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BAFTA and BBC apologize for racial slur during awards show

The British Academy Film Awards and BBC have apologized Monday for a racial slur that was broadcast during Sunday’s show while two stars of the film “Sinners” were onstage. The

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Feb 23 • 7:11 PM EST • Entertainment • lancasteronline.com
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Chappell Roan, Charli xcx, Teyana Taylor Among 2026 Grammy Presenters

An additional surprise presenter will be revealed onstage during Sunday night’s ceremony.

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Jan 29 • 3:28 PM EST • Entertainment • yahoo.com
ENTERTAINMENT: ‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’ onstage at WAC

A touring company brings “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” (a jukebox musical featuring tunes from Jacques Offenbach to Lady Gaga with a book by John Logan, based on Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 film) to Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center.

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Jul 4 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • arkansasonline.com
ENTERTAINMENT: ‘Chocolate’ in Argenta; ‘Mamma Mia!’ at WAC

Following a six-month revival run on Broadway, the 25th anniversary tour of “Mamma Mia!” is onstage this week for eight performances at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center.

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Apr 18 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • arkansasonline.com
Megan Thee Stallion takes 2 Broadway shows off after illness during 'Moulin Rouge!'

Megan Thee Stallion was rushed to the hospital after feeling very ill onstage during "Moulin Rouge.

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Apr 1 • 10:12 AM EDT • Entertainment • click2houston.com
Country stars pay tribute to Dolly Parton in CMA special

Country music stars perform onstage as 'CMA Presents I Will Always Love You: A Celebration of Dolly Parton,' Oct. 21, 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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Oct 22 • 1:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • kmaland.com
ENTERTAINMENT: ‘Misery’ onstage in Argenta; touring ‘Velveteen’ at UCA

Argenta Contemporary Theatre stages “Misery,” William Goldman’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, Wednesday through Nov. 1.

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Oct 10 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • arkansasonline.com
Ed Sheeran weeps onstage, admits to ‘making mistakes’ in first concert since Macklemore exit: ‘I’m so sorry’

The singer has been embroiled in controversy since Macklemore was removed for making pro-Palestine statements onstage.

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Sep 20 • 12:13 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
'X-Men' cast, release date revealed at D23

Maya Boyd, Inde Navarrette, Samara Weaving, Christopher Abbott, Kit Connor, Jake Schreier, Sadie Sink and Kevin Feige, President, Marvel Studios, speak onstage at the Disney Entertainment Showcase at D23: The

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Aug 15 • 8:10 AM EDT • Entertainment • kmaland.com
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Moving ‘Casey and Diana’ plumbs the messy layers of hope

Nick Green’s dramatization of Princess Diana’s visit to an AIDS hospice is darkly funny and life-affirming, onstage at American Players Theatre through Sept. 24.

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Jun 29 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • captimes.com
Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez Celebrate “a Real Sense of Community” at THR Women in Entertainment Event

Robert Downey Jr., Dakota Johnson, Regina Hall, Kerry Washington and Rachel Sennott also took part in the star-studded breakfast gala, presented by Lifetime.

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Dec 3, 2025 • 5:03 PM EST • Entertainment • hollywoodreporter.com
Bad Bunny slips and falls onstage mid-concert, but his fans keep the show going

The show must go on, even if you slip and fall. Just ask Bad Bunny, who did exactly that onstage during his recent concert in Mexico.

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Dec 11, 2025 • 9:57 PM EST • Entertainment • ew.com
Nate Bargatze on comedy retirement, 'Big Dumb Eyes' tour and his surprising napkin phobia

The 46-year-old comedian and host opened up about his growing entertainment empire and plans for his future in stand-up comedy.

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Mar 1 • 2:00 PM EST • Entertainment • komonews.com
Supreme Court decision loosening campaign finance rules could be boon for Paxton in Senate race

Now permitted to spend freely in coordination with GOP candidates, national Republican committees can use their flush war chests to help candidates like Paxton close fundraising deficits.

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Jul 1 • 10:15 AM EDT • Politics • houstonpublicmedia.org
Macklemore says he's off Ed Sheeran tour after Robert Kraft pressure

Macklemore said he's off Ed Sheeran's tour after pressure from billionaire Robert Kraft over comments the rapper made onstage.

