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Sandra Bernhard (Severance, Marty Supreme) has been cast in the upcoming fourth season of The White Lotus, the Emmy-winning HBO series from Mike White.

Character details are under wraps, as is the logline for this season. She’ll join previously announced Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Coogan, Caleb Jonte Edwards, Marissa Long, Alexander Ludwig , Chris Messina and AJ Michalka in the series. Casting is still ongoing.

Bernhard most recently appeared in A24’s nine-time Oscar nominee Marty Supreme. She also was recently seen in Percy Jackson and The Olympians for Disney+, Apple TV’s Severance, and in the film Babes directed by Pamela Adlon with Michelle Buteau and Ilana Glazer. Bernhard also reunited with Buteau for an arc on her series Survival of the Thickest.

Bernhard played Nancy Bartlett Thomas on the ABC sitcom Roseanne from the fourth season (1991) to the end of the show in 1997. She also portrayed played Nurse Judy Kubrak in the FX drama series Pose. She is repped by The Rosenzweig Group and Kopeikin Law.

Mia Farrow has signed with The Rosenzweig Group for representation in all areas.

Farrow, an acclaimed actress, humanitarian and author, recently received her first Tony Award nomination for Leading Actress for her celebrated role in The Roommate opposite Patti LuPone.

In the play, Farrow played Sharon, a lonely Iowa woman – estranged from her adult son, divorced from her husband – who decides to take a boarder into her large farmhouse. In an Odd Couple-like spin, the boarder is a mysterious New Yorker name Robyn, played by LuPone, who seems to have skipped town for reasons that only eventually become clear: She’s a con-artist. As the two slowly open up and become friends, they begin to impact one another’s lives (and personalities) in surprising ways.

“We are honored to welcome Mia Farrow to The Rose Group family,” said Marni Rosenzweig, President.” Her remarkable career and continued influence in both entertainment and humanitarian work make her an extraordinary talent to represent.”

The Rosenzweig Group has signed Mary Catherine Garrison for management in all areas.

Garrison is best known for her series regular role as Tricia on all three seasons of HBO’s Peabody Award-winning comedy Somebody Somewhere. The series also won the Critics Choice Award for Best Ensemble. 

Garrison also is known for her recurring role as the often annoying relative Sophie Bruckheimer on Veep.

Garrison was most recently seen on the film side in Jay Duplass’ comedy The Baltimorons, co-written and starring Michael Strassner, which won an Audience Award at 2025’s SXSW.

Also a veteran stage actress, Garrison has appeared in six Broadway productions including Assassins, Lend Me a Tenor, Accent On Youth, Top Girls, Rabbit Holeand The Man Who Came To Dinner.

Tom McCarthy‘s untitled Sony Pictures Classics drama has now wrapped with joining cast including Noah Robbins, Zach Woods, Nina Arianda, Mary Catherine Garrison, Michael Chernus, Dylan Baker, Michael Cerveris, and Alan Aisenberg.

Also aboard are Eli Bildner, Jim Klock, Bryan Batt and Christopher Denham, Zak Orth, Billy Slaughter, Joey Slotnick, Aaron Jay Rome, and Ari Golin. 

As previously announced, Paul Rudd, Evan Peters, Amy Ryan, Paul Giamatti, John Turturro, Tatiana Maslany and Jason Clarke star in the film.  

HBO‘s The Gilded Age has promoted Jordan Donica and Ashlie Atkinson to series regulars for its upcoming fourth season. The period drama will also welcome 6 new actors to its recurring cast: Taylor Trensch (Bat Boy: The Musical), James Scully (You), Dennis Haysbert (24), Maggie Kuntz (John Proctor is the Villain), Neal Huff (Mare of Easttown), and Tony Award-winner Bonnie Milligan (Search Party).'

'Kuntz as Fiona Summers, cousin to the prominent Astors, Fiona is a free-spirited young woman from a good family who is not afraid to explore the limits of convention.

Donica is represented by Bold Management & Production, Independent Artists Group, Curtis Brown Agency, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Atkinson is represented by TalentWorks, Rosier Artist Management, and Peikoff Mahan. Trensch is represented by Innovative Artists and Perennial Entertainment. Scully is represented by Artists & Representatives and Circle Management + Production. Haysbert is represented by IAG and GS Management. Kuntz is represented by The Rosenzweig Group and Verve. Huff is represented by Linden Entertainment and Buchwald. Milligan is represented by CESD Talent Agency and Untitled Entertainment.

