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Young and the Restless comings and goings confirm Elena Dawson returns soon and her presence could shake things up for certain people.

Also, a legacy character and a villain may be on their way out of Y&r soon. Check out the latest casting updates for the CBS daytime drama.

Young and the Restless Comings & Goings: Elena Dawson Resurfaces

Soon, Elena Dawson will be on-screen again on Young and the Restless. The character has been off-screen for some time now. Last we saw Elena, she got her heart broken by her cheating boyfriend, Nate Hastings.

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He had an affair with his then-boss Victoria Newman. Of course, Elena Dawson ended their relationship. Nate and Vikki attempted a romance for a while but it eventually fizzled. Now, Nate is smitten with Audra Charles.

However, they don’t yet have a serious commitment on Young and the Restless. So, when Elena...

Young and the Restless predictions wonder if Sharon Newman will end up remanded to prison or committed to Fairview once she’s found guilty of murder on the CBS soap opera.

Sharon Newman in Crisis on Young and the Restless

Recently, on Young and the Restless, Sharon Newman started to lose control of her mental health. She’s lived with bipolar disorder for years now and has managed it well. However, when she went on new medication, things took a turn.

She started to feel off and act strange causing her family to notice. Then, things went from bad to worse when she started hallucinating Cameron Kirsten (Linden Ashby). Undoubtedly, Cameron is dead on Young and the Restless.

Sharon killed him in self-defense not long ago when he started stalking her again. In fact, it might be Ptsd from killing him that is causing her to spiral out of control.

Sharon is in deep trouble on The Young and the Restless, or so it appears. By all accounts, the September 27 episode showed that Sharon believes she killed Heather.

Twists and Turns

We simply cannot believe that Y&R is writing off Sharon Case for her 30th anniversary on the soap opera. The previous episode indicated that Sharon blacked out, and when she came to, Heather (Vail Bloom) was dead. The fact that Y&r is staying mum about Bloom’s status on the show leads us to believe there is a whole lot more to this story.

While we’ve wondered if perhaps Lucy (Lily Brooks O’Briant) or Phyllis (Michelle Stafford) had something to do with Heather’s potential demise, we suspect there could be another twist that would save Sharon in the end. It’s possible that Sharon, with Cameron’s (Linden Ashby) help, could’ve set it up...

The Young and the Restless heavily focuses on Sharon this week and her quest to poison Daniel. This haunting storyline could bring Daisy back. She won’t be happy to hear about Sharon’s doing with the love of her life.

What’s Going On With Sharon?

Sharon (Sharon Case) hasn’t been herself lately. Ever since she’s been off her meds, she’s been hallucinating and acting erratically. She can hear Cameron (Linden Ashby), encouraging her to poison Daniel (Michael Graziadei).

She tried to make her dark thoughts go away, but there were moments when she blacked out and did things she didn’t want to do. On the Thursday, September 26th episode, Sharon had decided not to poison Daniel, and she’d cleaned up the mess she’d made. As she left, she came face to face with Heather (Vail Broom).

At one point, she confronted Heather.

Days of Our Lives spoilers and rumors tease Salem’s worst nightmare could happen when Fairview roommates Connie Vininski (Julie Dove) and Jan Spears (Heather Lindell) team up on a terror spree! A harrowing Halloween is ahead, perhaps one more harrowing than when the devil kept moving all over Salem from resident to resident!

Days Of Our Lives Spoilers – Belle Black Brady’s Returning So Jan’s Making Plans

Extended spoilers tease Belle Black Brady (most recently Martha Madison) is returning to Salem, so of course Jan’s making plans in case her Mr. Right is coming with her.

Bo Brady (Peter Reckell) is recovered and coming back with Hope Brady (Kristian Alfonso), so Shawn Brady (Brandon Beemer) will likely come as well.

Viewers will remember the debacle when the devil helped Jan look just like Belle, so Shawn couldn’t tell the difference and slept with her-Belle walking in on them in horror!

Young and the Restless spoilers for next week reveal Sharon Newman‘s descent into madness as she finally takes drastic action after weeks of torment. The ghost of dead Cameron Kirsten haunts her. Sharon’s mental health has been spiraling out of control, and it looks like she’s about to hit rock bottom.

Earlier this week, Sharon told Daniel Romalotti that he should leave town with his girlfriend Heather Stevens and their daughter Lucy Romalotti. She was trying to protect them from her inner darkness. It manifested in the form of creepy hallucinations of Cameron.