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Sep 15 • 1:25 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Laufey Reveals the One Thing She’s Still Terrified of Doing Onstage

"I'm so scared of freaking people out! I'm always thinking about it," she said.

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Aug 11 • 1:10 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
‘Play On!’ hits all the right notes

The English Renaissance meets the Harlem Renaissance in “Play On!,” a sparkling show that marries a loose adaptation of Shakespeare's “Twelfth Night” with the music of Duke Ellington. Conceived by Sheldon Epps, who also directed the original 1996-97 production (first in San Diego, then on Broadway), the show is getting a marvelous revival under his direction to open Chicago Shakespeare Theater's 40th anniversary season.While the title “Play On!” refers to the famous quote about music being the food of love and thus to the dozens of Ellington songs—among them “It Don’t Mean a Thing,” “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,” “I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good),” “Solitude” and “I’m Beginning to See the Light”—incorporated into the plot, one of the highlights for me is the clever way Cheryl L. West's book reworks the story. Apparently, it's also been updated for this outing, among other things to give the women more agency. In the big opening number (there's a six-piece, horn-heavy onstage band), aspiring songwriter Vy (Hailee Kaleem Wright) is the one to “Take the 'A' Train” to “Drop Me Off in Harlem.” She wants to meet the famous Duke (Edred Utomi) — Ellington, not Orsino, that is — and she seeks the help of Jester (an engaging James Harkness) to find out how. When Jester tells her in no uncertain terms that the music industry is a man's world, she disguises herself as Vy-Man and persuades the Duke to listen to one of her songs. He's suffering from a creative block because he's pining for Lady Liv (Krystal Joy Brown), queen of the Cotton Club, and convinces Vy-Man to bring the Lady the song as if the Duke had written it, promising to reward her with employment. Vy reluctantly complies, and the predictable complications ensue. Lady Liv is attracted to Vy-Man, while Vy is attracted to the Duke and he to Vy, though it disturbs him because he thinks she's a man. The fallout when the deception comes to light bodes ill—at least for a while.Here's where West's book cannily diverges from Shakespeare. Vy's twin brother Sebastian really is dead, so West devises another love interest for Lady Liv basically by rehabilitating the Malvolio character, here named Rev (Alan H. Green), the Lady's uptight, self-important manager. His unrequited love for her is magically transformed after he gets his comeuppance (minus the torture) from Miss Mary (Alanna Lovely), her honey Sweets (James Earl Jones II) and Jester, the stand-in for Sir Toby, who has romantic problems of his own with a woman named CC (Kaylah Janssen). In other words, Rev gets the girl — and also a show-stopping yellow zoot suit from costume designer An-Lin Dauber. All the costumes are dandy, though those for the men have more pizzazz than the women's day dresses. The bilevel, slanted scenic design by Beowulf Boritt brings 1930s Harlem to life in a slightly expressionistic way with the help of Adam Honoré's lighting and Ray Nardelli's sound design. Edgar Godineaux's choreography adds to the period feel, though there could be even more of it.Most of all, the leads have splendid voices, and the performances are terrific. Green's Rev and Harkness's Jester get my vote for comedy chops, and Brown's Lady Liv probably will stay with me the longest for her complexity and big blues number, “I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues.”

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Oct 12 • 3:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • hpherald.com
Macklemore Sparks Petition For His Removal From Ed Sheeran Tour Over “Free Palestine” Plea

Macklemore is the latest celebrity to face backlash over his “Free Palestine” onstage public plea while opening for Ed Sheeran this weekend. After the 4x Grammy winner took the stage for Sheeran’s Loo...

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Sep 6 • 12:36 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Watch Live: Connie Chan, Scott Wiener Debate for SF Congressional Seat

San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan and state Sen. Scott Wiener meet live onstage Thursday night at KQED for a critical debate ahead of the November election.

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Oct 1 • 10:05 PM EDT • Politics • kqed.org
'Heated Rivalry' Author Rachel Reid to Receive THR Canada Honor

Reid will receive the Changemaker Award and take part in an onstage conversation May 28 in Toronto.

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Apr 22 • 10:23 AM EDT • Entertainment • hollywoodreporter.com
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Macklemore breaks silence on being dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after onstage pro-Palestine statements

The rapper was previously criticized by the singer Pink.

