Julia Roberts News

The LA Times reports that the highly anticipated big screen adaptation of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY may wind up with an all-new ending following initial audience reaction.

Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor and Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Tracy Letts were among those in attendance at the premiere of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY during the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The event was held at Roy Thomson Hall on Monday September 9 in Toronto, Canada. Check out more photos of the red carpet below!

Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor and Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Tracy Letts were among those in attendance at the premiere of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY during the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor and playwright Tracy Letts were among those in attendance at the premiere of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY during the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Below, check out photos from Gala Presentation!

BAFTA Los Angeles is pleased to announce that Benedict Cumberbatch will be the recipient of this year's BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year, presented at the annual gala ceremony in November.

According to Deadline, the in-demand actor has officially signed on to star in James Gray's upcoming film adaptation of David Grann's best-selling novel.

The biggest day of the year for Broadway fans will include one-of-a-kind opportunities to own a part of theatre history or to step into the footlights as Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS presents the 27th Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction (#bwayflea).

Lancome announced its partnership with highly celebrated fashion designer, Jason Wu. With a self-proclaimed adoration for women and enhancing the female form, his talent is a natural fit for Lancome, a brand symbolic of the ultimate in femininity with modern sensibilities.

The Wrap reports that Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) is in talks to adapt THE GRAPES OF WRATH for DreamWorks' new film version.

The Shopping Channel announced the prestigious addition of world-renowned fashion designer, author, actor, talk show host and reality star, Isaac Mizrahi to its roster of top fashion and accessory brands with Isaac Mizrahi Live!. Debuting Friday, Sept. 6 at 10 p.m. ET, only on The Shopping Channel, with a beautifully curated selection of apparel, footwear and accessories, Mizrahi will be joined by The Shopping Channel's expert on-air host Rachel Huber, as he welcomes Canadian women into his world of timeless, cosmopolitan style. Mizrahi's line will also be available online at theShoppingChannel.com.

Tony Award-winning playwright Larry Kramer is the recipient of the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career as well as a Master American Dramatist award

Fueled by love, anger, hope and pride, a circle of friends struggles to contain a mysterious disease ravaging New York's gay community. Simon Levy directs the exclusive Los Angeles revival of Larry Kramer's groundbreaking drama about public and private indifference to the onset of the AIDS crisis, and one man's fight to awaken the world to its urgency. The Normal Heart opens Sept. 21 at the Fountain Theatre.

X Factor finalist (and Broadway vet from both WONDERLAND and LES MISERABLES), Carly Rose Sonenclar, performs today, August 10, in New York City at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square as part of the Stand Up for a Cure 2013 Concert Series.

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA) presents its 23rd Annual Simply Shakespeare benefit reading of 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona,' September 25, 2013 at The Broad Stage, Santa Monica. The evening will feature a star-studded cast including Sir Paul McCartney, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson and William Shatner. Additional participants will be announced. Simply Shakespeare features a hilarious and entertaining evening of impromptu Shakespeare and song. All proceeds from the event support the SCLA and its arts based veterans employment and youth employment programs for inner-city youth and arts education in local schools.

Trinity Repertory Company, the State Theater of Rhode Island is proud to announce that three new company members have been added to their resident acting company roster - Mia Ellis, Rebecca Gibel and Charlie Thurston. All three performers are Brown/Trinity Rep MFA acting program graduates and no strangers to the Trinity Rep stage, having appeared in multiple productions over the past several seasons. The three join Trinity Rep's current resident acting company members: Stephen Berenson, Angela Brazil, Timothy Crowe, Mauro Hantman, Janice Duclos, Brian McEleney, Phyllis Kay, Anne Scurria, Barbara Meek, Fred Sullivan, Jr., Stephen Thorne, Rachael Warren, and Joe Wilson, Jr.

THE NORMAL HEART, Larry Kramer's autobiographical account of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the mid-eighties, is to play Amsterdam for the limited run of two weeks. The play, featuring a host of Dutch stage and screen actors, will be staged in the De La Mar theatre, opening today, July 30.

HBO has announced that BD Wong, Denis O'Hare, Joel Grey and Stephen Spinella have joined the cast of Ryan Murphy's upcoming film adaptation of Larry Kramer's THE NORMAL HEART. The historic drama is scheduled to premiere on the cable network in 2014.

'I had been traveling when Larry went into the hospital,' Webster told The Times. 'And when I was back and he was able to talk, he told me he had invited 20 people to the I.C.U. for the wedding. So it turned into a little party at his bedside.'

TimeLine Theatre Company continues its 2013-14 season with Larry Kramer's Tony Award-winning The Normal Heart. This first Chicago staging of the landmark play that 'blasts you like an open, overstoked furnace' (The New York Times) since the play's 2011 Broadway production is directed by five-time Jeff Award-winning director Nick Bowling, TimeLine's Associate Artistic Director. Check out the just released promotional shots below!