Hugh Jackman News

The Tony Awards and Dress Circle Publishing have announced a special fan experience at the Tony Awards Pop-Up Shop featuring author and musical theater historian Jennifer Ashley Tepper and Broadway favorites Annie Golden (Violet, 'Orange is the New Black'), Brian Yorkey (If/Then, Next to Normal), Caissie Levy (LES MISERABLES, Ghost) and more on Tuesday, May 13th from 5-6.30PM. The Tony Awards Pop-Up Shop is located at the Paramount Hotel and is open daily to visitors.

It must be hot, selfie Saturday here (wait - is that a thing? Can we make it a thing?). Tony host Hugh Jackman just posted the below photo that we're now obsessing over with the caption 'Selfie with the awesomely talented @idinamenzel. Amazing performance by the entire cast. Don't miss IF/THEN!' Aaaah!

In a recent visit to BBC One's THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW, X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST stars Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy danced to Robin Thicke's 'Blurred Lines'. Check out the clip below!

Whether you've been living under a rock for the past week or you're just in the mood for a recap, BroadwayWorld's 'This Week in Pictures' is here to satisfy your end-of-the-week fix! Take a look below to catch up on the latest happenings from the Great White Way to The West End (and everywhere in between) with coverage of press events, rehearsals, opening nights and more. Highlights this week include a look at this year's Tony nominees, the casts of VIOLET on Broadway and the UK's ROCK OF AGES tour, and a peek into CABARET's gypsy robe ceremony!

Planet Ant veterans Ryan Carlson and York Griffith return with the police drama, A Steady Rain by House of Cards and Mad Men co-writer Keith Huff. This Detroit premiere will appear Friday & Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees today, May 2-24.

Awards season is in full swing, and leading up to the big event (you know which one) next month, we're kicking off a weekend feature series highlighting all the extraordinary elements that go into creating a Tonys ceremony fit for Broadway's best! And what would the Tonys be without a show-stopping opening number?

Even the legendary Broadway gods and goddesses have come face to face with failure. On May 31, June 1, and 2, Lyrics & Lyricists pays tribute to musical theater's most thoroughly panned musical bullion as artistic director and Tony Award-winning lyricist and director David Zippel closes the season with Panning for Gold: Great Songs from Flop Shows. Vocalists Brent Barrett, Christiane Noll, Lorna Luft, Jessica Lea Patty, Lillias White and Tony Yazbeck sing numbers like "All the Things You Are," "They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore," "As Time Goes By" and "He Touched Me" that - despite their origins in such failures as Very Warm for May, How Now Dow Jones, Everybody's Welcome and Drat The Cat!, respectively - have become American Songbook standards.

Baz Luhrmann may be moving on from Gatsby to 'The King.'

Yahoo Movies has shared the second clip from 20th Century Fox's X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST featuring Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique and Peter Dinklage's Bolivar Trask.

While promoting the upcoming 'X-Men: Days of Future Past,' Jackman told SFX he has not yet signed on for the next X-Men project and that even if he does, it will be his final outing as the character.

I'm going to be real honest with you, Gleeks - I'm not quite sure what to say to intro this week's recap - I could reference "Only A Older Woman" from Boy from Oz because of Shirley MacLaine being involved in helping make Mr. Blaine Warbler into a star, but how many of you would get that reference? So, let's just get on with the show and see where the stars take us, shall we? Now, quiet please, there's a lady up there. Yes, another Boy from Oz reference - look it up, especially given Hugh Jackman is our Tony 2014 host! Rachel is soaking in the stardom of being a Broadway diva - autographs, photos, rumors of a Tony nomination. Rachel has signed with a fancy high power agent who doesn't seem to think that Rachel has much of a future beyond Fanny, leaving the Broadway diva shocked. Kurt informs Blaine that a wealthy socialite (Shirley MacLaine) is coming, and he's been picked to perform for her - and he's recruiting his fiance to join him in singing "Story of My Life" by One Direction. Santana and Mercedes chat as Mercedes laments about how her record company doesn't hear her sound, while Santana laments having no real direction, thus prompting Mercedes to ask Santana to help her with her music - channel the power of "River Deep, Mountain High" y'all. Rachel goes about her Broadway schedule, while performing "Wake Me Up" by Avicii as she ponders her future beyond Fanny, which seems empty. After the show, Rachel is approached by someone from FOX about auditioning for a pilot for them, but the audition is happening at the same time as a performance, leaving our Broadway diva with a big dilemma. ..Does this diva need her stage or is she seeing the glitz and glamour of Hollywood?

Brian J. Smith, The Glass Menagerie - Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

Estelle Parsons, The Velocity of Autumn, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Mark Rylance, nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for Richard III and for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for Twelfth Knight

Tim Carroll, Twelfth Night - Best Direction of a Play

Many of this year's nominees have earned their very first nods, but even more will be making a return to the Tony Awards in June. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a list of this year's acting nominees, who are returning for more Tonys love in 2014!

Not all of the 2014 nominees have walked down this Tonys road before- in fact, quite a few of them earned their first nominations this morning. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a list of this year's acting nominees, who are celebrating their Tonys news for first time!

Jason Robert Brown, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre and Best Orchestrations for The Bridges of Madison County

Beowulf Boritt, Act One, Best Scenic Design of a Play

We've caught Tony fever here at BroadwayWorld.com, and it's spreading! All day BroadwayWord has been catching up with the 2014 nominees to find out their initial reactions to the news- and some of them shared some real gems. Below we bring you the top ten things that we learned from this year's nominees. Click here for a full list of reactions!