Lena Waithe and Issa Rae are collaborating on a comedy inspired by their real-life friendship challenges. They plan to portray “thinly veiled” versions of themselves in the film. The movie marks a ...

UPDATE: John Legend and producer Mike Jackson have joined the producing team of Broadway’s upcoming Cats: The Jellicle Ball, the production announced today, through their Get Lifted Film Co. banner.

Though Cynthia Erivo has kept her romantic life largely out of the spotlight, the Wicked star has quietly been in a relationship for years. In a past interview, Erivo explained why she prefers to keep ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lena Waithe’s long-in-the-works comedy “Twenties” is finally going to series with an eight-episode order at its original home, BET ...

Many know of Lena Waithe as an Emmy-winning writer, producer, actor, and founder of Hillman Grad Productions. She’s celebrated within the entertainment industry for her storytelling work on "Master of ...

LENA WAITHE: The night of the Met Gala, I was home and watching the carpet and feeling such positivity, and I did something that I do every year: I revisited “A Raisin in the Sun” — the film, but I ...

Lena Waithe and Cynthia Erivo pose at the opening night of “Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along” on Broadway at The Hudson Theater on October 8, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Bruce ...

Ask Lena Waithe a question about her personal life, and it triggers the Emmy Award-winning writer and actor’s broken-winged bird maneuver. Out pours a cloud of words full of interesting, complicated ...

Cynthia Erivo and Lena Waithe first met at the Met Gala in 2018 and have “been vibing ever since.” Waithe was previously married to Alana Mayo, a film executive and the president of Orion Pictures.

*Lena Waithe is expanding her creative reach with trinity, her first full-length theatrical work, debuting at Baltimore Center Stage. After years of shaping stories for television and film, the ...