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Sep 14 • 1:39 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Review: OnStage Playhouse’s ‘Mensa’ a smart drama about politics and listening

Salomón Maya’s new play is a cautionary tale about finding common ground before it’s too late

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Aug 29 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • sandiegouniontribune.com
Charlie Kaufman On Finding Inspiration In Béla Tarr & Why He Isn’t Interested In “Conventional Notions Of Entertainment”

On Saturday evening, the veteran American filmmaker Charlie Kaufman appeared at the Sands Film Festival in St Andrews, Scotland, for an onstage Q&A, originally billed as an exploration of the relation...

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Apr 20 • 5:56 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
‘I think that MAGA is dying’: Inside the youth movement at CPAC

Last year’s meeting struck a triumphant tone, as Elon Musk cranked a chrome chain saw onstage. But for the past several years a younger crowd has declared the event passé.

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Mar 30 • 3:31 PM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
John Green revisits the movie business at ‘Hollywood, Ending’ author event

“Hollywood, Ending,” released Sept. 22, debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list and USA Today’s Best-selling Booklist.

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Oct 3 • 3:20 PM EDT • Business • ibj.com
ENTERTAINMENT: ‘A Christmas Story’ reprise onstage in Argenta; Dolly’s ‘Christmas Carol’ at UCA

Right Angle Entertainment puts on its touring “Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol” 7 p.m. Wednesday in Reynolds Performance Hall at the University of Central Arkansas.

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Dec 6, 2025 • 1:00 PM EST • Entertainment • arkansasonline.com
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Irish comic David Nihill used storytelling to overcome stage fright

Irish comedian and storyteller David Nihill brings his conversational 'Taking Tangents' show to Irvine, Pasadena and Los Angeles from March 13 to 17.

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Mar 13 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Taylor Swift and Dakota Johnson were besties onstage, plus a buzzy ‘Off Campus’ reunion: Here’s what caught my eye during the VMAs

Risqué fashion choices, historic wins, onstage reunions and a slate of top-notch performances. What more could you want from the VMAs?

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Sep 28 • 4:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Embodying the Moment: Paloma Elsesser On Beauty, Bodies and Business

The model and muse explained her supermodel origin story and her plans for her next act onstage at The Business of Beauty Global Forum.

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Jun 25 • 11:45 AM EDT • Business • businessoffashion.com
What to know about Ed Sheeran's tour after Macklemore was cut

Sheeran's tour has been roiled by the decision this week to drop Macklemore as an opener because of the rapper's onstage pro-Palestinian comments

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Sep 16 • 1:29 PM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumlocalnews.com
Lauren Bennett’s dad reveals late singer’s medical issues, says doctors ‘failed to treat her appropriately’

Lauren Bennett’s dad is speaking out about the loss of his daughter and sharing why he believes medical professions ‘failed’ to treat her ‘appropriately’ before her death in late May.

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Jul 8 • 11:07 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Review: Miley Cyrus is an ambivalent comeback queen

LOS ANGELES — "For me, performance can't be everything," Miley Cyrus declared on Friday night, and you had to admire her choice of setting: onstage at the Hollywood Bowl in

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Oct 19 • 10:52 AM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
Music Legend Axes Shows After Onstage Health Scare

Lionel Richie was hospitalized on the opening night of his tour with Earth, Wind & Fire after feeling dizzy on-stage.

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Jun 26 • 9:36 AM EDT • Health • thedailybeast.com
Music star who attended Berklee College hits Trump with 3-word insult onstage

A Grammy-winning singer with a Berklee College background used some choice words about President Donald Trump during a recent performance.

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Oct 16 • 11:32 AM EDT • Entertainment • masslive.com
Karol G grabbed by fan onstage in viral video

Karol G's return to the stage took an unexpected turn.

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Jul 31 • 6:33 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Rock Legend, 81, Suffers Frightening Onstage Health Scare

The “Forever Young” singer had to stop the show to take breaths from an oxygen tank.

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Jun 21 • 3:44 AM EDT • Health • thedailybeast.com
ZZ Top frontman to play solo, 3 plays to open, other things to do

Onstage events include plays and concerts, or if you prefer on-screen entertainment, there's a horror movie marathon. See what else is coming up!

