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Talk Show Listings for Tuesday, January 25, 2011

BroadwayWorld.com has learned that joining the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (the Center) BROADWAY BACKWARDS 6, the only Broadway event custom-made for the gay and lesbian community, its friends and families, will be Bebe Neuwirth, Lillias White, F. Murray Abraham, Hinton Battle, Karen Olivo and Mandy Gonzalez, Brooks Ashmanskas, Ward Billeisen, Colman Domingo and Jason Tam.

Building on the success of its popular and critically acclaimed fall 2010 season, the Harris Theater for Music and Dance continues its seventh season this spring with a collection of adventurous and innovative performances by an array of the world's most renowned artists, musicians, and dance companies, many of whom are making their Harris Theater debuts. Chicago's finest music and dance organizations will also be featured with an exciting selection of events.

To celebrate the release of his new CD, LANCE HORNE: FIRST THINGS LAST, he took to the Lincoln Center American Songbook stage with a slew of Broadway guests to perform songs from the new album and more.

The COMEDY SERIES kicks off with the iconic American comic, JERRY SEINFELD, appearing in two stand up performances on November 6, 2010. In a rare solo appearance, entertainment legend and comedy queen WHOOPI GOLDBERG performs for one night only on January 15, 2011. NPR's award-winning comedy quiz show WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!, jumps straight off the airwaves and into the Knight Concert Hall February 3 and 4, 2011 for a series of live performances and audio tapings to air on NPR Member Stations. CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, the show where surprise guest stars read from the real and really hilarious memoirs of their celebrity colleagues, takes Miami by storm, April 28-May 8, 2011.

Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook, which explores the best of the golden age of musical standards through to the best in current songwriting, will bring to the stage some of today's most gifted interpreters of song. Week Three is a Grammy Awards fest, as three of the four acts are current and past nominees. On February 2nd one can experience life in the Piedmont hills of the Carolinas via the vibrant sound of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. This three-piece string band plays old-time roots music with virtuoso playing of the banjo, fiddle, guitar, harmonica, jug and more. Next up is the crown princess of bossa nova, Bebel Gilberto. Gilberto has taken classic bossa nova rhythms and mixed them with modern pop - for a sound that is up for a Grammy this year. On February 4th perennial Grammy nominee Joan Osborne will perform an emotionally-charged work she has written with Jack Petruzzelli: Love and Hate - A Song Cycle. On February 5th, actress/singer Anika Noni Rose, a Tony winner for Caroline, Or Change, will make her eagerly-anticipated solo concert debut.

The Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of Oscar Wilde's comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by and starring Brian Bedford as 'Lady Bracknell,' opened last night, January 13 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway. BroadwayWorld was on hand and brings you complete photo coverage below.

Mark Stern was named President, Original Programming, Syfy, it was announced today by Dave Howe, President, Syfy and Chiller, to whom he reports. Stern also serves as co-head, original content, Universal Cable Productions, and will now have creative oversight on the newly formed Syfy Films, a joint venture with Universal Pictures.

America Ferrera, known for her role in Ugly Betty, will join the cast of 'The Good Wife' on CBS for a three episode arc, as reported by TVLine.com. Ferrera's first episode will air in February. She will play the role of Natalie, a graduate student who becomes a romantic interest of Eli (Alan Cumming). Ferrera appeared Off-Broadway in Dog Sees God.

Composer, conductor, arranger and all-around music man Lance Horne is a very busy musician these days: this week's GENIUS OF AUTISM benefit and the upcoming American Songbook Series of shows in New York; the Planet Hollywood Las Vegas spectacular playing twice-nightly to sold-out crowds called VEGAS: THE MUSICAL, about to re-open with a slew of new material; a series of London concerts followed by a European tour; conducting at the Sydney Opera House; and a brand new album - FIRST THINGS LAST - released this week. All of this without even mentioning the hotly anticipated new productions he has coming up! Keep your eyes peeled for ARTS & CRAFTS, his new musical created with Jake Shears and starring Sandra Bernhard and Justin Bond, as well as the new Diane Paulus production of the fresh Steven Sater translation of PROMETHEUS BOUND starring Gavin Creel. The future looks bright for a talent like Lance's and in this revealing conversation we touch on all of this and much, much more.

Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present Anton Chekhov's THREE SISTERS, featuring 2010 Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal (Masha), Josh Hamilton (Andre) 2010 Tony Award nominee Jessica Hecht (Olga) and acclaimed actor Peter Sarsgaard (Vershinin).

Harold Bloom, America's leading literary critic and author of the best-seller 'Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human," will join Classic Stage Company Artistic Director Brian Kulick in a rare public appearance on Monday evening, February 7 at 7 pm at CSC (136 East 13th Street) as a special one-night-only event to benefit CSC's ongoing Shakespeare programming.

The Swing Set, a new album from six-time MAC Award winner Jim Caruso, is due out January 11th, marking the singer's first release on the Yellow Sound Label.

LANCE HORNE, the Emmy Award winning composer, musician, vocalist and producer, will release First Things Last, his long-awaited debut recording on January 11, 2011 on the Yellow Sound Label.

Lance Horne will release his first album, LANCE HORNE: FIRST THINGS LAST, on January 11, 2011. The album will be released on Yellow Sound Label/Warner Brothers, and features songs sung by artists including Alan Cumming, Amanda Palmer, Cheyenne Jackson, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Ricki Lake, Meow Meow, Lea DeLaria, and Alexandra Silber.

The Swing Set, a new album from six-time MAC Award winner Jim Caruso, is due out January 11th, marking the singer's first release on the Yellow Sound Label.

A number of theatre vets will be featured on the Emmy Award-winning educational PBS series 'The Electric Company,' which begins its new season February 7 on PBS KIDS GO!

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine, and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post, opens its 2011 season with the debut engagement of acclaimed entertainer LORNA LUFT from Tuesday, January 4 to Sunday, January 9.

While many children's shows have come and gone, The Electric Company is a franchise that has staying power. In a class by itself, this Emmy Award-winning series is set to launch season three February 7 with 12 new episodes airing every Monday on PBS KIDS GO!

Celebrated performer Lorna Luft visited LX New York to talk family memories and her new show, 'Songs My Mother Taught Me: The Judy Garland Sondbook.'