Tyler Perry News

The Tony Award Winning duo David Bryan and Joe DiPietro, co-writers of MEMPHIS THE MUSICAL, were added to the Orpheum's famed 'Sidewalk of Stars' during a special presentation at the Orpheum Theatre on Saturday, April 27.

Artistic Director and award-winning solo performer Tracey Erin Smith has announced the programming for SoulOTheatre's inaugural SoulOTheatre Festival. Some of best solo performers from Canada and the United States take the stage from May 23-26 at the Red Sandcastle Theatre in Toronto's Leslieville. As well, the festival features a series of panels and workshops, with experts teaching the public how to do this work themselves.

The Tony Award Winning duo David Bryan and Joe DiPietro, co-writers of MEMPHIS THE MUSICAL, will be added to the Orpheum's famed 'Sidewalk of Stars' during a special presentation at the Orpheum Theatre on Saturday, April 27.

Fresh off the announcement of all-time high ratings and news of all-new episodes through July, The Wendy Williams Show continues to heat up.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University has announced that three-time Emmy Award-winning actor Bryan Cranston will play the lead role of Lyndon Baines Johnson in Robert Schenkkan's new play All The Way opening the A.R.T.'s 2013-14 Season at the Loeb Drama Center. The production, directed by Bill Rauch, will begin performances on September 13, 2013.

FX has closed a 10/90 deal with Lionsgate Television and Lionsgate's television distribution company Debmar-Mercury for the George Lopez half-hour sitcom Saint George, starring and co-created by Lopez, it was announced today by Chuck Saftler, Executive Vice President, FX Networks.

Eight-time Grammy winner and film/television sensation Gladys Knight and her famous soulful voice perform for the first time with Pacific Symphony during the orchestra's next Pops concert. For this concert, she'll be singing favorites such as 'Midnight Train to Georgia,' 'Every Beat of My Heart,' her James Bond single 'License to Kill' and 'I Heard it Through the Grapevine,' all backed by the lush sounds of the full symphony orchestra.

Three friends embark on a joyous journey of sisterhood, discovering their inner 'duende' through a flamenco class for middle-aged women. Heart Song, the newest comedy/drama from Stephen Sachs (Bakersfield Mist, Cyrano), opens at The Fountain Theatre on May 25 with Shirley Jo Finney (In the Red and Brown Water) directing and choreography by internationally renowned flamenco dancer Maria "Cha Cha" Bermudez.

Rentrak Corporation(RENT), the global leader in box office measurement, today announced the worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of April 14, 2013 as compiled by the company's Box Office Essentials and International Box Office Essentials theatrical measurement services.

The '2013 MTV Movie Awards' will exclusively debut the never-before-seen official teaser trailer for the long awaited second installment of Lionsgate's Hunger Games film franchise, THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE, LIVE tonight, April 14 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.

Comedians Gary Owen, Lil Duval and Michael Blackson will appear live tonight, April 13, 2013, at 8:00 p.m. at the Morris Performing Arts Center.

OWN will premiere the new series LOVE THY NEIGHBOR on May 29th at 9/8c from Tyler Perry Studios. Diner owner and feisty family matriarch Hattie Mae Love (Patrice Lovely, "A Madea Christmas") has her hands full not only managing her customers but her family drama, too.

From prolific writer, director, producer Tyler Perry, THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS is a new television drama which follows the complicated dynamic between the rich and powerful Cryer family and the hired help who work in their opulent mansion set in Savannah, Georgia.

MTV announced today that the '2013 MTV Movie Awards' will exclusively debut the never-before-seen official teaser trailer for the long awaited second installment of Lionsgate's Hunger Games film franchise, THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE, LIVE on Sunday, April 14 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.

NAACP Award nominee Orlando Jones will now play the role of Mabel 'Madea' Simmons in the next installment of the Madea franchise entitled 'Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas'. He replaces creator Tyler Perry, who is focusing on the partnership between his company and Oprah Winfrey's struggling OWN network that was announced last October.

Rentrak Corporation(RENT), the global leader in box office measurement, today announced the worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of March 31, 2013.

La Jolla Playhouse announces a special engagement of Steppin' Out with Ben Vereen as part of its cabaret series, running tonight, March 29, 2013 at 8:00 pm, Saturday, March 30 at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm and Sunday, March 31 at 2:00 pm. The four performances will take place in the Playhouse's specially-designed performance space in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre, created by the Playhouse's scene shop artisans for the theatre's 2011, 2012 and 2013 Galas.

Closing African-American Shakespeare Company's 2012-13 season is William Shakespeare's THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, directed by Becky Kemper. THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR reunites audiences with the ever-merry, ever-scheming character Sir John Falstaff from Shakespeare's history plays King Henry IV, Part 1 and King Henry IV, Part 2, this time at the center of a comedy of his own. THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR plays May 4 through May 26 (press opening: May 4) at the Buriel Clay Theater at the African American Art and Culture Complex in San Francisco.

The Los Angeles Times today announced the program schedule for the 18th annual Festival of Books, the largest and most prestigious public literary event in North America. The free-to-the-public weekend of activities has become an L.A. institution, evolving to encompass more than 400 award-winning and celebrity authors and chefs, local musicians, political experts and entertainers engaging in stimulating debates, the exploration of entrepreneurial ideas and revelry under the California sun.