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BroadwayWorld just met the cast and you can check out an exclusive interview with choreographer Scott Ambler below! Scott is Associate Director of Matthew Bourne's New Adventures. His performing work includes: The Car Man (UK tour/Old Vic season/European/US tours), Cinderella (West End/L.A), Swan Lake(Sadler's Wells/UK tour/L.A/ Broadway/Dominion), Highland Fling(UK/European tours/Donmar season), Nutcracker! (Sadler's Wells/UK tour). TV and film credits include: The Car Man, Swan Lake, Roald Dahl's Little Red Riding Hood, Drip: A Love Story, OK2. As Matthew Bourne's Assistant his work includes: Peer Gynt (RSC Barbican), Oliver! (London Palladium), staging of Swan Lake section in Billy Elliot (Working Title), My Fair Lady (National Theatre and Theatre Royal Drury Lane), South Pacific and Play Without Words (National Theatre).

BroadwayWorld just met the cast and you can check out an exclusive interview with Mark Campbell, who plays the Phantom, below! Mark was most recently seen in the world premiere musical of Treasure Island. He has toured the country clad in spandex covering all three fathers in the National Tour of Mamma Mia!and in a pinstriped suit in the National Tour of Guys & Dolls. He has performed in regional theatres across the country in a wide range of roles from Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to El Gallo in The Fantasticks. Favorite roles include Beast (Beauty and the Beast), Sky (Guys & Dolls), Kent (King Lear), Harold Hill (The Music Man), Higgins (My Fair Lady) and many others, but he doesn't want to bore you.

Happy Birthday Jackie Hoffman! Hoffman was seen on Broadway as Grandma in The Addams Family. Her other Broadway credits include Xanadu and Hairspray (for which she received the Theatre World Award). Off-Broadway she has been seen in Regrets Only, Pride & Joy, Book of Liz (Obie Award), Straightjacket, Incident at Cobbler's Knob, and One Woman Shoe. Regional credits include Second City (Jeff Award), Sisters Rosensweig.

Patrick Stewart, who stars opposite Ian McKellen on Broadway in Harold Pinter's NO MAN'S LAND and Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT just visited 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart', where he addressed a controversy surrounding an Internet photo of him in full lobster garb, and talked 'Waiting for Godot' and 'No Man's Land.'

The New Group launches its 2013-2014 season with the New York premiere of the Geffen Playhouse production of The Jacksonian, by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley. Directed by Tony Award winner Robert Falls, this production features Ed Harris, Glenne Headly, Amy Madigan, Bill Pullman and Juliet Brett. Opening was Thursday night, November 7, and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there to chat with the whole gang at the after party. Check out what they had to say below!

The centerpiece of BBC AMERICA's celebrations of Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary is Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor, written by Steven Moffat. The Doctors (Matt Smith and David Tennant) embark on their greatest adventure across space and time. In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him. Starring Matt Smith, David Tennant, Jenna Coleman, with Billie Piper and John Hurt.

We have a real treat for you today! Tituss Burgess, star of TV's '30 Rock' and well-known for his original roles in Broadway musicals like Guys and Dolls and Disney's The Little Mermaid, is also an extremely talented singer/songwriter. We were lucky enough to hear him perform his song 'I'll Be Alright' at our concert at the Canal Room. Now, we are thrilled to share it on Broadwayworld.

The hit musical comedy Murder For Two just transferred to New World Stages in a limited engagement following rave reviews and a twice-extended, sold-out run at Second Stage Theatre Uptown. Murder For Two features book and music by Joe Kinosian, book and lyrics by Kellen Blair and direction by Scott Schwartzand stars Jeff Blumenkrantzand Brett Ryback. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you an exclusive first look at the show's 'Flyer Story' series. Check out Part 3 below!

The hit musical comedy Murder For Two just transferred to New World Stages in a limited engagement following rave reviews and a twice-extended, sold-out run at Second Stage Theatre Uptown. Murder For Two features book and music by Joe Kinosian, book and lyrics by Kellen Blair and direction by Scott Schwartzand stars Jeff Blumenkrantzand Brett Ryback. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you an exclusive first look at the show's 'Flyer Story' series. Check out Part 2 below!

