Celebrity Bulletin , May 27 2026

UPDATED: The Tony Award nominee and Golden Globe Award winner returns to Broadway opposite three-time Olivier Award nominee and Golden Globe Award nominee HAYLEY ATWELL (Broadway debut), reprising their roles as 'Benedick' and 'Beatrice' in Tony Award and multiple Olivier Award winning director / producer JAMIE LLOYD's production of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE's Much Ado About Nothing. The entire cast and creative team of the critically acclaimed production will reunite on Broadway for a strictly limited 10-week engagement at the Winter Garden Theatre with preview performances beginning Saturday, Oct. 31 ahead of a Thursday, Nov. 19 official opening night and run through Sunday, Jan. 10, 2027 only.

The 11-time Emmy Award winner will make her Broadway debut alongside Tony Award nominee and four-time Academy Award nominee ED HARRIS, and two-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award winner, and seven-time Emmy Award winner ALLISON JANNEY, Actor Award winner JOE KEERY, and Tony Award nominee LILY RABE in the first Broadway revival of JON ROBIN BAITZ's Tony Award-winning play Other Desert Cities, directed by Tony Award winner JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY. Other Desert Cities will play a 16-week limited engagement at Broadway's Hudson Theatre (141 W. 44th St.) with previews starting Tuesday, Sept. 29 ahead of a Sunday, Oct. 18 opening night. The limited engagement will end Sunday, Jan. 17, 2027.

UPDATED: The Olivier Award winner, London Standard Theatre Award winner, and Golden Globe Award® winner will reprise her lauded role as 'Eva Perón' when Tony Award and multiple Olivier Award-winning director/producer JAMIE LLOYD's new production of TIM RICE & ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER's masterwork Evita arrives at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway). Preview performances begin Saturday evening, Feb. 27, 2027 for a Thursday, March 25, 2027 opening night. ZEGLER will not play 'Eva Perón' at certain performances during the run. Additional casting, including an 'Eva Perón' alternate, and creative team members will be announced shortly.

Interviews are available with the actress-producer while she is in New York this week. SCERBO is stepping boldly into the most intentional, purpose-driven chapter of her career with a new production company, One of One, co-founded with her husband (they recently got married in 2025), filmmaker and EP JAMES MACMILLAN, and a career-defining role in The Wolf and the Lamb. Outside of acting and producing, CASSANDRA serves as Vice President of Boo2Bullying, where she has spent nearly 15 years leading youth-focused mental health education, suicide prevention programs, and anti-bullying initiatives nationwide.

The Oscar and two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, renowned for hits such as "On and On" (which will be covered on KEITH URBAN's new album Flow State), "It Might Be You" (the theme from Tootsie), "Separate Lives" (the theme from White Nights), and more, is planning a 2027 Farewell Tour with official tour dates & cities to be announced soon. BISHOP, who released his 20th and final album THIMK, on Aug. 15, 2025 on Life's A Bish Records, is also planning to release a 50th anniversary version of his 1976 debut smash album Careless, featuring some previously unreleased cuts.

Interviews are available with the acclaimed international celebrity ghostwriter who has ghostwritten over 110 books and co-authored two New York Times bestsellers, who says that the influx of AI-generated text in publishing has made human editors more important than ever. LISEC can speak about the use of AI in book publishing and ghostwriting, and related topics.

UPDATED: The Broadway revival of Chess at the Imperial Theatre, which has been nominated for 5 Tony Awards, has announced it will now close on MICHELE's final performance date of June 21, 2026. The singer JoJo had been cast as LEA's replacement as 'Florence Vassy' in the musical prior to the closing announcement.

The award-winning author discusses & signs his new novel, Ghalen: A Romance in Black (released by Amistad on May 26, 2026), at a live taping of B&N's Poured Over Podcast with MIWA MESSER at Barnes & Noble Upper West Side (82nd & Broadway) location on Thursday, June 4, 2026 at 7 PM.

