Barbara Walters News

Past and present cast members of the Tony Award®-winning musical Rent, including Idina Menzel, Anthony Rapp, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Tracie Thoms, Eden Espinosa, Adam Pascal and Gwen Stewart, will appear on SIRIUS' Broadway's Best channel for a week-long celebration of the show's final week on Broadway.

Lin-Manuel Miranda will visit the SIRIUS' Rumbon channel to talk about his hit Tony Award winning show, In The Heights, and discuss his inspiration for his Broadway debut.

Spike Lee -- the director of such memorable films as 'Inside Man,' the upcoming 'Miracle at St. Anna,' (release 9/26/08), 'Do The Right Thing,' 'Malcolm X,' and 'She's Gotta Have It,' -- will direct a film of the award-winning Broadway musical PASSING STRANGE, it has been announced by Steve Klein, who is a co-producer of PASSING STRANGE on Broadway and will produce the film with Mr. Lee.

SAM HARRIS lands at Birdland July 30th 2008 through August 2nd 2008 with showtimes at 7:00p.m., as part of the long-running, Nightlife Award-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland. Accomplished actor, singer, songwriter, soon-to-be talk show host and brand new father, Sam Harris, brings a new show to Birdland, featuring songs from his new CD entitled Free, which is slated for release this summer.

Spike Lee -- the director of such memorable films as 'Inside Man,' the upcoming 'Miracle at St. Anna,' (release 9/26/08), 'Do The Right Thing,' 'Malcolm X,' and 'She's Gotta Have It,' -- will direct a film of the award-winning Broadway musical PASSING STRANGE, it has been announced by Steve Klein, who is a co-producer of PASSING STRANGE on Broadway and will produce the film with Mr. Lee.

This morning the Daytime Emmy Nomination List was released.The 35th Annual 2008 Daytimes Emmy Awards will be held on Friday June 20th, 2008 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. ABC will be broadcasting the ceremony.

Internationally renowned pianist Byron Janis celebrates his 80th birthday in grand style with two special events in March at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center

Cameron Mathison, star of 'All My Children' and a most recent 'Dancing with the Stars' contestant, has been named as host the fourth annual 'ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' benefit, Sunday, March 2 at 7:30 pm at Town Hall

Sherri Shepherd, co-host of ABC's 'The View,' flies high above the glorious orchestra of Disney's New Amsterdam Theater, the current home of Mary Poppins, for a segment scheduled to air on 'The View' on Tuesday, December 18 (11AM-12noon) on the ABC Television Network.

Academy Award-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) made it on the list of 'Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2007,' to air on ABC on Thursday, December 6.

Ben Affleck and Christine Quinn were honored by PFLAG NYC for contributions to LGBT Equality at the 27th Annual PFLAG NYC Awards Dinner on Monday, October 8 at the Tribeca Rooftop. Merrill Lynch, ABC News '20/20' and NYPD LGBT Liaison Unit also received awards. The Gala Dinner was hosted by Christopher Sieber, film, television and stage actor and Kathryn Erbe, actress in NBC's 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent.'

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Opera, and New York City Opera will present A Tribute to Beverly Sills, a free public event dedicated to the memory of the great soprano, on September 16 at 5PM at the Metropolitan Opera. Sills, one of the most popular figures in the history of opera and a champion of the performing arts, died on July 2, 2007 at the age of 78.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Opera, and New York City Opera will present 'A Tribute to Beverly Sills,' a free public event dedicated to the memory of the great soprano, on September 16, 2007

Billy Crystal, who won the Tony award last year and broke box office records with his Broadway hit 700 Sundays, won the Helpmann award for Best Special Event for the one-man show.

Oscar-winning film, stage and TV star Whoopi Goldberg (film: Ghost, The Color Purple; Broadway: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) has been confirmed as the new moderator of ABC's 'The View'

Oscar-winning film, stage and TV star Whoopi Goldberg is currently the top candidate to replace Rosie O'Donnell on ABC's 'The View'

Rosie O'Donnell will play Pauline, 'the tart-tongued, wisecracking maid' in Encores!' upcoming production of the classic 1925 musical No, No Nanette, while Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole will take on the role of stage diva Margo Channing in Applause, the 1970 Charles Strouse-Lee Adams musical based on All About Eve.

Rosie O'Donnell will chronicle a contentious and much-publicized year in a new memoir.

Rosie O'Donnell has announced an early departure from the morning ABC talk show 'The View,' according to ABC News.

Film, TV and theatre luminaries attended the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity Award Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on May 20th.