Marilyn Monroe News

A Brit's take on American legend Marilyn Monroe has a further international feel-with Australian soap star Katy-May Hudson playing the screen icon in the New York premier of Mirror, Mirror, and featuring at this year's Midtown International Festival.

The popular Cabaret Soiree season commences next month DownStairs at the Maj, sizzling hot with national and local acts to blow you away from Thursday 15 August to Saturday 5 October 2013. This eight week season plays every Thursday & Friday at 7.30pm and Saturday at 6.30pm.

ENIGMA, an immersive theatre experience that celebrates the historically rich culture and mystery of the brownstone-beautied neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, debuts this summer in New York City. ENIGMA is an interactive, migrating mystery theatre performance that leads audiences on a clue-laden journey throughout Brooklyn Heights, and uncovers the seemingly sleepy neighborhood as a place of spellbinding mystery, magic, and intrigue. ENIGMA opens today, July 12, and runs Todays through Sundays through October.

According to DNAinfo.com, the $22 million estate of DAMN YANKEES composer Richard Adler is at the center of a tax dispute between his widow and only son, neither of whom wants to pay the estimated $1 million owed in state taxes and other costs.

Abstract Sentiment Theatre Company, founded by Artistic Director Viktoria D. King, presents its first production of the 2013 Season. 'Legacy: Marilyn Monroe meets Shakespeare ' by Viktoria Dana King, will run tonight, July 11- July 13th, 2013 at the Alchemical Theatre Laboratory Studio B in New York City.

Sugar, a hilarious Tony-nominated musical comedy based on the classic film Some Like It Hot, is the next show in the 2013 Music Circus season, at the Wells Fargo Pavilion from July 23 - 28. Like the 1959 film starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, Sugar follows the hysterical antics of two male musicians, disguised as women in an all-female band, as they experience a series of mishaps while fleeing from the mob. The brassy score is by Jule Styne(music) and Bob Merrill (lyrics), composers of the hit musical Funny Girl.

Profiles in History, run by Joe Maddalena, hosts today's July 10th, 'Rare Books & Manuscripts Auction,' in Los Angeles. Highlights from the upcoming auction are detailed below:

ENIGMA, an immersive theatre experience that celebrates the historically rich culture and mystery of the brownstone-beautied neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, debuts this summer in New York City. ENIGMA is an interactive, migrating mystery theatre performance that leads audiences on a clue-laden journey throughout Brooklyn Heights, and uncovers the seemingly sleepy neighborhood as a place of spellbinding mystery, magic, and intrigue. ENIGMA opens Friday, July 12, and runs Fridays through Sundays through October. Performances run every half hour, from 12:00pm - 4:30pm, with a runtime of 2 hours. Tickets are $60 and can be purchased at www.showclix.com/event/3768465 (group rates available). For further show information, please visit www.enigmatheshow.com

The original 'James Bond' Walther gun used in Octopussy will be going up for auction later this month at Profiles in History's Hollywood Auction on July 29th, 2013.

He met Marilyn Monroe. He became obsessed with Norma Jean Baker. And that changed everything. The El Portal Theatre will present a poignant, compelling, and shocking tale of unrequited love, centered around the last month's of Marilyn Monroe's life as told in first-person by the man who lived it, and confirmed by excerpts from Marilyn's diary. Frank V. Furino's 'Marylin ... MADNESS & Me,' starring Trevor Peterson and introducing Bonnie Gilgallon, who brings the essence of Marilyn to life, puts a revealing spotlight on a career that has mesmerized the world for generations.

Back on April 1, when he posted his third compilation of delayed cabaret reviews from shows staged during the winter, BroadwayWorld.com's lead New York cabaret reviewer promised Number 4 would come with arrival of summer. Okay, so he missed his self-imposed deadline by a couple of weeks. but here's yet another catch-up column with critiques of a half dozen spring shows performed by Bryan Batt, Dawn Derow, Lynly Forrest, Dennis McNeil, Anastasia Barzee, and Nina Hennessey.

The most comprehensive collection of signature costumes from The Sound of Music will be going up for auction later this month. Profiles in History, run by Joe Maddalena, is thrilled to announce that these iconic costumes worn by Julie Andrews and the 'Von Trapp' children, will be on the auction block at their Hollywood auction on July 29th. The Sound of Music is the most successful movie musical in history which spawned some of the most beloved songs in the American songbook, including 'Edelweiss', 'Do-Re-Mi', 'Sixteen Going on 17', and 'My Favorite Things.'

Abstract Sentiment Theatre Company, founded by Artistic Director Viktoria D. King, presents its first production of the 2013 Season. 'Legacy: Marilyn Monroe meets Shakespeare ' by Viktoria Dana King, will run July 11- July 13th, 2013 at the Alchemical Theatre Laboratory Studio B in New York City.

ENIGMA, an immersive theatre experience that celebrates the historically rich culture and mystery of the brownstone-beautied neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, debuts this summer in New York City. ENIGMA is an interactive, migrating mystery theatre performance that leads audiences on a clue-laden journey throughout Brooklyn Heights, and uncovers the seemingly sleepy neighborhood as a place of spellbinding mystery, magic, and intrigue. ENIGMA opens Friday, July 12, and runs Fridays through Sundays through October.

Anna Nicole Smith proves again to be larger than life. Saturday's world premiere of the Lifetime Original Movie Anna Nicole (#AnnaNicole), telling the rags-to-riches story of the iconic supermodel who captured the world's attention with her beauty and unconventional lifestyle, averaged 3.3 million Total Viewers, a 57% jump vs. the network's 2013 year-to-date original movie average and its most watched original movie since November. The film also performed well across all key demographics, becoming this year's number one original cable movie premiere among Adults 25-54 (1.6 million), Adults 18-49 (1.4 million), Women 25-54 (1.2 million) and Women 18-49 (1.1 million) - representing a Lifetime best in the four demos since Steel Magnolias last October. Anna Nicole secured a 2.6 Household rating, according to Nielsen Research.

After recently announcing over 200 hours of original programming, Ovation, America's only arts network, has additionally acquired all episodes of critically acclaimed series SMASH from NBCUniversal Cable & New Media.

It's the jacket from the 'King of Cool' that continues to define men's fashion to this day. Profiles in History, run by Joe Maddalena, is proud to announce the premiere male wardrobe piece of the 20th Century will be on the auction block at their Hollywood Auction on July 29th.

A new series of Mystery Girl a.k.a. 'Bubblehead' street art by artist Mike McNeilly has just been created on the streets of L.A.

June 1913. Sarah Bernhardt wowed New York with the splashy premiere of her new motion picture, The Romance of an Actress, an adaptation of Adrienne Lecouvreur, the play she starred in at New York's Booth Theatre during her first American tour in November 1886. Fast forward. June 2013. Carol Dunitz channels Sarah Bernhardt at the Metropolitan Room in the one woman muscial, 'Bernhardt on Broadway' today, June 23, 2013 at 4:30 PM.