Elle News

For high quality live shows, cocktails and service, come to The Wiggle Room this week, October 29 through November 1, 2014. An intimate and exciting experience, The Wiggle Room is Montreal's first cabaret cocktail club devoted to burlesque, comedy, live music, variety and the neo-vaudeville arts.

Grammy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee Courtney Love (“The People vs. Larry Flynt”) will be featured in FOX's sexy, new drama EMPIRE as a recurring guest star.

To kick off the release of famed Sirius XM radio host Seth Rudetsky new book Seth's Broadway Diary, Dress Circle Publishing (Brisa Trinchero and Roberta Pereira, founders) will host a special book launch concert event tonight, October 22 at 5:30pm at Don't Tell Mama (343 W 46th St).

The 15th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival returns today, October 22-26, 2014 with the most compelling and distinctive Indigenous works from around the globe, including the return of the Embargo Collective II, a series of five new short films by established and up-and-coming Canadian Aboriginal women filmmakers.

Producers of the five-time Tony Award-nominated Rock of Ages announced today that 'Big Brother' starFrankie J. Grande will return to Broadway in the smash-hit musical beginning November 10, 2014. Grande will star in the role of 'Franz' - the free-spirited son of German developer Hertz Klineman, who threatens to tear down the Sunset Strip - through January 18, 2015.

Disney-ABC announced today that it has garnered clearances for its upcoming syndicated lifestyle show “THE F•A•B” (Fun and Beautiful) on the ABC Owned Stations for Fall 2015.

Marty Thomas Presents DIVA features NYCs finest female vocalists paying tribute to the greatest icons throughout history! The show performs weekly in midtown Manhattan hotspot, Industry Bar. It has also been seen around the country, as well as on Off Broadway and Broadway stages. In its fourth year, the show has featured such acts as Shoshana Bean, Shayna Steele, Rachel Potter, Alysha Umphress, Lena Hall, Eden Espinosa, The Glamazons, The Skivvies, Ramona Keller, N'Kenge, Saycon Sengbloh, Kate Rockwell and many many more.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company's new production of Kenneth Lonergan's critically acclaimed THIS IS OUR YOUTH opened on Broadway on September 11, 2014, and runs through January 4, 2015 at the Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street). In this production, Michael Cera makes his New York stage debut opposite Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson, which premiered at Steppenwolf in Chicago this past summer, and is directed by Anna D. Shapiro. Scroll down to learn more about the full cast and watch interviews with the company below!

Alan Cumming stopped by THE VIEW this week to talk about his role on CBS's The Good Wife as well as his current return to the stage in Broadway's CABARET.

Alex Gaumond (Matilda, Legally Blonde, We Will Rock You) will replace Rufus Hound as the newest conman on the block, Freddy Benson from 11 November 2014 in the critically acclaimed and Best New Musical of 2014, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

The Capezio Ballet Makers Dance Foundation has announced the selection of Cynthia Gregory as the recipient of the 63rd annual Capezio Dance Award. The Foundation is a philanthropic organization funded by the world's premier dance and apparel manufacturer, Capezio Ballet Makers.

Ellen DeGeneres, who announced the creation of her new lifestyle collection, E.D., in July, will launch E.D. On Air, a new seasonal home collection created especially for QVC, on Friday, October 24 at 8 PM (ET).

'Elle Macpherson Intimates,' the women's and men's intimates brand founded in 1990, moves operations to U.S. market and will end their relationship with New Zealand based Bendon on December 31, 2014. 'Elle Macpherson Intimates' is additionally poised for growth and expansion into new categories including activewear and swimwear.

Broadway Knights is proud to present an Audition Master Class with Laura Bell Bundy in Orange County, California on Sunday, November 2 at 12:00noon at The Rose Center Theater at 14140 All American Way, Westminster, CA 92683.

Jaap van Zweden - music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Hong Kong Philharmonic as well as former concertmaster of Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - will return to the New York Philharmonic for the first time since his debut in April 2012 to conduct two weeks of concerts. In the first program, Mr. van Zweden will conduct Mozart's Sinfonia concertante for Violin and Viola, featuring Acting Concertmaster Sheryl Staples and Principal Viola Cynthia Phelps, and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8, Thursday, November 20, 2014, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, November 21 at 2:00 p.m.; and Saturday, November 22 at 8:00 p.m.

To kick off the release of famed Sirius XM radio host Seth Rudetsky new book Seth's Broadway Diary, Dress Circle Publishing (Brisa Trinchero and Roberta Pereira, founders) will host a special book launch concert event on Wednesday, October 22 at 5:30pm at Don't Tell Mama (343 W 46th St).

Much like being the butt of a joke on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, being parodied on Comedy Central's hit animated show SOUTH PARK, is considered a badge of honor for many stars. In that veign Grammy-winner Lorde took the show's recent parodying of her in stride, even singing the fake song from the show.

Starz announced today that its Emmy(R)-winning Original series 'Black Sails' has been greenlit for a third season. The series is created by Jonathan Steinberg ('Jericho,' 'Human Target') and Robert Levine ('Touch') and executive produced by Michael Bay (Transformers, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, producers on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Purge. The ten-episode second season of the authentic high sails drama series, premiering January 24th, 2015 at 9 pm ET/PT on STARZ, follows the most feared pirate of the day, Captain Flint (Toby Stephens), and his men and takes place twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic 'Treasure Island.'

Jacob Langfelder in association with Burt Rock and Broadway the Hardway present DEARLY BELOVED... A 30th Anniversary Concert Tribute to His Purple Majesty, tonight, October 13th at 8pm at the new 42West (514 West 42nd Street).

Starz just released a trailer for the second season of the Emmy®-winning Original series BLACK SAILS. Executive produced by Michael Bay (Transformers, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, producers on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Purge, and created by executive producers Jonathan Steinberg ('Jericho,' 'Human Target') and Robert Levine ('Touch'), BLACK SAILS will debut Saturday, January 24th, 2015 at 9pm ET/PT. Check out the trailer below!