Matthew Perry News

Main Street Theatre Works is open for business at the Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre in Jackson, and ready to launch their second summer show. Coming off a successful run of the hilarious Kong's Night Out, MSTW moves from Kong-size chaos to murder, with A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody. 

Ben Winston directed the special and executive produced along with “Friends” executive producers Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman, and David Crane. The special hails from Warner Bros. Unscripted Television in association with Warner Horizon, Fulwell 73 Productions and Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions.

As the story unfolds, doors fly open and slam shut, as well as mistaken identities, pies in the face, deceit, underhandedness, and even a couple of romances. It's a comic look at a classic story, as depicted in the 1933 movie. Kong's Night Out runs June 18th - July 17th.

Laura and Linda Benanti's concert, as part of Seth Rudetsky's Seth Concert Series, premiered yesterday at 3pm and re-aired at 8pm.

FRIENDS: THE REUNION will feature a variety of special guests including David Beckham, Justin Bieber, BTS, James Corden, Cindy Crawford, Cara Delevingne, Lady Gaga, Elliott Gould, Kit Harington, Larry Hankin, Mindy Kaling, Thomas Lennon, Christina Pickles, Tom Selleck, James Michael Tyler, Maggie Wheeler, Reese Witherspoon and Malala Yousafzai.

Theater in Quarantine and New Georges will present the world premiere of All The Different Ways That Commodore Matthew Perry Could Have Died Before Opening Japan But Didn’t by Julia Izumi, set to premiere on April 29.

New Georges announced today two upcoming productions for the Spring 2021 season—Dream/Home, presented as part of Post Theatrical; and All the Different Ways Commodore Matthew Perry Could Have Died Before Opening Japan But Didn’t, a new play commissioned from Julia Izumi, presented in a co-production with Theater in Quarantine.

As theatre companies across the world struggle to survive this uniquely-challenging year, opera-ballet company Constella recognised both the isolation in care homes and artists’ own struggles to survive. In response, they launched the wonderful initiative ‘Connecting Stars’, which provides free, one-to-one virtual performances to care home residents.

As the country heads toward another period of increased COVID-19 cases, caution and social distancing, Broadway Babysitters and Performer and Foodie and Backstage Bite Host, Katie Lynch, will host a Virtual Cooking Event on December 3rd at 4:30pm ET / 1:30pm PT filled with Music, Cooking and most of all, Joy.

Nickelodeon today announced the renewal of the Emmy(R) Award-winning series Friends, from Warner Bros. Television, for its nighttime programming block Nick at Nite.

Deadline has reported that Laura Benanti will joining the cast of HBO Max's upcoming Gossip Girl sequel series. The cast includes Emily Alyn Lind, Tavi Gevinson, Whitney Peak, Eli Brown, Johnathan Fernandez, Jordan Alexander, Savannah Smith, Evan Mock, Jason Gotay, Thomas Doherty, Adam Chanler-Berat, Savannah Smith and Zion Moreno.

REELZ today announced its November 2020 lineup packed with new original specials.

Adam McKay's upcoming film 'Don't Look Up' has assembled an all-star cast.

The taping of the upcoming Friends reunion special, set to premiere on HBO Max, has been delayed once again due to the health crisis. However, Jennifer Aniston remains optimistic that the reunion will still go on, and fans will love it.

Just because Main Street Theatre Works had to cancel their 2020 Summer season at the Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre, doesn't mean you can't have fun! MSTW got such great response for their staged-reading of Kong's Night Out, that they decided to present Act I of A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody, August 8th at 7pm on YouTube.

Variety has reported that Laura Benanti has joined the cast of the Fox drama pilot a?oeBig Leap'. 

The Paley Center for Media today announced a new schedule of weekly offerings for Paley@Home Presented by Citi, a curated collection of programming of acclaimed Paley Center events. These programs will screen for free starting on Monday, May 4, on the Paley Center's YouTube channel.

A behind the scenes memoir from Emmy-nominated writer/producer/playwright Billy Van Zandt and his years making America's favorite (and not so favorite) sit-coms will be published on June 2, 2020.

The cast of FRIENDS has just announced their participation in the ALL IN CHALLENGE – all six are inviting one lucky winner to be their personal guests in the audience for the taping where you'll get to see the cast all together again for the first time in ages.

A behind the scenes memoir from Emmy-nominated writer/producer/playwright Billy Van Zandt and his years making America's favorite (and not so favorite) sit-coms will be published on June 2, 2020.