Tyler Perry News

In an exclusive interview with the 'Today' show's Al Roker this morning, Aretha Franklin revealed that she learned the news of Whitney Houston's death much the same way most of America did, on TV.

Miles College Presents An Evening With Bill Cosby Two Comedy Shows, One Night Only Hosted by Robin Givens on Friday, February 17, 2012 at The Historic Alabama Theatre located 1817 3rd Avenue North Birmingham, Alabama 35203, with the first comedy show starting at 6:00pm and the second comedy show starting at 8:30pm.

Academy Award-winning director, filmmaker, and executive producer George Lucas will be honored with the prestigious NAACP Vanguard Award Presented by UAW/Chrysler at the '43RD NAACP Image Awards,' broadcast live from Los Angeles' historic Shrine Auditorium on Friday, February 17 (8-10 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on NBC.

William Shatner will be appearing on ABC's talk show THE VIEW on Monday, February 20th. The actor's one man show, SHATNER'S WORLD: WE JUST LIVE IN IT is now running for a limited engagement on Broadway.

TBS has ordered 35 additional episodes of the top-rated sitcom Tyler Perry's FOR BETTER OR WORSE, which finished its first season as basic cable's #1 sitcom of 2011.

VH1's five-time Emmy-nominated documentary series BEHIND THE MUSIC returns to focus on six of today's most influential hip hop/urban artists. This season's roster includes: Pitbull, Game, T-Pain, Akon, Brandy and Nas.

After a sold out run of six performances in 2010, Madea returns to the Fox Theatre stage like never before in Tyler Perry's "Madea Gets a Job" Thursday, April 26 through Sunday, April 29.

Miles College Presents An Evening With Bill Cosby Two Comedy Shows, One Night Only Hosted by Robin Givens on Friday, February 17, 2012 at The Historic Alabama Theatre located 1817 3rd Avenue North Birmingham, Alabama 35203, with the first comedy show starting at 6:00pm and the second comedy show starting at 8:30pm.

The Lyric Theatre on N. La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles has announced a season of four plays for 2012, which will kick off February 10 with a new production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange, followed by two world premieres, Jupiter Zoom by Callie Kimball, and Feedback by Jane Miller, and concluding with Aftershocks by Doug Haverty.

Academy Award-winning director, filmmaker, and executive producer George Lucas will be honored with the prestigious NAACP Vanguard Award Presented by UAW/Chrysler at the '43RD NAACP Image Awards,' broadcast live from Los Angeles' historic Shrine Auditorium on Friday, February 17 (8-10 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on NBC.

Coinciding with National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (Feb. 7), Greater Than AIDS is debuting new public service ads (PSAs), coordinated social media posts and other messages from popular Black television and film actors, directors, producers, and others in Hollywood about the devastating effect of HIV/AIDS in the Black community.

Bailey Hanks is blonde. She's Beautiful. And she's here in the bay area reprising her role Elle Woods in the hit musical comedy Legally Blonde, the Musical! Hanks talked with BWW's Linda Hodges about what it was like to be in the MTV spotlight, how she handles the challenges in her life and what scrumptious thing she and Elle have in common - besides being blondes!

The following is BroadwayWorld's exclusive interview with theater, film, and TV legend, Mr. Ben Vereen...

The Clucked Up Comedy series brings "Clucked Up Saturday Night" to Detroit's intimate City Theatre on Saturday, March 24 starring comedian/actress Cocoa Brown (Tyler Perry's new sitcom For Better or Worse), Kevin "Damn Fool" Simpson ( Russell Simmons' The Ruckus comedic series) and featuring award-winning comedian Larry Lancaster (Baltimore's Funniest Comedian in 2010 and voted Best Comedian for 2011 DMV Awards). Hosted by Detroit's first lady of comedy, Simply Shanell, "Clucked Up Saturday Night" will take to the City Theatre stage for two performances at 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.

Grammy award-winning R&B superstar Mary J. Blige will appear and perform on February 2. And on February 3, international movie star Daniel Radcliffe and reality divas Snooki and JWoww of 'Jersey Shore' will drop by.

After 19-weeks running in 2011 in Los Angeles & Hollywood, actress/comedienne Sandy Brown (Hannah Montana, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Tyler Perry's House of Payne, Def Comedy Jam, Comics Unleashed) returns with her historical One-Woman show 'Oh, Yes She Did!', blazing the stage and 'breathing-to-life' powerful legacies of bold Black Women Pioneers whose triumphs over challenges changed the course of American History through the centuries, from the colonial frontier to modern times.

Kim Kardashian joins the cast of Lifetime's critically acclaimed Sony Pictures Television series 'Drop Dead Diva' for a multiple-episode arc beginning with the season premiere. The show's fourth season is set to begin filming in February, with new episodes premiering this summer.

After 19-weeks running in 2011 in Los Angeles & Hollywood, actress/comedienne Sandy Brown (Hannah Montana, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Tyler Perry's House of Payne, Def Comedy Jam, Comics Unleashed) returns with her historical One-Woman show 'Oh, Yes She Did!', blazing the stage and 'breathing-to-life' powerful legacies of bold Black Women Pioneers whose triumphs over challenges changed the course of American History through the centuries, from the colonial frontier to modern times ."WHIP-SMART, FUNNY and UPLIFTING!!!- 5-Stars!!!!"