The Young and the Restless Spoilers: Sharon Newman Hits Bottom

The Young and the Restless spoilers saw Mariah Copeland (Camryn Grimes) catches her mom Sharon Newman (Sharon Case) in a big lie. She claimed she was on a business trip in Madison, Wisconsin.

But when Mariah went to check on her at the hotel,...

Look, there’s no way around this: August is a slow month for TV, and Netflix isn’t any different. Splashy fall TV is right around the corner, but August seems best designed to catch up on some of the best TV of the year so far that you may have missed.

It’s not a total wasteland, however: “Emily in Paris” returns this month for Season 4 Part 1. The internet loves to make fun of it, but the dreamed is truly one of the best brain-dead shows to watch when it’s too hot to do much of anything else. Lily Collins wears the most amazing outfits! There’s lots of kissing! Why do you think you’re better than it?! Much like other recent Netflix hits such as “Bridgerton,” “Emily in Paris” Season 4 will be divided into two parts, with Part 1 dropping August 15 and Part 2 debuting a month later.

There’s a great beating heart at the center of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin, making its American debut after an ill-timed January 2020 premiere at London’s National Theatre. Fans of Sandra Oh’s masterful work on Killing Eve and Grey’s Anatomy won’t be surprised to find her bringing the same kind of acerbic warmth and casually razor-sharp intelligence that Eve Polastri and Dr. Cristina Yang shared to Elizabeth Luke, an 18th-century English midwife who finds herself wrapped up in a murder trial. Even churning butter, which Oh approaches with a ferocious purposefulness, Lizzy still has lots of bite.

The accused is Sally Poppy (Haley Wong), a maid who skipped town with a ruffian only to come back home to her husband drenched in the blood of the young rich girl she used to serve. She’s already been found guilty of murder, but she’s “pled the belly.

Illinoise, the dance-musical hybrid nominated for four Tony Awards (including Best Musical) is the seventh collaboration between Justin Peck, the resident choreographer and artistic advisor of the New York City Ballet, and his old friend and creative partner Sufjan Stevens, the indie singer-songwriter turned Oscar nominee (for his song “Mystery of Love” from 2017’s Call Me By Your Name). But it’s safe to say this quirky gem is something unique. Unlike the duo’s previous projects, which include commissions from major dance companies across the country, Illinoise isn’t exactly a ballet. It’s not exactly a musical either.

Putting movement to Stevens’ 2005 album Illinois and its captivating mixture of indie folk, rock and orchestral arrangements – not to mention lyrics that combine the autobiographical, the historical (figures from the state’s past and landscape pop up frequently) and the fanciful are fashioned into an episodic narrative without dialogue.

The setting for Illinoise, Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s emotionally supercharged reinterpretation of the 2005 Sufjan Stevens concept album, is various locations across the Land of Lincoln — a cornfield, a hiking trail, a woodland clearing, the suburban home of a serial killer, a small town in the middle of nowhere, the top of a skyscraper and, of course, Chicago, with an out-of-state detour to New York City. But the real setting of this thrilling dance-musical-concert hybrid, alternately rhapsodic and shattering, is our collective youth.

Without a word of spoken dialogue, the show pulls us into late adolescence, a time when love, anguish and everything in between are felt perhaps with the greatest intensity. The book co-written by director-choreographer Peck and Drury (who won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with her brilliant meta-theatrical race inquiry, Fairview) is skillfully shaped yet invisible in the best sense of undiluted physical, sensorial and elemental storytelling.

The Young and the Restless (Y&r) spoilers tease that Jordan’s (Colleen Zenk) morbid exit after all of her villain antics leaves a hole on the canvas. Might this be just the opening needed to bring back one of the show’s legendary crazies, and set up another explosive dramarama?

Before Jordan came on the scene, it was Cameron Kirsten (Linden Ashby) who played the role of the arch villain. Like Jordan he popped back up to make someone’s life a living hell–Sharon Newman (Sharon Case). He was a spectacular villain, depraved, and without a shred of decency—just like Jordan.

But he got his comeuppance and next came Jordan. Now that Jordan is gone, who will be next to fill the menace void in Gc? Longtime viewers know what Patty Williams is made of—she would be the perfect person to fill the dark void in Gc!

It’s not hard to imagine what Justin Peck heard in Sufjan Stevens’s 2005 album Illinois that convinced him that the music pulsated with possibilities for dance. Illinois, with its orchestral textures, surprising mixed-meter rhythms, and impressionistic instrumental interludes, is an explosively varied 75 minutes of music as Stevens’s lyrics traverse the history, geography, and iconography of the Prairie State. At its best, Peck’s stage adaptation, which arrives at the Park Avenue Armory following a run at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, suggests that rapturous movement was somewhere inside Stevens’s songwriting from the start.

