Katie Holmes News

Daniel Radcliffe and Katie Holmes presented the 2010 Tony for Best Performance By A Featured Actress in a Play. The award was won by Scarlett Johansson for her role in A View From The Bridge.

The New York Times reports today that the Tony Award statuette has grown up for 2010. Where the statue used to be 3 1/4 inches tall, weighing in at a 1 1/2 pounds, this year's prize is larger by almost double: standing 5 inches high and weighing 3 1/2 pounds.

In a New York Times feature out today, the longtime Tony Awards ceremony production designer, Steve Bass, reveals what is involved in translating a live Broadway aesthetic for the screen and what audiences can expect this year.

Yesterday, June 9, the Empire State Building hosted a reception in honor of the 2010 Tony nominees on the famed rooftop observatory. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the photo op and to take in the view.

The Tony Awards today announced the full line-up of presenters and performers who are scheduled to take the stage at the 64th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The 2010 Tony Awards will air live on CBS, on Sunday, June 13th 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT time delay) and are presented by the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.

People.com is reporting that Katie Holmes and Daniel Radcliffe will be presenting together at Sunday's Tony Awards ceremony.

Lincoln Center Festival 2010 is sponsored by American Express. Lincoln Center Festival 2010 is also made possible by Nancy A. Marks, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Isilon Systems, The Skirball Foundation, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Katzenberger Foundation, Inc.

Zoe Wanamaker and David Suchet will star in the Apollo Theatre's production of ALL MY SONS. The play, by Arthur Miller, will begin May 27th, 2010 and is directed by Olivier award winner Howard Davies. Davies won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director for his work on ALL MY SONS on the West End. Wanamaker will play Kate Keller, while Suchet will play the husband, Joe Keller. Additional casting is yet to be announced.

MICHAEL RISPOLI ('Kick Ass'), MARIO CANTONE ('Sex and the City'), ROBERT CUCCIOLI ('Jekyll & Hyde') lead a star studded cast in a special industry reading of VINCENT GOGLIORMELLA & CHARLES MESSINA'S screenplay ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE A BROOKLYN CHRISTMAS on May 1 at 45 BLEECKER STREET

MICHAEL RISPOLI ('Kick Ass'), MARIO CANTONE ('Sex and the City'), ROBERT CUCCIOLI ('Jekyll & Hyde') lead a star studded cast in a special industry reading of VINCENT GOGLIORMELLA & CHARLES MESSINA'S screenplay ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE A BROOKLYN CHRISTMAS on May 1 at 45 BLEECKER STREET

Katie Holmes and husband, Tom Cruise dance while Katie sing's Whatever Lola Wants from the musical Damn Yankees at the A Fine Romance Benefit for The Motion Picture and Television fund. May 4th, 2010.

HISTORY(TM), which finished 2009 as one of the top 10 networks in adults 25-54 in all of cable television, and currently ranks the number one non-fiction network 2010 to date, today announced it will add 15 new original series and 10 tent pole specials to its roster. The announcement was made by Nancy Dubuc, President and General Manager for HISTORY. The network is increasing its investment in programming as it commits to moving into the top 5 in key demos during the 2010-11 season.

TV Guide Network and OK! Magazine have joined forces to celebrate Mother's Day 2010 in style with a star-studded collaborative feature that counts down the top ten hottest moms in Hollywood. The feature, appearing in both the magazine and on the network, rewards celebrity moms with top honors in a variety of fun categories, including the mom who hosts the best play dates, the most playful mom, the savviest mom-trepreneur, and the overall coolest celebrity mom in Hollywood. Find out which celebrity mommies top the list when 'Hollywood's Hottest Moms' appears in OK! Magazine nationwide Friday, April 30 and premieres on TV Guide Network Sunday, May 2 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.

According to published reports, former All My Sons star Katie Holmes will play Jacqueline Kennedy in a new television miniseries, 'The Kennedys' for the History Channel. The eight-hour miniseries - the first for the History Channel - will also star Greg Kinnear as John F. Kennedy. The series is written by Steve Kronish and directed by Jon Cassar, who collaborated on '24.' An air time is set for 2011.

TV Guide Network and OK! Magazine have joined forces to celebrate Mother's Day 2010 in style with a star-studded collaborative feature that counts down the top ten hottest moms in Hollywood. The feature, appearing in both the magazine and on the network, rewards celebrity moms with top honors in a variety of fun categories, including the mom who hosts the best play dates, the most playful mom, the savviest mom-trepreneur, and the overall coolest celebrity mom in Hollywood. Find out which celebrity mommies top the list when 'Hollywood's Hottest Moms' appears in OK! Magazine nationwide Friday, April 30 and premieres on TV Guide Network Sunday, May 2 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.

The North American tour of MARY POPPINS celebrated its one year anniversary yesterday having opened in Chicago at the Cadillac Palace Theatre on March 25, 2009. During the past year the production has generated over $52 million at the box office and welcomed more than 762,000 theatergoers in eight cities, making it the best-selling and most attended new touring Broadway show in 2009.

After flying high in Los Angeles for 13-weeks, MARY POPPINS folded her umbrella at the Ahmanson Theatre for the final time on Sunday, February 7. During the premiere engagement, the production played 100 performances, entertained over 188,000 theater patrons, grossed $13.7 million at the box office and achieved the milestone of being Los Angeles' highest grossing theatrical event in 2009.

Before the hit stage musical MARY POPPINS' three-month-long tour stop at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre comes to an end on February 7, BroadwayWorld's Michael Lawrence Quintos sat down with Bolger for a nice, long chat about his year on tour, his stay in Los Angeles, his video blog stardom, and his future plans after he dances his final super-CALI-fragilistic jig.

In a story for Interview Magazine, Dianna Agron, who plays GLEE's resident dethroned head cheerleader Quinn Fabray, reveals that the producers for the Fox hit TV show were initially hesitant to cast her because she exuded too much innocence for the role of Quinn. 'They told me to come back with straight hair and to dress sexier," she says. "Later that week, I started work."

In this week's Variety, Gordon Cox writes about bringing A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE to Broadway.