Cecily Strong News

Urban Arts Partnership and The 24 Hour Company are proud to announce the 15th annual performance of The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway benefit on Monday, November 16.

National Geographic Channel (NGC) (@NatGeoChannel) and The Years Project announced today the return of the Emmy® award-winning documentary series Years of Living Dangerously, a thought-provoking and ambitious cinematic television event that will delve even deeper into the highly debated issue of climate change.

Lexus and Above Average have teamed up to release a new, eight episode season of “Hudson Valley Ballers”—the popular Web series co-created by “Saturday Night Live” writers James Anderson and Paula Pell, and writer Michelle Lawler, and directed by Silas Howard.

'Saturday Night Live's Cecily Strong and Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain will star in the romantic comedy PLUS ONE, from The Weinstein Company

The new series STATEN ISLAND SUMMER will be released on Netflix July 31st. Check out the trailer here!

Lexus and Above Average announced today that they have teamed up to release a new, eight-episode season of “Hudson Valley Ballers”

The new series STATEN ISLAND SUMMER will be released on Netflix July 31st. Check out the trailer here!

Comedian Cecily Strong hosted the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, and was of course joined by President Obama. Below, watch as Strong tears apart CNN, Fox, and MSNBC, and President Obama is joined by a special surprise comedy guest!

Michael Keaton will host NBC's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVEwith musical guest Carly Rae Jepsen on April 4, 2015. Below, check out a promo for the show featuring the 'Birdman' star and SNL regular Cecily Strong.

Opening Act, an innovative nonprofit that provides free after-school theater programming to New York City's most under-served public high schools, today announced that Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon (A Raisin in the Sun) will helm Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage's Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine for Opening Act's 9th Annual Benefit Play Reading at New World Stages on April 21st, 2015. Tickets are available to the public via www.telecharge.com - 1 800-447-7400.

THE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE will bring back the always hilarious and legendary, SECOND CITY with their SECOND CITY 55TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR which will perform one week only - tonight, March 31 through Saturday, April 4 at the Laguna Playhouse, 606 N. Laguna Canyon Rd. in Laguna Beach.

The Second City is known as the world's leading comedy theater and improvisational troupe, delighting audiences for more than five decades. Celebrating their 55th Anniversary this year, The Second City will be opening their vault to share some of their greatest comedy sketches created by the biggest comedic names in the industry. These acts, mixed with new material and spoofs by today's talented troupe, will tour to Poway and get audiences laughing all evening. The Second City performs tonight, March 28 at 8:00 pm at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts. This will be an evening of laughter and fun for all!

THE LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE will bring back the always hilarious and legendary, SECOND CITY with their SECOND CITY 55TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR which will perform one week only – Tuesday, March 31 through Saturday, April 4 at the Laguna Playhouse, 606 N. Laguna Canyon Rd. in Laguna Beach.

The Second City is known as the world's leading comedy theater and improvisational troupe, delighting audiences for more than five decades. Celebrating their 55th Anniversary this year, The Second City will be opening their vault to share some of their greatest comedy sketches created by the biggest comedic names in the industry. These acts, mixed with new material and spoofs by today's talented troupe, will tour to Poway and get audiences laughing all evening. The Second City performs on Saturday, March 28 at 8:00 pm at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts. This will be an evening of laughter and fun for all!

FilmDivider has learned that SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE's Cecily Strong will play 'a key supporting role' in Sony's highly-anticipated female GHOSTBUSTERS reboot, directed by Paul Feig.

The Californians (Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Laraine Newman, Kenan Thompson, Betty White, Taylor Swift) reunite and get some surprising news about their pool boy Craig (Bradley Cooper). Plus, David Spade and Cecily Strong bring the sketch to an abrupt end.

NBC will air a star-studded, three-hour live special today, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015 in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the iconic franchise 'Saturday Night Live.' It appears that just about every single comic actor who has performed in America will take the stage for the event, and BroadwayWorld brings you a list of confirmed stars below!

In New York, Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski and Tracey Ullman performed a surprise musical number before presenting Emmy Award-winning director Rob Marshall (Into the Woods) with the New York City Apple Award

Sundance Institute presents its U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions and the out-of-competition NEXT <=> section of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, running today, January 22 to February 1 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The Festival is the centerpiece of the year-round public programs for the Institute, which also hosts 24 residency labs and grants more than $2.5 million to independent artists each year.