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NEW YORK (AP) — Yahya Abdul-Mateen II first encountered the play “Topdog/Underdog” in college, performing a section as a favor for a student director who needed actors for a showcase. It turned into a favor for Abdul-Mateen.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 11-17 June 11: Singer Joey Dee of Joey Dee and the Starliters is 83. Actor Roscoe Orman (“Sesame Street”) is 79. Actor Adrienne Barbeau (“Maude”) is 78. Drummer Frank Beard of ZZ Top is 74.

NEW YORK (AP) — If Jason Isbell is keeping many more secrets, it's hard to imagine what they might be.

“The Talk” by Darrin Bell (Henry Holt & Company) Seeing the other children at the park playing with water guns, Darrin asks his mom for one. Her immediate response: No.

“George: A Magpie Memoir,” by Frieda Hughes (Avid Reader Press) Frieda Hughes in an English poet and painter who has built a following on birding Instagram (@friedahughes) with her beguiling videos of owls.

“Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces” by Patrick Mackie (Macmillan Publishers). Writing a biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart nowadays is no easy task.

TORONTO — All five poets shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize this year write in the first person, oftentimes about their lives. But they say it would be a mistake to take their work as non-fiction.

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is going where other British royals haven't for over a century: to a courtroom witness stand.

NEW YORK (AP) — Chuck Todd said on Sunday that he'll be leaving “Meet the Press” after a tumultuous near-decade of moderating the NBC political panel show , to be replaced in the coming months by Kristen Welker.

NEW YORK (AP) — “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” opened in U.S. and Canadian theaters with a massive $120.