Tony winner Kecia Lewis (Hell’s Kitchen) has joined the Tracy Morgan-led cast of Paramount+ new multi-camera comedy series Crutch, an offshoot from CBS’ long-running sitcom The Neighborhood, which has started filming in New York.

Developed by Owen Smith, who will serve as showrunner, Crutch centers on Francois “Frank” Crutchfield (Morgan), who goes by “Crutch,” is a brash, yet beloved Harlem shop owner whose world is turned upside down when his highbrow son (Jermaine Fowler) and free-spirited daughter (Adrianna Mitchell) move back into the family home. 

Lewis will play Antoinette, Crutch’s (Morgan) meddling sister-in-law who, much to his chagrin, has inserted herself as the de facto matriarch of the Crutchfield clan. Elegant, worldly, and self-righteous Antoinette is a long-time divorcee whose life revolves around her weekly hair appointments and her job as a correctional officer at Rikers Island. However, when her sister’s children come back to Harlem with their lives in disarray, she’s happy to step in to help — even if she has to deal with Crutch in the process.

Rising actor Kartiah Vergara  (Ticket To Paradise, Dora the Explorer: The Lost City of Gold) has signed with The Rosenzweig Group for representation in all areas.

Vergara was recently cast in the upcoming Sarah Snook-led Peacock series All Her Fault, based on the Andrea Mara novel of the same name, alongside Daniel Monks and Duke McCloud. In addition to Snook who stars, the cast also includes Dakota Fanning, Abby Elliot, Jake Lacy, Sophia Lillis, Jay Ellis, Thomas Cocquerel, and Michael Peña.

Per the official logline: “Marissa Irvine (Snook) arrives at 14 Arthur Avenue, expecting to pick up her young son Milo (McCloud) from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognizes. She isn’t the nanny. She doesn’t have Milo. And so begins every parent’s worst nightmare.”

Vergara previously was seen in supporting roles in Ticket to Paradise, starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney, and in the 2019 family adventure live-action film Dora the Explorer: The Lost City of Gold.

Patrick J. Adams will be suiting up once again to play a young investment banker on The Madison, the next installment in the Yellowstone-verse from Taylor Sheridan, which stars Pfeiffer.

Adams, best known from his time playing Mike Ross on former USA Network drama turned streaming juggernaut Suits, joins the cast as Russell McIntosh, “who has followed the life path set before him from the start,” according to the character description.

The Madison is the first official sequel series to flagship Yellowstone, which premieres its long-delayed final episodes beginning Nov. 10. The series is described as a heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana.

Elle Chapman (A Man Called Otto, Florida Wild) and Beau Garrett (Firefly Lane, The Good Doctor, Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce) have also joined the cast, with Chapman making her TV debut as Paige McIntosh, a “somewhat self-centered woman who indulges in a luxurious New York lifestyle provided by her parents and investment banker husband.” Garrett plays Abigail Reese, a “resilient and sardonic New Yorker, who is a recently divorced mother of two.”

Robyn Hurder gives Broadway audiences the old razzle dazzle eight times a week as murderous vixen Velma Kelly in the long-running hit Chicago.

It's a role that the Tony Award-nominated stage veteran, last seen in the Broadway-bound musical Smash, has played to critical acclaim. But while many have seen her performance on stage, her life backstage is limited to just a few — until now.

In an exclusive diary, Hurder, 42, takes PEOPLE behind-the-scenes at the Ambassador Theatre in New York City as she prepares to take the stage. Her experience, told in her own words, comes alongside photos taken by photographer Michael Kushner for The Dressing Room Project.

Hurder is currently starring in Chicago opposite Vanderpump Rules star Ariana Madix, who wraps her run as Roxie Hart on Sept. 1 (see them singing "Nowadays" in a video from Broadway.com above). The actress will continue as Velma through Sept. 16.

Someone play us a celebratory song! Kecia Lewis has won the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for her stellar performance as Miss Liza Jane in Broadway’s Hell's Kitchen. She was crowned at the 2024 Tony Awards on the stage of Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater. Lewis beat out fellow nominees Lindsay Mendez for Merrily We Roll Along, Bebe Neuwirth for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Shoshana Bean for Hell's Kitchen, Amber Iman for Lempicka, Nikki M. James for Suffs, and Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer for Monty Python's Spamalot.

This is not only Lewis’s first Tony win but also her first nomination. She was last seen on Broadway in Children of a Lesser God in 2018 and has been a replacement in several different shows, such as Chicago as Matron.

