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Revivals will often utilize the ticket selling power that comes with hiring a household name to lead a production - as was the case for the announced revival of SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, which was set to feature Nicole Kidman and James Franco and open this spring.
Tony Award-winner Hugh Jackman will close the successful BACK ON BROADWAY limited engagement today.
2012 is quickly approaching, and in celebration of the new year, BroadwayWorld will celebrate 2011 with lists of our biggest features of the year! Below are BroadwayWorld.com's most popular videos from 2011 (in no particular order)! Catch up below on anything that you might have missed from the past year on BroadwayWorld.com!
First Family Entertainment and New Wimbledon Theatre present Dame Edna Everage in this year's pantomime Dick Whittington. The original desperate housewife turned global gigastar makes her pantomime debut at New Wimbledon Theatre this Christmas.
The Roy Arias Studios & Theaters, located in the Times Square Arts Center at 300 West 43rd Street, will present the first Times Square International Theater Festival from January 16 to 22, 2012.
Bravo wraps up 2011 in hilarious fashion with Kathy Griffin's unprecedented fourth hour-long special of the year, 'Kathy Griffin: Tired Hooker' airing on Tuesday, December 20 at 10p.m. et/pt.
NBC will join forces with the WWE once again to honor the United States Armed Forces with the fourth annual holiday telecast of 'WWE Tribute to the Troops.' This year, WWE's biggest Superstars, Divas and special guest stars, will travel to Fort Bragg, North Carolina for the hour-long special airing Saturday, December 17 at 9 p.m. on NBC.
Bravo wraps up 2011 in hilarious fashion with Kathy Griffin's unprecedented fourth hour-long special of the year, 'Kathy Griffin: Tired Hooker' airing on Tuesday, December 20 at 10p.m. et/pt.
Opera San Jose continues its 28th season with the romantic tragedy La traviata. An unequivocal masterpiece based on the short life of the most famous of all Parisian courtesans, this is Verdi's most popular opera.
New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), which has supported the advancement of women in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years, will present their 31th annual Muse Awards at a gala luncheon to be held Wednesday, December 7th at the New York Hilton.
NBC will join forces with the WWE once again to honor the United States Armed Forces with the fourth annual holiday telecast of 'WWE Tribute to the Troops.' This year, WWE's biggest Superstars, Divas and special guest stars, will travel to Fort Bragg, North Carolina for the hour-long special airing Saturday, December 17 at 9 p.m. on NBC.
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas, Connecticut's beloved holiday tradition, returns to Hartford Stage for its 14th season. Adapted and originally directed for the stage by Michael Wilson, and now directed by Hartford Stage resident director Maxwell Williams, Dickens' timeless inspiring masterpiece runs from November 25 through December 30, 2011.
Tony Award-winner Hugh Jackman is currently starring in Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway, playing through January 1 2012 at The Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street). Accompanied by an 18-piece orchestra, Hugh Jackman performs a personal selection of his favorite musical numbers that reflect on the stage and film star's remarkable life and career, from The Boy from Oz to Hollywood. Jackman recently visited ANDERSON, where he was introduced to Cooper's stage manger, who also happens to resemble the Aussie. Click below to watch the video!
Theatre on Fire opens its seventh season at the Charlestown Working Theater with the rock n' roll rhythm of MOJO.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman today announced that the agency would award 863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country.
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas, Connecticut's beloved holiday tradition, returns to Hartford Stage for its 14th season. Adapted and originally directed for the stage by Michael Wilson, and now directed by Hartford Stage resident director Maxwell Williams, Dickens' timeless inspiring masterpiece runs from November 25 through December 30, 2011.
Showtime Networks Inc. has named Stephen Espinoza as its new Executive Vice President, General Manager, Showtime Sports and Event Programming.
Lincoln Center Theater's free-to-the-public Platform Series, a forum for public discussion between Lincoln Center Theater artists and interested theatergoers, continues its 14th season on Thursday, November 10, at 6:00pm with a pre-performance talk with J.T. Rogers and Bartlett Sher, the Playwright and Director of LCT's new production of Blood and Gifts currently in previews at the Mitzi E. Newhouse.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, actress Nicole Kidman is set to join the cast of the upcoming film, MY WILD LIFE, directed by Philip Noyce.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, actress Anne Hathaway is set to produce and star in Paramount's upcoming film, PUZZLER. Hathaway's co-producers on the project will be Adam Schulman, Sarah Perlman and Stefan Sonnenfeld.
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