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This month, tucked away in the heart of Waterloo’s St. Jacob’s Market District, is a bewitching theatrical experience that is bound to spring up in conversation as rapidly and dramatically as a magical beanstalk might spring up in a backyard. INTO THE WOODS is currently playing at Drayton Entertainment’s St. Jacob’s Country Playhouse in Waterloo. Boasting a cast of Canada’s top musical theatre talent, it is an embarrassment of riches that is not to be missed. With Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and Book by James Lapine, INTO THE WOODS is oft considered to be one of Sondheim’s most accessible musicals. It brings to life familiar fairy tales and then deconstructs them to explore complex yet relatable human experiences such as grief, loss, and betrayal. The stories of Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, and Rapunzel are cleverly woven together via two original characters – the Baker and the Baker’s wife - who desperately want a child and discover they have been unsuccessful due to a Witch’s curse.

HBO is bringing back the popular comedy “Girls,” 10 years after its series finale. The Lena Dunham comedy show, which ran from 2012 to 2017, will be returning for a limited five-episode run sometime in 2027, the cable channel announced on Tuesday. Dunham will be joined on the mini-revival by original cast members Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet and Andrew Rannalls. Adam Driver, who also got his break on the series, was not mentioned in the revival announcement, the Hollywood Reporter noted. No premiere date for the revival has been announced, but Dunham and the other returning cast members dished on the reunion on Instagram. Zosia Mamet, Allison Williams, Lena Dunham and Jemima Kirke pose together at HBO's "Girls" sixth and final season premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Feb. 2, 2017, in New York.via Associated PressDunham explained the reason for returning in a statement accompanying the announcement. “We always said we would only return to ‘Girls’ if there was a specific story we were burning to tell,” Dunham said. “I’ve missed these characters, but for a long time I couldn’t quite picture them in the present day.

The news arrives several decades after the legend began living — and writing — about the U. S. Sixty-four years after she first arrived in the United States, Joni Mitchell has officially become a U. S. citizen.

With his loving family by his side, Phil passed away peacefully on October 11, 2026, at the age of 77. Phil was predeceased by his most precious angel, his daughter Rhonda Lynn (1973). Father to Shannon Clenighan (Shawn), Kim Bauer and Nadine Bauer, with special mention to “his favourite” niece Sharla Robitaille. Pépé to Jason Zack (Chelsea), David Bauer, Nathan Grandinetti, Brooke-Lynn Clenighan, Jillian Clenighan and Myah Bauer. Great Pépé of Colton Zack, Zahra Zack and Acen Zack. His grandchildren were lovingly known as Jughead (Cutie), Pie Face, Nag, Yellow Mop, Sister Golden Hair, and Marble Cake.

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Seattle, blessedly, bursts with new-works theater festivals these days. This month, a new festival with a unique spin on the format returns to Kerry Hall: Over three days, Starstuff: A Festival of Solo Artists will build a constellation of works that speak to one another, honoring the collaborative connections between artists, and between artist and audience. “I wanted to infuse this festival with everything that I wanted for artists, everything I wanted as an audience and everything that I wanted when I was fully a performer,” said Billie Wildrick, an uber-talented Seattle musical theater artist and the creative architect/artistic director of Starstuff, which debuted last year.  This year’s Starstuff runs Oct. 23-25, presented with Seattle Theatre Group. The festival’s format intentionally groups artists in constellations so their work can illuminate one another. Each block will feature a 15-minute interdisciplinary work, a songwriter performing an original song, a 60- to 80-minute solo show and another new song created in response to that show.

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'Below,' the new series starring Josh Hartnett, tallied a record audience on Netflix over the weekend.

CommotionCritics Sandra Mills and Kaiya Shunyata, and journalist Annie Zaleski dig into Netflix’s East Coast thriller Below. The new series stars Josh Hartnett as a fisherman and father dealing with a mysterious underwater threatCBC Arts · Posted: Oct 13, 2026 3:21 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 13Listen to this articleEstimated 5 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Josh Hartnett as Calvin in episode 106 of Below. (Courtesy of Netflix)There’s trouble lurking both above and below the water in Netflix’s mysterious new show, Below. The limited series is set in the fictional fishing town of Snook’s Arm, Newfoundland. Starring Josh Hartnett as Calvin Penney, a fisherman and father of three who is convinced he’s cursed, the show follows Penney as he tries to fight a mysterious sea creature that threatens not only his family and his community, but also his already rapidly-vanishing way of life.

