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Variety is reporting that Idris Elba has been cast on the hit NBC TV show, 'The Office' as a new rival to the show's star (and regional manager) Steve Carrell. Just like his new co-star, Melora Hardin who's currently on Broadway starring in Chicago, Idris Elba has also worked on the stage, including leading roles in 'Coming Home,' an original play written by Oscar Watson and performed at London's Red Lion Pub Theater, and Sir Peter Hall's off-Broadway production of 'Troilus and Cressida,' receiving rave reviews for his portrayal of Achilles. Idris Elba is perhaps best known for his role as the calculating de facto leader of a Baltimore drug empire in HBO's critically acclaimed original series 'The Wire.' In 2005, he received an Image Award nomination for his work on the series. Also for HBO, Elba starred in the movie 'Sometimes In April,' from director Raoul Peck. Set during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, the movie marked his first film starring role. Elba played a Hutu soldier who tries to save his Tutsi wife and family, earning another Image Award nomination for his performance.

For the role of prolific nonfiction writer James Reston, Jr., the author of 13 books, including 'The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews' (which recounts the author's time spent as the prime Watergate researcher on the Frost interview team), Howard would turn to Sam Rockwell.

As David Frost moved the role to film, however, he grew even more comfortable in Frost's skin. 'I've lived with this character for over a year, and the basics of the way I see him didn't really change from stage to film,' he notes.

Three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella is among the American theater world's greatest living actors. Though he gained recognition as a film star in the 1970s, the stage has always been his first love.

This fall, Tony Award nominated actor Keith Carradine (The Will Rogers Follies, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 'Nashville,' 'Dexter') returns to the New York stage in the New York premiere of Anthony Horowitz's acclaimed thriller, MINDGAME. Ken Russell, the celebrated director of the films Tommy, Woman In Love and The Boyfriend, makes his New York stage directorial debut with MINDGAME.

Emmy winner Rosie O'Donnell has signed on to star in and executive produce the poignant new Lifetime Original Movie, 'America,' premiering in February 2009. Based on E.R. Frank's book of the same name, the film follows the story of a boy named America, an emotionally vacant sixteen-year-old, who spent his entire life shuffled through the foster care system. O'Donnell stars as a therapist who gives America the support he needs to deal with his troubled past and helps him find the courage to live.

Tony nominated actor Keith Carradine stars in new psycho-drama directed by acclaimed film director Ken Russell.

This fall, Tony Award nominated actor Keith Carradine (The Will Rogers Follies, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 'Nashville,' 'Dexter') returns to the New York stage in the New York premiere of Anthony Horowitz's acclaimed thriller, MINDGAME. Ken Russell, the celebrated director of the films Tommy, Woman In Love and The Boyfriend, makes his New York stage directorial debut with MINDGAME.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the full company joining 3-Time Tony Award Winner Frank Langella as 'Sir Thomas More' in a new Broadway production of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, directed by Tony Award Winner Doug Hughes.

This fall, Tony Award nominated actor Keith Carradine (The Will Rogers Follies, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 'Nashville,' 'Dexter') returns to the New York stage in the New York premiere of Anthony Horowitz's acclaimed thriller, MINDGAME. Ken Russell, the celebrated director of the films Tommy, Woman In Love and The Boyfriend, makes his New York stage directorial debut with MINDGAME.

Due to the on-going Hollywood writers' strike, The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards NBC telecast and champagne dinner in The Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom was officially cancelled last week and instead the Hollywood Foreign Press Association revealed the winners during an hour-long HFPA press conference at The Beverly Hilton.

Due to the on-going Hollywood writers' strike, The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards NBC telecast and champagne dinner in The Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom is officially cancelled. Instead, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association today announced that the recipients of Golden Globe Awards in 25 categories will be revealed during an hour-long HFPA press conference at The Beverly Hilton to be covered live by NBC News beginning at 6PM PST on Sunday, January 13.

The movie musicals Hairspray and Sweeney Todd are among the nominees for the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

The limited Off-Broadway engagement of The Lady Swims Today concludes this Sunday, October 21. Robert Funaro ('The Sopranos') leads the cast of The Lady Swims Today, a new play by H.G. Brown, directed by Stephen Sunderlin at the TADA Theater (15 West 28 Street, between Broadway & Fifth Ave.) Also featured in the cast are Kelli K. Barnett, Vivienne Leheny, Jack Rodgerson, Rob Sheridan, Gordon Silva, and Kate Udall.

After opening this past Sunday in Off-Broadway's The Lady Swims Today, Robert Funaro was asked to be a guest on 'The Joey Reynolds Show' late-nite this Monday, October 1 at midnight. Since 1996, Joey Reynolds has hosted his enormously popular national overnight broadcast, which can be heard locally on WOR Radio 710AM or online at www.wor710.com.

After opening last night in Off-Broadway's The Lady Swims Today, Robert Funaro has been asked by fellow 'Sopranos' star Vincent Pastore to be a guest on 'The Wiseguy Show' this Wednesday, September 26. Pastore hosts 'The Wiseguy Show' which is broadcast live Wednesdays 6-9PM on Sirius Satellite Radio's Channel 104 and can be heard online at www.sirius.com. Robert Funaro is scheduled to go on the air at 6:20PM.

Robert Funaro leads the cast of The Lady Swims Today, a new play by H.G. Brown, directed by Stephen Sunderlin. Performances began September 13 at the TADA Theater, 15 West 28 Street (between Broadway & Fifth Ave.) The official opening night is Sunday, September 23.

Robert Funaro will lead the cast of The Lady Swims Today, a new play by H.G. Brown, directed by Stephen Sunderlin. Off-Broadway performances begin Thursday, September 13 at the TADA Theatre, 15 West 28 Street

Tony Award-winner Janet McTeer will be featured opposite Brendan Gleeson in 'Churchill at War,' the HBO Films/BBC Films follow-up to the earlier acclaimed Winston Churchill biopic 'The Gathering Storm.'

Orlando Bloom will star in David Storey's 'In Celebration' at The Duke of York's Theatre this Summer.