Stage Tube - Page 93

At this year's ceremony, Tony Awards host Hugh Jackman danced his way through the aisles to greet each of the Best Leading Actress nominees in turn. Watch him schmooze with Mary Bridget Davies, Sutton Foster, Idina Menzel, Jessie Mueller and Kelli O'Hara below!

Virginia's Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre closes out its 2013/2014 season with the world premiere musical Cloak and Dagger, directed by Signature Theatre's Artistic DirectorEric Schaeffer (Broadway's Follies, Million Dollar Quartet). From Helen Hayes Award Winner Ed Dixon (Signature's Sunset Boulevard) comes this screwball musical comedy send-up of the 1950s film noir.

In the video below, director Anne Kauffman talks about working on the new comedy THE MUSCLES IN OUR TOES by Stephen Belber with cast member Amir Arison at the Brass Monkey Bar in New York City. Belber's play is part of the 2013-14 Season at Labyrinth Theater Company. Click below!

The Public Theater will begin previews earlier this week on June 3 for Much Ado About Nothing, the first show of The Public's 2014 season of free Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte. Directed by Jack O'Brien, Much Ado About Nothing will run through Sunday, July 6, with an official press opening on Monday, June 16. Below, Jonathan Groff explains how to get free tickets -- and what to do while you're waiting in the queue -- for Shakespeare in the Park!

Jared Zirilli of Goodspeed's LMNOP, as well as Alley Theatre's A FEW GOOD MEN, off-Broadway's FAT CAMP and BARE, Broadway's LYSISTRATA JONES and WICKED, plus TWILIGHT THE MUSICAL, brings you 'Jared's Broadway Boo's' #67 with Jeremy Jordan. that's right, THE Jeremy Jordan, Zirilli's 'old school chum'.

New York City's dynamic Stomp OUT LITTER anti-litter public awareness campaign featuring the cast of Stomp in a vibrant public service announcement encouraging New Yorkers to keep their city clean, can be seen again in New York City cabs and on Department of Sanitation trucks. Watch a PSA for the campaign below!

Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's SHOW BOAT opens San Francisco Opera's Summer Season, running now through July 2, 2014. A watershed of American musical theater, Show Boat receives its company premiere in director Francesca Zambello's new grand-scale 'beautifully sung, smartly staged and handsomely designed (Chicago Tribune)' production. Scroll down to watch a sneak peek at Tony winner Bill Irwin as 'Captain Andy'!

A true classic of American musical theater, this tale of life on the Mississippi from the 1880s to the 1920s is both a poignant love story and a powerful reminder of the bitter legacy of racism. Director Francesca Zambello's grand-scale production is 'a triumph-a stylish, fast-paced and colorful show that had the capacity audience on its feet, cheering loud and long' (Chicago Classical Review). The magnificent Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II score, which includes such classic songs as 'Ol' Man River,' 'Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man,' 'Make Believe' and 'You Are Love,' will sound glorious 'under the authoritative baton of music-theater maestro John DeMain' (Chicago Tribune). 'No one should miss it' (Chicago Sun-Times).

Hugh Jackman just revealed a new promo for this Sunday's Tony Awards ceremony in which he can't stop bouncing through life -- literally. Check out the video below, and find out what it all means on June 8!

With esteemed careers spanning 60 to 70 years long, actors Dame Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones will bring the magic of the stage to movie theaters across the country this June. Screenvision and Broadway Near You have partnered to make the stage production of the Pulitzer-Prize winning Driving Miss Daisy available in more than 500 movie theaters in the U.S. and Canada beginning today, June 4. Click below to watch a trailer for the production!

Complete casting has just been announced for the highly anticipated Off-Broadway premiere of MIGHTY REAL: A FABULOUS SYLVESTER MUSICAL - the brand new musical that celebrates the life of the original 1970s disco queen SYLVESTER, with songs like '(You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real', 'Can't Stop Dancing' and 'You Are My Friend'. Previews are set to begin at Theatre at St. Clement's on September 5th, 2014 with an opening set for September 14th, 2014. Check out a brand new commercial for the show below!

Local cabaret series -- founded and curated by two Filipino-Americans -- La-Ti-Do supports 'After The Storm - A Benefit Concert For The Philippines' on June 15th at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Take a moment to watch the following video message from La-Ti-Do Co-Founders Don Michael Mendoza and Regie Cabico!

Broadway's Angela Lansbury just sat for a special Q&A in the UK to talk about her recent production of DRIVING MISS DAISY, in which she starred oppoiste James Earl Jones. The play is heading to movie screens across the country this Wednesday, June 4. Check out Lansbury's appearance below!

Click below to watch a trailer for THE ROOF, the brand new 360 degree performance, directed by David Rosenberg (co-founder of Shunt) and Frauke Requardt, their third collaboration following Electric Hotel (also a Fuel production) and Motor Show!

Click below to watch mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato's eloquent and heartfelt Juilliard Commencement speech on May 23, 2014! In addition to her remarks, DiDonato also received Juilliard's Honorary Doctor of Music.

Rodgers + Hammerstein's CINDERELLA made the Skultety family's dreams come true with a magical experience in New York City. The Skultety family won the production's Mother's Day contest. Watch a video chronicling their day below!

Watch the video below for a sneak peek at THE KILLER by Eugène Ionesco and newly translated by Michael Feingold, directed by Darko Tresnjak and featuring Kristine Nielsen, Michael Shannon, Paul Sparks, and Robert Stanton in a company of 20 actors! The show opens June 1, and runs through June 29 at Theatre for a New Audience's Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn.

Cast members of the national tour of Sister Act: The Musical have a tradition: #SIC, or Sunday Intermission Covers! Every Sunday during the show's 15-minute intermission, cast members rush backstage to perform a quick cover of one of their favorite songs. This week, it's 'Chris Parnell's Lullaby' from the Maya Rudolph Variety Show, featuring cast members Ashley Moniz (Sister Mary Robert), Tad Wilson (Joey), and Chris Cooke (Ensemble). Check it out below!

Kate Del Castillo, currently starring in the groundbreaking Spanish production of Eve Ensler's Los Monologos de la Vagina, was on WNBC TV's 'Visiones' on Saturday. Watch the interview below!

Below, watch a scene from the Shakespeare's Globe production of THE TEMPEST, hitting UK cinemas from today, 28 May 2014!