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Working class funnyman, Kevin James will be returning to DPAC, Durham Performing Arts Center tonight, June 5, 2013. Following his 2012 sellout show at DPAC, Kevin James is back by popular demand with new material for another big night of laughs.

Tickets for the new Broadway musical BIG FISH will go on sale to the general public onSunday, June 16 at Ticketmaster.com (866-870-2717). An exclusive two-week pre-sale for Audience Rewards members and partners launches on Monday, June 3, during which members can earn 2,000 bonus points when they purchase a ticket to BIG FISH at AudienceRewards.com. Directed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (Contact, The Producers, The Scottsboro Boys), with music and lyrics by Grammy and Tony Award nominee Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party, The Addams Family), and a book by Grammy and BAFTA Award nominee John August (Frankenweenie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), BIG FISH begins performances on Thursday, September 5, 2013 and will open Sunday, October 6, 2013 at the Neil Simon Theatre. Tickets for BIG FISH range from $49 - $142. The playing schedule for BIG FISH is as follows: Monday through Friday at 8pm with matinees on Wednesdays and Saturdays. There will be no 2pm matinee on Wednesday, September 11. Beginning October 7, 2013, the playing schedule for BIG FISH is as follows: Tuesday and Thursday at 7pm and Wednesday at 8pm with matinees on Wednesday at 2pm, Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 3pm.

Alan Hirschfield says of his collection of American Indian art, “I try to understand the artist's culture and to appreciate the beauty and meaning of each work.” Through the years, the Hirschfields have built an extraordinary collection of these objects as well as a home in Wyoming designed specifically to accommodate the articles—they are quite literally living with the art.

Sirius XM Radio (SIRI) today announced that Jaden Smith and Will Smith, the father-and-son-duo and stars of After Earth, the highly anticipated film, will sit down for a Q&A session with a select group of SiriusXM listeners at the SiriusXM studios in New York City.

Sony Music is pleased to announce the release of the original soundtrack, After Earth, directed by M.Night Shyamalan, featuring music written by Academy Award nominated film composer James Newton Howard and starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith. The movie opens nationwide on May 31, 2013. The soundtrack recording will be available on Tuesday, June 11 from Sony Music.

Actors Jaden Smith and Will Smith to join the USO in honoring, saluting and celebrating our nation's troops and their families with an “After Earth” USO special screening in conjunction with Fort Hood Family and MWR at Fort Hood's Abrams Gymnasium at 5 p.m. on May 31.

King Center at Brevard Community College have announced that Kevin James and David Sedaris are set to bring their comedy routines to the stage this fall. For the detailed listings, check below!

La Jolla Playhouse announces the cast and creative team for His Girl Friday, adapted by John Guare (Six Degrees of Separation, House of Blue Leaves) from the Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur play The Front Page and the Columbia Pictures film His Girl Friday. Directed by Playhouse Artistic Director Christopher Ashley (Glengarry Glen Ross, Memphis), the production will kick off the 2013/2014 season, running May 28 - June 30 in the Playhouse's Mandell Weiss Theatre.

Columbia Pictures has released the first trailer for GROWN UPS 2 - and no one particularly wants to grow up. Check it out below!

BIG FISH had its pre-Broadway world premiere at Chicago's Oriental Theatre (24 West Randolph Street) in a limited 5-week engagement that ran through May 5, 2013. BroadwayWorld brings you a special clip of Norbert Leo Butz and Kate Baldwin singing 'Time Stops' from the Broadway-bound show below!

Two new clips from Seth Rogen's This Is The End have just been released, courtesy of Columbia Pictures. Check them out below!

Columbia Pictures has released the first TV spot for GROWN UPS 2 which is set to air during tonight's "American Idol" Season Finale. Get a first look below!

According to a casting notice for Columbia Pictures' upcoming reboot of ANNIE, production on the film will begin in August on location in New York City.

The first trailer for CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, based on the true story of the 2009 hijacking of the MV Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates, has just been released. Check it out, via ComingSoon.net, below!

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. Will 'Big Fish' swim? 'Buddy,' the Bee Gees, 'Flashdance' and the new 'Phantom,' plus our own 'South Pacific,' Waa-Mu, 'A New Brain,' a showtune showdown and more!

The New-York Historical Society will honor supporters of musical theater education Myrna and Freddie Gershon and Manhattan P94M principal Ronnie Shuster during the fifteenth annual American Musicals Project Benefit, on Monday, May 20, 2013 from 6-8 p.m. Guests will be treated to an evening of music from Broadway's golden era featuring the songs of Lorenz Hart and Rodgers & Hammerstein. Ticket proceeds benefit the American Musicals Project, a creative educational curriculum.

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BIG FISH, a new musical based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, just had its pre-Broadway world premiere at Chicago's Oriental Theatre (24 West Randolph Street) in a limited 5-week engagement beginning performances on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, opening Friday, April 19, 2013, and playing through today, May 5, 2013.

The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) continues its seventh season of the Irish Rep Reading Series, with a free reading of Nate Rufus Edelman's THE BELLE OF BELFAST on Friday, April 26 at 3:00 p.m. at the Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street).