Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs' Candle Media has hired seasoned executives Courtney Cappa and Kendall Ostrow as, respectively, SVP, Finance & Accounting, and SVP, Business Development & Community. Cappa will help drive Candle's corporate finance efforts including building up a corporate team to oversee financial planning…

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday he plans to run for Congress in a redrawn district that includes his home base in Brooklyn. De Blasio's second mayoral term ended last year. He was briefly in the mix as a Democratic primary candidate in the 2020 presidential election and flirted with running for…

Meredith Artley, who has been senior vice president and editor in chief of CNN Digital Worldwide, told staffers on Friday that she was departing the network. She’s the latest executive to exit after CNN got a new corporate parent, Warner Bros. Discovery, and new leadership, with Chris Licht taking the helm on May…

Broadway will continue requiring audiences to mask up at least through June, the Broadway League announced today. Audience masking protocols for July and beyond will be announced in June. “"We're thrilled that nearly a quarter of a million people are attending Broadway shows weekly in this exciting spring season,&#8221…

Kimberly Akimbo, the Off Broadway musical that’s won a slew of critics awards this season, has settled on the venue for its Broadway engagement in the fall: The production will begin previews at Broadway’s Booth Theatre on October 12, with an official opening on November 10. The production will feature the original…

There’s a growing chorus from public health officials being heard across the country this week, and it consists of one just word: “Masks.” Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer on a Zoom with reporters today recommended, “Everyone two years of age and older should wear a mask in indoor gatherings…

UPDATED, with MPA comment: A California state senator ripped the entertainment industry today after the bill he co-authored in response to last year’s fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the Rust set failed to get out of committee. "It's a powerful and ruthless industry,” Sen. Dave Cortese, a Silicon Valley Democrat…

A memorial service was held Wednesday evening for Christine Ponthieux, the office manager of the Tampa-based Benz Model & Talent Agency who shot and killed herself inside the owner's private office last month after sending an angry letter about him to some of the agency's clients. Called to the agency's offices on…

Better Call Saul captured the top spot on a sleepy week, collecting 821 million minutes of viewing for its first five seasons on Netflix. Along with the rankings for the week of April 18 to 24, Nielsen also released the April edition of The Gauge, its monthly look at overall viewing via TV sets. Helped by an upswing…

Box office is big news this week, not so much for its totals as for its totemic significance. Throngs will greet Top Gun: Maverick, but will kids join the grownups to see a nearly 60 year-old actor starring in a sequel to a 36 year-old hit? At the other end of the audience spectrum, will seniors conquer their torpor…

UPDATE, 1 PM PT: Johnny Depp was "drunk a lot of the time," Ellen Barkin told a Virginia courtroom today of her Fear and Loathing in Last Vegas co-star in his $50 million defamation suit against Amber Heard. The highest-profile witness to give testimony at the April 11 starting trial, Barkin's stint on the virtual…

EXCLUSIVE: A new, exclusive partnership between the prominent theatrical P.R. agency DKC/O&M and the newly formed production services outfit Built Productions was announced today, formalizing a collaboration that’s been responsible for some of Broadway’s splashiest opening night events this season. From the…