Celebrity Bulletin , October 21 2026

DATE & VENUE UPDATE: The Academy Award winner will make her New York stage debut as 'Ella' / 'Max' -- the same identity-shifting role she originated in 1987 -- in MANFRED KARGE's Man to Man Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher St.) beginning Feb. 21, 2027. Produced by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Theatre, the production will play a strictly limited 8-week engagement, with an official opening night set for Feb. 28, 2027. This landmark revival reunites the multi-award-winning creative team, including director STEPHEN UNWIN and designer BUNNY CHRISTIE with translation by ANTHONY VIVIS and revisions by UNWIN, marking SWINTON's return to the stage for the first time in nearly four decades. Now in performances at London's Royal Court Theatre in a Sold Out run, Man to Man will have limited runs in Scotland at the Traverse Theatre and in Germany with the Berliner Ensemble ahead of arriving in New York. 

UPDATED: Warriors, the highly anticipated new stage musical written by the Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award-winning multi-hyphenate & EISA DAVIS will begin performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on March 9, 2027 with an opening night of April 8, 2027. The show is an adaptation of the 1979 Paramount Pictures cult-classic action film The Warriors. 

The musician, actor, writer, radio host, and philanthropist known will join the cast of The Dog Show: Come. Sit. Stay, a new comedy by 13-time Emmy winner and two-time Grammy winner DAVID JAVERBAUM at The Triad Theater (158 W. 72nd St.). RUDETSKY will perform in the show on Tuesday, Nov. 3; Wednesday, Nov. 4; Tuesday, Nov. 24; and Wednesday, Nov. 25. Previously announced cast member JORDAN MATTHEW BROWN will not perform on the evenings that SETH appears due to prior commitments.

Interviews are available with the celebrated AD100 designer, who's back for Season 3 of his streaming series "Design Reimagined with Corey Damen Jenkins," which premieres on Oct. 23. Opportunities to premiere the official Season 3 trailer online, which will be available later this week, are also available. Topics the NYC-based JENKINS can discuss include: Season 3 and his mission to make luxury design accessible to everyone; Luxury looks without luxury budgets: Easy ways to elevate any room; His remarkable career journey: From knocking on 779 doors to becoming an AD100 designer and MasterClass instructor.

UPDATED: The former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader and professional dancer best known for her appearance in Netflix's "America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders," who made her Broadway debut in Broadway's Chicago will extend as "Roxie Hart" for a second and final time through Sunday, Nov. 15 at the Ambassador Theatre.

The Long Island native wrote, directed and stars in A24's Club Kid which will hold its NY Premiere on Thursday, Oct. 29th before its Nov. 6th release. The dramedy also stars REGGIE ABSOLOM and CARA DELEVINGNE, among others.

The Broadway veteran will star as 'Clarence' and others opposite ANDREW RANNELLS as 'George Bailey' and MEGAN HILTY as 'Mary Bailey' in the Broadway Premiere of It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. HARRY HAMLIN ('Mr. Potter' and others), and LISA RINNA ('Violet' and others) round out the cast. Directed by four-time Tony Award winner JERRY ZAKS, adapted for the stage by JOE LANDRY and based on the story The Greatest Gift by PHILIP VAN DOREN STERN, previews begin Wednesday, Nov. 4, with an official Opening Night of Wednesday, Nov. 18, for a strictly limited engagement of nine weeks only, through Sunday, Jan. 3, 2027 at the Broadhurst Theatre.

The actress, who has played 'Roxie Hart' & 'Velma Kelly' in the Broadway company of Chicago off-and-on with over 4,000 performances under her belt, will return in the role of "Roxie Hart" beginning Monday, Nov. 16 at the Ambassador Theatre (219 W. 49th St.).

The Academy Award–nominated writer-director's Behemoth! will hold an invite-only NY event on Tuesday, Dec. 1st before opening in theaters on Dec. 4th. The Searchlight Pictures release stars PEDRO PASCAL, OLIVIA WILDE, EVA VICTOR, and WILL ARNETT alongside ALEXA SWINTON, KAYA RALLS, ERIK GRIFFIN, JoBETH WILLIAMS, MARGARITA LEVIEVA, and HANK AZARIA. 

The actress-singer will be among the performers at Z100's Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden on Friday, Dec. 11, 7 PM. *Jingle Ball Lineup subject to change

Continuing its tradition of NYC residencies that stretches back to the 2017 opening week of Brooklyn Steel, LCD SOUNDSYSTEM has announced its 2026 NYC series: 12 shows over three weekends beginning with Nov. 19, 20, 21 & 22 at Knockdown Center in Queens, continuing with Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 2 & 3 return to Brooklyn Steel, and concluding with four more shows Dec. 10, 11, 12 & 13 at Knockdown Center. This year's four-night run at Brooklyn Steel will kick off with the 100th show of LCD SOUNDSYSTEM's annual residencies. They will donate 100% of proceeds from ticket sales for the Nov. 30th show to a charity TBA. The 2026 residency will feature a variety of live openers, afterparties featuring DJ sets from special guests, and more.

The sibling Soft Rock band will perform at WhyHunger's Annual Amplified Hungerthon Concert at Webster Hall on Tuesday, Dec. 1 featuring headliner LUCY DACUS and Emmy®-nominated and Peabody-winning writer, director and comedian JULIO TORRES.

The Emmy and Grammy Award winner will receive the Director Award for A24's Misty Green at The Critics Choice Association's (CCA) 9th annual Celebration of Black Cinema & Television, taking place Monday, Nov. 16, 2026, at the Fairmont Century Plaza in LA. The film marks ROCK's fourth narrative feature as a director. He also wrote, produced, and co-stars in the film, which stars ROSALIND ELEAZAR and also features DANIEL KALUUYA, ADAM DRIVER, and ANNA KENDRICK. The A24 release began its theatrical rollout on Oct. 9.

The Irish band will headline the halftime show for the first-ever NFL Thanksgiving Eve game on Nov. 25, 2026, 8 PM between the Green Bay Packers & the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA. The game will stream live on Netflix. This performance will also celebrate U2's 50th anniversary as a band since forming in Dublin in 1976.

The acclaimed actor will receive the Maltin Modern Master Award at the 42nd Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) on Feb. 6, 2027 during an evening of clips & career-spanning conversation at the historic Arlington Theatre. Legendary film critic & historian LEONARD MALTIN, whom the award is named after, will moderate the event.

The rap superstar and 25-time Grammy winner, whose Roc Nation is the organizer behind the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show, is expected to announce himself as the headliner for the 2027 Super Bowl LXI at Los Angeles' SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA on Feb. 14, 2027. Sources suggest a formal announcement from the NFL & JAŸ-Z's Roc Nation could come as early as this weekend coinciding with the finale of his JAŸ-Z 30 Tour.