Lady Gaga has announced the rescheduled dates for her Chromatica Ball stadium tour, which was originally set to kick off March 2020, but was postponed due to the pandemic. The 14-city Chromatica Ball Tour begins in Europe in July with additional North American dates in August, and supports Gaga’s sixth album Chromatica. Chromatica debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and produced two top-five hits, including “Stupid Love” and “Rain On Me,” featuring Ariana Grande.

Gaga will kick off the tour on July 17 in Düsseldorf, Germany with additional dates in Stockholm, Paris, London, and Toronto. The tour also include several stadium dates in the U.S. including MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, Wrigley Field in Chicago, Fenway Park in Boston, and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

Tickets go on sale Friday in Arnhem and London, and March 14 for all other cities.

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AMC has announced its new ‘Walking Dead’ spinoff, ‘Isle of the Dead,’ which will follow Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s characters, Maggie and Negan. The Walking Dead ends this year in its 11th season.

The six-episode series will see Maggie and Negan’s uneasy partnership as they ‘travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.’

Walking Dead writer Eli Jorné will showrun and executive produce with Cohan and Morgan and Scott Gimple.  Cohan said in a statement: “Maggie is very close to my heart and I’m excited to continue her journey against the iconic backdrop of New York City, alongside my friend and collaborator, Jeffrey Dean Morgan. I cannot wait for the fans to see what we have in store for Maggie and Negan.”

Morgan added in a statement, “I’m delighted that Negan and Maggie’s journey continues. Walkers in an urban setting has always been such a cool image, but 5th Avenue, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty? The greatest city in the world?? The backdrop is amazing, but it’s the story that Eli Jorné cooked up that is even better.”

Isle of the Dead is expected to premiere in 2023.

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Pamela Anderson is set to make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago, in an eight-week engagement running from April 12 through June 5 at the Ambassador Theatre in N.Y.C.

The 54-year-old Anderson said in a press release:  “I have always been a huge fan of Bob Fosse’s & Gwen Verdon’s work. Ann Reinking, too. Playing Roxie Hart is a dream fulfilled.  Performing Fosse, you don’t have time to get in your head. You can’t dance, sing and think at the same time. There is a freedom, a unique joy in knowing it’s all about the work. Playing Roxie Hart is a sweet escape for me.”

The role of Roxie Hart was originated by Gwen Verdon in the 1975 Broadway production. Other big names who have stepped into Roxie’s dance shoes on stage over the years include Ann Reinking, Ashlee Simpson Ross and Michelle Williams, as well as Renée Zellweger in the 2002 Chicago film adaptation opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones as rival and fellow murderess Velma Kelly.

Tickets for Chicago can be purchased at chicagothemusical.com.

Pamela Anderson To Make Broadway Debut In ‘Chicago’ Next Month

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Summer Walker has announced The Summer Walker Series, a limited engagement run of shows set to kick off March 20 in Houston, Texas featuring special guests NO1-NOAH and MARVXXL. Erica Banks joining as a special guest for shows in Houston and Dallas.

Walke recently announced a vinyl edition of ‘Still Over It’ set to drop March 11 celebrating the success of her album which hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. and featured artists including Cardi B, SZA, Ari Lennox, and Lil Durk.

Visit Summer Walker’s official website for tickets and more tour information.

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Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa have teamed up for a new song, which lands next Friday (March 11). Meg teased the collaboration on Twitter, including the release date and photos of colorful cakes with Meg and Dua’s faces emblazoned on the icing.  Meg later confirmed the name of the song in a follow-up tweet, along with the caption: “SWEETEST PIE 3/11 @DUALIPA”

Dua share a snippet of the song on her Instagram along with the caption “ @theestallion 3/11″

Dua Lipa just kicked off her massive Future Nostalgia North American tour last month, with Megan joining Dua’s tour later on in the trek for select dates in Denver, Tulsa and Phoenix.

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Michael Douglas has signed on to portray Benjamin Franklin in a limited series for Apple TV+. Douglas will also executive produce the series about Franklin and his diplomatic mission to France during the American Revolution.

The still-untitled series is based on Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff’s book ‘A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America.’  The series will depict Franklin at age 70 as he convinced France to supply military aid and funding for the founding of America. The eight year story led to the Franco-American alliance of 1778 and peace with England by l783.