In Illinoise (the show’s title follows the stylized spelling on the album’s cover), a 14-piece band including three featured vocalists, pay thoughtful homage to Stevens’s original arrangements. Since Stevens played over 20 instruments on Illinois, watching the full band, led by Nathan Koci, can feel like the songwriter’s solo artistry has fragmented...

Grey’s Anatomy and Quiz Lady actor Sandra Oh will star in the Off Broadway American premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin this summer.

The Atlantic Theater Company production begins previews Thursday, May 16, and will open Wednesday, June 12 for a limited engagement through Sunday, June 30.

Directed by Sarah Benson, The Welkin is set in Rural Suffolk, England, 1759, as the country waits for Halley’s Comet. A young woman is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder, and when she claims to be pregnant, a jury of twelve matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she’s telling the truth or simply trying to escape the noose. Only midwife Lizzy Luke (Oh) is prepared to defend the girl against a mob baying for blood, matrons wrestling with their new authority and the devil in their midst.

Atlantic describes the work as a “dark, fierce,...

Sandra Oh will appear in the Off-Broadway premiere of The Welkin, written by Lucy Kirkwood at Atlantic Theater Company this spring.

Oh, known for her starring roles in Grey’s Anatomy and Killing Eve, among many others, has previously appeared on the New York stage in Off-Broadway productions including Satellites, Stop Kiss and Wild Goose Dreams. She will also appear in HBO/A24’s limited series adaptation of The Sympathizer, airing in April.

She is joined by a cast that also includes Dale Soules (Orange Is The New Black), Danny Wolohan (To Kill a Mockingbird), b (American (Tele)visions), Tilly Botsford (Off-Broadway debut), Paige Gilbert (Skin of Our Teeth), Ann Harada (Avenue Q), Jenn Kidwell (Underground Railroad Game), Mary McCann (Harper Regan), Emily Cass McDonnell (I’m Revolting), MacKenzie Mercer (Frozen national tour) and Haley Wong (Mary Gets Hers at McC).

Directed by Sarah Benson, an Obie Award winner for her direction of Fairview,...

Illinoise, a theatrical adaptation of Sufjan Stevens’ career-breakthrough 2005 concept album Illinois, will make its New York City premiere in March at Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory, the arts venue announced today.

A dance-music-theater hybrid, Illinoise will include music and lyrics by Stevens, based on his album, and will be directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Justin Peck with a story by Peck and Pulitzer-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury (Fairview).

The show, which will feature Timo Andres’ new arrangements of the entire Stevens album, will run from March 2-23, 2024, at the Upper East Side venue.

In its announcement today, the Armory described Stevens’ album as a “wildly inventive portrayal of the state’s people, landscapes, and history, complete with UFOs, zombies, and predatory wasps.”

“This musically ambitious work, which weaves together cinematic orchestral anthems, jazz riffs, and other musical influences to explore wide-ranging...

Mitchell Lichtenstein's 2007 horror film "Teeth" has a notable premise. A young woman named Dawn (Jess Weixler) has just joined a Christian abstinence group and has elected to leave sex out of her life until she is able to be married. At about the same time, however, Dawn finds that she has a series of razor-sharp teeth in her vagina. This development terrifies her, but she also finds that it can fight back against the multiple men who attempt to assault her throughout the film. Several men will not exit the film wholly intact. "Teeth" is an excellent coming-of-age drama that confronts backward notions of sexual purity, angrily addresses the constant objectification of adolescent women, and is a wonderfully wicked tale of feminist vengeance. It was one of the best films of 2007.

According to a report in Movieweb, Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs are currently in the midst...

Here’s something we didn’t have on our horror bingo card this week: a stage musical adaptation for 2007’s cult horror comedy Teeth is in the works.

Deadline reports that Michael R. Jackson, the Pulitzer and Tony award-winning playwright of A Strange Loop, is working on an adaptation set for an Off Broadway debut next year.

The musical was announced as part of Playwrights Horizons’ 2023-24 season. Teeth, the musical, will feature lyrics by Jackson, music by Anna K. Jacobs and a book co-written by both. Previews are slated to begin in February 2024.

Here’s Playwright Horizons’ official synopsis for Teeth: “Dawn O’Keefe is an evangelical Christian teen with a powerful secret not even she understands – when men violate her, her body bites back. Literally. From Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winner Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop) and Anna K. Jacobs (Pop!), Teeth, based on the cult classic film of the same name,...

