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Network Television Pays Homage to Broadway

In a stroke of good-timing for Broadway fans, Reba McEntire, who's new 'Reba Duets' album just hit #1 on the Billboard Charts, will be joining Brian Stokes Mitchell for his debut concert at Carnegie Hall on October 15. Click in for the scoop on what audiences can expect from this almost-sold out event!

Los Angeles' celebrated Upright Cabaret presented another stellar night of outdoor entertainment at EAT on SUNSET at Gower Studios in Hollywood August 25 with performances from Valarie Pettiford, local favorite Audra Mae and Shoshana Bean...

Excerpts from the upcoming film version of Sweeney Todd will reportedly be shown at the Venice Film Festival next month

Tim Burton's eagerly anticipated screen version of Stephen Sondheim's classic 1979 musical Sweeney Todd will go in to a limited domestic release on December 21st, 2007, and open in wide release in the U.S. on January 11th, 2008

Johnny Depp may go from playing a demon barber to a famous vampire

Tim Burton, the director of the upcoming film version of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd, will appear at San Diego's Comic-Con to show clips from the movie musical

full casting has been announced for Jason Robert Brown's Tony Award-winning 1998 musical, Parade, which will make its London premiere this September at the Donmar Warehouse.

Filming for Tim Burton's upcoming film version of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp in the title role, was completed on May 11th.

Broadway and West End buzz surrounds The Boy Who Heard Music, a new rock musical by The Who's Pete Townshend that will have its premiere at the Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY as part of the New York Stage and Film festival.

Walt Disney Pictures premiered 'Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End' May 19 at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, with Broadway and Film stars clashing on the high seas...

Cry-Baby, the new musical based on the popular 1990 John Waters film, will open in New York this March.

Judy Kaye will star as Mrs. Lovett in the previously announced national tour of Sweeney Todd, which will play the Colonial Theatre from October 23rd through November 4th, 2007.

Producer Harvey Weinstein is planning a high-wattage star cast for the upcoming film version of Nine, directed by Tony- and Oscar-nominee Rob Marshall

Sweeney Todd: The Reunion Concert has been cancelled at the Kennedy Center

Tim Burton's upcoming film adaptation of the classic Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp, will go in to a limited domestic release on December 21st, 2007, and open in wide release in the U.S. on January 11th, 2008.

As I walk into the dark and slightly unsettling North London pub I scan the room for the type of person who'd play the role of 'The Elephant Man'. Marc Pickering is the actor I'm here to meet, but the grey hair atop the balding heads around me suggest he's upstairs rehearsing. With less than two weeks before the play hits the West End, it's not surprising the cast are busy. The story of the severely deformed John Merrick is a well known one and director Bruce Guthrie and his cast have a challenge ahead of them.

Filming of Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd film has resumed

Filming of Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd film has been halted due to the illness of star Johnny Depp's daughter.