Michael Cerveris News

Sacha Baron Cohen--whose film Borat has become a pop culture phenomenon over the last 2 weeks--has been confirmed to play the role of duplicitous barber Pirelli in the upcoming DreamWorks film version of Sweeney Todd.

More stars have joined the line-up of rotating actors playing the role of 'The Father in Tim Crouch's an oak tree

Ken Davenport and Robyn Goodman proudly announce the long running off-Broadway show, Altar Boyz (now also in the midst of a National Tour), has endorsed Attorney General Eliot Spitzer for Governor of New York. No other musical has ever endorsed a candidate.

A song list has been announced for The Country Music Association (CMA)'s second annual 'Broadway Meets Country' gala benefit concert, featuring a star-studded line-up of Broadway talent and country music stars

Variety reports that Helen Bonham Carter has signed on to the Sweeney Todd film to star opposite Johnny Depp as the devilish Mrs. Lovett.

This summer, BroadwayWorld premiered the stunning Broadway digital art of Norn Cutson. Now, Norn is proud to share his portrait of the cast of the recent hit revival of Sweeney Todd!

More stars have signed on to the upcoming 'Broadway Meets Country' benefit concert, which will be presented by the Country Music Association (CMA), on Monday, October 30 at 7:30pm/CST

Bidders for the 20th Annual Broadway Flea Market's Grand Auction will have the chance to obtain a pornographically-minded puppet from Avenue Q

Tony Award-winner Jane Krakowski (Nine, London Guys and Dolls, 'Ally McBeal') will join two-time CMA Entertainer of The Year and country music superstar, Barbara Mandrell to co-host the second annual 'Broadway Meets Country' gala concert in Nashville on Monday, October 30

Applications for the 2007 Tony Randall Grant are now being accepted. The Tony Randall Grant is a $100,000 award given annually to a Tri-State area, non-profit Equity theatre company for the production of a classic play, an adaptation of a classic play, or a work inspired by the classics.

More stars have been added to the Celebrity Table of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' 20th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, which will take place on Sunday, September 24th

The upcoming film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the demon barber of the title, will begin filming in February of 2007

Michael Cerveris, Lisa Kron, Olympia Dukakis, as well as Anna Deveare Smith herself, will read from Smith's Letters to a Young Artist on September 25th

More stars and more auctions have been added for BC/EFA's 20th Annual Broadway Flea Market

Donna Lynne Champlin Reprises Role At New York Musical Theatre Festival

All-Star Benefit Concert to Feature Top Country Artists and Broadway Performers Kicking Off 'Nashville Celebrates Country,' a Week of Activities Leading up to 'The 40th Annual CMA Awards'

Michael Cerveris, fellow Sweeney Todd cast members such as Manoel Felciano and Lauren Molina, as well as Duncan Sheik and Nellie McKay, performed in Fleet Street on the Bowery on August 21st

CERVERIS, the cast of Sweeney Todd and theatrical and recording stars Nellie McKay (The Threepenny Opera) and Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening) will perform for one night only at the Bowery Ballroom on Monday, August 21st at 8pm

DreamWorks Studios announced today that Johnny Depp has been set to star and Tim Burton to direct Sweeney Todd, the award-winning Stephen Sondheim musical thriller

CERVERIS, the cast of Sweeney Todd and theatrical and recording stars Nellie McKay (The Threepenny Opera) and Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening) will perform for one night only at the Bowery Ballroom on Monday, August 21, 2006 at 8pm