Martha Stewart News

Join pop culture humorist and author Charles Phoenix for a laugh-out-loud funny celebration of 1950s and '60s car culture, space age suburbia, fast food stands, shopping centers and drive-ins, Hollywood landmarks, Knott's Berry Farm, Marineland, Disneyland - and much, much more. Charles Phoenix's Retro Southern California Slide Show, a comedy performance about mid-century Americana, comes to the James R. Armstrong Theatre in Torrance on Saturday, March 12 at 8 pm.

Join pop culture humorist and author Charles Phoenix for a live performance and book signing, and celebrate mid-century car culture, trailer life, air travel, space age suburbia, roadside attractions, World's Fairs, Palm Springs, Disneyland, and much more.

Hallmark Channel announces the January 31 launch of 'Martha Bakes,' a Hallmark Channel Original Series based on a lifetime of research and baking techniques perfected by Martha Stewart. In this new weekly program, the first ever to feature Martha demonstrating one specific culinary discipline, home bakers will get the tools they need to create the finest desserts and baked goods in their own kitchen. The 13-episode series for the 'Hallmark Channel Home' block will air Mondays at 11:00 a.m. ET/PT, 10C.

Hallmark Channel announces the January 31 launch of 'Martha Bakes,' a Hallmark Channel Original Series based on a lifetime of research and baking techniques perfected by Martha Stewart. In this new weekly program, the first ever to feature Martha demonstrating one specific culinary discipline, home bakers will get the tools they need to create the finest desserts and baked goods in their own kitchen. The 13-episode series for the 'Hallmark Channel Home' block will air Mondays at 11:00 a.m. ET/PT, 10C.

Celebrity master chef Emeril Lagasse has received a greenlight from Hallmark Channel for a new daily cooking show. The show, which will be produced in association with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc., will premiere in the fourth quarter of 2011 as a part of the 'Hallmark Channel Home' daytime block. The deal was announced today at a session of the Television Critic's Tour (TCA) in Los Angeles.

Photos from the Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures reception at The Museum of Modern Art on December 14, 2010 in New York City.

Dream Dinners, the country's leading meal assembly service, today announced partnerships with New York Times Best Selling cookbook authors Jessica Seinfeld and Bob Greene, offering customers an easy way to share the celebrities' recipes with their families in the coming months.

Photos of celebrities attending Paul McCartney plays World Famous Apollo Theater for first time, celebrating 20 Million Sirius XM Subscribers at The Apollo Theater on December 13, 2010 in New York City.

Paul McCartney performs at the World Famous Apollo Theater for the First Time, Celebrating 20 Million Sirius XM Subscribers at The Apollo Theater on December 13, 2010 in New York City.

The international hit comedy, MY MOTHER'S ITALIAN, MY FATHER'S JEWISH & I'M IN THERAPY! featuring Ron Tobin, will make its Philadelphia premiere at the Society Hill Playhouse for a 12-week engagement beginning Sept. 22 - Dec. 12. The official press opening will be Sat. Sept. 25 at 8:00 pm.

BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance proudly presents LOS NUTCRACKERS: A CHRISTMAS CARAJO, written by Charles Rice-González and directed by Jorge Merced. The play, returning to BAAD!'s stage for the seventh triumphant year, interweaves two holiday classics, The Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol, and creates a queer, Latino play about a gay couple who go on a psychedelic trip through their lives one Christmas Eve. The play will be presented on December 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 and 11 at 8pm at BAAD!, 841 Barretto Street in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx. Tickets are $20 for shows on Wednesdays and Thursdays and $25 for shows on Fridays and Saturdays with discounts for seniors, groups and Bronx residents offered for all shows. For reservations call 718-842-5223 or visit www.BronxAcademyOfArtsAndDance.org. BAAD! can be reached by the #6 train to Hunts Point Avenue.

Talk Show Listings for Monday, December 6, 2010.

Talk Show Listings for Monday, December 6, 2010.

Cameron Mackintosh's 25th Anniversary production of Les Misérables, presented by The Paper Mill Playhouse, has finally hit the friendly American shores after touring Britain, and perhaps symbolic of its Atlantic crossing is the new opening picture devised by co-directors Laurence Conner and James Powell.  Sure, 24601 (a/k/a Jean Valjean) is still a prisoner in chains for the crime of stealing a loaf of bread for his starving sister and her family, but he and his fellow inmates are now rowing oars on a galley ship.  The music (Claude-Michel Schonberg) and words (Herbert Kretzmer, based on the original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel) of this world-famous adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel, set against the backdrop of Paris' 1832 student revolution, are unchanged, but the new locale not only starts the evening off with a visually striking image, but signals to the musical's two-and-a-half decades worth of fans that this will not be just another variation of the original Trevor Nunn/John Caird production they are accustomed to.  (A production that can still be enjoyed on the West End.)

Multi-talented actor, singer, writer and producer, Alan Cumming, got a lesson on multi-tasking on today's edition of THE MARTHA STEWART SHOW (Hallmark Channel, 10 AM ET/9 AM C - same day encore airing, 2 PM ET/next day airing, 1 PM ET) when he joined Martha in the craft room to create a Sweetgum Fruit Wreath.

While there's certainly plenty to enjoy in the new musical version of Pedro Almodóvar's 1988 film, Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown - David Yazbek's jaunty Latin-based score, the winning performances of a star-studded cast (three Tony winners and four other nominees) and the kinetic flashiness of Bartlett Sher's kicky production - the show is also a prime example of how the sum of the pieces can add up to more than the whole when the missing ingredient is a strong book.  Not that the talented Jeffrey Lane doesn't make a game try at it.  Sticking closely to the source, his work is frequently clever and he and Yazbek concoct some quirkily fun musical scenes, but the odds are working against him in this one.

BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance proudly presents LOS NUTCRACKERS: A CHRISTMAS CARAJO, written by Charles Rice-González and directed by Jorge Merced. The play, returning to BAAD!'s stage for the seventh triumphant year, interweaves two holiday classics, The Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol, and creates a queer, Latino play about a gay couple who go on a psychedelic trip through their lives one Christmas Eve. The play will be presented on December 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 and 11 at 8pm at BAAD!, 841 Barretto Street in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx. Tickets are $20 for shows on Wednesdays and Thursdays and $25 for shows on Fridays and Saturdays with discounts for seniors, groups and Bronx residents offered for all shows. For reservations call 718-842-5223 or visit www.BronxAcademyOfArtsAndDance.org. BAAD! can be reached by the #6 train to Hunts Point Avenue.

BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance proudly presents LOS NUTCRACKERS: A CHRISTMAS CARAJO, written by Charles Rice-González and directed by Jorge Merced. The play, returning to BAAD!'s stage for the seventh triumphant year, interweaves two holiday classics, The Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol, and creates a queer, Latino play about a gay couple who go on a psychedelic trip through their lives one Christmas Eve. The play will be presented on December 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 and 11 at 8pm at BAAD!, 841 Barretto Street in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx. Tickets are $20 for shows on Wednesdays and Thursdays and $25 for shows on Fridays and Saturdays with discounts for seniors, groups and Bronx residents offered for all shows. For reservations call 718-842-5223 or visit www.BronxAcademyOfArtsAndDance.org. BAAD! can be reached by the #6 train to Hunts Point Avenue.

BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance proudly presents LOS NUTCRACKERS: A CHRISTMAS CARAJO, written by Charles Rice-González and directed by Jorge Merced.

The following guests are set to appear on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' this week: