A few days ago, Keegan-Michael Key took time off from rehearsals for director Sam Gold’s production of Hamlet at the Public Theater – in which he plays Horatio, the best friend of Oscar Isaac’s melancholy prince – to see the Tony best-musical nominee Groundhog Day. After the show, Key chatted with Andy Karl, the…

UPDATE, 9:40 AM:  Netflix has slotted Friday, July 14 for the premiere of its anticipated new comedy series Friends From College and dropped the first teaser. You can watch it above. PREVIOUS, May 8: Netflix has released the first images of Friends From College, its comedy series from Neighbors franchisee Nick Stoller…

Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Force Awakens; Inside Llewyn Davis) will play the melancholy Dane beginning in June at the Public Theater, in a staging of the Shakespeare tragedy by Sam Gold. The director, who previously staged the Tony-winning Fun Home at the Public and on Broadway, is fairly busy: His revival of The Glas…

UTA has unveiled its speaker lineup for Friday’s United Voices rally outside the union’s Beverly Hills headquarters. The event is supplanting the company’s annual Oscar Weekend party as a way “to express the creative community's support for freedom of speech and artistic expression, and stand against policies of…

Casey Affleck, Kathryn Bigelow, Common, Robert DeNiro, Taraji P. Henson, Hugh Jackman, Al Jean, Keegan-Michael Key, Nicole Kidman, Rami Malek, Janelle Monae, Thandie Newton, Ryan Reynolds, Martin Scorsese, Octavia Spencer and Kerry Washington have signed on as presenters for the 28th Annual Producers Guild of America A…

Keegan-Michael Key welcomed TCA reporters to the set of USA’s Playing House to talk about the show’s upcoming third season, but the comic who gave voice to President Barack Obama’s angry side couldn’t ignore the GOP elephant standing around. When asked whether he could offer the president-elect something similar to…

I’ll be honest: I really needed this. And, I suspect, so did a lot of you, especially after President Obama’s in real life final press conference a couple of weeks ago. Keegan-Michael Key appeared tonight on The Daily Show With Trevor Noah and gave fans something they’ve been tweeting about for the better part of two…

EXCLUSIVE: The Film Arcade and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment have sealed a multi-year distribution deal that will see UPHE handling all U.S. and Canada marketing, sales and distribution services for Blu-ray, DVD, Electronic Sell-through, Video-on-Demand and Television for Film Arcade films. The partnership…

The Independent Filmmaker Project has named comedian Keegan-Michael Key as host of the 2016 IFP Gotham Awards. The ceremony will take place November 28 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Key’s final season of his Comedy Central series Key & Peele won its first Emmy for Outstanding Variety Sketch series. In…

Donald Trump is not going to think this is funny at all. In a new video sponsored by Save the Day, the Joss Whedon-created voter registration PAC behind the viral, star-jammed hit “Important” (below), Keegan-Michael Key plays the hippest meteorologist since George Carlin’s hippy-dippy weatherman. In the short titled…

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele were able to bring their dearly departed Comedy Central series Key & Peele with a bang tonight, as the show’s final season won the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series tonight at the 68th Emmy Awards. It was a great sendoff for the series, which had only picked up one previous…

Netflix has set the cast of Friends from College, a new 8-episode comedy series from Nick Stoller (Neighbors) and Francesca Delbanco. Key & Peele star Keegan-Michael Key is returning to primetime, toplining the series, which also has cast How I Met Your Mother alumna Cobie Smulders, Annie Parisse (Vinyl), Nat Faxon (Ma…