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A photo of Julia Louis-Dreyfus. (Christopher Anderson)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is set to make her Broadway debut.
The actress will take to the stage in the first Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning play Other Desert Cities.
Louis-Dreyfus will be joined by a cast that includes Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Lily Rabe and Stranger Things star Joe Keery, who also makes his Broadway debut in the production.
Other Desert Cities is scheduled for a 16-week limited engagement at New York’s Hudson Theatre. Performances begin on Sept. 29 with an opening night set for Oct. 18. The show will run until Jan. 17, 2027.
Tony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey is set to direct the revival of the play, which was written by Jon Robin Baitz. The show follows a family who have a huge secret.
“On Christmas Eve, the sunlit Palm Springs home of a politically connected family becomes a battleground of memory, loyalty, and legacy when a daughter returns with a memoir and the power to expose the explosive truth they’ve kept hidden. As the past comes into focus, the question isn’t just what happened, but who owns a family’s story, and what is the cost to tell it,” according to an official description.
Baitz said he had more or less “talked myself out of imagining Other Desert Cities back in New York.”
“But John Hickey is family to me, and I trust him completely. We go back longer than I ever imagined: he hears a play – its ideas, its feeling, its music – with an intelligence and knowingness that anchors a room,” Baitz said. “And with this company of actors, a playwright dreams about, I thought that if there were still something alive in it, they would find it.”
Tom Cruise and his ‘Digger’ costars speak with ABC News’ Chris Connelly in an interview that aired on ‘Good Morning America’ on Sept. 23, 2026. (ABC News)
Tom Cruise is trading action for dark comedy in his new film Digger.
The film, out on Oct. 2, follows Cruise as Digger Rockwell, described in a synopsis for the movie as “the most powerful man in the world” who “embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.”
“This is a story about power, greed — about responsible and being irresponsible,” Cruise told ABC News’ Chris Connelly in an interview about his character. “He’s trying to control things that are just — you can’t control it. It’s not going to happen.”
When the film’s official trailer was released in July, many saw Cruise’s transformation as Digger for the first time. In the trailer, the actor is almost unrecognizable in prosthetics and costume.
Also starring in the film are Sandra Hüller, John Goodman and Oscar winner Riz Ahmed.
Ahmed recalled working with Cruise and described the feeling on set as “intimidating.”
“For the first few days, I didn’t have to act,” he told ABC News. “It was intimidating to be on set. With him as Digger Rockwell, there was this hurricane, this kind of operatic character coming at you 100 miles per hour.”
Hüller also weighed in on working with Cruise and said, “He wants to know what other people think. We could collaborate on that very much, so we were creating things together. The mood on set was so special and always positive and playful. It could have gone on forever. That’s my memory of it. We really had a lot of fun. I really had a lot of fun.”
Cruise told ABC News that he first heard about Digger eight years ago after meeting with director Alejandro G. Iñarritu, who previously directed The Revenant and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Cruise said it was also the same day as the first shooting day for Top Gun: Maverick.
Leading up to filming for Digger, Cruise was wrapping up filming on Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
Ahmed reflected on the actor’s work ethic and nonstop energy.
“He was doing that kind of thing,” Ahmed said. “When we were in rehearsal, we were all exhausted. And Tom’s like, ‘All right, I’m getting in the water tank now.’ The what? He’s going into a sub-zero temperature water tank to do a true-life stunt for a mission. He’s gonna fly himself there on a helicopter! There’s just a relentless kind of dynamo energy here that’s inspiring to be around.”
Cruise said, “It’s so fun, because I’m learning constantly.”
The actor, who has starred in eight Mission: Impossible films, Edge of Tomorrow, War of the Worlds, Jack Reacher and more, has become synonymous with high-octane, high-energy action films.
And before playing Maverick in the 1986 film Top Gun, Cruise starred in the romantic drama Endless Love, the coming-of-age teen comedy Risky Business and more, cementing himself as a leading man in Hollywood.
But prior to making a name for himself in Hollywood, Cruise worked a number of odd jobs, including being a superintendent’s assistant in New York City, working on daily maintenance of a building.
“I would have to go down and fix their stuff and I was a handyman before, I had many jobs growing up,” he said. “I had to go down and fix their heat, I shoveled the ice every day, I made sure that the garbage was taken out, yeah I took care of it. Whatever you need.”
Reflecting on his film career, Cruise called it a “real gift.”
“I dreamed of a life to be able to do this for the rest of my life as a kid,” he said. “And every day, I’m thinking, ‘You know what? I can’t control what’s going to happen. But what I can control is I can just do the best I can.'”
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, charged in the fatal 1996 shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, is led into the courtroom during his arraignment at the Regional Justice Center, Oct. 4, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
The jury has found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty in the murder of Tupac Shakur, 30 years after the rapper was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.
Jurors deliberated for less than three hours before finding him guilty of murder with the use of a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang. The 63-year-old faces a possible maximum sentence of life in prison.
Davis stood with his lawyer as the verdict was read, then sat with his hands clasped on the table.
Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny has set Davis’ sentencing for Oct. 13
Prosecutors say Davis did not fire the gun that killed Shakur in a drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas Strip on Sept. 7, 1996 — they allege that was the work of either Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, Davis’ nephew, or another man in the backseat of the car.
Police and prosecutors have accused Davis, an admitted longtime leader of a Los Angeles street gang, of being the “shot caller” and handing the gunman the murder weapon.
The jurors retired Monday after a marathon day of closing arguments that broke only briefly for a bathroom break and to get Davis a cough lozenge from Judge Kierny’s personal stash.
Even without Davis’ numerous confessions to his role in the killing of Tupac Shakur, the case is “drenched with circumstantial evidence” and corroborating witnesses, prosecutor Binu Palal told the jury during his closing argument Monday.
That — taken together with Davis’ incriminating and consistent accounts to police, to the media, and on the pages of his self-published memoir — overwhelmingly show his guilt, Palal argued.
“For nearly 18 years, Duane Davis has told the police, television, books, YouTube interviewers — anybody that will listen, he has told — he is responsible for the murder of Tupac Shakur,” Palal said. “Tell him you hear him — find him guilty.”
Meanwhile, defense attorney Michael Sanft said that three decades after the drive-by shooting, all prosecutors really have is Davis’ alleged confessions — which aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.
“We have to ask ourselves the question really at this particular point: Why are we here 30 years later if Duane Davis had actually confessed — truly confessed?” Sanft said.
Sanft repeatedly emphasized what he said was a lack of real evidence supporting his client’s incriminating claims while urging jurors to find Davis not guilty, saying it’s the “only verdict that makes sense in this case.”
