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Currently in rehearsals for As You Like It

26 September to 7 November 2026 - Playing Rosalind in As You Like It at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon, United Kingdom (press night 6 October)

October 2026 - New Frozen short to be released

Date TBA - Octet and Trust the Man to be released, 36 Questions musical

24 November 2027 - Frozen 3 released

Date TBA - Frozen 4

A sighting of Jonathan in Paris from a video posted by Bernardnb today.

‘Frozen 3’ “Royal Wedding” Between Anna and Kristoff Is Crashed by New Villain in First-Look

Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Josh Gad and Jonathan Groff are back for a new entry in the hit franchise, releasing Thanksgiving 2027.

BY KIRSTEN CHUBA

At its D23 fan event on Friday, Disney offered up a first-look at the third entry in its hit franchise, which is set to glide into theaters on Nov. 24, 2027.

In celebration, Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell walked hand-in-hand onto the D23 stage before launching into a (slightly tech issued) rendition of song “Frozen Heart,” as Bell teased “Anna and Elsa are going on their biggest journey yet.” The stars confirmed that Anna and Kristoff will be getting married in the story and “this royal wedding has been a long time coming.” They added that love is in the air for everyone — even Olaf.

Josh Gad then arrived to sing a love song to Samantha, in reference to a joke from the second film. Menzel declared, “We will find ourselves far from Arendelle in wild and dangerous land” and cut to the footage, which showed Anna and Kristoff’s wedding seemingly being crashed by a new villain. As they trudge through an icy forrest, the villain comes down from a snowy peak and says “The sisters of Arrendale, we finally meet.”

Frozen‘s past two iterations have been a smash at the box office, with the 2013 original earning $1.28 billion and 2019’s Frozen II bringing in $1.45 billion. Menzel and Bell lead the franchise as royal sisters Elsa and Anna. Following the death of their parents, Elsa, voiced by Menzel, is to become queen but must navigate her dangerous icy powers along the way. Gad, as beloved snowman Olaf, and Groff, as Anna’s fiancé Kristoff, round out the main voice cast.

Frozen 3 was originally dated for 2026 but was pushed back, with Gad explaining in 2025, “There’s a reason the movie is coming out in 2027 and that is because no one wants to rush this. Everyone wants this to not just be a sequel or a money grab. They want this to be absolutely worthy of the story we set out to make in 2013.”

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Teaser:

David Fincher has been hounded with questions about Mindhunter ever since the show seemingly went on hiatus in 2019. The psychological thriller, which saw Fincher tackling serial killers once again, received widespread acclaim over the course of its two seasons on Netflix. Although Season 2 teased future directions, Season 3 was never produced, much to fans' dismay. Fincher has blamed escalating budgets as one of the reasons why Netflix didn't continue the show, but more recently, he confirmed that the project was officially dead. However, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has now said that the budget wasn't actually the biggest reason why Mindhunter didn't return. He declared that he would have loved for the show to continue with a third season.

At an event hosted by The Indian Express in New Delhi this week, Sarandos was asked if there's a film that didn't get a sequel, but should have. He replied by bringing up Mindhunter. "It’s not a part two, it’s a part three that I wish we got to make," he said.

@thersc From Beyoncé to The Beatles, Jonathan Groff and Daniel Evans create a playlist that encapsulates the essence and vibe of As You Like It 🩷

Directed by Co-Artistic Director Daniel Evans with Tony Award-winning Jonathan Groff as Rosalind, As You Like It comes to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre this autumn — don't miss it

Kate Mara, Finn Wittrock, Justice Smith & Victor Garber Among Final Additions To Vietnam War Thriller ‘Trust The Man

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Will Graham has wrapped on their Vietnam War thriller Trust the Man, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Jonathan Groff, which we can tell you first, will also star Kate Mara (A Teacher), Finn Wittrock (Don’t Move), Justice Smith (Now You See Me: Now You Don’t), Victor Garber (Not Suitable for Work), Angus O’Brien (Boots), and Jack Ball (Chicago P.D.).

Character details for the newcomers are being kept under wraps.

Shot in New Jersey over the summer, Trust the Man follows an ambitious Army Intelligence officer who’s assigned to investigate a decorated soldier with a mysterious past during the Vietnam War. As surveillance and interrogation deepen, the line between loyalty and obsession blurs, leading both men into a dangerous and uncontrollable connection.

Producers include Graham, Tonia Davis and Max Linsky for Invitation Media; Luke Rodgers; and Alex G. Scott. Jess Hackel and Jeffrey Penman co-produce, with executive producers including Radcliffe, Christian Hall for Two Independent Eyes; Molly C. Quinn, Matthew M. Welty and Elan Gale for QWGmire; David Gendron, Ali Jazayeri, and Stefan Klink for Three Point Capital; Jeffrey Soros, and Hailey Wierengo.

Jonathan with the.baylee at Isaac Oliver’s new show with Patti Lupone and Bridget Everett at Joe’s Pub on Friday (posted by Jonathangroff.xo on Instagram), and a new photo posted by Lea Michele from Jonathan’s recent visit to the Hamptons.

