Nia Vardalos News

Happy Holidays Everyone! Well ... here it is ... our BIGGEST CD coverage EVER and just in time for some last minute 'stocking-stuffer' inspiration ... even though a few of these are better used as coal, if you know what I mean.

Distracted, a world premiere play by Lisa Loomer, opened Sunday afternoon at the Mark Taper Forum in downtown Los Angeles. With Rita Wilson, wife of Tom Hanks, starring in the show, many Hollywood friends and turned out on the sunny afternoon for the play and after party, at the adjacent Dorothy Chandler Pavilion...

At every performance of Martin Short's hilarious new show, FAME BECOMES ME, Short's celebrity interview character Jiminy Glick plucks a celebrity out of the audience for an impromptu interview. On Tuesday, October 24th, Bette Midler will be Jiminy's latest victim. Also appearing this week are Dylan Baker, Tucker Carlson and Nia Vardalos.

More stars have been assembled for 'The 6th Annual 24 Hour Plays on Broadway,' which will take place on Monday, October 23rd at the American Airlines Theatre

Theatre veterans Jeremy Irons, John Stamos, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Victor Garber will join movie stars and TV such as Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Garner and Teri Hatcher for Unexpected Dreams: Songs From the Stars,' a new CD released by Rhino Records on April 25th

The production will star Josh Strickland as Tarzan, Jenn Gambatese as Jane, Merle Dandridge as Kala, Shuler Hensley as Kerchak, Chester Gregory II as Terk, Timothy Jerome as Professor Porter and Donnie Keshawarz as Clayton. Daniel Manche and Alex Rutherford will alternate in the role of Young Tarzan.

Disney has announced that Tarzan will being previews on March 24, to open on May 10, 2006.

Join Connie Stevens, Jayne Meadows, Lindsay Wagner, Mr. Blackwell, Kate Linder, Christopher Showerman as Rose Marie (Sally Rogers of the Dick Van Dyke Show) and everyone's favorite TV dad, Dick Van Patten (Eight is Enough) share their experiences of 1940's live radio and welcome the renowned LIQUID RADIO PLAYERS as they take center stage at the newly renovated ACME Comedy Theatre in Hollywood with a 1940-style improvised radio show that needs to be heard to be believed.

On Wednesdays in October, Vaudeville will rise from the dead and take center stage at the newly renovated ACME Comedy Theatre in Hollywood with a darkly comic Vaudeville-style revue called VaudeVile: Theatre du Grotesque!