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Jan 28 • 6:02 AM EST • Entertainment • dispatch.com
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R&B legend’s son fears her husband will work her to death: ‘Quote me on that’

The 82-year-old singer has been struggling onstage.

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Sep 14 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • pennlive.com
'I'm so, so sorry': Ed Sheeran speaks out at his first show after Macklemore controversy

Before performing in Philadelphia on Sept. 19, Ed Sheeran addressed the controversy surrounding Macklemore’s removal from the U.S. dates of his Loop Tour following pro-Palestinian remarks made onstage.

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Sep 20 • 11:08 AM EDT • Entertainment • washingtonpost.com
Hades, King Herod and the Politics of Theater. A Starry August. Stageworthy News of the Week.

The producers of “Hadestown” on Broadway rescinded the casting of Geno Segers as Hades, after OnStageBlog reposted Segers’ (now deleted) videos on social media that belittled transgender people. Th…

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How lip-syncing to AI let Forced Entertainment ‘play the game of theatre’

Today we have a fascinating piece by long-time Forced Entertainment fan Ben Kulvichit, speaking to Tim Etchells about their latest show Cold Sweat, how they are integrating lip-sync and AI voices into their work, the question of ‘authenticity’ on stage, and how lip-sync has even opened the door for them to make “something a little bit like drama”. This piece is a paid partnership with the Southbank Centre, where you can see Cold Sweat next month – we’re very grateful to the Southbank Centre for their ongoing support for Exeunt. Holly Williams ‘It was immediately interesting and uncanny’ **By Ben Kulvichit** “Is the microphone on?” So goes one of the opening lines of Signal to Noise, delivered by a human performer lip-syncing to an AI-generated voice. The voice is American, cheery but sluggish, slowed down into a gelatinous drawl. It repeats ad infinitum in a farce of stuckness; an answer never materialises. I find myself asking the same question as I hop on a Google Meet call with Tim Etchells, the artistic director of Forced Entertainment. We spend five or ten minutes frowning at each other, muting and unmuting, me gesticulating in semaphore into my webcam, checking if I am coming through now, restarting the laptop. To Etchells, I appear exaggeratedly mouthing words, my voice missing. In this gloopy purgatory of broken communication, life imitates art imitates life imitates art. We try a Zoom instead. Forced Entertainment, the pioneering British theatre company who have been at the avant-garde of performance since the 1980s, turned an interesting artistic corner with Signal to Noise, created on the occasion of their 40th anniversary. The whole performance employed this lip-sync technique to AI voices; on the face of it a left-field move from a company whose identity has long been grounded in the earthy, immediate presences of its performers and its unassuming, low-tech approach to theatricality. The technique, however, turned out to provide the company with a “rich new seam” of artistic enquiry, and has now spawned a trilogy of works. The second instalment, Cold Sweat, plays at Sheffield Theatres, Southbank Centre, and Lancaster Arts in October, while the third part, Everything Must Go, has been touring in Europe and is slated to come to the UK in 2027. As is often the case with Forced Entertainment shows, the main conceit for this work didn’t arrive until quite late. They were “four or five weeks into rehearsals for Signal to Noise,” Etchells recalls, and getting nowhere. Away from rehearsals, he had been playing around with feeding “weird texts” to AI voices to see how they would cope with them – “basically for my own amusement” – and was compelled by the uniformly “serviceable, benign, good-natured” tone they would read in, no matter how poetic, fractured or experimental the writing. On a hunch, he brought some examples into rehearsals and the performers gave lip-syncing a go. “It was immediately interesting and uncanny,” he recalls, with the performers having to deal in the moment with the problem of mapping themselves onto another artificial ‘performer,’ which itself was dealing with the problem of a very human text. “Almost all the writing for these projects would be useless to us unless it was done in this way,” says Etchells. “We wouldn’t know what to do with it. It’s too poetic. It’s too fictional. It’s too tangled.” But exploring lip-syncing along to the text has opened “an enormous reservoir of ways of thinking about writing and performing.” Subscribe to Exeunt, and get two in-depth pieces on theatre a week, direct to your inbox Subscribe Forced Entertainment have long been sifting through the detritus of popular culture, from daytime TV to end-of-the-pier vaudeville, magic acts and clown shows, to find frameworks for their own unusual entertainments. Lip-syncing, then, makes sense for them to experiment with. As a mode of performance, it’s wired into popular consciousness through pop stars trying to convince stadium audiences of their liveness, or those same voices as channeled through the made-up lips of contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race, or movie dialogue spreading virally through the host bodies of TikTok users. For Etchells, lip-syncing is often about “approaching real voices and trying to take on their aura,” subsuming that original human presence into yours. “There’s a very basic, elemental sort of theatre magic to it, produced in this very easy way.” This broad approach resonates with instances of lip-syncing within contemporary performance, too. In works like Re-Member Me and Showmanism, performance artist Dickie Beau acts as a kind of spirit medium for archival recordings (this process of re-membering – as in, giving corporeal form to voices – relies on his masterfully precise actor’s technique), while Frankie Thompson is similarly possessed by a host of characters ranging from a nine-year-old Jacob Rees-Mogg to Cliff Richards, all of whom she finds compellingly nauseating, in the exorcism ritual that is her latest show, Horrible Things. What’s different about Forced Entertainment’s use of lip-syncing is that here, there is no original presence to be channeled. The performers are instead taking on what Etchells describes as “the voices of nobody,” or rather the “phantasmic, aggregated echoes” of the many many voices on whose data the AI has been trained, and which are now conjuring into existence words they never actually said. There is a sort of mournful, empty quality to these voices, having “washed up” far