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EXCLUSIVE: Laura Benanti has joined the cast of true-life biographical drama What Is Life Worth. The Michael Keaton/Stanley Tucci-starrer is directed by Sara Colangelo with production starting this month. The Black List script from Max Borenstein is based on Kenneth Feinberg's memoir. Feinberg, a powerful DC insider…

On Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, First Lady Melania Trump (Laura Benanti) had to deliver the First Couple’s annual Merry Christmas message by herself, when she got word her husband, President Donald Trump is running late “which is surprising because I’ve never seen him running before,” she acknowledges With Don Jr. and…

Tony Award winner Laura Benanti will take over as Eliza Doolittle in Broadway’s My Fair Lady, replacing the departing Lauren Ambrose. As reported exclusively by Deadline yesterday, Ambrose has been cast in Apple’s upcoming psychological thriller series from M. Night Shyamalan and British TV writer Tony…

President Donald Trump having taken time to attack CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert at a rally in his home state may have driven more viewers to the show the next night to see what the attack was all about. If so, they saw First Lady Melania Trump doppelganger Laura Benanti stopping by to help everyone figure out…

UPDATED with video: The big story of Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address was the arrival of First Lady Melania Trump, who showed up without POTUS Donald and sporting a feminist message in the form of a white outfit like those favored by protesting Dem politicians at last year’s address to the joint session of…

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday he’s going to “take a strong look at our country’s libel laws,” which he said are “a sham and a disgrace and do not reflect American values,” remarks made presumably in response to Michael Wolff’s barn-burner, Fire and Fury. Wednesday night, “First Lady Melania Trump&#8221…

Tony Award winner Laura Benanti is set as a series regular for Season 3 of The Detour, the TBS comedy created, written and executive-produced by Jason Jones and Samantha Bee. The Supergirl and Nashville alumna recurred as USPIS Agent Edie during the series’ sophomore run. The Detour, which was renewed for Season 3 in A…

UPDATED with video: Stephen Colbert interviewed “Trump’s wife and strategic eye-shadow reserve, Melania Trump” to ask how the “dirty and bad stuff” Donald Trump said in the Access Hollywood tape was Billy Bush’s doing, as she has said in interviews. For those who have been hiding under a flat rock since WaPo published…

Who is Laura Benanti? Who isn’t she? might be the better question: Segueing from Nashville‘s rising C&W starlet-turned-victim Sadie Stone to Supergirl’s doomed-but-wise mom Alura Zor-El, not to mention playing Captain Georg von Trapp’s ill-fated fiancée Ilsa on The Sound Of Music Live, garnering most of that show’s…

EXCLUSIVE: She may be playing biological mother to Supergirl Melissa Benoist in the upcoming CBS series, but multi-platform star Laura Benanti (Nashville, The Sound Of Music Live) is doing some flying of her own: A little over a year after signing with CAA, she’s just jumped to UTA. Benanti, a Tony-winning actress…

Jane Krakowski (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, 30 Rock) will return to Roundabout Theatre Company for its 50th anniversary season to co-star on Broadway in a revival of She Loves Me with René Auberjonois (Benson, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) and Gavin Creel (Hair, The Book Of Mormon) along with previously announced stars La…

The genius of Harvey Weinstein’s New York Spring Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall is that he and his…