Michael R. Jackson, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of A Strange Loop, is sinking his choppers into a stage musical adaptation of the 2007 cult horror-comedy film Teeth, set for an Off Broadway debut next year.

The musical, announced today as part of Playwrights Horizons’ 2023-24 season, will feature lyrics by Jackson, music by Anna K. Jacobs and a book co-written by both. Previews will begin in February 2024.

The 2007 film is a very dark horror-comedy concerning “vagina dentata,” written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein. As described by Playwrights Horizons, the musical, like the film, will follow Dawn O’Keefe, “an evangelical Christian teen with a powerful secret not even she understands – when men violate her, her body bites back. Literally.”

“In Teeth, the tethered yet battling forces of sexuality and religion push each other towards wild theatricality, and Jackson’s and Jacobs’s sharp tale of revenge and transformation tears through a...

The Pink Ladies of “Grease,” the most colorful Rydell High students, are back on April 6 on Paramount+. However, this won’t be the same collection of young women from the original film — or even its cult classic sequel. This round, we see how the popular clique got its start. The girls now have a show of their own: “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies,” a salute to 1950s teens who refuse to conform to conventional standards. The new musical series shows us Rydell High before Sandy and Danny start strutting down the halls. The show stars Marisa Davila, Cheyenne Isabel Wells, Ari Notartomaso, and Tricia Fukuhara.

Watch the “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies” trailer:

Paramount+ is also producing an original series “Fatal Attraction,” based on the 1980s hit thriller. The TV version refocuses the lens, exploring a modern approach to women, infidelity, personality disorders, and coercive control. It’s...

New York-based comedy writers and actors Jeremy Levick and Rajat Suresh, who regularly satirize pop culture and the news in videos they share on Twitter, recently tackled a subject that hits close to home for us here at The Hollywood Reporter — the THR Actor Roundtable.

In early March, before the Oscars, Levick and Suresh launched The Hollywood Recorder Actors Roundtable, a 54-minute parody of the long-running THR franchise. For their fictional news outlet, The Hollywood Recorder, Levick and Suresh re-created the THR Roundtable experience in painstaking detail, from our starry and inclusive casts to our moderators’ hard-hitting questions (“Finish this sentence: I act because …”) to our use of a really, really, really big table. The Recorder’s Roundtable features Justin Theroux as a self-serious actor promoting an Oscar bait movie (for the record, we have never met anyone like that) and includes performances by actors Colin Stokes as the moderator,...

A stage adaptation of Sufjan Stevens’ acclaimed 2005 album Illinois will make its world premiere this summer in a production by The Fisher Center at Bard where Daniel Fish’s eye-opening Tony-winning revival of Oklahoma! got its start.

A press opening for Illinois at an as-yet-undisclosed Chicago theater will be announced shortly.

Directing and choreographing Illinois will be Justin Peck, a Tony winner for his choreography of Broadway’s 2018 revival of Carousel. More recently, Peck choreographed Steven Spielberg’s 2021 screen adaptation of West Side Story.

Illinois will feature music and lyrics by Stevens and a story by Peck and Pulitzer Prize-winning Fairview playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury.

“Three brilliantly imaginative artists, Justin Peck, Sufjan Stevens, and Jackie Sibblies Drury, unite to create an ecstatic pageant of storytelling, theater, dance, and live music,” the Fisher Center said in the announcement statement. “Stevens’ 2005 concept album Illinois enjoys cult status for its lush orchestrations and...

Variety has named its 10 Comics to Watch for 2022. This year’s honorees will be profiled in the July 20 issue of Variety and be honored at this year’s Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, held in Montreal July 13-31. There will be a panel and cocktail reception held on July 29, followed by a performance showcase July 30.

Variety has been presenting the 10 Comics to Watch list since 2000 and has included such names as Tiffany Haddish, Kumail Nanjiani, Patton Oswalt and Quinta Brunson.

The list is comprised of stand-up comedians, writers and content creators selected by a panel that includes Variety editors and those in the comedy community that scout, book, cast and represent comics.

Says Christine Walters, creative director, Just For Laughs ComedyPRO and ComedyCON: “We look forward to welcoming the hilarious new class of Variety 10 Comics to Watch in this, our 40th anniversary year of the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal.

Exclusive: Trai Byers, Ray Fisher, April Matthis and Michael Potts have joined Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Brooks and John David Washington in the cast of Broadway’s upcoming revival of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson.

The production, to be directed by Latanya Richardson Jackson, will begin performances on Monday, Sept. 19, for a 16-week engagement at the St. James Theatre. The staging will mark the first Broadway revival of the Pulitzer-winning Piano Lesson in more than 30 years.