away from the people they originally belonged to, to find themselves in stranger’s mouths listing objects, wondering if anyone can hear them and glitching in interminable loops. There is a cold, sad anonymity to it all. Etchells remarks that occasionally the software company he used has notified him that particular people are withdrawing their voices from the platform, instructing him to cease use of those voices. Using these technologies in performance certainly brings up ethical questions around digital rights, consent, identity and ownership, although in the grand scheme of things, Etchells is fairly blasé about it: of all the purposes someone’s voice might be put to without their knowledge, “an avant-garde performance is probably the least of their worries.” [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) [ Frankie Thompson: How I manage my own ‘horrible things’ at the Edinburgh Fringe ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) Exeunt · Aug 25 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) For the performers, though, lip-syncing to these strange, artificial voices is an odd task, requiring them to bend their live, human presence into the shapes produced by machines. Politically, it mirrors processes that are already at play in the continued computational automation of human life. Etchells brings up James Bridle’s writings on new technologies as a reference point: one example Bridle gives is of “chaotic storage”, a logistics technique employed by Amazon fulfilment centres whereby items are stored not according to traditional methods of categorisation or alphabetisation, but in a way that an algorithm determines to produce the most efficient routes for ‘picking’ based on customer purchase patterns. This appears completely random and incomprehensible to humans, with paddling pools sitting next to USB sticks sitting next to blowtorches, and so for the warehouse workers, the process of picking items becomes completely reliant on technology which tells them where to go. Our world is increasingly being designed not with humans in mind, but rather machines. As Etchells puts it, “technology malforms the space, and then you end up having to live in it.” Initially, Forced Entertainment tried their best to live in the world of machines: “I was in the it’s-got-to-be-perfect school of lip-sync,” says Etchells. But with their aesthetic being so tied to the failing act, the slipping mask, the shoddy costume, “it’s no surprise really that that didn’t last.” Instead, the performers got to enjoy being late for a line, or playing games with each other, “stealing” each other’s voices. Etchells compares it to the principles of ventriloquism, in which a free-floating voice unattached to a body is fundamentally discomforting and “sort of traumatic”. That discomfort is equally as alluring to Forced Entertainment as the satisfaction of precision, the pretence of authenticity only interesting if shown to be a pretence. Lip-sync has also opened up new avenues for the company. Having been allergic all their lives to Plays-with-a-capital-P, with Cold Sweat Forced Entertainment find themselves approaching something a little bit like drama. Rather than the presentational arena of Signal to Noise’s open white stage, Cold Sweat places us more decisively in a “fictional locale”: what appears to be “the aftermath of some disastrous party or backyard drinking binge” where three figures – family members, or neighbours, perhaps – are the last ones standing. “It’s all quite acrimonious and accusatory, everyone’s talking over each other.” For Etchells, this more fictional mode is “a door that we’ve never been able to open. We’ve just never really gone there.” Perhaps it is the technique of lip-syncing, an extra buffer of mediation, that allows them to venture away from the here-and-now without feeling that they have to commit to the “psychological claptrap” that comes along with acting; to be able to “play the game of theatre, without getting one’s hands too dirty.” As I wonder how else the impulses behind Forced Entertainment’s work have changed over time, it occurs to me that over the last ten years of new creations, with the exception of If All Else Fails, the company’s performers haven’t ever spoken on stage: there were two shows without any language at all, Out of Order and Under Bright Light, and then this trilogy of lip-sync works. Etchells agrees it’s a shift away from earlier productions, that were so often about “the actual voices of the performers and their actual presences. We had a lot of money, in some ways, on an authentic approach to what it might mean to speak on the stage.” But this sense of authentic presence itself had a fakeness to it; these days, Etchells can’t stand that mode of being onstage where performers “are here to be cheeky and witty versions of themselves. I don’t want to be charmed.” Pulling back into a more anonymous space has resulted in works that feel slightly sharper-edged, more brutal in a way. “All of these shows are post-Brexit, post-Trump, post-truth, post-everything,” Etchells notes. Speech, charisma, authenticity – these things feel politically loaded, and perhaps warmth and openness just don’t feel like the right tools to reflect the world we’re living in. “It feels like the space is closing down, and we’re trying to deal with the fact that the system, the structure that you’re in, is more oppressive and more powerful. It probably always was, but I think we’re just more tuned to it now.” Yet even without their voices, the performers’ distinctive presences – ones that many audiences have followed around for years, if not decades – still, inevitably, shine through as they physically navigate whatever unending task the system of the piece has set for them. They’re still trying to keep up with the onslaught of text, still running about, changing costumes, moving stuff around. The human is always stuck in the teeth of the machine, jamming the smooth, frictionless cheeriness of the not-real, gesticulating silently, trying desperately to communicate. Cold Sweat is at Sheffield Theatres, 2 to 3 October; Southbank Centre, London, 9 to 10 October; Lancaster Arts, 14 October [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) [ Exeunt recommends... the best autumn theatre ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) Exeunt · Sep 16 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) This piece was paid for by the Southbank Centre. Such support helps Exeunt to keep publishing the most interesting writing, about the most exciting theatre. Interested in partnering with Exeunt? 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Sep 22 • 5:02 AM EDT • Entertainment • exeuntmagazine.substack.com
Céline Dion takes a tumble, but goes on

