Jerry Stiller News

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

Why would sell-out crowds drive through lightning, thunder, floods and mudslides just to hear this crazy woman rant? During the height of the January monsoon, Jackie Hoffman's solo show, The Kvetching Continues, played to rave reviews and SRO audiences at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Renberg Theatre.

The Entertainment Industry Health Insurance Coalition, coordinated by The Actors' Fund of America, announces that Governor George E. Pataki has signed into law legislation creating the New York State Insurance Continuation Assistance Demonstration Project. This program will help income-eligible entertainment industry workers and certain dislocated factory workers in the State to keep their current health insurance coverage through COBRA premium assistance.

Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche star in Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Twentieth Century. Click in to see BroadwayWorld.com's red carpet coverage.