There’s a place where the rhythm of the city is music, where every corner has a story, and every window is a kaleidoscope. Where a girl can step out of her apartment and find the world. That’s Hell’s Kitchen, a new musical from Alicia Keys that’s about to make Broadway feel brand new.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians is continuing to round out its cast.

Disney revealed at D23 on Saturday the trio of women who will be playing the Gray Sisters — Sandra Bernhard as Anger, Kristen Schaal as Tempest, and Margaret Cho as Wasp.

In Rick Riordan’s ever-expanding world of mythology, the Gray Sisters are old women who share one eye and one tooth, and they operate a “taxi firm” in New York City. They encounter a few of the main characters after scooping them up while they’re on the run in Sea of Monsters. 

Bernhard will portray Anger, the Gray Sister in charge of collecting cab fare from heroes who call upon the taxi. Anger impatiently awaits her turn to use the one eye shared between the Sisters. 

Schaal will portray Tempest, who currently has the coveted eye shared between the sisters and uses it to peer at the Heroes, read their future, and tease them about their crushes and social lives. 

Cho will portray Wasp, the main driver of the Gray Sisters Taxi. She takes the heroes on a high speed and hair-raising journey to Camp Half-Blood. Even though she’s blind most of the time, she’s truly seen it all.

“I feel like with the kind of work we do as artists, we are literally giving ourselves — we’re giving our body and voice and spirit,” said Kecia Lewis, who recently won a Tony Award for her performance as the tough-minded but inspirational piano teacher Miss Liza Jane in the musical “Hell’s Kitchen.”

What with all that giving at the theater, Ms. Lewis was in the market for a place that did the giving — “that made me feel welcome when I was just being still” — when she started looking for apartments in Manhattan for the run of her “Hell’s Kitchen” contract.

“It had to feel peaceful, because I have to be able to pray,” said Ms. Lewis, 59, a native New Yorker now based in Atlanta. “I have stayed in places where it was not peaceful, and I have moved out. If it feels like there’s an energy that’s frenetic or chaotic, I’m like, ‘No, not for me.’”

She was 18 when she got her first role on Broadway, in the original production of “Dreamgirls,” and has since appeared in numerous shows, among them “Once on This Island” and “Chicago.” Last spring, she came north for a couple of “Hell’s Kitchen” workshops. On one visit, she stayed at an Airbnb in New Jersey, and then an Airbnb in Queens.

“But once we knew we were going to Broadway, I wanted to find something in the city,” Ms. Lewis said. Not too close to Midtown, but not so far as to make for a burdensome commute to the stage door.

Tony nominee Robyn Hurder returns to Chicago on Broadway as Velma Kelly from December 15, 2025 to January 11, 2026. She last played the role at the Ambassador Theatre in 2024, and has previously played the roles of Roxie, Matron “Mama” Morton and Mona. Hurder's other Broadway credits include Nini in the original Broadway cast of Moulin Rouge!, for which she earned a Tony nomination, Ivy Lynn in Smash and A Beautiful Noise, the Neil Diamond Musical.

The current cast of Chicago features Kate Baldwin as Roxie Hart, Sophie Carmen-Jones as Velma Kelly, Tam Mutu as Billy Flynn, Alex Newell as Matron “Mama” Morton, Raymond Bokhour as Amos Hart and R. Lowe as Mary Sunshine. The cast also includes Zach Bravo, David Bushman, Max Clayton, Jennifer Dunne, Jessica Ernest, Arian Keddell, James T. Lane, Marty Lawson, Joseph London, Barrett Martin, Sharon Moore, Drew Nellessen, Celina Nightengale, Kristen Faith Oei, Denny Paschall, Mikayla Renfrow, Sean Samuels and Samantha Sturm.

Elgin James‘ Prison Break pilot from Hulu and 20th Television has added some heavy hitters to its supporting cast, including Ray McKinnon (Mayans M.C., Deadwood), Margo Martindale (The Americans, Justified), Donal Logue (Duster, Sons of Anarchy), Lili Taylor (The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, Daredevil: Born Again) and Sylvester Powell (All American: Homecoming). Production is set to begin next week in West Virginia.

The project reunites McKinnon with James, who collaborated on Mayans M.C., which the latter co-created and the former starred in. McKinnon, who played the evil Lincoln Potter in Sons of Anarchy and its spinoff, Mayans M.C., will also reconnect with his former co-stars Clayton Cardenas and JR Bourne, who have series regular roles in the Prison Break pilot. McKinnon and Logue had major roles in FX’s hit biker drama Sons of Anarchy.

