New plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning Paula Vogel and Obie-winning Branden Jacobs-Jenkins will be among the Broadway offering of the Second Stage Theater 2023-24 season, the company announced today. In addition to the two Broadway productions, the Second Stage season also will include an Off Broadway world premiere staging of Jen Silverman’s Spain. Additional Second Stage productions will be announced in […]

L.A. Live, Anschutz Entertainment Group’s downtown Los Angeles sports and entertainment district, will bear streamer Peacock’s name throughout, starting July 11.    As part of a multi-year naming rights agreement between AEG and Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, the 7,100-seat concert and special events venue formerly known as Microsoft Theater will be renamed Peacock Theater. The entertainment district’s 40,000-square-foot open-air plaza, formerly […]

The FMCG sector is generally considered to be a safe haven during difficult times as people never stop buying soap and toothpaste. However, weak rural and semi-urban demand has been a factor since the lockdowns of 2020-21 while rising inflation has also impacted margins. While the FMCG majors have survived on the basis of price hikes and good management practices, […]

Nordstrom. Old Navy. Anthropologie. H&M. Crate & Barrel. San Francisco’s downtown has seen a mass exodus of retailers in recent months, and this week a mall owner has decided to walk away from a prominent property. Perhaps more troubling, market analysts say the city still has a ways to go before the hemorrhaging stops. The city has the highest office […]

Every quarter for the past several years, Ken Vecchione printed out a spreadsheet comparing the growth of the bank he runs, Western Alliance, with its three principal competitors: First Republic, Signature Bank and Silicon Valley Bank. And each time, Mr. Vecchione was annoyed because the analysis would show that Western Alliance’s loans and deposits were growing similarly to the others — its […]

The initial public offering (IPO) market has seen some momentum of late with robust responses to recent issues. However, only some have been able to ride the wave. So far in 2023, 23 companies have let their approval granted by the markets regulator — the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) — lapse. The draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) […]

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said on Tuesday that it would be a mistake for the United States to try to “decouple” from China and called for deepening economic ties between the world’s two largest economies. The comments came as the Biden administration has been seeking to improve relations with China, which faced a setback this year when a Chinese […]

European stocks were flat to slightly lower on Tuesday as concerns about inflation and slowing growth weighed on sentiment. Interest-rate concerns returned to the fore after the Reserve Bank of Australia unexpectedly raised rates again by 25 basis points and kept the door open to further hikes, saying inflation still remained too high. In economic releases, Eurostat reported that retail […]

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the Tribeca Festival premiere of First Time Female Director, the Chelsea Peretti comedy in which he stars opposite Peretti, Megan Mullally, Blake Anderson and Megan Stalter, actor, comedian and writer Benito Skinner has signed with Range Media Partners for representation. Peretti’s first feature, which she wrote, directed and produced, follows her playwright Sam, working on the Glendale, […]