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Acclaimed actress Jessica Chastain, winner of 2011 New York, Los Angeles and Chicago Film Critics and National Board of Review Awards and recently nominated for Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, will make her Broadway debut starring in the Tony Award®-winning play The Heiress.

Hugh Jackman will return to Broadway during the 2013/2014 season starring as America's greatest showman in HOUDINI, an original musical. Making his Broadway debut as librettist, Academy Award and six-time Emmy Award winner Aaron Sorkin will collaborate with three-time Academy Award and four-time Grammy Award winner Stephen Schwartz. Directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien, HOUDINI is presented by film and theatre producer Scott Sanders and David Rockwell. Mr. Rockwell will also design the sets for HOUDINI. Additional HOUDINI casting, creative team and design team to be announced at a later date.

Side Splitters Comedy Club has announced the following upcoming events.

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today the motion picture and long-form television nominations for the 23rd Annual Producers Guild Awards. The categories include: The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures; The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures; and The David L. Wolper Producer of the Year Award in Long-Form Television. The documentary film category and other television category nominations were already announced by the Guild in December 2011.

The Hollywoodreporter.com reports that actress Jessica Chastain and composer Howard Shore join the esteemed list of honorees for the 23rd Palm Springs International Film Festival to be held on January 7th at the Palm Springs Convention Center.

DoSomething.org, one of the largest U.S. organizations that helps teens take action on causes they care about, released today its fourth annual 'Top 20 Celebs Gone Good' list.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Brad Pitt will be honored at the 23rd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. The actor will be awarded the Desert Palm Achievement Actor Award for his starring role in 'Moneyball' and his supporting role in 'The Tree of Life'.

Nominees for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® for outstanding performances in 2011 in five film and eight primetime television categories and for the SAG honors for outstanding action performances by film and television stunt ensembles were announced this morning in Los Angeles at the Pacific Design Center's SilverScreen Theater in West Hollywood. Several Broadway favorites made the cut, including recent Kennedy Center inductee Meryl Street (The Iron Lady), Tony winner Viola Davis (The Help) and more!

Nominees for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® for outstanding performances in 2011 in five film and eight primetime television categories and for the SAG honors for outstanding action performances by film and television stunt ensembles were announced this morning in Los Angeles at the Pacific Design Center's SilverScreen Theater in West Hollywood.

The Broadcast Film Critics Association has announced its nominees for the 17th annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. 'The Artist' and 'Hugo' tie for first place with 11 nominations each, while 'Drive' and 'The Help' each garnered 8 nominations.

Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie often tackles violence and war in her action films. But her latest film, "In the Land of Blood and Honey," she tackles it in entirely different way, delving into the lives of innocent people caught in the middle of the war in Bosnia in the 1990?s. On tonight's NIGHTLINE on ABC, Christiane Amanpour's interviews the actress about the upcoming film.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company is pleased to partner with Madame Tussauds, bringing a wax figure of William Shakespeare to Washington, D.C. in celebration of STC's 25th Anniversary Season. This STC debut marks the first U.S. public appearance of the wax William Shakespeare; he will be on display at the Company's Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW) through May 31, 2012.

Two new faces will make their co-hosting debuts and two favorites return in the coming weeks on nationally-syndicated morning talk show 'LIVE! with Kelly.' Joining co-host Kelly Ripa for the first time will be 'Dancing with the Stars' professional dancer and Season 13 finalist DEREK HOUGH (Monday, December 5) and actor JONAH HILL (Tuesday, December 6). Returning to the show are favorites JERRY O'CONNELL (Friday, November 25) and singer JOSH GROBAN (December 7-9).

In a featured presentation of its 50th Anniversary season, La MaMa E.T.C. will reprise 'Golem' by Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre (CAMT), a dance-theater rendition of the famed Jewish legend that may have been the first-ever puppet 'Golem' when La MaMa presented it in 1997.

HAPPY FEET 2 is coming to theaters November 18th from Warner Brothers Pictures. The animated muciscal is directed by George Miller and stars the voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria., Alicia 'Pink' Moore, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Sofia Vergara, Hugo Weaving, Richard Carter, Common, Magda Szubanski and Anthony LaPaglia.

People magazine has just announced its 'Sexiest Man Alive' for 2011 - screen star Bradley Cooper. The star of 'The Hangover' was grateful for the award and told the magazine, 'I think it's really cool that a guy who doesn't look like a model can have this title . I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying.'

In an interview with Australia's '60 Minutes,' film star Brad Pitt announced that he plans to retire from acting when he turns 50 in three years.

'The Sopranos' star James Gandolfini is in negotiations to join Steve Carell and Jim Carrey in the New Line comedy 'Burt Wonderstone,' according to reports from Variety.

The phrase 'you've got to see it on the big screen!' is often heard by film audiences, and it's true-some movies were simply meant to be seen large.

BeLive, the event that raises much-needed funds for four Colombian non-profit organizations, Give to Colombia, Formula Sonrisas, Genesis Foundation and ArtNexus Foundation and is slated to happen on Thursday, November 17 at The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach, will be an evening to remember with well-respected and recognizable television personalities and renowned celebrities.