Ricki Lake News

“The Travel Mamas' Guide” is for anyone who wants to see the world, experience new cultures, and maybe even indulge in a spa treatment or margarita (or two!) while traveling with children. To commemorate the book's launch, one lucky visitor to TravelMamas.com will win a copy of the guide plus a $250 Residence Inn by Marriott gift card.

Human Behavior Expert and psychologist Dr. Wendy Walsh, known as 'America's Relationship Expert' for taking scientific research and evolutionary psychology and applying it to the everyday woman, will be on ABC's 'The View' tomorrow, Wednesday, April 17th LIVE from New York at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT to discuss her new book, The 30-Day Day Love Detox (Rodale Books; $15.99; paperback original).

Nationally acclaimed dream expert Cynthia Richmond will be discussing the power of dreams, what dreams mean and dream interpretation at an exclusive engagement today, April 6, 2013 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Tubac Golf Resort & Spa. Richmond is a board-certified behavioral therapist, journalist, author, educator and speaker. Richmond's column, In Your Dreams, ran in the Los Angeles Times and the Arizona Republic for many years. During that time she read and categorized more than 55,000 dreams. Richmond hosted a daily NBC cable program, State of Mind, for two years and has been a guest on Oprah, Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, Entertainment Tonight, Politically Incorrect, The View, Leeza, the Ricki Lake Show and more.

Director, writer, actor, and originator of the Hairspray dynasty John Waters returns to the Harris Theater on May 21 to perform his critically acclaimed one-man show, This Filthy World. Updated and expanded from the original film version by the same name, the man affectionately known as "The Pope of Trash" presents this hilarious evening focusing on his early negative influences, fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy, extremes of the art world, Catholicism, sexual deviancy, and his love of reading. This is Waters' second visit to the Harris after his sold-out show in 2010.

Nationally acclaimed dream expert Cynthia Richmond will be discussing the power of dreams, what dreams mean and dream interpretation at an exclusive engagement on Saturday, April 6, 2013 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Tubac Golf Resort & Spa. Richmond is a board-certified behavioral therapist, journalist, author, educator and speaker. Richmond's column, In Your Dreams, ran in the Los Angeles Times and the Arizona Republic for many years. During that time she read and categorized more than 55,000 dreams. Richmond hosted a daily NBC cable program, State of Mind, for two years and has been a guest on Oprah, Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, Entertainment Tonight, Politically Incorrect, The View, Leeza, the Ricki Lake Show and more.

Nightlife impresario Daniel Nardicio brings Liza Minnelli and Alan Cumming to the Manhattan stage for the first time when the two perform live at Town Hall tonight, March 13, and tomorrow, March 14. This is a transfer of their two sold-out shows in Fire Island. The concert takes place a day after Minnelli's 67th birthday.

Rosie O'Donnell and her partner Michelle became parents to a newborn just over a month ago. In the video below, the comedian and former 'The View' host opens up to Ricki Lake about motherhood, being a gay parent and how times have changed since she first became a parent two generations ago.

CBS announced today that it would not be renewing its Syndicated freshman series THE JEFF PROBST SHOW for a second season.

Almost twenty-five years to the day John Waters' iconic film was released, the Kean Department of Theatre will present the Tony Award-winning musical adaptation of Hairspray from Friday, February 22nd to Saturday, March 2nd in Kean University's Wilkins Theatre. Featuring music by Mark Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Mr. Shaiman, and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, Hairspray is based on Mr. Waters' popular 1988 comedy of the same name, and received its Broadway premiere on August 15, 2002. Hairspray ran for nearly six-and-a-half years on Broadway (over 2,500 performances), and collected an unprecedented thirteen Tony Award nominations in 2003, going on to win in eight categories (including Best Musical), the most wins by any production nominated that year. It has subsequently toured throughout the United States and received several high-profile international productions, including a successful run in London's West End in 2008 that garnered a record eleven Laurence Olivier Award nominations, ultimately winning four awards (including Best New Musical). In 2007, a second feature film adaptation of Hairspray - based on the original film and Broadway musical - was released, starring John Travolta and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Nightlife impresario Daniel Nardicio is bringing Liza Minnelli and Alan Cumming to the Manhattan stage for the first time when the two perform live at Town Hall on Wednesday, March 13, and now Thursday, March 14 (just added!). This is a transfer of their two sold-out shows in Fire Island. The concert takes place a day after Minnelli's 67th birthday.

Twentieth Television has officially pulled the plug on The Ricki Lake Show after one season, the studio announced today.

'From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook' will take place 7:00 pm tonight, January 28, 2013, at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut. The evening will be a concert of love and healing for the Newtown community from the composers, musicians and more than 100 stars of Broadway together with over 100 students from several Newtown dance groups and the Newtown High School Chamber Choir. All proceeds and donations will go directly to United Way of Western Connecticut's Sandy Hook School Support Fund.

"From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook" will take place 7:00 pm on January 28, 2013, at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut. The evening will be a concert of love and healing for the Newtown community from the composers, musicians and more than 100 stars of Broadway together with over 100 students from several Newtown dance groups and the Newtown High School Chamber Choir. All proceeds and donations will go directly to United Way of Western Connecticut's Sandy Hook School Support Fund.

The cast of Fiction by Stephen Dietz, which is receiving its regional premiere at Actors' Summit, features two of the theater's regular company members and one newcomer.

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center presents what could easily be the gayest night of comedy ever. One of the stars of LOGO's The Big Gay Sketch Show (Julie Goldman) teams up with the cult superstar "The Gay Pimp" (Jonny McGovern, also of The Big Gay Sketch Show) at the Center's Renberg Theatre on Friday, Jan. 19, at 8 p.m. Net proceeds will benefit the full range of the Center's free and low-cost programs and services.

Live at The RRazz, San Francisco's premier nightclub, will present DONNELL RAWLINGS with his hit comedy show "From Ashy to Classy… Live & Uncut" from January 25 to January 27. With his firm grasp of the outrageous, Donnell (HBO's "The Wire") was born to make people laugh. He grabbed America's funny bone on "Chappelle's Show" with characters like Ashy Larry and the distinctively jheri-curled Beautiful. Now Donnell goes even further, taking on the entire American culture with impersonations of everybody from Michael Jackson (RIP) to Barack Obama, and bringing his audience to tears with his razor-sharp insights and fearless observations.

Don't miss this over-the-top stage adaptation of the show that single-handedly revived the cocktail - 'the cosmopolitan'...and premarital sex! Velvet Rage Productions presents: Sex and the City: LIVE! Featuring San Francisco's finest drag performers in two episodes each night. The show runs for an open-ended engagement, every Wednesday night beginning tonight, January 16, 2013 at 7 and 9 p.m. at the Rebel in San Francisco.