McKinnon will play Joe Dahl, a private detective investigating a decade-old murder.

Powell will play Maze, an inmate and the younger brother of Red (Myles Bullock).

Up-and-comer Kartiah Vergara (All Her Fault) has landed a supporting role alongside Academy Award winner Russell Crowe in Bear Country, an action thriller from director Derrick Borte that has commenced principal photography in the Australian state of Queensland.

Based on the novel Strip by Thomas Perry, Bear Country has Crowe playing the aging yet formidable club owner, Manco Kapak, who has been robbed by a masked gunman. Now, his aspirations of selling his club and riding off into the sunset alongside his girlfriend appear more distant than ever. Cartel bosses are breathing down his neck and a young upstart has been posing as the new guy in town eager to purchase the club.

Borte adapted the screenplay with Daniel Forte. Producers of the project include Mark Fasano (Marlowe) of Nickel City Pictures; Jeffrey Greenstein (The Hitman’s Bodyguard) of A Higher Standard; Deborah Glover (Sleeping Dogs) of G2 Dispatch; and Mark Bower and Bruno Mustic of Life & Soul Pictures. The production is supported by the City of Gold Coast and by the Australian Government through the Location Offset.

Eden Espinosa was one of the most exciting belters to arrive on Broadway in the early 2000s. In fact, this writer still has a vivid memory of hearing the then-newcomer sing for the first time, performing a roof-raising rendition of Stephen Schwartz's The Baker's Wife anthem “Meadowlark” at Joe's Pub that garnered a thunderous ovation.'

The California native subsequently went on to Broadway success in Wicked (a thrilling Elphaba), Brooklyn(has anyone ever belted higher than she in “Once Upon a Time”?), and Rent (Maureen in the original Broadway run of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize winner). In addition to her stunning vocals, Espinosa is also a passionate interpreter of lyrics, and her many talents recently brought the Broadway favorite her first Tony nomination for her performance as late painter Tamara de Lempicka in the long-gestating musical Lempicka. The new musical from Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould picked up three Tony nominations in all, including those for co-star Amber Iman and scenic designers Riccardo Hernández and Peter Nigrini. On April 30, the morning the 2024 Tony nominations were announced—and just a couple days before it was revealed that Lempicka will end its run at the Longacre later this month

Sixteen years after Eden Espinosa’s last appearance on Broadway—in the closing cast of Rent, when that historic show’s final performance was recorded for theatrical release—she is finally back. This season, Espinosa stars in Lempicka, an ambitious new musical that seeks to restore another woman’s rich creative legacy. Based on the life of Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, whose stylish Art Deco portraits are as bold as the libertine bisexual lifestyle she led in interwar Paris, it arrives on Broadway after a lengthy series of labs, workshops, and regional productions dating back to 2011. Espinosa had been eyeing it since 2014, when she messaged composer Matt Gould on Facebook and received demos in return. After a brief stint as Rafaela, a composite of the artist’s love interests now played by Amber Iman, Espinosa locked into the lead role in time for Lempicka’s 2018 premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Her years between Broadway roles were fruitful and eye-opening, with parts in touring companies and on television series, but hers is a voice best known and best suited for the largest of stages. The early promise of her career—it’s her Elphaba captured in the Wicked-themed episode of Ugly Betty—saw a fiery resurgence during the pandemic, when she protested for change in the theater industry, and now it finds its way back home.

Writer-director Tyler Perry has set the cast for Straw, his latest film for Netflix, the streamer announced on Wednesday.

Taraji P. Henson (The Color Purple) is set to star alongside Sherri Shepherd (Precious), Teyana Taylor (A Thousand and One), Glynn Turman (Rustin), Sinbad (Atlanta), Rockmond Dunbar (Prison Break), Mike Merrill (The Black Hamptons) and Ashley Versher (Beauty in Black).

Marking the latest film out of Perry’s creative partnership with Netflix for film, Straw watches as a single mother faces a series of unfortunate events that lead her down an unexpected path. Struggling against circumstances beyond her control, she becomes entangled in a situation she never imagined. Fueled by desperation, she finds herself at the center of suspicion in a world that seems indifferent to her existence.

Perry will produce alongside Angi Bones and Tony Strickland. News of the project comes following word last month of Tyler Perry Studios’ partnership with DeVon Franklin and Netflix to produce faith-based films under a multiyear, multipicture first-look deal. Currently, the mega-producer also has a deal with the service for series.