Old Globe's 2009 Summer Festival Continues With TWELFTH NIGHT 7/1July 1, 2009The Tony Award®-winning Old Globe continues its 2009 Summer Shakespeare Festival with Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT, a delightful tale of wild infatuation and mistaken identities. The production debuts tonight in the Globe's outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre.
Photo Tribute: Remembering Fred TravalenaJune 30, 2009Fred Travalena, the master impressionist and singer whose vast repertoire of voices ranged from Jack Nicholson to Sammy Davis Jr. to Bugs Bunny, has died. He was 66.
Photo Tribute: Gale Storm RememberedJune 30, 2009Gale Storm, who was one of early television's biggest stars on 'My Little Margie' and 'The Gale Storm Show,' passed away this past Saturday, June 27th at age 87.
Photo Flash: Justina Machado Joins IN THE HEIGHTSJune 30, 2009Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller and Jill Furman, the producers of the 2008 Tony Award-winning Best Musical In The Heights, announced the news that Justina Machado has joined the production in the role of 'Daniela' for 8 weeks only from Monday, June 29, through Sunday, August 23, 2009 at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 West 46th Street).
Susan Boyle To Meet 'UGLY BETTY'?June 30, 2009Sources to the UK SUN are reporting that Britian's Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle is set to join the cast of hit series Ugly Betty. According to reports, the Scottish singer, 48, has been offered a cameo in the ABC comedy.
Stiles And Pullman To Spar In Mamet's OLEANNA On Broadway, Previews Begin 9/29June 30, 2009Producer Jeffrey Finn announced today that OLEANNA, the provocative drama by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet, will have its first-ever Broadway production as part of the 2009-2010 Broadway Season. Starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles and directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes, the play is a gripping account of a power struggle between a male university professor and one of his female students.
Photo Flash: Jennifer Holliday Sings With The Gay Men's Chorus of Los AngelesJune 30, 2009Gay men and showtunes? Who knew? It could happen. In fact, it did, as the Tony Award and Two-Time Grammy Award-Winning actress and ultimate DREAMGIRL, Jennifer Holliday, joined the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles in a very special engagement consisting of both classic and recent musical numbers that have defined the boards of the Great White Way.
THE COLOR PURPLE With Fantasia Barrino Begins Kennedy Center Performances 6/30June 30, 2009The Kennedy Center recently announced a one week and final extension for the touring production of THE COLOR PURPLE. The musical will now run in the Opera House June 30 through August 9, 2009. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker and the film by Steven Spielberg, Fantasia Barrino reprises her critically acclaimed role as Celie in the Kennedy Center performances of THE COLOR PURPLE.
ET Reveals First Photo Of Parker And Broderick's Beautiful Twins June 30, 2009Entertainment Tonight obtained a family photo of the couple is showing off their twin baby girls. In the photo, Sarah Jessica and Matthew are each holding one of their new daughters -- Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge. The twins' 6-year-old brother James Wilkie affectionately looks over one of his baby sisters.
STAGE TUBE: CollegeHumor's WEB SITE STORYJune 30, 2009WEB SITE STORY is described as 'Take the famous ballads and duets of West Side Story, insert a dozen mentions of famous social media sites like twitter and facebook, and this is what you get. Keywords: twitter, facebook, eharmony, pandora, social networking, dating online, spoof, west side story, maria, tony.'
Clark To Step Down As Artistic Director Of Hampstead TheatreJune 30, 2009Anthony Clark announced today, Tuesday 30 June, that he will be stepping down as Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre in January 2010, Clark, who joined Hampstead Theatre shortly after its move into the new building in Swiss Cottage, has been with the company for seven years and will remain at the helm to the end of the 50th Anniversary Season.
STAGE TUBE: Broadway's HAIR Cast Honors Michael Jackson On GMAJune 29, 2009The entire cast and all-star band of HAIR, the Tony-Award Winning Best Musical Revival, performed live on the 'Good Morning America' Summer Concert Series segment on Friday, June 26th, in Central Park. In this STAGE TUBE clip, the HAIR cast pays tribute to Michael Jackson by singing the late pop music icon's song, 'I'll Be There', on the telecast.