A group of pro-Palestine actors, writers, directors and crew is taking their fight to SAG-AFTRA. Mark Ruffalo, Cynthia Nixon, Common, Susan Sarandon and Rosie O’Donnell are among the more than 700 movie and TV professionals to sign an open letter from SAG-AFTRA & Sister Guild Members for Ceasefire…

Spotted rehearsing at the United Center this afternoon were Patti LaBelle and Common, who look to be the latest performers to appear at the Democratic National Convention. Jason Isbell and Mickey Guyton performed on Monday night, but another artist, James Taylor, was bumped from the lineup as the…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ announced on Thursday that its hit-sci fi drama Silo, based on Hugh Howey’s New York Times bestselling trilogy, will make its San Diego Comic-Con debut on Saturday, July 27. For a panel conversation around what fans can look forward to in the anticipated second season, executive…

"This is not just a film that I've created a character and done and left. It's a show that I am so involved in that I love it beyond anything and everyone," says Rebecca Ferguson at Deadline's Contenders TV panel for Silo. "It's really thought-provoking, philosophical, psychological.” She added: “We…

EXCLUSIVE: SMAC Entertainment has signed Grammy, Emmy and Academy Award-winning musical artist, actor, author, and activist Common for management. Under the guidance of Constance Schwartz-Morini, April Guidone and Derek Sanderson, the company will work with the multi-hyphenate to seek out strategic…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-rapper Common and hip-hop artist MC Lyte have signed on as co-producers in the all-new, Broadway-bound production of The Wiz, producers announced today. The musical revival, which launches a national tour in Baltimore on September 23, will play a limited Broadway engagement this…

Kamala Harris marked the 50th anniversary of hip hop on Saturday with a first-of-its-kind celebration at the vice president’s residence on Saturday. “Half a century later, it is clear, hip hop will not be erased. Hip hop is here to stay,” Harris told guests, according to a pool report. Among…

Sandra Seacat, a longtime New York and Hollywood acting teacher whose students would become or already were some of the biggest names in the business – Andrew Garfield, Jessica Lange, Laura Dern, Harvey Keitel, Michelle Williams and Common, to choose just a sampling, died of natural causes Wednesday…

The Broadway production of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Between Riverside And Crazy starring Common will be simulcast during its final two weeks in February, producer Second Stage Theatre announced today. The play will be the second production simulcast by Second Stage, following last season’s production of…

Common will be making his Broadway debut in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ play Between Riverside and Crazy. The rapper will be playing the role of Junior and the cast is set to start performances on November 30 at Second Stages Hayes Theatre. Following the announcement, Common shared his thoughts on being part of the Pulitzer…

Common, the actor, rapper and songwriter who has won Oscar, Emmy and Grammy Awards, will make his Broadway debut in the coveted role of “Junior” in Stephen Adly Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Between Riverside and Crazy. Today’s announcement by the Second Stage Theater completes casting for the play, which…

Common said working on the film Selma turned him into an activist and that a recent seven-month stay in London, where police don't carry guns, "felt like a weight was off my shoulders” as he talked over his life and career at an event awarding him the Tribeca Festival's second annual Harry Belafonte Voices for Social…