LOS ANGELES — Céline Dion will go on — even after taking a little tumble onstage. The 58-year-old singer slipped in front of a live audience while performing "Dans un

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Ed Sheeran Cries Alone Onstage in Philadelphia: 'I Am Making Mistakes. I'm So, So Sorry. I Don't Want to...

Protesters gathered outside the venue as he addressed Gaza directly for the first time.

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Sep 19 • 11:15 PM EDT • Entertainment • heraldsun.com
ENTERTAINMENT: ‘Heights’ onstage in SoMa; ‘Onegin’ moves to Ozarks

TheatreSquared is putting “Eugene Onegin: A Bluegrass Musical,” a new adaptation of Alexander Pushkin’s drama by Obie Award-winner Sarah Gancher, onstage in its West Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday through June 28.

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Jun 6 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • arkansasonline.com
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Hank Green AI controversy raises questions for science communicators

The backlash raises a bigger question for science communicators: where should AI fit into their work?

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Aug 8 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • scientificamerican.com
Macklemore is dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour over pro-Palestinian comments onstage

Macklemore says he has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour following pro-Palestinian comments he made onstage earlier this month at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM

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Sep 14 • 5:04 PM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
“America’s Got Talent ”onstage mishap nearly derails country band’s performance

Judge Mel B was visibly surprised.

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Jul 21 • 10:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Miley Cyrus releases new single, 'Bass Persuades,' and music video

Miley Cyrus performs onstage during the 66th GRAMMY Awards on February 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (John Shearer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

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Sep 4 • 11:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • kmaland.com
Country music star teases retirement after 30 years onstage: ‘Can’t promise anything’

The singer could be ready to wind things down.

