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A Busy and Rewarding Musical Life for Paul Williams

Songwriter Extraordinare and president of ASCAP talks about the music biz, Streisand and Emmy nomination. (more...)

Sheridan Smith & Duncan James to Star in UK Legally Blonde; Previews Start December

Tickets for Legally Blonde The Musical, which has its press night at the Savoy Theatre on 12 January 2010, go on sale to the public today. (more...)

Catherine Zeta-Jones to Star in 'Cleo' New Musical Film, Jackman in Negotiations

Entertainment tonight is reporting that Catherine Zeta-Jones, who last sang on the big screen (and picked up an Oscar) in CHICAGO is now set to star in the title role of 'Cleo' in the new film. The musical film, set in the 1920s tells the story of Cleopatra, Antony and Ceasar. (more...)

West End Rent's Joanne: Francesca Jackson

In a Broadwayworld.com exclusive, hot budding star Francesca Jackson, set to play lesbian lawyer Joanne opposite Denise van Outen's Maureen in the upcoming West End "Remix" of Rent, talks to Robert Gould about her career and her role in the Jonathon Larsen musical. (more...)

As I walk into the dark and slightly unsettling North London pub I scan the room for the type of person who'd play the role of 'The Elephant Man'. Marc Pickering is the actor I'm here to meet, but the grey hair atop the balding heads around me suggest he's upstairs rehearsing. With less than two weeks before the play hits the West End, it's not surprising the cast are busy. The story of the severely deformed John Merrick is a well known one and director Bruce Guthrie and his cast have a challenge ahead of them. (more...)

Catherine Zeta Jones to Play Rose in New Gypsy Film?

Is a second film version of Gypsy on the way...with Oscar-winner Catherine Zeta Jones as ultimate stage mother Rose? (more...)

BroadwayWorld Turns its Spotlight on 'High School Musicals'

In light of the recent phenomenal success of Disney's High School Musical, BWW decided to go on a journey of its own into the world of "High School" musicals with 18 stars. (more...)