Walt Disney News

Below, check out a first look at the teaser one-sheet for Disney's upcoming live-action re-telling of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, based on the animated classic which refashions the classic characters and musical numbers from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience.

Updated this week! Check out upcoming Equity Auditions from Sunday, July 3, 2016 for both productions in your area and around the country including what/when/where and how to audition!

Bergen Performing Arts Center located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey presents Michael Bolton-presented by Benzel Busch Motor Car Corp. - Thursday, August 11, 2016 at 8PM. Purchase tickets at www.ticketmaster.com or Box Office at 201.227.1030. 

BroadwayWorld has teamed up with renowned caricature artist Ken Fallin, a life-long theater enthusiast, who has drawn many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Below, check out his latest illustration, featuring Sunday's big Tony winner for HAMILTON, Lin-Manuel Miranda!

Proclaimed by the City of Los Angeles as "LA's Only Legal Orchestra," the Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic was founded by attorney/conductor Gary S. Greene.  The orchestra held its first rehearsal on January 19, 2009 with 30 legal musicians_and performed its debut concert on January 30, 2009. Since then, the orchestra has grown to 75 members and performed more than 40 concerts, raising more than tens of thousands of dollars to benefit those who cannot afford legal services and for other charitable purposes.

?The Dance Theatre of Orlando today announced full details of its next production, K.E.Y.S. - Kinetic Energy You Sacrifice, premiering July 15-17 at 8:30 p.m. at the ME Theatre.

The BFG soundtrack from Walt Disney Records will be available at physical and digital retailers, plus streaming services on July 1, 2016. 'The BFG' opens in U.S. theaters on July 1, 2016, the year that marks the 100th anniversary of Dahl's birth.

“WRECK-IT RALPH” is heading back to the big screen, and this time, he's wrecking the internet. The Oscar®-nominated Walt Disney Animation Studios team from the original film is reteaming for the follow-up, including director Rich Moore (“Zootopia,” “The Simpsons”) and producer Clark Spencer (“Zootopia,” “Bolt”).

?Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF will celebrate the glitz and glam of The Big Apple at its 28th Season Gala: New York, New York on Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. The glittering evening will feature tastings of Central Florida's finest food and beverages as well as a silent auction and raffle. Remaining tickets range from $150 - $250 per person and may be purchased by calling the Box Office at (407) 447-1700 ext. 1 or in person inside the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 East Rollins Street.

The Amazing Adventures of Harry Moon and Rabbit Publishers of Chicago IL have entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Anchor Distributors of Kensington, PA, a division of Whitaker House Publishing. All Harry Moon titles will now be available through the major channels across the trade. Rabbit publishes the high quality middle grade series The Amazing Adventures of Harry Moon.

The BFG soundtrack from Walt Disney Records will be available at physical and digital retailers, plus streaming services on July 1, 2016. 'The BFG' opens in U.S. theaters on July 1, 2016, the year that marks the 100th anniversary of Dahl's birth.

'OMOTENASHI Journey,' the new musical project written and directed by Noriko Sunamoto (Japanese Production of 'The Phantom of the Opera,' 'Wicked,' 'Mamma Mia!,' Off-Broadway's 'The Jackie Mason Musical') is planning to collaborate with an intellectual lecture event hosted by the New Greater Mensa on July 21st, 8-10pm.

The number of local artists participating in the benefit performance Beautiful Together, an artistic journey toward hope continues to grow.  

Song and dance man Dick Van Dyke made an appearance at Chicago's 'Creativity Days' family festival this weekend.

Updated this week! Check out upcoming Equity Auditions from Sunday, June 26, 2016 for both productions in your area and around the country including what/when/where and how to audition!

FINDING DORY, the long-awaited follow-up to the unbelievably beloved 2003 film FINDING NEMO, follows Dory, a good-natured, amnesiac blue tang fish (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres), as she searches for her long lost parents.

In its tenth anniversary season, THE CROSSING -- the extraordinary chamber choir from Philadelphia, dedicated to new music and conducted by Donald Nally -- has commissioned seven of the world's foremost composers to compose fifteen-minute musical responses to Dietrich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri (translated as 'The Limbs of our Jesus'), a monumental seven-part cantata cycle composed in 1680 and known as the first Lutheran oratorio.

Producers James L. Nederlander, Estefan Enterprises, Inc and Bernie Yuman just announced that acclaimed Puerto Rican performer Ektor Rivera - winner of the Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony and Simon Fuller reality series 'Q'Viva! The Chosen' - to make his Broadway debut as Emilio Estefan in ON YOUR FEET!, the new Broadway musical based on the life story of seven-time GRAMMY® winning international superstar Gloria Estefan and her husband, 19-time GRAMMY® winning producer-musician-entrepreneur Emilio Estefan. Rivera joins Theater World Award-winning Cuban-American actress Ana Villafañe, named one of The Hollywood Reporter's top Broadway Breakout Stars of the Year for her 'star-is-born, supernova debut' (Deadline) as Gloria Estefan.