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India Today
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
Priyanka Chopra cheers for husband Nick as he plays softball in Central Park. Pics
After making a splash at the Met Gala 2025 earlier this week, actors Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas were spotted in New York's Central Park on Thursday. Nick Jonas hit the field for the Broadway League Softball Game while Priyanka cheered him on from the in a sporty jersey and cap, Jonas brought his trademark energy to the friendly match with other Broadway stars. The 32-year-old singer and actor, is currently starring in the Broadway revival of 'The Last Five Years' alongside Adrienne him from the stands was none other than Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who cut a stylish figure in a monochrome co-ord set. The global icon was seen chatting with players and enjoying the casual afternoon, later taking a stroll through the park. Priyanka Chopra spotted in New York's Central Park (Photo Credit: Instagram/justjared) The couple went for a walk in Central Park just after making headlines at the Met Gala 2025, where they were one of the most talked-about pairs of the night. Chopra turned heads in a striking white and black polka dot ensemble by Olivier Rousteing for Balmain, complete with an oversized black hat and sparkling Bulgari jewels. Nick Jonas perfectly complemented her look in a sleek white blouse and black was not the couple's first Met Gala together. People have been following their love story ever since they appeared together at the Met Gala in 2017. That event marked the start of their journey from friends to a couple. According to Nick's brother, Joe Jonas, Nick fell for the Met veteran, Priyanka that very the work front, Chopra will be seen alongside Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu, who enjoys a massive fan following in the South in director SS Rajamouli's 'SSMB 29'. The film also features Prithviraj Sukumaran in an important role. The director, SS Rajamouli has kept everything under Watch
Indian Express
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Nick Jonas answers if he will sing with wife Priyanka Chopra: ‘Our best duet is our little girl Malti Marie'
We have always seen Priyanka Chopra as her singer-husband Nick Jonas' loudest cheerleader. In a recent interview, Nick shared how he has a dream partner in Priyanka and also shed light on the best part of their marriage. The 32-year-old actor-singer Nick sat for an interview with SiriusXM's Andy Cohen Live. He was talking about his Broadway show 'The Last Five Years' and as always couldn't help but praise his wife for her unwavering support. Nick shared how while working on the project, he always had Priyanka Chopra 's support. 'Having a partner that is not only that supportive of your ambition and your desire to do a good job, but genuinely just shows up and comes to cheer you is a dream scenario,' shared Nick. Also read | Nick Jonas says 'it's scary' to think of Malti Marie in showbiz after 'what Priyanka and I went through…' Nick's Broadway show partner and fellow American actor and singer Adrienne Warren said, 'She has come more than my mom, and that's saying a lot. She is the best.' When the host asked Nick if PeeCee gives him notes, the singer shared, 'We talk a lot about work, and before Adrienne and I started rehearsing, I certainly was singing the music around the house and talking and probably pontificating for longer than I should have. But that's the beauty of this partnership and frankly, the thing I'm most grateful for about our marriage is the ability to share, kind of, life together and a humongous part of both of our lives is our work. And it does naturally sort of, become one thing, one mind, one thought. And so it's probably not framed as notes, but just like, 'Here's some thoughts, let's workshop that a bit.' Nick added, 'And I can see a million scenarios where I didn't have that, and how tough that would be because I'm obviously bringing that work home with me, but I'm great that it's there.' 'When will the two of you do a duet? She had a big singing career, right,' asked the host further. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Patty Cardona (@jerryxmimi) Nick smiled and said, 'I don't know. Yeah. She's an amazing singer and she's shooting a movie in India right now and she's back and forth to the US while she's shooting. But I think our best duet is probably our little girl.' Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra have a daughter, Malti Marie Chopra Jonas and she was born on January 15, 2022. On the work front, Priyanka Chopra is reportedly set to star in SS Rajamouli's upcoming project, SSMB29, alongside Mahesh Babu and Prithviraj Sukumaran. She is also speculated to join Hrithik Roshan 's Krrish 4 as the female lead.
