Bill Murray News

The Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University will present Strategery: SNL's Remarkable Influence Over Politics Through Satire, with James Downey, recipient of the 2012 Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award, and moderator Bill Murray, on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, from 6:30-8 p.m. at the C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple Street, Boston.

Focus Features has announced their 2012 Release Schedule, including upcoming films BEING FLYNN and PARANORMAN.

It might not be great art, but Xanadu-the new musical onstage through March 3 at Franklin's Boiler Room Theatre-sure is great fun! Pure, unadulterated escapism, Xanadu is laugh-out-loud funny, thanks primarily to the book by Douglas Carter Beane, but you have to give props to director Corbin Green and his talented cast who bring the completely ridiculous musical (featuring the music of Electric Light Orchestra's Jeff Lynne and John Farrar) to life onstage.

The Broadway at Birdland concert series has announced that Tony Award Nominated actress & singer Anita Gillette will be presenting a wonderful evening of music and memories while taking an intimate, touching, and hilarious look behind the scenes from Broadway to Hollywood in her new autobiographical one-woman show "After All."

The new and promising young recording artist Emily Hearn has announced that her new album,'Red Balloon' is coming out on iTunes on Tuesday, Jan. 31, and will be followed by a CD Release show in Athens, GA at the 40 Watt Club on Monday February 6th.

The Improv 'Up Yours' contest is an Internet based search for the next great comedian and Las Vegas based comedian Don Barnhart is the winner for the month of December.

Fox Valley Repertory kicks off their 2012 season with a variety of improv, musical tributes and comedic combat, including: Chicago's finest improv troupe The Best of Second City, some of the best comedic swordplay in the country, The Swordsmen, and a weekend of the popular Beatles band, American English, at Pheasant Run Resort (4051 E. Main St., St. Charles, IL; 630-584-6342).

The Broadway at Birdland concert series has announced that Tony Award Nominated actress & singer Anita Gillette will be presenting a wonderful evening of music and memories while taking an intimate, touching, and hilarious look behind the scenes from Broadway to Hollywood in her new autobiographical one-woman show "After All."

Stage and screen superstar Scarlett Johansson is known to most theatre fans for her tremendous work in the recent revival of Arthur Miller's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, directed by Gregory Mosher and co-starring fellow InDepth InterView participant Liev Schreiber, for which she rightly took home the 2010 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress In A Play. Before then, Johansson was perhaps best known for her leading role in Sofia Coppola's moving contemporary drama LOST IN TRANSLATION, co-starring Bill Murray, as well as for her featured roles in some big-budget Hollywood films with top-tier talent and directors - THE PRESTIGE with Christopher Nolan (co-starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman), THE BLACH DAHLIA with Brian DePalma, THE ISLAND with Michael Bay (co-starring Ewan MacGregor), THE SPIRIT with Frank Miller; as well as a string of quirky and unique independent films such as GHOST WORLD, A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG and her unforgettable work in THE HORSE WHISPERER under the guiding force of director Robert Redford. Since then, she has become a franchise superhero superstar thanks to her role in the international smash hit IRON MAN 2, co-starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Samuel L. Jackson, both of whom she reteams with in this Spring's tent-pole entertainment attraction THE AVENGERS, directed by BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and occasional GLEE-helmer Joss Whedon, which also features Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans as the classic Marvel comic book heroes. Today marks the opening night of her newest feature film, WE BOUGHT A ZOO, directed by Cameron Crowe and co-starring Matt Damon and Thomas Haden Church, which finds Scarlett back in familiar territory - after all, she is celebrated by many entertainment enthusiasts for her sterling, unsurpassed work in three highly-acclaimed and endlessly enjoyable Woody Allen films: MATCH POINT, SCOOP and VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA. In celebration of WE BOUGHT A ZOO, today we shall shine a special solo spotlight on one of the brightest stars on Broadway or in Hollywood who is sure to delight us in theaters and on screens for many years to come - she has already been legitimately acting for nearly 20 years of her 27 on earth, after all. So, whether stage or screen, comedy or drama, music or mime, Scarlett Johansson can clearly do it all and we will sample some of the best clips from her career so far as we look forward to WE BOUGHT A ZOO, THE AVENGERS and everything else that is next for her in her rise to the top ranks of Broadway and Hollywood.

Fox Valley Repertory kicks off their 2012 season with a variety of improv, musical tributes and comedic combat, including: Chicago's finest improv troupe The Best of Second City, some of the best comedic swordplay in the country, The Swordsmen, and a weekend of the popular Beatles band, American English, at Pheasant Run Resort (4051 E. Main St., St. Charles, IL; 630-584-6342).

The Second City will bring their Dysfunctional Holiday Revue performance and additional New Year's Eve show to Pheasant Run Resort, presented by Fox Valley Repertory at Pheasant Run Resort.

The Second City will bring their Dysfunctional Holiday Revue performance and additional New Year's Eve show to Pheasant Run Resort, presented by Fox Valley Repertory at Pheasant Run Resort.

The Pasadena Playhouse (Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director and Stephen Eich, Executive Director) announced the full cast and creative team for ART at The Pasadena Playhouse. ART, by Yasmina Reza stars Bradley Whitford, Michael O'Keefe and Roger Bart and will be directed by nine-time Emmy Award-winner David Lee. The production will perform January 24 - February 19 , with the official press opening on January 29, 2012.

COMEDY CENTRAL, a division of Viacom Media Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), announced today that the second annual 'The Comedy Awards' will return to New York City. The multi-platform, annual event dedicated to honoring and celebrating the world of comedy, will be taped at New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom on Saturday, April 28, 2012 and will premiere on COMEDY CENTRAL on Sunday, May 6, 2012.

Variety reports that actor, comedian Bill Murray will be joining the cast of Roman Coppola's new film A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III.' The film will also co-star actor Charlie Sheen.

Fox Valley Repertory presents two evenings of 'laugh out loud' comedy with The Second City.

The Englert Theatre has announced the first batch of shows for the Spring Season.