58 stories by "Ted Johnson"
Hillary Clinton and Lin-Manuel Miranda will host a Broadway fundraiser for Joe Biden's presidential campaign next month that will feature a performance of Suffs: The Musical. The musical, wh…
WASHINGTON " President Trump once again skipped this year's annual White House Correspondents Association dinner, instead holding a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin. "Is there any place that's …
Pete Buttigieg continues to line up celebrity figures for fundraising events, one of the latest being a group of New York media and entertainment personalities for a May 13 reception. Accord…
Walt Disney Co. chairman and CEO Bob Iger is co-hosting and event next week with Chuck Schumer and a series of Democrats seeking reelection in 2020, as the party hopes to win back the majori…
WASHINGTON " Taylor Swift has donated $113,000 to the Tennessee Equality Project as it tries to stop state lawmakers from passing a series of bills she and others characterize as a "slate of…
WASHINGTON " President Donald Trump intends to appoint actor Jon Voight, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Broadway producer Daryl Roth to the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy …
John Legend and Chrissy Teigen are hosting a fundraiser on Sunday at their Beverly Hills home for Democratic Senate candidates, and Legend is expected to perform. The event will raise money …
A half a dozen Democratic candidates hoping to secure a majority in this year’s midterms will appear at the Writers Guild Theater on Tuesday for a fundraiser, aimed in part at drawing …
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Hanks, Chris Paul, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw appear in the latest videos for When We All Vote, an initiative co-chaired by the form…
WASHINGTON — Rosie O’Donnell and cast members from Broadway shows sang show tunes just outside the White House fence on Monday, joining what have been nightly protests against Pr…
WASHINGTON — Cher, Reba McEntire, Philip Glass, Wayne Shorter, and “Hamilton’s” creators will be celebrated at this year’s Kennedy Center Honors. The ceremony w…
WASHINGTON — Renee Fleming, currently starring in the Broadway revival of “Carousel,” will perform one of the classics from the show, “You’ll Never Walk Alone,&…
WASHINGTON — Participants in the March for Our Lives filled Pennsylvania Avenue hours before the scheduled start of the mass demonstration against gun violence in the wake of the mass …
WASHINGTON — The $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill that President Donald Trump reluctantly signed on Friday includes a boost to federal arts funding. The legislation funds the govern…
WASHINGTON — The National Endowment for the Arts is again threatened with a White House budget that calls for the elimination of federal funding, but the hundreds of arts advocates who…
Cynthia Nixon is assembling a staff ahead of a potential run for governor of New York, NY1 reported on Tuesday. Rebecca Katz and Bill Hyers, who worked on Bill de Blasio’s first campai…
Top Democrats on the Senate and House antitrust subcommittees are calling for hearings on the Walt Disney Co.’s proposed acquisition of a large portion of 21st Century Fox, including i…
WASHINGTON — The rationale behind The Walt Disney Co.’s acquisition of Fox’s major content assets is that it’s necessary to bulk up in the new landscape, where compet…
WASHINGTON — If the Walt Disney Co. reaches a deal to acquire most of the assets of 21st Century Fox, it’s likely that both companies will minimize any antitrust issues, describe…
Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger weighed in on President Trump’s decision to rescind an Obama-era program to allow young undocumented immigrants to remain in the country. “The Dreame…
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who chairs a Senate subcommittee that oversees funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, said that she supports the agency despite President Trump̵…
Two divisions of The Walt Disney Co. will pay $3.8 million in back wages to nearly 16,400 Florida resort employees under an agreement with the Department of Labor. The DOL’s wage and h…
Animation workers have reached a $100 million settlement with the Walt Disney Company, Pixar, and Lucasfilm in a class action lawsuit claiming that the defendants violated antitrust laws by …
The B Street Band, a Bruce Springsteen cover group, has backed out of plans to perform at a New Jersey inaugural gala on the eve of President-elect Donald Trump’s swearing in. The grou…
Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi performed before tens of thousands gathered at Philadelphia’s Independence Mall on Monday to rally voters for Hillary Clinton in the penultimate even…