Month: September 2021

UPDATE, with Lauren Patten statements When Boston area audiences saw a pre-Broadway performance of the Alanis Morissette musical Jagged Little Pill in 2018, they saw actor Lauren Patten sing a powerful, showstopping rendition of the hit song “You Oughta Know,” with the young performer delivering the blistering number as a lovestruck – and gender non-conforming – teenager. When Broadway audiences saw the same show in 2019 – which reopens from the Covid pandemic shutdown on Oct. 21 at the Broadhurst Theatre – audiences again saw the scene-stealing, soon-to-be-Tony-nominated Patten in the role, but references to the character’s being nonbinary were all but gone. And on social media, Patten, a cisgender woman, had shifted from referring to her Jagged character Jo as “they” or “them” ...

Graphic: Natalie Peeples The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards will air on September 19. It’s an interesting year to celebrate television, when most audiences have been indoors and clinging to the medium as a way to pull through, well, everything. The 2021 Emmys will look slightly different than last year’s because several notable series—among them, Succession, Barry, Insecure, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Ozark, and Better Call Saul—were left out of the running due to pandemic-related delays. (At this moment, we only have premiere dates for Succession’s third season and the final season of Insecure.) As a result, a few previously overlooked shows and performers have secured a spot among the nominees, including Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys, Hulu’s Pen15, and Pose star MJ Rodriguez. This year’...

Prince Philip laughed it off when he was once cursed out by a tired teen on a hike. The royal, who died in April at 99, encountered the youth at Balmoral Castle, his grandson Prince William recalled during a recent tribute. The teen was one of two kids hiking across the Queen’s estate in pursuit of their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, a youth achievement not unlike the Eagle Scout in the United States. As he was driving by the teens, Philip “stopped and wound down his window and said, ‘Good morning. How are you getting on?'” William recalled, according to reports. “To which the smallest young chap at the back turned round and effectively said, ‘Jog on Grandpa!'” said William, who noted the teen’s quip was actually ruder than that. In response, Ph...