Natalie King News

Lifetime, cable's number one destination for original movies across all key demographics, including Total Viewers, continued its impressive run of movie premieres with Saturday's launch of The Gabby Douglas Story (#GoGoldOrGoHome), scoring 3.8 million viewers, according to Nielsen Research. Immediately following the movie at 10:00 pm, the hour-long documentary Beyond the Headlines: The Gabby Douglas Story averaged 3.0 million Total Viewers. The Gabby Douglas Story was the most-tweeted program of the night across all of television (excluding sports), according to Nielsen SocialGuide.

Imani Hakim (Everybody Hates Chris, Love Reign Over Me) and Sydney Mikayla (Whitney) have been cast to share the role of two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Gabby Douglas in the Lifetime Original Movie The Gabby Douglas Story (working title). Produced by Sony Pictures Television, the movie details the inspiring true story of the international gymnastics phenomenon, who overcame overwhelming odds to become the first African American ever to be named Individual All-round Champion in artistic gymnastics at the Olympics. Mikayla will portray Douglas during her childhood while Hakim will play the gold medalist as a teenager and young adult. The real-life Gabby Douglas will appear in the film, which also stars Peabody Award-winning actress Regina King (Southland, Ray) and Golden Globe(R) and Emmy(R)-winner S. Epatha Merkerson (Law & Order). The Gabby Douglas Story will film in Manitoba, Canada, and debut in 2014.

Uptown Players continues its tenth season with its annual fundraiser Broadway Our Way: Divas Rising! running May 6 - 15, 2011. The Uptown divas return for another entertaining evening of Broadway music with plenty of twists, laughs and surprises. Providing host duties for this year's festivities will be the incredibly funny Paul J. Williams.

Uptown Players continues its tenth season with its annual fundraiser Broadway Our Way: Divas Rising! running May 6 - 15, 2011. The Uptown divas return for another entertaining evening of Broadway music with plenty of twists, laughs and surprises. Providing host duties for this year's festivities will be the incredibly funny Paul J. Williams.

Uptown Players continues its tenth season with its annual fundraiser Broadway Our Way: Divas Rising! running May 6 - 15, 2011. The Uptown divas return for another entertaining evening of Broadway music with plenty of twists, laughs and surprises. Providing host duties for this year's festivities will be the incredibly funny Paul J. Williams.

Uptown Players continues its tenth season with its annual fundraiser Broadway Our Way: Divas Rising! running May 6 - 15, 2011. The Uptown divas return for another entertaining evening of Broadway music with plenty of twists, laughs and surprises. Providing host duties for this year's festivities will be the incredibly funny Paul J. Williams.

Donna Murphy, star of the upcoming production of ANYONE CAN WHISTLE at City Center, recently sat down with the New York Daily News to discuss her feeling on the production and her upcoming Disney film.

Donna Murphy, Sutton Foster and Raúl Esparza will star in Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents' Anyone Can Whistle, the final New York City Center Encores! production of the 2009-2010 season. Anyone Can Whistle, running for five performances April 8 - 11, will be directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw with musical direction by Rob Berman.

Anyone Can Whistle is the final New York City Center Encores! production of the 2009-2010 season and will run for five performances April 8 - 11. The show will be directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw with musical direction by Rob Berman.

Raúl Esparza, Edward Hibbert, Jeff Blumenkrantz and John Ellison Conlee will join Donna Murphy and Sutton Foster in Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents' Anyone Can Whistle, the final New York City Center Encores! production of the 2009-2010 season. Anyone Can Whistle, running for five performances April 8 - 11, will be directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw with musical direction by Rob Berman.

Uptown Players kicks off its ninth season with its annual fundraiser Broadway Our Way: Valley of the Divas, held January 15 - 24, 2010.

Dallas Theater Center proudly announces Acting Company member Sean Hennigan in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge for the first time in this year's production of the perennial holiday favorite A Christmas Carol.

Uptown Players kicks off its ninth season with its annual fundraiser Broadway Our Way: Valley of the Divas, held January 15 - 24, 2010.

Dallas Theater Center proudly announces Acting Company member Sean Hennigan in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge for the first time in this year's production of the perennial holiday favorite A Christmas Carol.

Dallas Theater Center proudly announces Acting Company member Sean Hennigan in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge for the first time in this year's production of the perennial holiday favorite A Christmas Carol.

New York City Center's Encores! 2007 Season pays tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the first Ziegfeld Follies, kicking off the celebration with Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's legendary 1971 multiple Tony Award-winner, Follies, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, with music direction by Eric Stern. Follies will play for six performances, from February 8 - 12 at New York City Center, 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues.

With the casting of Colin Donnell as Young Ben and Natalie King Smith as Young Dee Dee, casting for the eagerly anticipated Encores! production of Follies is now complete.

Broadway Our Way: Dirty Rotten Divas bends the genders at Uptown Players with limited success.

The Contemporary Theatre of Dallas (CTD) hits solid gold with an impeccable production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.