New York Times
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Onstage and Off, Whitney White Is Everywhere This Spring
This spring, Whitney White directed the ensemble drama 'Liberation' Off Broadway, then the two-hander 'The Last Five Years' on Broadway. Just days after that musical opened, she stood in an upstairs room at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, rehearsing 'Macbeth in Stride,' her adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy, which begins performances on Tuesday. During the song 'Reach for It,' White, who plays a version of Lady Macbeth, took the lead. 'Power's not supposed to look like me,' she sang into a microphone. Maybe it should. A multidisciplinary artist with an unusual number of hyphens, White, 39, is an actor, a musician, a writer for theater and television (the Amazon series 'I'm a Virgo') and an increasingly in-demand, Tony-nominated stage director. Her current projects, White observed during a rehearsal break, are all about ambitious women. 'I'm weirdly one of them,' she said. White grew up in Chicago, in a one-bedroom apartment with her working single mother. Her first exposure to theater was at her grandfather's church, the Apostolic Church of God, which boasted a 50-person choir. A visit to Cirque du Soleil was another formative experience. At Northwestern, White took theater classes, but she found the scene there cliquey, exclusionary, so she majored in political science instead. While interning for Barack Obama's presidential campaign in 2008, she realized that she had to be an artist after all. 'There's nothing else that I can really wholeheartedly do with myself,' she said. With Nygel D. Robinson at the piano, the cast of 'Macbeth in Stride' in rehearsal, from left: Charlie Thurston, White, Holli' Conway, Phoenix Best and Ciara Alyse Harris. Credit... Elias Williams for The New York Times Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Chicago Tribune
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Review: ‘The Last Five Years' on Broadway stumbles with its casting
NEW YORK — At its core, Jason Robert Brown's two-character musical 'The Last Five Years' is about the difficulty of maintaining a relationship while working in high-pressure creative fields. Its score, provocative and beautiful, is filled with songs about loneliness, insecurity and isolation and about how hard it can be to sustain a power balance within a marriage when one partner's career is on the rise and the other's is stuck perpetually in the weeds. It's also a show about early-career artists, those years when big breaks have to be grabbed by the horns but also when the agonizing realization first dawns that they might never happen. (One chills out either way, as one ages.) And that's the first disconnect with the disappointing new Broadway production at the Hudson Theatre, featuring the truly bizarre casting of Nick Jonas, the pop star of Jonas Brothers heritage and fame, playing the rising novelist Jamie and Adrienne Warren as struggling summer-stock actress Cathy. Warren is best known for playing the title role in 'Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,' a character that is about as far away from Cathy as Jupiter is from Mars. Both of these performers are whopping musical talents and their mutual vocal prowess is very much on display — to the obvious delight of the many Jonas fans in the house. But you simply cannot believe that Warren is a hard-working but everyday young actress stuck in Ohio, doing shows no one of importance comes to see, any more than you can believe Jonas is a writer who is new to the temptations of fame, and also young enough to be excited by a New Yorker review of his book, rather than the reality, which is that he is an accomplished and experienced star. More importantly, you also cannot believe these two are in love. Rather, they seem stuck both invulnerable to each other and stuck in two completely different worlds. That's always a risk with this 90-minute show, which I first saw in its lovely premiere at the Northlight Theatre in Skokie in 2001, where it starred Lauren Kennedy and Norbert Leo Butz working with director Daisy Prince. That's because Brown structured the show so that the five-year relationship between Jamie and Cathy unspools in opposite directions. Jamie's story is told in chronological order. But Cathy's story is recounted in reverse, akin to 'Merrily We Roll Along'; in the first scene, her song mourns the end of her marriage. Think that structure through and you'll realize that the two have to meet in the middle. In the previous productions I've seen, that's been the core of the experience and, metaphorically, an observation about how a two-career marriage, although shot through with expectations and pressures of perpetual unity, typically has only a very limited amount of time when both parties could actually be said to be in the same place. The show's excellent advice is to grab it while you can, because the rest of a marriage is hard work. Brown came to some early wisdom on that particular topic. But in a musical, if you're not pulling for said relationship to survive and if you don't believe you are watching a real partnership that could live or die before your eyes, nothing works. And so it goes here. The pivotal meeting in the middle feels much like any other scene in director Whitney White's production, a show that delivers beautifully sung treatments of Brown's score, which on Broadway features some newly enriched orchestrations from the composer. Indeed, the whole experience feels as if you are watching two very different cabaret performers smushed together on a single bill, not two characters fighting for their marital lives. Frankly, the set design by David Zinn doesn't much help, either; it seems to reflect ambivalence of scale and purpose. I'll forever be deeply fond of this score and, indeed, the show's willingness to probe one of the trickiest aspects of a relationship, which is who has to give up what and when, and whether one party ever has a responsibility to rescue another. (Sure they do). 'The Last Five Years' also is uncommonly wise when it comes to explaining how skillfully some people rationalize marital difficulties as being seated entirely with the other person. You may be familiar. But with all due respect for their formidable talents, Jonas and Warren just aren't right for the piece, either individually or together.
Washington Post
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren are caught in a bad romance
Uneven pairings can thrive just fine in the wild, but the onstage mismatch between Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas in 'The Last Five Years' appears woefully doomed from the start. And from the end, as Jason Robert Brown's musical about the rise and fall of a relationship is told both backward (from her point of view) and forward (from his). At least you'll have little trouble taking sides.
