Alan Cumming News

At today's CBS Upfront presentation it was announced that Alan Cumming will star in the midseason drama INSTINCT.

CBS today unveiled its 2017-2018 primetime lineup, featuring four new comedies, four new dramas and 23 returning series. The new series join a lineup that will finish the current season as America's most watched network in viewers for the 14th time in 15 years, including the last nine years straight.

Below, check out a first look at the upcoming drama THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES from FOX Searchlight. The film, starring Emma Stone as Billie Jean King, and Steve Carell as Bobby Riggs, hits theaters on September 22, 2017.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Today's big news: The New Dramatists honor INDECENT's Daryl Roth & Paula Vogel at their spring luncheon, and illusionist Derren Brown's SECRET opens tonight Off-Broadway!

BroadwayWorld has exclusively learned that Roundabout produced a reading of ME AND THE GIRLS with music and lyrics by Noel Coward, book and direction by Douglas Carter Beane, from a short story by Noel Coward last week at Pearl Studios. The reading included Alan Cumming as George Banks, Cory Michael Smith as Ron, Lesli Margherita as Mavis.

Curvy Widow, a new musical comedy with a book by Bobby Goldman, music and lyrics by Drew Brody (Broadway: Oh Hello; Cutman), and directed by Peter Flynn(Rhapsody in Seth; Two Rooms), will play at the Westside Theatre (407 West 43rd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues), it was announced today by the producers.

Frontier Comedy are pleased to announce that due to overwhelming demand, additional shows at Brisbane's Powerhouse Theatre (Thu 15 Jun, 9:30pm) and Adelaide's Her Majesty's Theatre (Sun 11 Jun, 4pm) have been added to Alan Cumming's upcoming Australian tour. Tickets to the newly added Brisbane and Adelaide shows are on sale from 9am AEST today.

Last week, Lucas Steele's Wyalusing, PA high school chorus teacher, Carol Madill brought over 100 students from the school's current chorus to see him perform in the hit Broadway musical NATASHA PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812.

Ben Whishaw (THE CRUCIBLE), Alan Cumming (CABARET) and Russell Tovey (A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE) will lead the new BBC Four series QUEERS.

Lug Nut Entertainment in association with the world popular dating app SCRUFF, has announced that comedian Judy Gold and internet sensation Randy Rainbow will join the cast of FORK ON THE LEFT, KNIFE IN THE BACK: BROADWAY ROASTS MICHAEL MUSTO.

Celebrate the 2017 Tony Awards and seven-time nominee, musical theater diva Patti LuPone with Patti Issues, the acclaimed solo play from writer/performer Ben Rimalower performing at Feinstein's at the Nikko on Friday, June 9 (8 p.m.) and Saturday, June 10 (7 p.m.).

Lug Nut Entertainment (Daniel DeMello and Nathaniel Nowak) in association with the world popular dating app SCRUFF, has announced that comedian Judy Gold and internet sensation Randy Rainbow will join the cast of  FORK ON THE LEFT, KNIFE IN THE BACK: BROADWAY ROASTS MICHAEL MUSTO.

Penguin Rep Theatre, the award-winning professional Equity theatre under the leadership of founding artistic director Joe Brancato and executive director Andrew M. Horn, opens its 40th season with Trayf, a new play by Lindsay Joelle.

HELLO AGAIN, starring six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, will close out the 27th Annual Toronto LGBT Film Festival, running May 25 to June 4, 2017. (Click here for festival details.)

Tony Award-winning Producer Ken Davenport announces the release of his new book "How to Succeed in the Arts . . . Or in Anything," which is now available on Lulu.com.

'Have a hanky ready!' Alan Cumming exclaimed at the beginning of what evolves into an emotional, entertaining, and engaging evening of cabaret. In the first show of the Renee Flemming VOICES Series at the Kennedy Center, Mr. Cumming, known for his role as the Emcee in Cabaret and Eli Gold in The Good Wife, took down the veil of his characters that separates him from his audience and dove deep into his own personal life. 

The critically acclaimed and award-winning Roundabout Theatre Company is proud to present, direct from Broadway, the national tour of SAM MENDES (Skyfall, American Beauty) and ROB MARSHALL's (Into the Woods and Chicago, the films) Tony Award-winning production of CABARET, playing San Jose's Center for the Performing Arts (255 S. Almaden, San Jose) June 6-11, 2017. Press night for CABARET will be held on Tuesday, June 6 at 7:30 p.m.

This year's star-studded Orchard Project Gala, A TASTE OF SOMETHING NEW, a star-studded celebration of the best of the new - from new food to new work - is set for May 1 at the Diamond Horseshoe in midtown Manhattan. The event, raising funds to expand Orchard Project's programming, will also honor acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and Exchange Board Member Robert Schenkkan.

GLAAD, the world's LGBTQ media advocacy organization, announced today that it will honor Tony and Grammy Award-winning actor and singer Billy Porter with the Vito Russo Award at the 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York City at the New York Hilton Midtown on May 6, 2017. The GLAAD Media Awards honor media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community.

A scinitillating revival of Kander and Ebb's CABARET is playing on the Shea's stage and this re-imagined classic feels both fresh and disturbing in appropriate ways.