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The Second City has announced more big names to the star-studded roster of "I Can't Believe They Wendt There: The Roast of George Wendt."

Kick off this fall in the best possible way, by finally finishing your comedic plays, standup routines, sketches, solo shows and screenplays with the industry's top comedy expert Steve Kaplan (best-selling author of "The Hidden Tools of Comedy") - who returns to NYC after teaching his Comedy Intensive workshops around the world to thousands of students in London, Munich and Tel Aviv.

The Second City has announced 'I Can't Believe They Wendt There: The Roast of George Wendt' a night guaranteed to destroy one of the world's most beloved comedy legends, George Wendt - all in the name of charity.

It has been confirmed that Stacy Keach suffered a heart attack onstage during the opening night performance of PAMPLONA at the Goodman Theatre, prompting the organization to cancel the rest of the show's run to allow him to recover. Today, Keach took a moment to describe the experience to The Chicago Tribune.

UPDATE: According to the Chicago Tribune, Goodman Theatre has cancelled the rest of its run of PAMPLONA, starring Stacy Keach, who fell ill during the opening night performance and has since been receiving medical attention.

Opening night of PAMPLONA at Goodman Theatre came to an unfortunate halt last night as Stacy Keach was falling ill during his performance.

Audiences now have eight more chances to see stage and screen star Stacy Keach in his tour-de-force performance as Chicagoland native son, Ernest Hemingway. Goodman Theatre announces that playwright Jim McGrath's newest work - Pamplona, which begins preview performances tomorrow - has been extended for one week, now closing on Sunday, June 25.

Comedy Central Presents Colossal Clusterfest, the brand new comedy and music festival experience created by Comedy Central and Superfly, the brains behind Bonnaroo, and Outside Lands co-producer Another Planet Entertainment are excited to announce the daily festival lineup with single day tickets going on sale Wednesday, April 19 at 10am PT.

Ten years after their critically acclaimed collaboration on King Lear, Artistic Director Robert Falls and stage and screen star Stacy Keach-both 2015 Theater Hall of Fame inductees-reunite for the world premiere of Pamplona by Jim McGrath.

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) and Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) announced the winners of the 22ND ANNUAL CRITICS' CHOICE AWARDS live on A&E last night, December 11th.

Vancouver's comedy festival, JFL NorthWest, presented in association with SiriusXM, returns for a second year of mid-winter laughs from Thursday, February 16 to Saturday, February 25, 2017 at multiple venues across Vancouver. Announced today, the 2017 JFL NorthWest lineup includes: 

The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre - the monthly gathering of the International Order of Sodomites, the centuries-old organization which sets the mythic Gay Agenda - will celebrate Sayre's debut comed album "The Gay Agenda" with a  special night at UNCABARET at Au Lac (710 West First Street, LA 90012) on Sunday, December 4 at 8:00 PM.

The 68th Annual Emmy Awards are being held today at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles and will air on ABC at 8PM ET. Prior to the ceremony itself, stars of both the large and small screens turned out in their red carpet best. Check out the photos below!

The 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards telecast air live tonight on ABC at 8:00pm ET, and BroadwayWorld will have you covered with all of the winners, highlights, and commentary. This page will update after every winner, so you are always up-to-date about who's taking home a trophy. 

Throughout the week, we've been highlighting some of our favorite nominees with theatre backgrounds, and on Sunday, we will have all of the biggest Emmys news and looks back at the ceremony's best moments. Today, we are releasing our official BroadwayWorld predictions.

Slate and The Second City are pleased to announce casting for 'Unelectable You,' a new live political comedy show launching at UP Comedy Club in Chicago on July 28 before heading out on a national tour this election season. The 'Unelectable You' tour cast will feature The Second City alums Carisa Barreca and Frank Caeti, Cleveland alum Cody Dove, Alan Linic, Ian Owens and Tien Tran.

Love it or hate it, the whodunit farce Shear Madness at the Kennedy Center represented D.C. theater for busloads of high school students for nearly 30 years.

Tony and Emmy Award winner Bryan Cranston just had a big birthday. He turned 60 in March and luckily for us, 'MTV' (aka Jimmy Kimmel Live) was there to document the whole thing!

Cross will return to the road in 2016 with a stand-up tour playing theaters across the country. Named one of the Top 100 Stand-Up Comedians of All Time by Comedy Central, Cross will launch his "Making America Great Again!" tour in January 2016 and play theaters nationwide through April 2016. He last toured in 2009 with a solo stand-up show in support of his New York Times Bestseller, I Drink for a Reason. That hugely successful comedy show was filmed at Boston's Wilbur Theater for a special, entitled "Bigger and Blackerer," which premiered on EPIX in April 2010 before being released on CD and DVD by Sub Pop. His previous comedy special, 'David Cross: The Pride is Back,' aired on HBO in 1999, and was named one of the 25 best stand-up comedy specials and concert films of all time by ROLLING STONE in July 2015.

Two of television's hottest series are joining the diverse lineup of events at this year's PaleyFest LA, the William S. Paley Television Festival celebrating TV's most acclaimed series.