The New York premiere of Becoming Dr. Ruth, a warmhearted, candid and inspiring comedy starring Debra Jo Rupp, ('That 70's Show') written by Mark St. Germain and directed by Julianne Boyd is currently playing off Broadway at the Westside Theatre. BroadwayWorld brings you highlights of Debra Jo Rupp in action below!

On the heels of A Midsummer Night's Dream's opening at the Theatre for a New Audience, director Julie Taymor was today introduced into MAKERS, adigital platform developed in partnership by AOL and PBS which aims to be the largest and most dynamic collection of women's stories ever assembled. Internationally acclaimed for her bold and original imagination, Taymor excites audiences and inspires women through her aversion to risk and willingness to break barriers on- and off-Broadway, for which she is being recognized. This ongoing initiative showcases thousands of compelling stories from more than 200 trailblazing women - both known and unknown - who are firsts in their fields, visionary role models or frontline activists who sparked, and some who opposed, change for women.

New York Theatre Workshop presents What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined, music by Burt Bacharach; lyrics by Hal David and others; musical arrangements by Kyle Riabko; conceived by Kyle Riabko and David Lane Seltzer; directed by Steven Hoggett, beginning performances Tuesday, November 19 at 7pmat NYTW, 79 East 4 Street, between Bowery and Second Avenue. Opening night is set for Thursday, December 5 at pm. What's It All About? is scheduled to run through Sunday, January 5, 2014. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was in rehearsal with the cast and you can check out a sneak peek below!

Kate Baldwin just visited 'Good Day NY' where she performed 'I Don't Need a Roof' accompanied by Andrew Lippa. Check out her full appearance below!

Can't get enough of Patti LuPone? A documentary following the legendary performer has just been released on Youtube, titled 'Entrances, Exits, and Everything In Between.' Creator Josh Johnston writes: 'What she and I have collaborated on is our effort to show aspiring performers and fans of the arts what it's like in the shoes of a veteran of the craft: everything from the Sunset lows to the Rainbow Highs of performing, Patti LuPone has seen and lived it all.' Check out the sixth episode below!

Let's see what the critics had to say...

Today in 2011, Godspell opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre, where it ran for 264 performances. Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since.The structure of the musical is that of a series of parables, based on the Gospel of Matthew (though three of the parables featured are recorded only in the Gospel of Luke). These are then interspersed with a variety of modern music set primarily to lyrics from traditional hymns, with the passion of Christ treated briefly near the end of the performance.

Producers Jayson Raitt, Barbara Whitman, Steven Chaikelson and Second Stage Theatre present Murder For Two, currently playing Off-Broadway at New World Stages - Stage 5 (340 West 50th Street). Direct from a critically-acclaimed, sold-out run at Second StageTheatre Uptown (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director, Casey Reitz, Executive Director and Christopher Burney, Curator and Associate Artistic Director), Murder For Two began performances at New World Stages - Stage 5 on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 and officially opens tonight, November 6, 2013.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Norm Lewis, Jeremy Jordan, Cyrille Aimee and Bernadette Peters will star in Stephen Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis's A BED AND A CHAIR: A New York Love Affair, a new musical event featuring Sondheim's music arranged and performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. The cast met the press earlier today and you can check out what they had to say about the special show and catch a performance preview below!

Broadway favorite Marc Kudisch stars as madman 'Jack Torrance' in REDRUM- and unauthorized musical parody of The Shining. Written and directed by Joe Lovero, the musical features music by Jon Hugo Ungar. For additional information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/redrummusical

Directed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (Contact, The Producers, The Scottsboro Boys), with music and lyrics by Grammy and Tony Award nominee Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party, The Addams Family), and a book by Grammy and BAFTA Award nominee John August (Frankenweenie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Big Fish is currently playing at the Neil Simon Theatre (250 West 52nd Street). Check out a just-released television spot for the musical below!