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Entertainment Tonight sat down with Meryl Streep, the star of 'Julie & Julia,' and Streep explained what it was like to play the larger-than-life, culinary legend Julia Child. You can watch the clip right here on STAGE TUBE.

AMERICAN IDOL 8 season eight runner-up Adam Lambert talked to MTV News about his upcoming debut album.

On July 31, 2010, Ravinia Festival will honor great American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim on the occasion of his 80th birthday, with an all-star cast of soloists who have been featured in Ravinia's musical initiative. The evening reunites the on-stage and behind-the-scenes talents that created Ravinia Festival's acclaimed productions of the Sondheim shows A Little Night Music, Passion, Sunday in the Park with George, Anyone Can Whistle, Sweeney Todd and Gypsy, among others. Highlights of these musicals will be presented by Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Michael Cerveris and George Hearn, under the baton of Paul Gemignani and the direction of Lonny Price.

Tampabay.com reports the news that IN THE HEIGHTS star Janet Dacal will play the leading role of Alice in the upcoming Wonderland, the Frank Wildhorn musical which is inspired by Alice in Wonderland and is slated to premiere at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in December. Other casting for the musical includes Karen Mason, Nikki Snelson and Eugene Fleming.

The American Film Institute has launched a new video portal on AFI.com featuring hundreds of videos from its AFI Archive.

Variety reports that 'Smoking Bloomberg,' the musical farce that had an Off-Broadway 2006 NYMF run, is being adapted into an animated project.

MTV is reporting that Neil Patrick Harris will provide the voice for the Music Meister, a brand-new villain created specifically for 'Batman: The Brave and the Bold.' Harris' character will appear in an episode called 'Mayhem of the Music Meister!,' set to debut during Comic-Con International.

On Friday, July 17th 2009, creator and star of the international hit show Puppetry of the Penis, Simon Morley welcomed the next generation of penis puppeteer into the world. Brando Barbieri Morley was born at 9:45UK time at Hereford County Hospital, he weighed in at 7.14lbs, and it is safe to say, the Penile Empire has a successor! News of Brando's birth is testament to the fact that the art of genital origami is safe, and presents no long term damage.

'Monty Python's Spamalot,' the popular musical lovingly ripped-off from the internationally famous comedy team's most popular motion picture, 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail,' openedCenter Theatre Group's 2009-2010 at the Ahmanson Theatre of the Los Angeles Music Center on July 7th. 'Monty Python's Spamalot' plays through September 6, 2009.

Goodman Theatre is proud to present the Chicago premiere of Dael Orlandersmith's Stoop Stories, September 12 - October 11, 2009 the Goodman's 400-seat flexible Owen Bruner Theatre. Tickets are $10 - $40 and go on sale Friday, August 7 at GoodmanTheatre.org.

Rosie O'Donnell tells Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson that she loves the Oxygen reality show 'Dance Your Ass Off' - and that she wants to join a celebrity version of it.

Due to overwhelming critical acclaim and box office demand, Victory Gardens Theater is extending its current smash hit drama Blackbird, starring William L. Petersen and Mattie Hawkinson, through August 16th.

Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, announces complete casting, as well as dates, for the first two productions of its upcoming 2009/2010 Season. Presented at the theater company's home at 416 West 42nd Street, the previously-announced productions will feature the following casts:

The Playwrights Realm - under the leadership of Co-Artistic Directors John Dias and Katherine Kovner and Producing Director Stephanie Ybarra - and the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts present the 2009 WRITERS JAM SESSION - a week of readings by emerging artists, featuring such acting talents as Tovah Feldshuh (IRENA'S VOW, GOLDA'S BALCONY), Michael Cumpsty (DEMOCRACY, COPENHAGEN), Mather Zickel ('Rachel Getting Married,' 'I Love You, Man'), etc. free and open to the public - at the NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program Center (113 2nd Avenue, between 6th and 7th Streets). For reservations please email jd1429@nyu.edu.

Emmy Award winner Michael Emerson ('Lost') and Emmy and Tony nominee Roger Rees ('...Nicholas Nickleby', Indiscretions) to join Tony Award winners Michael Cerveris (Sweeny Todd) and Randy Graff (City of Angels) and Tony nominees Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent, Les Miserables), Celia Keenan-Bolger (Spelling Bee), Michael Rupert (Falsettos, Legally Blonde), Stephen Bogardus (Love! Valour! Compassion!), Liz Callaway (Baby) and Gavin Creel (Hair) for 'Broadway Stands up for Freedom!,' a benefit concert to support the youth programs of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Variety reports that Warner Bros.' 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' made nearly $400 million in its worldwide debut, earning the title of the biggest overseas opening of all time at $237 million and grossing $159.7 million domestically.

The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Oscar nominee and 2001 Tony winner Viola Davis is negotiating to take a featured role in Columbia Picture's 'Eat, Pray, Love' opposite Julia Roberts and Richard Jenkins. Scheduling is being worked out for the actress to join the production.

Variety reports that Sony Pictures is close to making a deal to create a feature film on Michael Jackson's nearly 80 hours of rehearsal footage filmed for concerts the late singer was preparing to perform in London.

Gotham Chamber Opera, in partnership with the American Museum of Natural History and in association with American Repertory Theater, presents Il mondo della luna (The World on the Moon) by Joseph Haydn, in a new production staged by Diane Paulus, director of Hair, which received the 2009 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.

NBC News' TODAY show host Meredith Vieira will sit down with Susan Boyle in her first interview since she became an instant and much beloved global singing phenomenon on 'Britain's Got Talent.'