Celebrity Bulletin , September 09 2026

The 3x Tony Award winner will direct both Pulitzer Prize and Tony® Award winners BRUCE NORRIS' Downstate and BESS WOHL's Small Mouth Sounds on Broadway. Downstate begins previews Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Booth Theatre for a limited 12-week engagement. Opening night is set for Sunday, Nov. 15. Small Mouth Sounds will begin performances on Feb. 18, 2027, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, with opening night set for March 18.

The Oscar winner returns to Broadway in 2026 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner BESS WOHL's play Small Mouth Sounds, directed by three-time Tony Award winner JOE MANTELLO. The complete cast will include MARTIN FREEMAN, GRETA LEE, SARAH PAULSON, ISAAC POWELL, and PAUL RUDD. Small Mouth Sounds will begin performances on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2027, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, with opening night set for Thursday, March 18.

The multi-platinum artist will be in NYC Sept 16-21 for press and radio in support of his new album, Rewind, which drops Sept. 25th.

The Oscar-nominated (Call Me by Your Name) Italian writer-director's highly anticipated film Artificial (a NEON release), starring ANDREW GARFIELD and YURA BORISOV will hold its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on Oct. 5, 2026 at Alice Tully Hall with GUADAGNINO and members of the cast in attendance.

The Broadway star will join BRADLEY WHITFORD and TOM BLYTH (Broadway debut) in the first-ever Broadway revival of AARON SORKIN's seminal work, A Few Good Men, with direction by Tony Award winner MICHAEL ARDEN. Performances begin Oct. 8, 2026 with Opening Night Oct. 29, 2026 for a 13 week run through Jan. 10, 2027 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

WERNER will direct and choreograph Big League Productions, Inc.'s Mystic Pizza: A New Musical, the new production embarking on a national tour that begins Sept. 26, 2026 at the Clemens Center in Elmira, NY. Based on the beloved MGM movie with Story and Characters by AMY HOLDEN JONES, the musical is written by SANDY RUSTIN with Arrangements and Orchestrations by CARMEL DEAN, and depicts best friends Kat (2022 Jimmy Awards winner KENDALL BECERRA), Daisy (CHLOË LEZOTTE), and Jojo (LEXXI FRILLES)'s search for love and self-identity as they face life's many unexpected twists and turns. Mystic Pizza: A New Musical?delivers the beloved story from the iconic hit film driven by a score packed with unforgettable hits from the '80s and '90s. The Mystic Pizza tour is available for booking via Columbia Artists Theatricals. Marketing and Creative for the tour is by Tate Creative/Eric Emch.

The three-time Grammy Award-winning opera bass-baritone will perform 'Banquo' as The Metropolitan Opera opens its 2026-27 season on Sept. 22nd at the Met Opera House with a highly anticipated new staging of VERDI's Macbeth, directed by LOUISA PROSKE in her Met debut, under the baton of Met Music Director YANNICK NEZET-SEGUIN, and featuring QUINN KELSEY ('Macbeth'), LISE DAVIDSON ('Lady Macbeth') and FREDDIE De TOMMASO ('Macduff'), among others. The official Opening Night Gala features a cocktail reception on the Mercedes T. Bass Grand Tier and a post-performance dinner with the cast and creative team.

The Oscar® and Grammy Award®-winning multi-hyphenate from New Zealand is expected to conduct NYC promotional activities next month in support of his new feature, Klara and the Sun, which will hold an invite only NY Premiere on Monday, Oct. 19th. WAITITI wrote, directed & produced the sci-fi drama starring JENNA ORTEGA and AMY ADAMS, with STEVE BUSCEMI and NATASHA LYONNE. The Sony Pictures release opens only in theaters on Oct. 23, 2026.

The Emmy-winning talk show host, comedian, actress, and best-selling author will join the company of Aladdin at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre as the 'Genie' (the first woman to ever play the 'Genie') for a limited run from Friday, Oct. 16, 2026 through Sunday, Jan. 3, 2027, marking a rare appearance on the Broadway stage. Current 'Genie' CALEB A. BARNETT will remain in the company as the standby during SHEPHERD's run.

