TVLine.com is now reporting that Broadway, TV and film veterans Brian Stokes Mitchell and Jeff Goldblum have just landed the parts of Rachel's (Lea Michele) adoptive parents on the hit FOX TV show, GLEE.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, 'The Help's Jessica Chastain has just signed on to lend her voice in the upcoming animated film from DreamWorks, MADAGASCAR 3: Europe's Most Wanted.
BLADES OF GLORY, starring Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett and Jon Heder, airs as the 'ABC Saturday Movie of the Week,' JANUARY 28 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.
DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions are delighted to confirm full casting for SHREK THE MUSICAL® in 2012, with 11 new performers set to join the company.
The buzz surrounding the premiere has been deafening, and we have just gotten our hands on the first official full-length clips! Click below for a SMASH, episode 1 preview!
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.
In partnership with the Cincinnati Arts Association's Overture Awards and Local 12 WKRC, and in celebration of the upcoming local engagement of Billy Elliot the Musical, Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Cincinnati is proud to announce the Billy Elliot Dream Award. This award and scholarship will be presented to a Tri-State student in grades 6 through 12 who is pursuing an artistic dream. The prize will consist of a $500 scholarship provided by Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Cincinnati's Education Fund.
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.
OVER THE HEDGE, featuring the voices of Bruce Willis, Gary Shandling, Wanda Sykes, Steve Carell, William Shatner, Thomas Hayden Church and Nick Nolte, airs as the "ABC Saturday Movie of the Week," JANUARY 21 (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. The 2006 film will be broadcast in HDTV format with 5.1-channel surround sound.
President of the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) J.L. "Lynn" Singleton is pleased to announce that Citizens Bank is the sponsor of SHREK THE MUSICAL, at PPAC January 3 - 8, 2012.
DreamWorks Theatricals and NETworks Presentations, LLC. have announced that Shrek The Musical will play at Hershey Theatre from December 27 through January 1.
Imagem Music USA and Elvis Presley Music/Gladys Music announced today a worldwide music publishing deal for representation of the Elvis Presley catalogue, effective January 1, 2012.
DreamWorks Theatricals and NETworks Presentations, LLC. have announced that Shrek The Musical will play at Hershey Theatre from December 27 through January 1.
2012 is quickly approaching, and in celebration of the new year, BroadwayWorld will celebrate 2011 with lists of our biggest features of the year! Below are BroadwayWorld.com's most popular videos from 2011 (in no particular order)! Catch up below on anything that you might have missed from the past year on BroadwayWorld.com!
Entertainment One US will release CAROL CHANNING: LARGER THAN LIFE in New York and Los Angeles on January 20, 2012, with additional markets to follow. The film, directed by Dori Berinstein (ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway, Some Assembly Required, Gotta Dance), examines the life and career of Tony Award-winning Broadway legend, Carol Channing - her extraordinary stage life, her offstage struggles and survival and the extraordinary storybook romance that found her reunited with her junior high school sweetheart after over 70 years. BroadwayWorld has gotten a glimpse of the movie's trailer and brings you a sneak peek below!
Entertainment One US will release CAROL CHANNING: LARGER THAN LIFE in New York and Los Angeles on January 20, 2012, with additional markets to follow. The film, directed by Dori Berinstein (ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway, Some Assembly Required, Gotta Dance), examines the life and career of Tony Award-winning Broadway legend, Carol Channing - her extraordinary stage life, her offstage struggles and survival and the extraordinary storybook romance that found her reunited with her junior high school sweetheart after over 70 years.
The full Broadway cast has been announced for The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's hit production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, directed by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Artistic Director Des McAnuff which will open March 22, 2012 (previews begin March 1) at the Neil Simon Theatre (250 West 52nd Street).
59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes theNEST with the world premiere of ONE THOUSAND BLINKS, written by Nick Starr and directed by Malinda Sorci.