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Sep 5 • 7:10 AM EDT • Entertainment • pennlive.com
PNB’s ‘Giselle’ arguably one of the best to see

Pacific Northwest Ballet’s lively and rigorous reconstruction of “Giselle" is onstage through April 19.

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Apr 14 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Rod Stewart says he 'nearly fainted' during Utah concert

Rod Stewart is recovering after nearly fainting onstage over the weekend.

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Jun 22 • 8:51 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
‘Barefoot in the Park’ provides the laughs at Taproot Theatre

“Barefoot in the Park,” directed by Producing Artistic Director Karen Lund, is currently onstage at Taproot Theatre.

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May 18 • 4:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Tim McGraw addresses falling onstage at his Cincinnati concert

Tim McGraw fell on his back while performing ‘I Like It, I Love It’ in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Aug. 27.

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Aug 29 • 1:06 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Two Democrats Competing to Replace Pelosi, Live Onstage

The two candidates vying to replace Rep. Nancy Pelosi in Congress faced off in a live onstage debate at KQED on Oct. 1, moderated by Political Breakdown co-hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos and the San Francisco Chronicle’s Joe Garofoli. City Supervisor Connie Chan and State Senator Scott Wiener presented their visions for the future

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Oct 3 • 8:05 AM EDT • Politics • kqed.org
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Country music star bloodied onstage and fans are livid: ‘He needs to press charges’

Fans are angry that the star was injured during his show.

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Mar 16 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • pennlive.com
Here's What Happened When Mike Love Rejoined the Beach Boys Onstage

Before the show, longtime bandmate John Stamos wondered if this would be the last time he performed with Love.

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Oct 12 • 9:46 AM EDT • Health • ultimateclassicrock.com
Fans Want FF7 Remake Director To Lead Final Fantasy 17

Naoki Hamaguchi made a surprise ppearance onstage at the latest FF14 Fan Fest

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Jul 27 • 9:11 AM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com
Former Beach Boy Al Jardine on Mike Love Health: Speechless, Depressed

Jardine, who's not in regular contact with Love, found himself "speechless" and "really depressed" when he saw the recent footage of Love onstage but knows the Beach Boys frontman doesn't want to stop performing: "He wants to be onstage, but he just doesn’t know how not to do it."

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Oct 14 • 3:27 PM EDT • Health • hollywoodreporter.com
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Macklemore is dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour over pro-Palestinian comments onstage

Macklemore says he has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour following pro-Palestinian comments he made onstage earlier this month at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium.

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Sep 14 • 5:05 PM EDT • Entertainment • seattletimes.com
Ray LaMontagne topples over onstage in Nashville, where the high hits 101

On Sept. 5, the 53-year-old folk singer fell while performing his popular track 'Jolene' in front of a sold-out Nashville show, according to fan footage.

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Sep 8 • 8:37 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
What to know about Ed Sheeran's tour after Macklemore was cut

Sheeran's tour has been roiled by the decision this week to drop Macklemore as an opener because of the rapper's onstage pro-Palestinian comments

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Sep 16 • 1:29 PM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumlocalnews.com
Singer collapses onstage at Ryman, leaving fans stunned, praying: ‘Really unsettling’

The scary scene unfolded at Satuday's show in Nashville.

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Sep 8 • 5:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • pennlive.com
Miley Cyrus shuts down criticism of Hollywood Bowl comeback concerts

Miley Cyrus might be a little rusty onstage, but without a doubt, she's not phoning it in.

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Oct 19 • 10:57 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
'Kim's Convenience' review: Back onstage with sitcom warmth intact

Ins Choi's 'Kim Convenience,' the Toronto hit play that inspired a TV show, opens at the Ahmanson Theatre, refreshes a familiar immigrant family drama with warmth and gentle humor.

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Mar 27 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
How Stars Like Jean Smart and Mark Ruffalo Got (Sort-Of) Political at Golden Globes 2026

Several celebrities on the 83rd Golden Globes red carpet wore anti-ICE pins, but winners and presenters kept it purposely vague onstage.

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An introvert shares strategies for in-person work at the office

Catherine Fadashe identifies as an introvert and said she pretends she's onstage when she goes into the office.

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Jun 30 • 5:52 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com