Julia Roberts News

The New York Musical Theater Festival and Aaron Glick present This One Girl's Story, a new musical with book by Bil Wright (LAMI Award Winning Playwright and Novelist) and music and lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney (TruPraise Gospel Ensemble).

Rubicon Theatre Company concludes its 2010-2011 Season with the premiere of ROBERT HARLING'S STEEL MAGNOLIAS, the much-loved play that explores the bonds of friendship and community, and the power of laughter to ease the burdens of troubled times.

Talk show listings for Monday, August 22.

Talk show listings for Monday, August 22.

Rubicon Theatre Company concludes its 2010-2011 Season with the premiere of ROBERT HARLING'S STEEL MAGNOLIAS, the much-loved play that explores the bonds of friendship and community, and the power of laughter to ease the burdens of troubled times.

In a recent interview with Deadline.com, GLEE creator revealed that Julia Roberts might be on board for the upcoming bg screen adaptation of THE NORMAL HEART. Murphy commented: 'Then The Normal Heart is the thing that I'm going to do next. I optioned it and there's a brilliant script that Larry Kramer wrote and I'm going to do that with Mark Ruffalo and maybe Julie Roberts. I believe in that play.'

Brett Ratner and Don Mischer will produce the 84th Academy Awards telecast, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak announced today. This will be Ratner's first involvement with the Oscar show; Mischer will for the second year in a row serve as a producer and as the telecast director.

According to Deadline.com, both Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro are in talks to join the cast of The Weinstein Company's 'Silver Lining's Playbook.' The film is based on a novel by Matthew Quick, and will be directed by David O Russell.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced The Old Globe's presentation of a developmental workshop of Allegiance - A New American Musical.

According to published reports, Broadway veteran Bradley Cooper will star in the upcoming film, Paradise Lost, directed by Alex Proyas. Cooper will play Lucifer in this film adaptation of John Milton's classic poem.

Goodman Theatre Artistic Director RoRobert Falls announced today that he will direct bert Falls The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O'Neill's epic portrait of hope and disillusionment, running April 22 - June 10, 2012 in the Albert Theatre. Falls' major revival features Tony Award-winning stage and screen stars Nathan Lane Nathan Lane as hardware salesman and pipe dreambuster Theodore 'Hickey' Hickman, and Brian Dennehy Brian Dennehy as one-time syndicalist-anarchist Larry Slade. Hailed by The New York Times as a 'ferocious American classic that has lost none of its power,' The Iceman Cometh marked Falls' and Dennehy's first O'Neill collaboration at the Goodman in 1990-a production which featured Dennehy in the role of Hickey.

Karen Ziemba is set to lead the Cape May Stage production of Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias, which will run August 3 through September 10. Also set to star in the show are Ellen Dolan, Nicole Lowrance, Kate McCauley Hathaway, Marlena Lustik and Meredith Riley Stewart.

NBC announced that its new game show 'It's Worth What?' will premiere on Tuesday, July 12 (8-9 p.m. ET) featuring host Cedric 'The Entertainer' ('The Steve Harvey Show,' 'The Original Kings of Comedy').

Weekend movie box office estimates: July 1-3, 2011.

The Costa Mesa Playhouse is serving up a southern slice of life that's as warm and comforting as sweet potato pie with its production of Robert Harling's heartwarming play Steel Magnolias, closing July 3. The show is directed by Jason Holland.

LARRY CROWNE writer/director/producer/cast member Tom Hanks; cast members Julia Roberts, Bryan Cranston, Cedric the Entertainer, Taraji P. Henson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wilmer Valderrama, Pam Grier, Rita Wilson, George Takei, Ian Gomez, Rami Malek and Maria Canals-Barrera; writer Nia Vardalos; producer Gary Goetzman; executive producers Philippe Rousselet, Steven Shareshian, Jeb Brody, Fabrice Gianfermi and David Coatsworth