According to estimates from 7 analysts, AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. stock's average price target has risen from $3.31 to $3.39, with forecasts ranging from $2.2 to $5 per shareBased on the Oct. 12 closing price, the updated target implies approximately 13% potential upsideConsensus rating has shifted to “Buy” across 9 covering analysts, with 4 Buys, 4 Holds and 1 SellsExplore more price target data and ratings for AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. on the Forecasts tab, and track all previous and future analyst recommendations for AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. in the dedicated News Flow. DisclaimerSelect reference data provided by FactSet. Copyright © 2026 FactSet Research Systems Inc. This information is not a recommendation for what you should do personally and does not constitute investment advice.

(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe.)The last few issues of this newsletter have circled two topics: September’s streaming viewership and all the Paramount/Skydance/Warner Bros./Discovery merger news. I’m happy to say on the Streaming Ratings Report front, we’ll be all caught up by early next week, then the SRR will come out on a tight weekly schedule. Then, after today, I’ll have slayed my PSWbD dragon. It’s such a big story, it demanded multiple issues. With the announcement of a name (just Skydance) and executive team, though, I think we can almost close the book on this story. In terms of topics, it becomes just another studio to cover. So today, I have one last set of takes on that merger. As I’ve sat with it, reading about who was staying and who was going, a big worry crystallized in my brain, and I gotta get that take out.

Fox Entertainment and Kevin Hart‘s Hartbeat have struck a partnership that will see Fox tap Hartbeat’s original vertical series output as a development pipeline for future film and television projects. Under the agreement, announced at MIPCOM on Tuesday, Fox Entertainment Studios will have first-look rights for vertical series released under the Codeblack, Essence and Revolt labels to develop the short-form series into feature and TV projects. Fox Entertainment Global will also distribute the original vertical series worldwide after each title’s initial platform run.

Schitt’s Creek co-creator and star Dan Levy is criticizing comedian Shane Gillis’ recent SNL monologue after he said women who go to the gym dress like “whores.” Gillis, who hosted SNL over the weekend, was fired from the sketch comedy show in 2019, five days after being cast as a regular when clips of him using racial slurs during a podcast interview resurfaced. Story continues below advertisement

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Carrie-Anne Moss first heard about the new AMC+ drama Yaga at just the right time. The actress, best known for starring in popular blockbuster fare like The Matrix, Star Wars: The Acolyte, and Jessica Jones, says she just happened to be independently researching the mythology behind the Yaga’s plot right before she was brought in. “I'd actually just been thinking about it, I'd say a week before,” Moss says. “I loved the fact that this had the lore of Baba Yaga. I'm someone who has always been interested in that story. It does work like that a lot for me, where I'll have a thought about something [and] suddenly a script will come across my path that has some kind of connection. I take those kinds of little nods from the ether as serious.”Yaga, which is debuting an exclusive clip that you can watch in the player above as part of IGN Fan Fest: Fall Edition, offers a modern twist on the classic Baba Yaga myth. Based on the play by Kat Sandler (who serves as showrunner here), the show follows Rapp (Noah Reid), “a private investigator who arrives in the small coastal town of Whittock to investigate the disappearance of a young heir to a powerful fishery, Henry Park (Hudson Williams).

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The last ride of Canada’s Polka King: 91-year-old accordion star brought joy for decades Order of Canada recipient Walter Ostanek reflects on knowing when to fold ‘em. Polka king Walter Ostanek performs at the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest at Carl Zehr Square in Kitchener. But 91-year-old Walter Ostanek mustered up the strength to come back to Oktoberfest in Kitchener, one last time. To join the conversation set a first and last name in your user profile. Conversations are opinions of our readers and are subject to the Community Guidelines. Toronto Star does not endorse these opinions. Receive daily email notifications when users reply to your comments.