Jerry Stiller News

John Travolta and producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron celebrated the Great Britain DVD release of Hairspray last week at a high tea reception at the SoHo Hotel in London.

The movie-musical Hairspray garnered three prestigious awards from the 11th Annual Hollywood Film Festival held October 17-22. The Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony will be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday, October 23. Winners include Craig Zadan and Neil Meron (Producers), John Travolta (Supporting Actor) and the Ensemble.

Dozens of movie and Broadway stars came out Thursday, October 4 for the opening night of the Manhattan Theatre Club Broadway production of Theresa Rebeck's Mauritius at the Biltmore Theatre.

Scores of the brightest lights on stage and screen will turn out in red carpet finery for a celebration of classic Hollywood, Hooray for Hollywood honoring the legendary Oscar winner Patricia Neal, Smith Barney's Shirl Penney and The Count and Countess de Lesseps, Stage 6 at Steiner Film Studios, 15 Washington Avenue at the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard. The gala evening is slated for November 1, with all proceeds going to The Auditory Oral School of New York, a non profit organization which specializes in teaching deaf and hard of hearing children to listen, talk, think and socialize.

BroadwayWorld.com has an exclusive look into the making of the movie musical HAIRSPRAY with this special Director's Diary written by Adam Shankman.

Ricky Ritzel and Leslie Anderson will play the Metropolitan Room (34 W. 22nd St.) on Saturday, July 28th at 8 PM.

The New York premiere screening of the highly anticipated movie musical Hairspray, based on the Broadway smash, took place at the Ziegfeld Theatre on July 16th, and BroadwayWorld was there!

Coincidence and a few days off from the Streisand European Tour, found actor Michael Arden and director Richard Jay-Alexander in London and invited by producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron to the splashy London premiere of the musical film version of HAIRSPRAY. The primary color carpet opening of the film was at the famed Odeon West End Cinema in Leicester Square. Richard, luckily for BWW, had his camera and snapped some pictures at the party at Studio Valbonne.

Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg was the latest guest actor to step into the acclaimed Naked Angels production of Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell

Rosie Perez and Kevin Chamberlin will star in a revival of Terrence McNally's The Ritz this fall as part of the Roundabout Theatre Company's 2007-2008 season

On May 17th, New Dramatists presented their 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award to three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee at the group's 58th Annual Benefit Luncheon, and BroadwayWorld was there for the star-studded gala event!

Rita Moreno opens the Cafe Carlyle's 2007 Winter/Spring Season with her show 'Little Tributes,' which began on January 16th

The Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of The Apple Tree, with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and book by Bock and Harnick, opened at Studio 54 on Thursday, December 14th after beginning previews on Tuesday, November 28th

Brian Gari will sign his new book We Bombed in New London--The Inside Story of the Broadway Musical Late Nite Comic at Barnes and Noble Lincoln Center at 7PM on Tuesday November 28th

BroadwayWorld.com has learned that Jerry Stiller will be making a cameo appearance in the upcoming Hairspray film in the role of 'Mr. Pinky.' Hairspray's creator John Waters will have a cameo in the film as well.

An all-star crowd attended the opening night of 'Well' at the Longacre Theatre in New York City. March 30, 2006.

Andre De Shields opened in the title role of Satch: The Life and Music of Louis Armstrong on June 20th at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, MA; the show will run through July 2nd

Harriet Harris has signed on to perform in the Cape Playhouse's July production of A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room

The annual gala honored Billy Crystal, Roger Berlind, Phyllis Newman, Neil Sedaka and more...

Productions of As You Like It and The Two Gentlemen of Verona will comprise the Public Theatre's summer season