The old show business maxim goes: “Never work with children or animals.”

But when Bubba Weiler was casting for his Off-Broadway play The Saviors, he was adamant that he needed to have real 14-year-olds play the main characters: two Catholic altar boys who begin to question their faith. As he explains it: “These kids are at such a specific point in their lives, and they are wrestling with questions, these big questions. And I was just interested in those big questions of faith and life and morality coming out of the mouths of real children who are processing in real time.” He then adds, with quiet confidence, “I was a child actor, and so I just had a hunch that kids could do it.” Weiler knows something about being a 20-something actor playing a teenager; he once played Scorpius in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway.

Weiler is aware of those acting techniques. The 33-year-old has been acting professionally since he was 14. After making a healthy living as a stage and screen actor, Weiler has spent the past year breaking out as a playwright; his quietly devastating play Well, I'll Let You Go had a sold-out run last year in Brooklyn and then was brought back for an encore run this year at Studio Seaview—it earned Weiler an Outer Critics Circle Award for playwriting. Weiler’s also currently writing the book for a musical with composers Ellen Winter and Chris Littler, for Jonathan Groff to star in (it’s called 36 Questions and is based on the podcast musical of the same name).

In the world of Weiler’s plays, people are flawed, but they’re not malicious. They don’t scream at each other. They also don’t monologue about their feelings. Instead, Weiler’s plays invite you to lean in, and to really hear what someone is trying to say, even if they aren’t able to find the words. His plays are a showcase in how, sometimes the quietest moments are the most powerful.

@thedailybeast Class Superlatives With Julian Shapiro-Barnum

Julian Shapiro-Barnum (@julianmsb) sits down with @kpfallon to reveal which celebrities he's had on "Celebrity Substitute" would be the life of the party, class clown, most likely to brighten your day, and best shoulder to cry on.

#JulianShapiroBarnum #CelebritySubstitute #Kehlani #ReneéRapp #SZA #JonathanGroff #AlexWarren #Obsessed

Question: Which celebrity was the most likely to brighten your day?

Julian: Jonathan Groff. All the time. He is a perfect person. He has a magic to him. A wonderful man.

It’s a pleasure this week to welcome Daniel Evans, Co-Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, to The Sondheim Hub. Daniel is as steeped in Sondheim as he is in Shakespeare, winning Olivier Awards for his performances in Merrily We Roll Along and Sunday in the Park with George. As he prepares to direct Jonathan Groff in As You Like It at the RSC, we spoke about meeting Sondheim, finding his own George, what Sondheim and Shakespeare understand about form and meaning, and much more.

Evans: … I went to see Jonathan Groff in Merrily on Broadway, and saw Daniel Radcliffe playing the part I’d played — and that was surreal, because you’re seeing what’s in front of you and you’re also remembering your own experience. That makes for such a rich viewing.

You mentioned As You Like It, which opens at the RSC in September. I think there’s something really nice, by the way, about a Charley directing a Frank.

Ha!

Where are you in the creative process right now?

I’ve been wanting to do this production for a while, because it’s a play about a woman who dresses up as a man who pretends to be a woman — and of course it was originally done with all men, because women weren’t allowed on the English stage in the very late 16th century. This is a play from 1599. I’d been thinking about who Rosalind is, and I hadn’t quite found her until I saw Just in Time. I’d seen Jonathan in Merrily the year before, but there was something he did in Just in Time… It’s a show about Bobby Darin, and it was a complete and utter triumph for Jonathan. He rarely left the stage, he had this connection with the audience, he could turn on a dime so quickly. It seemed to me like his intellect and his technique are so together.

I’d actually met him after the show, but I didn’t mention anything because I was too shy. So I wrote to him about three days later and said, “This is a mad idea...” And he literally wrote back with the subject line reading, “Holy fucking shit.” So we Zoomed three days later, and he said yes. And since then, every Friday, we go through the play, we do Shakespeare, and we’ve done that for the last six months without fail. He’s always there. He’s a theatre actor through and through, even though he’s doing two films at the moment, back to back — the one with Lin-Manuel, and the one with Dan Radcliffe. But he gets it, and he’s curious, and he’s passionate, and he has deep insight into the emotional lives of characters and plays.

The theme I’m loving exploring in the play is that there are all different kinds of love. People identify in all kinds of different ways in the play, but there’s a sort of subliminal message that says: we change. We’re not the same people throughout life. Things come in. We sometimes surprise ourselves with who we fall in love with. And whether you’re gay or straight or bi, or however you identify, you go for it. That’s all well and good. And if that’s important to you, say so. But there’s this other, greater thing, which is love, and we can’t predict where love goes. And that, I hope, is the joy this production will bring this autumn.

And that feels as Sondheimian as it does Shakespearean, doesn’t it?

Director and RSC Co-Artistic Director Daniel Evans and Tony Award-winner Jonathan Groff talk all things As You Like It. From remembering first experiences of Shakespeare, to how to pronounce 'Avon' and ramming goats!... Intrigued?

@atlantictheater Look who showed up...Just in Time! ✨ Thanks to Jonathan Groff for joining us at THE SAVIORS and celebrating this incredible cast.

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