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Jacob Langfelder presents Broadway the Hardway's Spring Break Festival featuring SKY-PONY with Special Guest Grace McLean, THE DEAFENING, and BRENDAN MACLEAN with Emmy Winner Lance Horne. The concert will be presented at 42West. The concert takes place Thursday, May 21st, 2015 beginning at 7pm and will feature original video graphics mapped on New York City's largest indoor LED wall.

The two-time Tony Award winning hilarious hit comedy 39 Steps just opened last night, April 13th at the Union Square Theatre (100 East 17th Street). The cast of 39 Steps features original Broadway cast member Arnie Burton as Clown #2, as well as Billy Carter as Clown #1, Broadway vet Robert Petkoff as the dashing hero Richard Hannay, and Brittany Vicars as Pamela/Annabella/Margaret in her New York City stage debut. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the red carpet below!

This past Saturday, March 28th, 2015, Fuerza Bruta marked its 2,500th performance in New York City. The cast celebrated on the steps of the Daryl Roth Theatre with impromptu food fight. Scroll down for photos!

THE HAT, which opened at the Santa Fe Playhouse on March 12, is a personal and highly original tale, dealing with some of the lesser known human stories of world war II. Written by Santa Fe playwright, Dianna Lewis, the play is grounded in historical fact. While the details of this particular story are fictional, the circumstances under which it unfolds are shockingly real.

Catch up on the week's biggest stories from Broadway and beyond in BroadwayWorld's 'This Week in Pictures,' featuring coverage of press events, rehearsals, opening nights, and more. Highlights this week include coverage of the 10th annual BROADWAY BACKWARDS, a sneak peek of 'The Untold Story of The Sound of Music' with Julie Andrews, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME at Paper Mill Playhouse, and more!

The 10th anniversary of Broadway Backwards capped off an exuberant, exhilarating and emotional evening of performances on Monday, March 9, 2015 with news that this year's event raised a record $466,717 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS andThe Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. Scroll down for photos from the show!

Thomas Haden Church and Molly Shannon have signed on to star in the HBO comedy pilot DIVORCE.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that ABC has ordered several more pilots -- from Shondaland, Fake Empire, Dan Savage and Chevy Chase.

Tickets ($49, $69, $79 and $149) go on sale Friday, January 23 at 10 a.m. and can be purchased at OlympiaEntertainment.com, The Fox Theatre and Joe Louis Arena box offices, Hockeytown Authentics in Troy (without service charge) at all Ticketmaster locations and Ticketmaster.com. To charge tickets by phone, call (800) 745-3000. For additional information, call (313) 471-6611.

Broadway Pops International (BPI) presents BROADWAY FAVORITES, the Annual New Year's Eve Spectacular with the Long Island Philharmonic starring BPI Artists Marie Danvers (The Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story), Bradley Dean (The Last Ship, A Little Night Music), Jessica Phillips (Leap of Faith, Next to Normal), and Sal Viviano (City of Angels, Falsettos), alongside maestro David Stewart Wiley.

MCC THEATER has announced initial casting for the New York premiere of Jennifer Haley's The Nether directed by Anne Kaufman.

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: Bette Midler releases her new album IT'S THE GIRLS, BY THE WATER begins off-Broadway and more!

On Sunday October 12th, Broadway Star- Lindsay Mendez taught a one day musical theatre master class at the Broadway Workshop in New York City.

ONCE star Laura Dreyfuss has been cast in the role of new Lima Ohio resident 'Madison.'

The season two finale of "Something New' has been released digitally today on iTunes, Stitcher, and TuneIn. On August 25th, the musical theatre podcast went to 54 Below to wrap up the season with a special live concert. Award-winning songwriter and host Joel B. New invited some of his favorite guests to join him and bring his songs to life onstage.

The film also includes outstanding additional cast including Corey Stoll ('House of Cards,' 'The Bourne Legacy'), Bobby Cannavale (Broadway's 'Big Knife', 'Danny Collins,' 'Annie,' 'HBO's 'The Long Play'),

LezCab (www.lezcab.com), the only cabaret series by, for, and about queer women, is singing DUETS! How often do you hear two women profess their love in song? Not enough, right? Well come to LezCab Sings Duets! at the historic Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of the modern Gay Rights movement (read more: http://www.thestonewallinnnyc.com/StonewallInnNYC/HISTORY.html).

A slew of stars recently made their way to the Golden Theatre to check out the Tony-nominated Mothers and Sons, starring Tyne Daly, Frederick Weller, Bobby Steggert and Grayson Taylor. Last night, George Takei, Sara Gilbert, and Billy Porter stopped by, and you can check out photos from backstage below!

This past weekend CARRIE: The Musical returned to NYC for a sold out run at Baruch Performing Arts Center. Carrie was produced by the Broadway Workshop as their 2014 Main stage production. Scroll down for photos of the cast in action!

With a name like Swoosie, she was destined to lead an interesting life. In PART SWAN, PART GOOSE: An Uncommon Memoir of Womanhood, Work, and Family (Perigee Hardcover; today, April 29, 2014; $25), award-winning actress Swoosie Kurtz gives a guided tour of her journey from Nebraska to the theater stages of Broadway and the television and movie screens of Hollywood.