto attitude toward Latino history, people and artists. “One out of every six Americans is Latin – why aren’t we represented on TV accordingly? Why is…