Allison Janney News

Director Tim Burton took to Facebook today to reveal the official title treatment for his upcoming adaptation of MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN, based upon the best-selling novel by Ransom Riggs. Check it out below!

This morning, SHOWTIME was recognized with the most lead performer series nominations of any network or streaming service, and as the only network or streaming service to have lead actor and actress nominations in both comedy and drama

Sandra Bullock stars in the new animated family comedy MINIONS. MINIONS follow the origin story of the beloved creatures from Universal's DESPICABLE ME and DESPICABLE ME 2.

Women's Voices Theater Festival organizers today announced that First Lady of the United States of America Michelle Obama will serve as Honorary Chair of the Women's Voices Theater Festival, which unites more than 50 professional theater companies in the nation's capital region, September through October 2015. She joins a prestigious group of theater artists and advocates on the Honorary Committee supporting the Festival's mission to celebrate the work of women in theater. Additionally, eight ancillary events sponsored by The Washington Post have been announced during the Festival, to be hosted by the seven originating theaters-Arena Stage, Ford's Theatre, Round House Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company-along with Festival participant Theater J.

Tammy Blanchard, who recently appeared in Disney's big screen adaptation of 'Into the Woods'  and 'X-Men's Evan Jonigkeit will join Allison Janney in the upcoming dramedy "Tallulah."

I'll Have What Phil's Having invites audiences to join in on an international culinary exploration with Phil Rosenthal, the creator of the TV hit Everybody Loves Raymond, and one of Hollywood's funniest producers.

According to Variety, 29 honorees from the worlds of motion pictures, television, live theatre, radio and recording have been tapped to receive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this year. Among them are Broadway's KINKY BOOTS co-creators Harvey Fierstein & Cyndi Lauper, as well as ELEPHANT MAN star Bradley Cooper.

The Actors' Equity Foundation's 2015 Clarence Derwent Awards for most promising female and male performers on the New York metropolitan scene have gone to Phillipa Soo (Hamilton) and Josh Grisetti (It Shoulda Been You). 

Behind every devilishly good-looking spy is a strong, frumpy woman. Behind the debonair and conceited Bradley Fine (Jude Law) is dowdy desk jockey cum CIA analyst Susan Cooper (McCarthy). Cooper is so smitten and preoccupied with the fantasy version of Fine in her head that she can't see how daft and self-involved he is. Nor can she see how smart and caring she is.

Melissa McCarthy stars in the new action-comedy SPY. SPY was written and directed by Paul Feig, best known for his work on BRIDESMAIDS, THE HEAT, and I AM DAVID. 

On last night's LATE LATE SHOW, James Corden and Allison recapped her impromptu kiss after winning a Critic's Choice Award last week, which isn't so special after James saw Allison's entrance to CBS for the show.

RIVER STREET THEATER will hold a final fundraiser before its official launch in the form of ONE ACT PLAYS. Tickets now on sale at http://www.riverstreettheatre.org/

Allison Janney was the recipient of the Best Supporting Actress Award at last night's Critics' Choice Television Awards, but that wasn't all she received when she came up to the podium to accept the prize.

You don't have to be a devotee of Chekhov - you don't even have to be a fan of live theater necessarily - but it clearly helps if you are in the audience for Verge Theater Company's production of Steven Dietz's The Nina Variations, which is sometimes whimsical and oftentimes dramatic in the rich tradition of Russian literature.

Tate Donovan will guest star in two episodes of the third season of MASTERS OF SEX premiering July 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME.

Tate Donovan will guest star in two episodes of the third season of MASTERS OF SEX premiering July 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME. Starring Emmy(R) and Golden Globe(R) nominee Michael Sheen and Emmy nominee Lizzy Caplan as real-life pioneers of human sexuality, William Masters and Virginia Johnson, MASTERS OF SEX chronicles their unusual lives, romance and pop-culture trajectory. Masters and Johnson's research touched off the sexual revolution and took them from a mid-western teaching hospital in St. Louis to the cover of Time magazine. Donovan plays Graham, a confident scientist whose relationship with Margaret Scully (Allison Janney) brings them to Masters and Johnson's clinic.

Love, incest, mental illness and murder. Zephyr producing artistic director Lee Sankowich directs a 25th anniversary revival of the wickedly entertaining, exceedingly black comedy by Wendy MacLeod that became a cult classic indie film - and still lives up to its hype. The House of Yes opens tonight, May 9 at the Zephyr Theatre for a six-week run through June 14.

The Actors' Equity Foundation's 2015 Clarence Derwent Awards for most promising female and male performers on the New York metropolitan scene have gone to Phillipa Soo (Hamilton) and Josh Grisetti (It Shoulda Been You). 

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's 53rd Season opens with The Royal Family, the Tony Award-winning American classic by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. Performances begin Wednesday, May 27th and continue through Sunday, June 21st at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, 36 Madison Avenue (at Lancaster Road) in Madison. Individual tickets and subscriptions can be purchased by calling the Box Office at 973-408-5600 or by visiting ShakespeareNJ.org.