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BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that James Lipton, executive producer, writer, and host of the Bravo cable television series Inside the Actors Studio, has died at age 93.

Levi Kreis will be performing an acoustic set this Monday with songs featured from his Broadway album Broadway At The Keys along with his original music which has been featured on primetime tv shows such as The Vampire Diaries, So You Think You Can Dance, Sons of Anarchy, and more. Levi's Broadway At The Keys Tour was voted by LA Theatre Critics as the #1 Concert/Cabaret of 2017 and portions of the show will be featured during the evening.

The Golden Raspberry Awards (also known in short terms as Razzies and Razzie Awards) is a parody award show honoring the worst of cinematic under-achievements. This year's nominations have been announced, and the cast of the Cats film has made the list in many categories.

Emotive Fruition (Artistic Director, Thomas Dooley) has announced a live poetry event, LET LIGHTNING SET US ON FIRE, a one-night-only staged reading celebrating Valentine's Day with dramatic poems of modern love.

BroadwayCon 2020 will host an exclusive panel with award-winning casting director Jen Rudin and Broadway actor Bhavesh Patel. The panel will take place Saturday, January 25, 2020 at 3 p.m and is open to all BroadwayCon attendees. The panel features a lively chat based on Rudin's book Confessions of a Casting Director (HarperCollins) with audition stories from a casting director's perspective and Patel's experiences as a Broadway actor.

The crooner brings his sweet jazz stylings and swing beats to The Green Room 42, along with some Christmas carols and plenty of holiday cheer.

 The University of Texas at Austin, one of the world's leading universities, and Oak View Group (OVG), the global venue development, advisory, and investment company for the sports and live entertainment industries and Live Nation Entertainment, the world's leading live events company, today announced the official groundbreaking and start of construction on the Moody Center, a new multi-purpose, state-of-the-art privately financed sports and entertainment arena in Austin, the 'live music capital of the world.'

The Emojiland kingdom is now complete! Arborhouse Productions & Visceral Entertainment (Michael Chase Gosselin and Tim Sulka) today announced that Max Crumm (Grease, Disaster) will take on the role of the Man In Business Suit Levitating emoji, along with Jacob Dickey (Aladdin Broadway as Aladdin) as Smiling Face with Sunglasses, (aka a?oeSunnya??), Dwelvan David (Finding Neverland & The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Tours) as Guardsman, Heather Makalani (Aladdin) as Kissy Face, Tanisha Moore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Tour) as Woman Dancing and Jordan Fife Hunt (A Chorus Line First Revival Tour) as Man Dancing.

Indian Ranch announced that Get The Led Out will return on Saturday, July 25th and Grand Funk Railroad will perform on Sunday, August 9th during the 2020 Yuengling Summer Concert Series. Tickets go on-sale this Friday, November 22nd at 10:00 AM and the Insiders Club Presale will take place Thursday, November 21st at 10:00 AM at www.indianranch.com.

Entertainment icon Dwight Yoakam returns to the Van Wezel on Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 8 p.m., bringing his unmistakable voice to Sarasota once more. Yoakam was recently inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and is set to receive the prestigious President's Award at the 67th annual BMI Country Awards on November 12 at BMI's Nashville office. He has also been honored with the a?oeArtist of the Year Awarda?? from the Americana Music Association, the most prestigious award offered by the organization. Yoakam's SiriusXM channel, Dwight Yoakam & The Bakersfield Beat, is entirely curated by Yoakam and features music from the icon's extensive career, as well as celebrates the Bakersfield sound and California Country and has seen esteemed guests as Bob Weir, Post Malone, Beck, Emmylou Harris, Jakob Dylan, Bob Lefsetz and more. This December, Yoakam will make his Wynn Las Vegas debut with a six-night residency at the Encore Theater titled a?oeAn Evening with Dwight Yoakam & The Bakersfield Beat.a??

UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents Max Richter on Saturday, Oct. 12, at 8 p.m. at Royce Hall. Tickets for $28a?"$59 are available now at cap.ucla.edu, 310-825-2101 and the Royce Hall box office.

A pair of shipwrecked pirate perverts. A psychologist with a suspicious client. A drama student with a seance candle. An estranged son circling the widowed step-mother. All that from four writers, two actors, and one director... Anthology is back.

a??a??a??a??a??a??a??With his roots firmly planted in bluegrass and honky tonk music, Dwight Yoakam continues to bring his own brand of 'hillbilly' music to his ever-faithful fans. Yoakum performs from among such favorites as 'Guitars, Cadillacs,' 'Streets of Bakersfield,' 'Honky Tonk Man' and 'and more at Mayo Performing Arts Center on Thursday, August 22 at 8 pm. 

The Hucksters is an acid-tongued exploration of a casual sexual encounter gone awry. A man and a woman meet after not seeing each other for years and what starts off as a romantic, booze fueled evening, slowly begins to unravel into a psychological mystery as an incident from their shared history rears its head. The mistakes of the past become the horrors of the present as these two broken people dig into their previous lives and the lies that lead them to each other.

This cast has found where they belong! Mean Girls is well into their second year on Broadway and we're taking a look at the current class at North Shore High School. This cast has found where they belong! Mean Girls is well into their second year on Broadway and we're taking a look at the current class at North Shore High School.

SAG-AFTRA members Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Jennifer Aniston and Regina King are throwing their support behind the union's #StrikeBBH campaign to ensure fair wages and safe sets for actors who work on commercials. They join Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Scarlett Johansson, Octavia Spencer, Sterling K. Brown and Alec Baldwin in supporting the strike, issuing a joint statement that reads, "We stand united with our fellow performers who work in commercials, who seek fair wages, safe sets, access to health care and a meaningful pension. It's time for advertisers and agencies like Bartle Bogle Hegarty, Inc. (BBH) to do the right thing. When you make an ad, make it union." The ad agency is attempting to illegally abandon its union contract with SAG-AFTRA after almost 20 years.

Indian Ranch announced Dwight Yoakam will return to Webster, MA on Sunday, August 18th for the 2019 Summer Concert Series. Tickets go on sale this Friday, February 8th at 10:00 AM; an Insiders Club Presale will take place Thursday, February 7th at 10:00 AM at www.indianranch.com.

The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center is proud to announce country and bluegrass singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam will play the Fox Cities P.A.C. Friday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m.

Colin Farrell and Michelle Dockery have joined the cast of  the British crime drama "Toff Guys," according to Variety. The film stars Matthew McConaughey and Guy Ritchie will direct.