Douglas most recently starred in Netflix’s ‘The Kominsky Method,’ which ended last year. That series earned Douglas three Emmy nominations for best lead actor in a comedy series. Douglas also portrays Dr. Hank Pym in Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man’ movies, and is set to portray Ronald Reagan in a Paramount TV Studios limited series about the 40th president’s negotiations with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (Christoph Waltz).

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Peacock announced a new comedy series Twisted Metal, a half-hour live-action comedy based on the PlayStation game series of the same name. Anthony Mackie (‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’) will star in and executive produce the series. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Deadpool, Zombieland) will executive produce the series, along with Mackie, and Michael Jonathan Smith (Cobra Kai), who also serves as showrunner and writer.

According to a statement from NBCUniversal, Mackie will portray “John Doe, a smug milkman and motor-mouthed outsider who has forgotten his past. Doe is offered a chance at a better life if he is able to survive vehicular combat while delivering a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a trigger-happy car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.”

Jeff Frost, president Sony Pictures Television Studios and Jason Clodfelter, co-president, said in a joint statement:  “We are thrilled that our first series with our good friends at Peacock is with our amazing partners at Electric Avenue, Universal Television and colleagues at PlayStation Productions. Michael Jonathan Smith and Rhett and Paul have ingeniously brought this high-action comedy to life and we are so fortunate to have Anthony at the center of the show. We look forward to this incredible team blowing audiences away with this twisted and inventive concept.”

‘Twisted Metal’: Peacock Lands Live-Action Video Game Adaptation Starring Anthony Mackie With Series Order

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Jack White has released more new music from one of his TWO new albums that are set to arrive this year. White dropped his collaboration with Q-Tip titled “Hi-De-Ho” from the first of his two albums, Fear of the Dawn (due out April 8).

White and Q-Tip have collaborated together before; White appeared on A Tribe Called Quest’s final album, ‘We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service’; and the two also performed each other’s songs together at a 2015 Madison Square Garden show.

White will be touring across the U.S. this spring, before heading to Europe for June/July.  Take a listen to “Hi-De-Ho” – here.

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The Weeknd has announced his ‘After Hours Til Dawn ’ North American Stadium Tour. Doja Cat will join The Weeknd on the first leg, which kicks-off in The Weeknd’s hometown at Toronto’s Rogers Centre on July 8th.

The tour will make stops in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, Las Vegas, Seattle, and more before wrapping with a show at Los Angeles’ Sofi Stadium on September 2. Additional international dates are to be announced.

Ticket sales for the North American leg of the After Hours Til Dawn tour will begin on Thursday, March 10 via The Weeknd’s official website. Fans who purchased tickets to the After Hours arena tour, originally scheduled for 2021 then rescheduled to 2022 before being canceled entirely for a shift towards stadiums, will receive first access to tickets for the newly announced dates.

Visit The Weeknd’s official website for more information.

https://variety.com/2022/music/news/the-weeknd-stadium-tour-dates-un-world-food-programme-1235195142/

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Jennifer Hudson will launch a new self-titled daytime talk show,‘The Jennifer Hudson Show’ for Fox Television Stations this fall. The one-hour daytime talk show is produced in Los Angeles by Warner Bros. Unscripted Television in association with Telepictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. The Jennifer Hudson Show will tape in Los Angeles, with a creative team to be named soon.

David Decker, Executive Vice President, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, said in a statement: “Daytime has found its Dreamgirl. We are excited to bring Jennifer Hudson to Fox, Hearst and all our broadcast station partners this fall. Warner Bros. stands as the cornerstone between A-List talent and top tier stations building successful brands that drive audiences.”

Said Hudson in a statement: “I have experienced so much in my life; I’ve seen the highest of the highs, the lowest of the lows, and just about everything in between but as my mother always told me, ‘Once you think you’ve seen it all, just keep on living. People from around the world have been a part of my journey from the beginning – twenty years ago – and I’m so ready to join their journey as we sit down and talk about the things that inspire and move us all. I have always loved people and I cannot wait to connect on a deeper level and let audiences see the different sides of who I am, the human being, in return. And I couldn’t be more thrilled to do it alongside this incredible team. We’re about to have a lot of fun and shake things up a little bit!”

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