Byers starred on Fox’s Empire as Andre Lyon. In 2014, he portrayed James Foreman in the Ava DuVernay-directed Selma, and most recently starred in, co-wrote and produced feature film The 24th. The Piano Lesson will mark his Broadway debut.

Fisher, cast as Lymon, is best known for his breakout role as Victor Stone/Cyborg in Warner Brothers’ DC Cinematic Universe. Cyborg was first introduced in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and...

Network: Comedy Central

Episodes: Ongoing (half-hour)

Seasons: Ongoing

TV show dates: February 9, 2022 -- present

Series status: Has not been cancelled

Performers include: Marina Cockenberg, James Austin Johnson, Aparna Nancherla, Jeremy Levick, Blair Socci, Graham Techler, Atsuko Okatsuka, Otter Lee, Carl Foreman Jr, Jack Bensinger, Lisa Gilroy, and Joey Romaine.

TV show description:      

A satirical adult animated series, the Fairview TV show was created by Rj Fried.

In this comedy, the outspoken and ill-behaved citizens of a small community called Fairview unintentionally learn important life lessons as they navigate complex social issues with their unique brand of small-town American ingenuity and stubbornness.

The residents are seen primarily through the lens of Fairview's sloppy party girl turned pragmatic mayor, Kelly Sampson (Cockenberg).

Series Finale:     

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Airing on the Comedy Central cable channel, the Fairview TV show features the voices of Marina Cockenberg, James Austin Johnson, Aparna Nancherla, Jeremy Levick, Blair Socci, Graham Techler, Atsuko Okatsuka, Otter Lee, Carl Foreman Jr, Jack Bensinger, Lisa Gilroy, and Joey Romaine. In this comedy, the outspoken and ill-behaved citizens of a small community called Fairview unintentionally learn important life lessons as they navigate complex social issues...

South Park has been a staple of Comedy Central for decades. Now, the cable channel is trying to launch Fairview, another satirical animated comedy set in a small town. Will this new show be a hit in the ratings too? Will Fairview be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned.

The Fairview TV show features the voices of Marina Cockenberg, James Austin Johnson, Aparna Nancherla, Jeremy Levick, Blair Socci, Graham Techler, Atsuko Okatsuka, Otter Lee, Carl Foreman Jr, Jack Bensinger, Lisa Gilroy, and Joey Romaine. In this comedy, the outspoken and ill-behaved citizens of a small community called Fairview unintentionally learn important life lessons as they navigate complex social issues with their unique brand of small-town American ingenuity and stubbornness. The residents are seen primarily through the lens of Fairview's sloppy party girl turned pragmatic mayor, Kelly...

Will any of these lessons stick in the first season of the Fairview TV show on Comedy Central? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Fairview is cancelled or renewed for season two. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the first season episodes of Fairview here.

A Comedy Central satirical adult animated series, the Fairview TV show features the voices of Marina Cockenberg, James Austin Johnson, Aparna Nancherla, Jeremy Levick, Blair Socci, Graham Techler, Atsuko Okatsuka, Otter Lee, Carl Foreman Jr, Jack Bensinger, Lisa Gilroy, and Joey Romaine. In this comedy, the outspoken and ill-behaved citizens of a small community called Fairview unintentionally learn important...

Fairview is coming to Comedy Central next week and the cable channel has released a teaser. The new adult animated series shows how national politics can cause problems among the residents of a small town. The voice cast of the animated series includes Marina Cockenberg, James Austin Johnson, Aparna Nancherla, Jeremy Levick, Blair Socci, Graham Techler, Atsuko Okatsuka, Otter Lee, Carl Foreman Jr, Jack Bensinger, Lisa Gilroy, and Joey Romaine.

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Stephen Colbert is staying in business with CBS Studios.

The studio has signed the host of The Late Show to a three-year, first-look production deal.

The agreement will give CBS Studios first-look rights to all TV and streaming projects created and developed by Colbert’s Spartina Productions.

Colbert will run the company and his wife Evelyn McGee Colbert and The Late Show exec producers Chris Licht and Tom Purcell will be principals.

In addition to exec producing The Late Show, Colbert is behind series including Paramount+’s Tooning Out The News, Comedy Central’s Fairview and Washingtonia, Hulu’s Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself and Comedy Central’s Tha God’s Honest Truth with Lenard ‘Charlamagne’ McKelvey.

Colbert said, “It’s great to make things. Making things with CBS has been great. I am grateful that together we’re going to make more great things. It’s just great.