JEFF ROSS, DAVE ATTELL, and ANDREW DICE CLAY will be among the many comedians headlining The Stand Restaurant & Comedy Club's Second Annual NY Laughs Festival, taking place June 4–7, 2026, at The Stand Restaurant & Comedy Club, Irving Plaza, Joe's Pub, Pier 57, and St. Marks Comedy Club, as well as a special preview of The Stand's upcoming newest location at Chelsea Market. The Festival opens with its signature event - Comedy in the Square - a free outdoor show in Union Square's Park North Plaza on June 4, 6 PM-9 PM featuring USAMA SIDDIQUEE, EMMA WILLMAN, CHRIS TURNER, and others.

The multi-platinum dance music icon, whose single "Still in Love" is out now, will be in NYC on June 9-10 and available for interviews. The 12-time Billboard Dance Chart #1 artist with 100M+ Spotify streams, six ASCAP Songwriter Awards, and four Billboard Music Awards, continues to shape the global house landscape. Following major momentum with I AM HOUSE Orchestrated–which recently expanded to Miami after a sold-out NYC debut at Sony Hall–WATERS is currently building toward her first full-length album in nearly three decades, recently releasing "Still In Love" (Ferreck Dawn Remix) via her IAH Records imprint, while her syndicated I AM HOUSE Radio show now airs on SiriusXM's Utopia.

The singer-comedienne-actress (Dolly: A True Original Musical, Everything the Traffic Will Allow) will star as 'Beverly' / 'Mrs. Millner,' as Two River Theater and Deaf West Theatre present Elephant Shoes, the new musical with a soaring contemporary score and an immersive blend of spoken English, ASL, and stage technology. Also starrring ANTOINETTE LORI ABBAMONTE ("Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Switched At Birth") as 'Laurie,'  DANIEL DURANT (Deaf West's Spring Awakening, CODA) as 'Cy,' TAYLOR IMAN JONES (Six The Musical, Head Over Heels) as 'Roxy,' JAMES OLIVAS (Evita, Deaf West's American Idiot) as 'Chris,' and many more, Elephant Shoes will run in the Joan and Robert Rechnitz Theater from June 4-28, 2026.

The film icon, and People of the American Way Foundation board member since 1988, alongside social commentary/mixed-media artist DEBORAH KASS and other special guests will perform dramatic readings of select constitutional amendments that feel vulnerable at this time as BAM in association with Greenlight Bookstore presents the launch event for The Art of Saving Democracy: An Action Kit for Making Change (created by renowned longtime advocacy organization People for the American Way and its chief creative officer NA ENG) on June 2 at 7:30 PM at BAM's Adam Space in the Peter Jay Sharp Building. The evening also features conversation with artist VINCENT VALDEZ and Design Matters host DEBBIE MILLMAN, and special guests.

On the heels of her recent single, "KGB," and her wrapped tour with DEMI LOVATO, ADÉLA (née ADÉLA JERGOVÁ) will kick off her first-ever headline North American tour on Sept. 9 at Detroit, MI at Saint Andrew's Hall. The 19-date tour will include a Sept. 18 show at Brooklyn, NY's Brooklyn Steel.

Media coverage is encouraged as the Multi-Platinum Country hitmaker will celebrate 10 years of his critically acclaimed album CALIFORNIA SUNRISE with CALIFORNIA SUNRISE (10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) out June 12 via MCA, an expanded re-issue and limited-edition vinyl release featuring three new tracks from the vault. Alongside the album's original 12 songs, the new edition includes "Drinkin' and Dancin'," "If I Had Another Heart" and recently released "How Did You Know." Currently touring in support of his fifth studio album, HONKYTONK HOLLYWOOD, PARDI will next play Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on May 30, 2026.

The Back Blocks Music/MCA/Mercury Records artist, who was just named New Male Artist of the Year at the 61st ACM Awards, and whose latest single "Brunette" (& third consecutive No. 1) tops both the Mediabase Country and Billboard Country Airplay charts this week, will launch the second leg of his The Brunette World Tour presented by NÜTRL Vodka Seltzer on June 21, 2026 in Uncasville, CT at Mohegan Sun with Special Guests MADDOX BATSON & JACOB HACKWORTH.

The Moana star will join ALAN TUDYK, SUSAN EGAN and others to be honored as Disney Legends on Sunday, Aug. 16, the final day of D23, hosted by RYAN SEACREST at the Honda Center in Anaheim.