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Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Shear Madness, longest-running play, debuts in Wichita Falls
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — The worldwide hilarious whodunit is on its way to Wichita Falls. 'Shear Madness,' an award-winning show, will open on Friday, May 30 and run through Saturday, July 26, at the Stage 2 Dinner Theatre. Dinner will be served. The show has been featured in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running non-musical play in U.S. history. Set in the present day inside the bustling Shear Madness hair salon, this interactive comedy 'whodunit' is packed with spontaneous, up-to-the-minute humor. When a murder is discovered, the audience becomes part of the action — spotting clues, interrogating suspects, and ultimately deciding who did it! With a different ending every night, many guests return again and again for more mayhem and mystery. Shear Madness has earned numerous accolades, including: 'Best Comedy of the Year' — seven times by The Boston Globe 'Best Play of the Year' — by both the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Enquirer Raven Award — from the Mystery Writers of America Comedy Hall of Fame — the first play ever to be inducted! For more on event details and tickets, click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump scheduled to lead Kennedy Center board meeting
March 17 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump is scheduled to oversee a meeting at the Kennedy Center Monday for the first time since he was named chairperson by the board he installed. He is slated to tour the center and meet with the board members, whom he appointed February after removing the board members then in place. The White Housse said the visit will take place at 3 p.m. EST. Current board members include Laura Ingraham of Fox News and Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, as well as Richard Grenell, the United States Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions. Trump announced via Truth Social in February that he was "unanimously elected Chairman of the Board of the prestigious Kennedy Center" by the board, and that "We will make The Kennedy Center a very special and exciting place!" A number of performers and shows scheduled to appear at the Kennedy Center have since canceled, while others say their appearances were cancelled by the Center. A post to X Monday announced that the murder mystery-comedy show Shear Madness will take place as scheduled at 5 p.m.
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kennedy Center releases list of performance cancellations ‘in the spirit of transparency'
WASHINGTON () — The Kennedy Center released a current list of performance cancellations from the past few months, in light of President Donald Trump's controversial . The list was posted just after producers of the Broadway musical Hamilton announced they would be canceling plans to perform at the center next year. Lead producer Jeffrey Seller directly pointed to Trump's 'purge' as a reason behind the decision. '[In] recent weeks we have sadly seen decades of Kennedy Center neutrality be destroyed,' Seller wrote in a . 'The recent purge by the Trump Administration of both professional staff and performing arts events … flies in the face of everything this national cultural center represents.' Seller condemned the recent firings of Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter and Chairman David Rubenstein. 'Hamilton' cancels Kennedy Center run; Grenell fires back Late at night on March 6, Kennedy Center Vice President of Public Relations Roma Daravi released a addressing recent cancellations, including Hamilton's. 'In the spirit of transparency and due to the litany of misinformation being spread in the press, it is important to give the public a complete account of program cancellations over the last 6 months. In fact, the only shows under the Kennedy Center programming umbrella that we have cancelled since February 12th were due to a lack of sales or artist availability,' Daravi stated. The center listed the following program cancellations: 11/10/24: VOICES: Nadine Sierra – Cancelled due to artist illness 11/23/24: Macbeth – One show cancelled due to fire/flood 1/28/25-2/29/25: Shear Madness – Cancelled due to Theater repairs 2/7/25: NEMR – Cancelled by artist 2/8/25: Megan Gailey – Cancelled due to low sales 2/13/25: R&B Love Songs Edition – Cancelled by producer 2/24/25, 2/26/25, 3/6/25, 3/12/25, 3/13/25: Shear Madness – Cancelled for low sales 2/27/25: Balun – Cancelled by artist 3/4/25-3/22/25: Eureka Day – Cancelled by producer due to financial reasons 3/6/25: RIOT! – Cancelled due to artist availability 3/16/25: An Evening with Issa Rae – Cancelled by artist 3/15/25: Blacks in Wax – Cancelled by artist 3/19/25: Lowcut Connie – Cancelled by artist 3/21/25: Peter Wolf (Book Launch) – Cancelled by artist 3/21/25: Samhot – One show cancelled due to low ticket sales 3/22/25: Skipper the Seal Book Launch – Cancelled by artist 3/26/25: Arts & Wellbeing Panel – Cancelled by artist 4/5/25: Amanda Rheaume – Cancelled by artist 4/18/25: Bard and the Beat II – Cancelled by artist 4/19/25: Saigon Nights – Cancelled by artist 4/20/25: Bring them Home (Film) – Cancelled by artist 4/26/25: National Youth Poet Laureate Commemoration – Cancelled by artist 5/20/25-5/21/25: NSO: A Peacock Among Pigeons – Cancelled for financial reasons 5/27/25: Maria Joao Pires – Postoponed to following season 7/8/25-7/20/25: Bluey – Postponed to following season March/April 2026: Hamilton – Cancelled by producer Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Donald Trump Calls Kennedy Center Shows 'Terrible,' But Admits He's Never Seen One; Biden-Appointed Board Members Removed From Roster
Donald Trump's move to fire about half of the board of the Kennedy Center was reflected in the arts organization's roster, with a list of Joe Biden-appointees no longer named as trustees. Also missing was the center's chairman, philanthropist David Rubenstein, as Trump has said he plans to appoint himself to that position. More from Deadline Donald Trump Trolls Taylor Swift Sharing Video Of Singer Getting Booed At Super Bowl Kendrick Lamar Goes Full Carpe Diem In Super Bowl Halftime With A Fresh Swipe At Drake, Appearances By Samuel L. Jackson & SZA - Review "That's History In The Building": Trump Takes Over Super Bowl As First Sitting POTUS To Attend NFL's Big Game Trump defended his plans, which he announced on Friday, telling reporters that 'I want to make sure it runs properly.' 'We don't need woke at the Kennedy Center. Some of the shows were terrible. They were a disgrace that they were even put on. So I will be there until such time it gets to be running right.' But he told reporters that he has not seen any shows at the Kennedy Center. 'I got reports it was so bad. I didn't want to go. There was nothing I wanted to see,' he said. The Kennedy Center slate this year includes a pretty standard, safe and apolitical slate of shows among its major titles: Shear Madness, Riverdance 30 — The New Generation, Les Miserables, Legally Blonde, Sesame Street the Musical, Parade and The Sound of Music. In March, the center is hosting EARTH to SPACE: Arts Breaking the Sky, with performances designed around exploration. Among the Biden appointees removed were Elizabeth Alexander, who served as First Lady Jill Biden's communications director; musician Jon Batiste, who sang the National Anthem at the Super Bowl, which Trump attended; political strategist Stephanie Cutter; former Biden adviser Mike Donilon; former White House Social Secretary Carlos Elizondo; former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre; attorney Chris Korge; activist Henry Munoz; Katherine Lynn Petrelius, who served as White House deputy director of personnel; event planner and designer Bryan Rafanelli; Amy Blanchard Ricchetti; former White House cabinet secretary Evan Ryan; and attorney Robin Wiessmann. Seventeen board members remain, including Brian Ballard, the Trump-aligned lobbyist; Pam Bondi, the attorney general; Elaine Chao, who served as Trump's secretary of transportation in his first term; and singer Lee Greenwood. Still listed as treasurer of the Kennedy Center is Shonda Rhimes. She was appointed to the board by Barack Obama. The Kennedy Center said in a statement on Friday that the chair of the board is appointed by the trustees, but 'there is nothing in the Center's statute that would prevent a new administration from replacing board members; however, this would be the first time such action has been taken with the Kennedy Center's board.' Trump declined to attend the Kennedy Center Honors in his four years as president. In his first year in office, in 2017, honorees including Norman Lear said that they would boycott a traditional pre-ceremony White House reception to protest Trump's proposed cuts to arts funding. Rubenstein, who has poured tens of millions of dollars into restoring monuments and historic sites, had planned to step down from the board of the Kennedy Center last month. But last year, he agreed to remain in that role through 2026. The center's president, Deborah Rutter, announced last month that she would exit later this year. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About Christopher Nolan's Next Film – 'The Odyssey': Release Date, Cast And More 2025 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Spirits, Grammys, Tonys, Guilds & More 2024 Hollywood & Media Deaths: Photo Gallery & Obituaries