UPDATED: The global star is expected in NY in late November / early December for promotional activities  / talk show rounds in support of his starring role as 'Santa' in Amazon MGM's The Man with the Bag, which will hold an invite only NYC premiere on Tuesday, Dec. 1st. Director ADAM SHANKMAN's Christmas action comedy co-stars ALAN RITCHSON with a cast that includes MICHAEL CYRIL CREIGHTON, JANE KRAKOWSKI, AWKWAFINA, KEN JEONG and ROGER BART.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will present the world premiere of Allegra & the Cello, in Movements, a new opera with story and libretto by the award-winning French-Algerian-American playwright and librettist, and music by JULIA SCHWARTZ, directed by ELENA ARAOZ. A High Hard Heat/Dominick Balletta production, this new opera runs Dec. 10-20, 2026, at The Club at La MaMa ETC (74a East 4th St.) in NYC. 

The 12-time CMA Award winner will return to host "The 60th Annual CMA Awards," marking her third consecutive year in the role and second consecutive year as solo host. WILSON will lead the star-studded evening as the CMA Awards celebrate 60 years of shining a spotlight on the industry's most outstanding talent and unforgettable moments. Country Music's Biggest Night™ broadcasts live from Nashville's Bridgestone Arena Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 8/7c on ABC, Disney+ and next day on Hulu.

UPDATED: The filmmaker and composer, who will receive the Luminary Award at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures 6th annual fundraising Museum Gala on Oct. 17, 2026, will also host three nights of screenings of his films, including Halloween (1978), on Sept. 26, in celebration of The Horror Show, the Academy Museum's new large-scale exhibition.

Nominees for "The 60th Annual CMA Awards" will be revealed Thursday, Sept. 10 beginning with "Good Morning America's" LARA SPENCER revealing a selection of categories live on air, before continuing in Nashville, where Country artist & 6x CMA Award winner LEE ANN WOMACK and "American Idol" Season 24 winner HANNAH HARPER will host a livestream at 8 AM CT to unveil the remaining categories on CMA's official YouTube channel. The livestream will also feature special voiceover narration from SiriusXM's "The Highway" host CODY ALAN as well as Emmy-winning media personality KELLY SUTTON. "The 60th Annual CMA Awards" will broadcast live from Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, Wednesday, Nov. 18 on ABC, Disney+ and next day on Hulu.

The 2008 Academy Award-winner for Best Documentary Short for Freeheld will talk about her latest new documentary film, The Righteous Road Trip as one of the guests of Rabbi DAVID BARON of the Temple of the Arts at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on the Eve of Yom Kippur, Kol Nidre, on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026 at 8 PM, and on Yom Kippur, on Monday, Sept. 21, 1026. 2026 Jewish High Holy Days Service Participants will include: MARY HART, LEONARD MALTIN, and JULIE HAGERTY, among others. *Media Credentials required to interview Rabbi BARON and his High Holy Day guests.*

The American filmmaker has been named the Jury President for the official Selection Competition at the 74th San Sebastian International Film Festival running Sept. 18-26, 2026. In addition to his jury role, SACHS' latest feature The Man I Love, starring RAMI MALEK, EBON MOSS-BACHRACH, REBECCA HALL & TOM STURRIDGE, will screen at the festival on Monday, Sept. 21st, 10:30 AM prior to SACHS' Q&A as part of the Film Talks: Nest section at Tabakalera - Cinema.

The Academy Award winner will receive the Golden Icon Award at the 2026 Zurich Film Festival, and will present a screening of her latest film The Debut. MOORE will accept the award in person alongside the film's director JESSE EISENBERG. The 22nd Zurich Film Festival runs Sept. 24-Oct. 4, 2026.

The Emmy Award–winning actor, writer, and director will receive the Golden Eye Award at the 2026 Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) recognizing his career & his role in writer-director NOAH SEGAN's upcoming crime thriller The Only Living Pickpocket in New York. TURTURRO will accept the award in Zurich on Sept. 26, 2026 & conduct a "ZFF Masters" session on Sept. 27, 2026. The 22nd edition of ZFF will take place from Sept. 24 to Oct. 4, 2026.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker join the 70th BFI London Film Festival's (LFF) Screen Talks on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2:30 PM at Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall to talk about her career, as ELEANOR COPPOLA's documentary Making Marie Antoinette screens in the festival which runs Oct. 7-18, 2026.