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The 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner wrapped early on Saturday night as gunshots were heard in the lobby outside of the ballroom of the Washington Hilton Hotel, which caused President Trump and his family to evacuate, and many of the journalists who were in attendance reported on the event in real time from their phones. […]

Rare is the Broadway season that hasn’t been bettered by an August Wilson revival, and this very busy spring is no exception. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, lovingly and astutely directed by Debbie Allen with a no-weak-link cast headed by Taraji P. Henson (in a superb Broadway debut), Cedric The Entertainer and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, is […]

Nearly 40 years after its debut, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” has returned to Broadway. The second installment in legendary playwright August Wilson’s “The Century Cycle,” “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, grapples with Black life in the decades after Emancipation. Directed by Debbie Allen, the emotionally gripping play is set in a Pittsburgh boarding house. […]

UPDATE: The 2026 White House Correspondents Dinner has been canceled after a shooting tonight. Despite posting earlier that he wanted the event to “go on,” Donald Trump has consented to the wishes of the Secret Service and has exited the Washington Hilton. POTUS intends to deliver remarks from the White House in a press conference […]