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LOS ANGELES — Even if you’re trying to put the squeeze on a ballooning TV watchlist, consider the pedigree of NBC’s Rise: It’s from the Friday Night Lights producer who created Parenthood and a producer of Broadway’s Hamilton.

Are creative artists merely highfalutin con men and women? In his edgy show True Crime — now at the Belfry Theatre’s Spark Festival — actor-playwright-musician Torquil Campbell makes the case for this provocative notion.

Headliners for the TD Victoria International Jazz Festival were finalized this week, with Macy Gray, Morgan James and Jameson Ross, GoGo Penguin and the Jerry Douglas Band added to the bill for the festival’s 35th edition.

REVIEW Gringo Where: Cineplex Odeon Westshore Starring: David Oyelowo, Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton Directed by: Nash Edgerton Parental advisory: 14A Rating: 1 1/2 stars out of four A mild-mannered middle-management stooge gets los

REVIEW A Wrinkle In Time Where: Cineplex Odeon Victoria, Cineplex Odeon Westshore, Landmark Cinemas University Heights, SilverCity Imax, Star Starring: Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling, Reese Witherspoon Directed by: Ava DuVernay Parental advi

LOS ANGELES — Members of the team behind the new ABC police procedural, Deception are calling the show “Magician: Impossible.

Eight-time Juno Award winner Tom Cochrane and Red Rider will be part of the grand opening of the expanded Elements Casino in View Royal on May 5.

SAN FRANCISCO — A 19th-century statue that has been described as degrading to Native Americans will be removed from its public spot near San Francisco’s City Hall, joining a growing list of historic markers being ousted under pressure from the U.S.

Exhibit running to Sept. 9 includes 100-plus works by Spanish painter, all done in 1932

NEW YORK — Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 70th birthday is coming up and it turns out there is something the composer really wants on his special day — more work.