Through discussions ranging from periods and Harry Potter to Cambodian genocide and devastating grief, a high school girls’ soccer team comes of age in Sarah DeLappe’s gripping new drama, The Wolves. The play, a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist, is compelling from the start: The stage is a circle of AstroTurf on which the players warm up and catch up before their weekly indoor soccer games. We see and hear from them only in this setting as the season progresses, while the outcomes of the games and fallout from the drama in the players’ lives happens offstage and during the week.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Hocus Pocus 2. The original shish kababies of Hocus Pocus are back forthe sequel, after all — even if the actors behind them don't appear on screen. EW previously broke the news that OG Hocus Pocus stars Omri Katz, Vinessa Shaw, and Thora Birch would not reprise their roles alongside Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, and Doug Jones in Hocus Pocus 2, though the sequel seamlessly resurrects their characters — Max, Allison, and Dani — for a brief, key scene.
Country musician Oliver Anthony is still in the honeymoon phase of his unexpected chart success, but he's already divorcing himself from conservative politicians looking to adopt his viral hit "Rich Men North of Richmond" as a right-wing anthem. The singer-songwriter released a YouTube video Friday in which he condemns political figures for trying to co-opt the song — which shockingly rocketed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this week — as a conservative battle cry.
What's the opposite of "brutal?" Because it sure isn't brutal out here for any fans of Olivia Rodrigo's music. After the young actress launched her music career earlier this year with debut single "Drivers License," she continued to drop fire tracks leading up to the release of her first album Sour — which EW is already calling one of the best albums of 2021. And then in May, season 2 of her Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series premiered, delivering even more incredible musical performances from the talented singer-songwriter.
Olivia Wilde has tossed a little chaos into her ongoing salad-centric feud with a former nanny she worked with while still in a relationship with actor Jason Sudeikis. After the nanny claimed in a Daily Mail interview that Sudeikis once laid himself in front of Wilde's car after she prepared a salad in the family kitchen with a "special dressing" for her eventual boyfriend Harry Styles, the Don't Worry Darling director shared in an Instagram Story an excerpt from Nora Ephron's 1983 novel, Heartburn, featuring a simple vinaigrette recipe.
What is two-time Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir doing after his return to the spotlight as NBC’s Olympics commentator? Oh nothing, just acting in a new Netflix series. Weir, who made his acting debut in 2016’s Zoolander 2, will now costar in the 10-episode drama series Spinning Out with Maze Runner‘s Kaya Scodelario and Arrow‘s Evan Roderick on the streaming platform. Spinning Out focuses on Kat Baker (Scodelario), an up-and-coming single skater.
Title: Former Editorial Assistant Education: The University of Kansas, Columbia College Chicago Omar Sanchez was an editorial assistant at Entertainment Weekly through April 2021.He joined EW in 2019, writing and moderating panels for the publication.He previously worked as an editorial assistant and reporting intern for TheWrap and The Hollywood Reporter, respectively.Omar Sanchez died in 2021 at the age of 26.
Experience Omar Sanchez began working at Entertainment Weekly as an editorial assistant in 2019.
As a reminder, in what creator Courtney Kemp described to EW as the "saddest ending of a television show ever," Ghost (Hardwick) was shot by his son Tariq (Michael Rainey Jr.) and died in the arms of his lifelong best friend Tommy (Joseph Sikora). For Hardwick, who is now starring in the new horror thriller Spell, his original vision was seven seasons as opposed to the six the Starz series ran and a slight alteration to what came to be.
The following article originally appeared in the September 6, 1996 issue of Entertainment Weekly. It’s not improbable that William Shakespeare had someone who looked a lot like Leonardo DiCaprio in mind when he created Romeo, a youthful hero at once innocent and reckless. It is, however, unlikely that he imagined Romeo suffering from Montezuma’s revenge, which has, on this January day, already taken its toll on DiCaprio in a hotel bathroom in Mexico City.
Last night at Manhattan’s Town Hall, folk music’s greatest and latest joined forces to pay tribute to the music of Inside Llewyn Davis, the forthcoming Coen Brothers film chronicling the city’s downtown music scene in the ’60s. It was an evening of “weeping, wailing and sowing and reaping” (as master of ceremonies and Llewyn Davis costar John Goodman put it) featuring an all-star lineup — including Avett Brothers, Marcus Mumford, Patti Smith, Joan Baez, Jack White, Conor Oberst, and the Decemberists’ Colin Meloy — performing music from the soundtrack as well as the classic folk songs from the movie.