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NBCUniversal announced today that Jeff Shell has been named Chairman, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. In his new role, Shell will oversee worldwide operations for the motion picture group including its global theatrical and home entertainment businesses.

NBCUniversal announced today that Jeff Shell has been named Chairman, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. In his new role, Shell will oversee worldwide operations for the motion picture group including its global theatrical and home entertainment businesses.

54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, has announced plans to augment its diverse programming with a varied new series of in-house productions including a new interview series, a new musicals-in-concert series (following-up on the success of the club's wildly successful High Fidelity in Concertevent), and a program for new composers. The venue will continue to present its popular Sondheim Unplugged series featuring some of Broadway's brightest stars sharing performances and behind-the-scenes anecdotes from their favorite Sondheim musicals.

Jennifer Hudson, Academy award winner and star of Bishop T.D. Jakes' new film, 'Winnie Mandela,' is slated to appear at the International Faith and Family Film Festival in Dallas

Syfy has inked actors Chris Diamantopoulos (Broadway's 'The Full Monty', 'Les Miserables') and Jake Sandvig for starring roles in HIGH MOON, a 90-minute pilot

TriArts Sharon Playhouse, under the leadership of Alice Bemand Executive Director and John Simpkins Artistic Director, presents Neil Simon and Marvin Hamlisch's award-winning musical comedy They're Playing Our Song, with performances tonight, July 19 through 28. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

TriArts Sharon Playhouse, under the leadership of Alice Bemand Executive Director and John Simpkins Artistic Director, is pleased to present Neil Simon and Marvin Hamlisch's award-winning musical comedy They're Playing Our Song, with performances July 19 through 28.

Murray Guy presents Utopian Benches, a new project by Francis Cape, on view today, June 27 through August 2, 2013, with an opening and book launch set for tonight, the 27th from 6 to 8 p.m.

Murray Guy presents Utopian Benches, a new project by Francis Cape, on view June 27 through August 2, 2013, with an opening and book launch set for the 27th from 6 to 8 p.m.

TGC Productions, producer of CIRQUE MUSICA - a concert and visual experience for the entire family -- has announced a new creative collaboration with Debbie Gibson. Ms. Gibson will compose two new original songs for the new touring circus-style show, which performs with a full symphony orchestra. Traveling with the show to perform her new numbers is up and coming new talent Ali Isabella, a 2012 top 100 selection of The New Music Seminar's 'Artist On The Verge' chart.

Fourteen-time Grammy Award-winning artist Alicia Keys has partnered with Prizeo, the new celebrity charity-fundraising digital platform, to raise money and awareness for Keep a Child Alive (KCA).

The Wende Museum recently acquired a significant collection of early post-Soviet stock vouchers, privatization certificates, and Ponzi scheme coupons that dominated alternative currencies of the early 1990s in Russia. Vouchers and certificates, given to workers at the various factories and collectives as ownership shares, were bought or otherwise obtained by Russian businessmen who would be become known as The Oligarchs, including Mikhail Chernoi , Oleg Deripaska, Boris Berezovsky, and Roman Abramovich.

Today, Saturday 15 June 2013, The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation announces a new round of funding, continuing the charity's work to support established and exceptional projects that provide young people with opportunities to engage in the arts.

The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation announces a new round of funding, continuing the charity's work to support established and exceptional projects that provide young people with opportunities to engage in the arts.

The Agency Group, one of the world's leading entertainment booking agencies, has announced the hire of top theatrical agent Simma Levine as Director of Theatrical Properties and Special Ventures. Ms. Levine's high-profile and distinguished pedigree in music and theatre make her the ideal executive to preside over The Agency Group's theatrical division.

According to The Wrap, Jerry Bruckheimer and Walt Disney Stuidos are facing a law suit over possible copyright infringement for the popular film adventure series PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN.

'Gossip is the lube by which this town slips it in.'

If Betty Comden and Adolph Green were both born in Bombay, Singin' In The Rain might have wound up resembling The New Group's new musical, Bunty Berman Presents….  Not that Ayub Khan Din (book, music and lyrics) and Paul Bogaev's (music) Bollywood-set musical comedy is on the same level as that masterwork, but the spirit of silly 1950s MGM hijinks abounds throughout the evening.  It's got laughs, it's got tunes and it offers a fun, mindless time.

I suppose Richard Foreman doesn't have many talkbacks after performances of his plays because, really, how many times can you respond to an audience member asking, 'What the f***?'

Univision Communications Inc., the leading media company serving Hispanic America, today announced it has made a strategic investment in El Rey Network, the new general entertainment