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In this edition of IN FOCUS, host Eden Lane meets Tony Award-winning playwright Eve Ensler ('The Vagina Monologues') and Queen of Krump Miss Prissy. The women appeared at LOCAL Theater Company's special event 'Body of Work' - an eclectic evening of words, dance and music revering the body. Click below to hear what they had to say!

When I Grow Up is a 'docu-comedy' that charts one young woman's journey into and out of mental health issues. Following a critically acclaimed season at Edinburgh Fringe 2013, the show premieres in Australia at Adelaide Fringe and comes to Melbourne International Comedy Festival straight after.

The four-time Emmy winner David Hyde Pierce stopped by to talk with Tavis Smiley about his latest projects, including directing the L.A. production of the Tony-winning VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, as well as the possibility of acting in the show in London. Pierce told Smiley: 'And in the fall the plan is to take Vanya to London, the original production, and I'll go back to acting in it.' Watch the full interview below!

Warner Bros. Pictures will release WINTER'S TALE, written and directed by Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman ('A Beautiful Mind') and based on the novel by Mark Helprin, today, February 14, 2014. Watch the trailer below!

Off-Broadway's award-winning Irish Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere production of the new musical TRANSPORT. With a book by world-renowned Australian author Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List, the acclaimed book on which the Oscar-winning film is based) and music and lyrics by Larry Kirwan (founder of the iconic New York City band Black 47), TRANSPORT follows the uneasy ocean voyage of Irish women who were sentenced and then exiled to the relatively uninhabited south coast of Australia in the mid-19th Century. Go behind the scenes with the cast in the video below!

Edinburgh Univeristy Footlights present the SCOTTISH PREMIERE of Lin-Manuel Miranda's multi-award winning musical, In The Heights, running today, 11th - 15th February at the Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh. Click below for a sneak peek at highlights of the cast in rehearsal!

Get a first look at official footage from the 10th Anniversary Concerts of the Boy George musical TABOO, which reunited members of the original Broadway cast at 54 Below on February 7 and 8, 2013 (ten years to the day of the final New York performance). Click below!

Beloved stage and screen star Debra Monk celebrates her 65th birthday February 24, 2014, in a free-wheeling rock 'n' roll concert produced by and benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. In the behind-the-scenes video below, Debra Monk and Andrea Martin take us into the rehearsal room and explain what it means to be 'totally hot and a little dirty.' Click below!

After a sold-out run at the Canal Room, 'The TRL Generation' brought its wildly successful 'Broadway Loves the Spice Girls' concert uptown to 54 Below on January 13th. The 'Girl Power'-filled song and dance extravaganza was musically directed by Benjamin Rauhala, directed by Kyle Fox, and produced by Shoshana Feinstein. Click below and scroll through the videos to watch all of the performances from the show!

The TKTS staff in Times Square just put together a hilarious 'Wrecking Ball' parody, complaining about the cold weather. Check it out below!

Broadway Producer Ken Davenport and Davenport Theatrical just presented the first annual Davenport Songwriting Contest. 10 songs competed for the title of 'Best Song' and a $500 Grand Prize. The contest was held at the Davenport Theatre (354 West 45th Street New York, NY 10036) on January 30th, 2014. Click below and continue through the playlist to watch all the performances!

If/Then, starring Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel, will begin previews on Broadway on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 and will officially open on Sunday, March 30, 2014 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Below, get a sneak peek of If/Then star Anthony Rapp performing 'You Don't Need To Love Me' from the new Broadway musical!

Edinburgh Univeristy Footlights present the SCOTTISH PREMIERE of Lin-Manuel Miranda's multi-award winning musical, In The Heights, running 11th - 15th February at the Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh. Click below for a sneak peek at highlights of the cast in rehearsal!

VOWVOW is an inaugural and extremely ambitious musical theatre workshop being presented by the Marymount Manhattan College Musical Theatre Program (Pat Hoag Simon, Coordinator for Musical Theatre) and The Directory Of Contemporary Musical Theatre Writers (David Sisco, Founder & Curator) that opens wide the creative process of the Broadway musical theatre industry to twenty very fortunate musical theatre students currently enrolled in Marymount Manhattan College's progressive Musical Theatre Program. Click below to watch a behind-the-scenes video about the project!

Ron Campbell, actor and current clown for touring troupe Cirque du Soleil, returns to the stage to reprise a role he starred in, in San Francisco. Accompanied by writer/director D.W. Jacobs, he sat down with us to talk about San Jose Rep's upcoming production of 'R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE.' Watch the interview below!

National Theatre Live's fifth season continues with the highly-anticipated premiere of the Donmar Warehouse production of Shakespeare's CORIOLANUS with Tom Hiddleston in the title role and Mark Gatiss as Menenius, directed byJosie Rourke, broadcast to cinemas and performing arts venues around the world from their Covent Garden home today, January 30, 2014 (with many encore dates in U.S. cities). Check out the trailer below!

Academy Award, Tony Award and Emmy Award winner Christopher Plummer takes the stage for 16 performances only in a Center Theatre Group special event, "A Word or Two," which opened at the CTG/Ahmanson Theatre on Wednesday, January 22, 2014. Written and arranged by Plummer and directed by Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, "A Word or Two" is presented in association with the Stratford Festival of Canada and continues through February 9, 2014. Click below to watch interviews with Plummer and McAnuff on opening night!

In this week's episode of 'In Focus', host Eden Lane sits down with two of the stars -- Caroline Bowman (Eva) and Sean MacLaughlin (Peron) -- of the EVITA tour, stopping in Denver this week. She also takes viewers behind the scenes for rehearsal of Parasol Arts new Tango Ballet, El Corazon de Tango - The Heart of Tango. Watch the interviews below!

In the video below, 'Russian' Broadway's best gather together to make a statement against Russia's anti-gay propaganda law. In this hilarious and important spoof, the Russian government outlaws theatrical performances on 'The Great Red Way', and the community responds. Click below to watch Andrew Rannells, Harvey Fierstein, Laura Osnes, Michael Urie and many more of Broadway's biggest stars in LOVE AND PUNISHMENT!

Idina Menzel (Wicked, Rent, Frozen) sang 'Tomorrow' as part of the sixth annual Living For Today at Joe's Pub in New York City on Sunday, January 19, 2014. Check out her performance below!