John Travolta News

The Baltimore Sun is reporting that Elijah Kelley has been cast as Seaweed in the upcoming film version of Hairspray

'High School Musical's Zac Efron has been cast as dance show prince Link Larkin in the upcoming film version of Hairspray

Over three decades after opening on Broadway, the nostalgic 40s-set musical Over Here will be jumping across the pond this November to open in a new West End production with Donna McKechnie among its stars

The Broadway company of Hairspray will soon be welcoming three new cast members--including teen star Haylie Duff.

17 year-old Nikki Blonsky of Great Neck, NY was announced for the role of heavyset heroine Tracy Turnblad in the upcoming film version of Hairspray on tonight's 'Entertainment Tonight'

After a year-long search across America, Canada, England and Australia, Entertainment Tonight will exclusively reveal, in a special report, the girl who will star as Tracy Turnblad in the movie musical of Hairspray.

Hairspray will play its final performance at the Luxor Las Vegas on Sunday, June 11th

Amanda Bynes has been cast as Penny Pingleton in the upcoming film version of Hairspray

Blake Hammond will succeed John Pinette as Edna Turnblad in Broadway's Hairspray on May 30th

A Chorus Line, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical, proudly announces the 2006 cast.

Comedian DARRELL HAMMOND best known for his impressions of Bill Clinton, and the entire Bush cabinet (Cheney, Ashcroft, and Rumsfeld) on NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' has joined the roster for next Monday's COMEDY CARES 3 - benefit for Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS at Caroline's on Broadway.

According to 'Entertainment Tonight,' Billy Crystal will star opposite John Travolta as Wilbur Turnblad in the film version of Hairspray

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The 78th Annual Academy Awards took place on Sunday, March 5, 2006. It was Hollywood's biggest night of the year, but with the worlds of stage and screen colliding more often by the day - how could we resist bringing you photo coverage of the night? We couldn't!

John Travolta and Queen Latifah have signed on to star in New Line Cinema's upcoming feature film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical 'Hairspray.'

One Heart at a Time, a new musical about George Washington Carver, is slated to come to Broadway this fall

A second weekly column of news and ideas for Baltimore area theatre-goers. This will appear (I hope) weekly on Tuesdays. Charles Shubow's column, Baltimore Backstage, will appear on Fridays

The previously-announced nationwide casting search for the film version of Hairspray will come to Atlanta, New York and Chicago

Producers of the upcoming Hairspray film have announced a nationwide casting search for the roles of Tracy, Seaweed and Little Inez