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THE RIVER opens tonight, Nov. 16, at Circle in the Square (50th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue). BroadwayWorld brings you the reviews in real time below!

THE RIVER opens tonight, Nov. 16, at Circle in the Square (50th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue).

THE RIVER opens tonight, November 16, at Circle in the Square (50th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue), where it will play a strictly limited 13-week engagement through Sunday, January 25, 2015. Scroll down to learn more about the full cast, and watch interviews with the company below!

Time Out NY theatre critic David Cote just wrote an exasperated column chastising cell-phone-wielding, exclamation-making, question-asking, Hugh-Jackman-oggling audience members at Jez Butterworth's THE RIVER. His main message: STFU.

Whether you've been living under a rock for the past week or you're just in the mood for a recap, BroadwayWorld's 'This Week in Pictures' is here to satisfy your end-of-the-week fix! Take a look below to catch up on the latest happenings from the Great White Way to The West End (and everywhere in between) with coverage of press events, rehearsals, opening nights and more. Highlights this week include Jack O'Brien at 54 Below, Emma Stone's Broadway debut in Cabaret, the first preview of THE ELEPHANT MAN, and more!

In an all-new video, Hugh Jackman, the cast and the creative team behind Jez Butterworth's new Broadway play, THE RIVER discuss bringing the show to Broadway.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? This weekend's big news: A CHRISTMAS STORY heads out on tour today, and Signature's OUR LADY OF KIBEHO and Broadway's THE RIVER open Sunday night!

Broadway sound designers and others just submitted a petition with 32,495 signatures asking the Tonys committee to reverse its decision to eliminate the sound design category. Now, The New York Times reports that the administration committee, though it is sticking to its 'carefully studied decision' for the current 2014-15 season, has asked the rules committee to review the petition.

On ABC's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE, actor Christoph Waltz performs his interpretation of the Sesame Street theme song. Check out the theatrical performance below!

As previously reported, the Tony Awards Administration Committee determined that Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical Categories would be eliminated from the established list of competitive categories, beginning with the 2014-2015 season. According to The New York Times, Broadway sound designers have just submitted a petition with 32,495 signatures asking the Tonys committee to reverse its decision at its meeting this Thursday, November 13.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: BILLY ELLIOT dances onto the big screen, GRAND CONCOURSE opens off-Broadway and more!

THE RIVER is currently in previews at Circle in the Square (50th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue), where it will play a strictly limited 13-week engagement through Sunday, January 25, 2015. A new play by Jez Butterworth, The Riverstars Hugh Jackman, Laura Donnelly andCush Jumbo and is directed by Ian Rickson. The production will open on Sunday, November 16 at the Circle in the Square Theatre (50th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue). BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the cast in action below!

This weekend, Tony Award-winning Director Jack O'Brien celebrated his 'Diamond Jubilee' by taking to the stage of 54 Below with his show 'I've Still Got My Health, So What Do I Care?' Scroll down for photos from the concert!

Award-winning cabaret artist Tomas Ford promises to leave audiences shaken, stirred and thoroughly entertained when he brings his hit Edinburgh Fringe spy thriller The Final Chase to the Butterfly Club on Wednesday 19th November-Sunday 23rd November.

Scott Hart, renowned producer, director and actor brings the hit show, 'A Christmas Story - The Musical' to the Barn Theatre in Montville from November 21st through December 13th.

Jackman cut his finger while gutting a trout during last night's performance of Jez Butterworth's new play, and continued to bleed from the injury for the next hour of the show.

Rentrak (RENT), the leader in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced the top 20 digital movie purchases and rentals based on consumer transaction rate. The report includes Internet Video on Demand (iVOD) and electronic sell-through (EST), for both standard-definition and digital HD movie purchases and rentals.

From Broadway debuts to stage veterans, this season is swarming with big screen stars. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you the backstory on this year's film-to-stage transplants. Scroll down to learn more, and be sure to let us who you're most excited to see on the Great White Way, plus which actors you'd like to make the leap!