Celebrity Bulletin , September 14 2026

Interviews are available with the Albanian-born & raised international pop star, model, and recent Vogue Beauty cover girl BLEONA, to share her unbelievable journey, breaking barriers for Albanian women including DUA LIPA, RITA ORA and BEBE REXHA. With 1 Million Facebook and 625K Instagram followers, BLEONA is having a major moment. She is now re-recording and reimagining 20 of her Albanian catalogue songs for two new visual albums while releasing new English-language music, including an upcoming EP produced by TIMBALAND. This year she made headlines on the red carpet of the Grammy Awards & Vanity Fair's Oscar Party, landed the cover of Vogue México's Vogue Belleza, and this fall will become the face of a global Balmain Beauty campaign, followed by another Vogue cover for its September fashion issue in Czechoslovakia.

The Nobel Laureate, former Vice President, and Founder and Chairman of The Climate Reality Project will be in NYC to join Bishop WILLIAM BARBER II, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival, to headline "The Immorality of Inaction: Voicing Truth on Climate" this Friday, Sept. 18 from 3 PM-6 PM at NYC's historic Riverside Church. In addition to Mr.
GORE and Bishop BARBER, confirmed speakers include OREN LYONS, WANJIRA MATHAI, ELIZABETH YEAMPIERRE, and Rabbi JENNIE ROSENN. The convening is organized by the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary with the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at the Columbia Climate School.

The Oscar winner co-stars opposite Oscar nominee ETHAN HAWKE in the Great Depression-set crime thriller, The Weight (Vertical Entertainment release) which will hold an invite-only Tuesday, Sept. 15th NY Premiere before its Sept. 18th opening in theaters. CROWE also co-stars in JANUS METZ's drama, Unabomber (Netflix), starring JACOB TREMBLAY as TED KACZYNSKI, which will hold its NY Premiere on Sept. 17th.

Rubicon Theatre Company (KARYL LYNN BURNS, JONATHAN DRAHOS, Producing Artistic Directors) will present the Off-Broadway premiere of Crazy Mama: A True Story of Love and Madness by SHARON SCOTT WILLIAMS, a powerful play about love and resilience, directed by ANSON WILLIAMS and starring LINDA PURL – playing 16 different characters - and WILL HUSE as The Blues Man. Performances will begin on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026 at 7:30 PM for a limited engagement through Oct. 18, 2026 at 59E59 Theaters – Theater C (59 E. 59th St. btwn Madison & Park Aves.). Opening Night is Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 7:30 PM.

Red Light Management clients TREY ANASTASIO, DAVE MATTHEWS and CHRIS STAPLETON will give special performances at the T.J. Martell Foundation's sold out 51st annual New York Honors Gala tomorrow Tuesday, Sept. 15 at Cipriani 42nd Street honoring Red Light Management founder CORAN CAPSHAW with the evening's Lifetime Music Industry Award.

The Academy Award®-winning filmmaker will appear in conversation on Saturday, Oct. 10, 5 PM at East Hampton's Guild Hall as part of  the Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF34). The East Coast Premiere of HOWARD's latest documentary, AVEDON, will screen on Saturday, Oct. 10 and Monday, Oct. 12 at the East Hampton Regal USA.

The Emmy, Grammy, and Tony winner will join BILLY ZANE & JESSICA VOSK in Bill Pay The Musical, a fully staged original musical comedy produced by the AI-powered technology company Ramp to promote its automated corporate bill-paying platform. The show will run for just one night on Sept. 25, 2026 at the Broadhurst Theatre. 

"I Put A Spell On You: A Sanderson Sister Act," Broadway's biggest Halloween party will return to Manhattan's Webster Hall on Monday, Oct. 12. The Hocus Pocus-inspired concert from JOHNSON is celebrating its 11th year, following 2025's record-breaking event. JOHNSON and ALLISON GODLESKI will return to headline the evening as the cult classic film's Sanderson sisters, Winifred and Sarah, with SYDNIE ROY joining the sisterhood as Mary, respectively. Also returning are STACEY BADGETT JR., MADDOX MARTIN, and KATHRYN PRIEST. The cast will also include Tony Award© Nominee JASMINE AMY ROGERS, ANANIA, ISABELLE McCALLA, JEANNA de WAAL and many more, with premiere NYC drag queens REESE HAVOC, HANUKAH LEWINSKY and CHELSEA PIERS. Surprise guests will appear via video, and additional performers may be announced leading up to the performance. 

The actor stars as SYLVESTER STALLONE in Amazon MGM Studios' I Play Rocky, which will make its East Coast Premiere as The 34th annual Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF34) Opening Night film. IPPOLITO will receive the Flyte Breakthrough Performer Award at the Opening Night screening at the East Hampton Middle School on Oct. 3. I PLAY ROCKY is slated for a Nov. 20 theatrical release, marking the 50th anniversary of ROCKY.

The acclaimed multi-hyphenate stars alongside HIAM ABBASS in writer-director-producer REED VAN DYK's post-Iraq War story, Atonement, and will attend the film's Gala Presentation North American Premiere tomorrow Tuesday, Sept. 15, 5:30 PM at Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, ON as part of The Toronto International Film Festival (Sept. 10–20, 2026).

The Shakespearean icon will appear in JAY MILLER and SIMON STEPHENS' reimagining of Lear at The Yard Theatre, London from Nov. 17, 2026 - Jan. 2, 2027 with Press night Dec. 1. The production is part of the theater's first season in its new building which has been rebuilt on the same site it first opened on in 2011.

The recent Emmy winner will join MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY, WOODY HARRELSON, JAMIE LEE CURTIS, SOFIA VERGARA, JOHN MULANEY, AWKWAFINA, EMMY ROSSUM, SCOTT CAAN, JULIA GARNER, LL COOL J, and many more as presenters for tonight's (9/14) 78th Emmy Awards, airing live at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT from LA's Peacock Theater on NBC and Peacock.

The rapper will host the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) ), which returns to the West Coast for the first time since 2017, broadcasting live from Peacock Theater at L.A. LIVE on Sunday, Sept. 27 (7:30-9:30 PM, ET/ 4:30-6:30 PM, PT) on the CBS Television Network, simulcast on MTV and streaming live on Paramount+ in the U.S & available globally the next day on Paramount+ and MTV. 

Interviews are available with the physician, Emmy-nominated film producer, philanthropist, investor, and entrepreneur, who along with actor CHRISTIAN BALE, is one of the co-founders of Together California, a new foster care community in Palmdale, CA which officially opened its campus with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sept. 9. Dr. ESRAILIAN  is also one of the co-founders and President of the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy (CIII). Among his numerous business ventures, he is also co-founder of the recently launched real estate firm Tenet Holdings.

Beyond Fest 2026, the Los Angeles-set genre film festival running Sept. 23, 2026 to Oct. 6, 2026 will open with the West Coast Premiere of the director's Primetime starring ROBERT PATTINSON at the Directors Village. There will be an 81-feature film lineup which includes 10 world premieres, 4 North American premieres & an array of in-person guest appearances.