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PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT to Arrive at Philly Academy of Music, 2/26

The first national tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical is coming to Philadelphia at the Academy of Music from February 26 through March 3. Part of the Broadway Season presented by the Kimmel Center and the Shubert Organization, the press opening is scheduled for Tues. Feb. 26 at 7:30 pm.

Photo Flash: First Look at Virginia Stage Company's FROG KISS

FROG KISS, the award-winning critical and audience favorite of the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival, begins its world premier performances on January 15th at the historic Wells Theatre, home of Virginia Stage Company, Norfolk,. This saucy and swinging musical with book and lyrics by Charles Leipart and music by Eric Schorr, is adapted from the novella The Frog Prince, A Fairytale for Consenting Adults by Stephen Mitchell. Opening Night is Friday, January 18th with performances through February 3rd. Check out photos of the cast in action below!

HBO to Adapt Lydia Diamond's STICK FLY for Small Screen

According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO is adapting the Broadway play Stick Fly by Lydia Diamond, who will also write the script for the hourlong TV drama and executive produce with former collaborators Alicia Keys and Nelle Nugent.

PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT Comes to the Orpheum, January 8-13

Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical, the outrageously fun show about three friends on the roadtrip of a lifetime, will make its national tour debut at Hennepin Theatre Trust's Orpheum Theatre, January 8-13, 2013. Called a "rollicking crowd-pleaser in sequins" by Variety, this international hit with more than 500 2011 Tony Award-winning costumes features a parade of dance floor favorites including "It's Raining Men," "Finally" and "I Will Survive." Single tickets are on sale now. Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical is presented by Hennepin Theatre Trust as part of its 2012/13 Broadway Across America-Minneapolis season. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit HennepinTheatreTrust.org or call 1.800.982.2787.

Kennedy Center Opera House Opens WHITE CHRISTMAS Tonight

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents a stage adaptation of the beloved classic film, Irving Berlin's White Christmas in the Kennedy Center Opera House. Bring your loved ones for a heart-warming celebration of Americana from tonight, December 11, 2012 to January 6, 2013. The press opening is Thursday, December 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Virginia Stage Company Presents FROG KISS, 1/15-2/3

Virginia Stage Company announced today the cast and creative team has been set for the upcoming World Premiere of Frog Kiss, with book and lyrics by Charles Leipart and music by Eric Schorr, to run January 15-February 3, 2013 at the Wells Theatre in downtown Norfolk, Virginia.

WHITE CHRISTMAS Comes to Columbus, Now thru 11/25

Irving Berlin's White Christmas, the stage adaptation of the beloved classic film is coming to Columbus this holiday season. Bring your loved ones to a heart-warming celebration of Americana tonight, November 20-25 at the Ohio Theatre (39 E. State St.).

Kennedy Center Opera House Opens WHITE CHRISTMAS, 12/11

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents a stage adaptation of the beloved classic film, Irving Berlin's White Christmas in the Kennedy Center Opera House. Bring your loved ones for a heart-warming celebration of Americana from December 11, 2012 to January 6, 2013. The press opening is Thursday, December 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Catherine Zeta-Jones Narrates THE RUNAWAY BUNNY, Michael Douglas Narrates THE STORY OF BABAR on CD, Released Today

GPR Records (Glen Roven, Peter Fitzgerald, Richard Cohen, artistic directors)releases a children's CD of Catherine Zeta-Jones narrating The Runaway Bunny, based on the best selling children's classic by Margaret Wise Brown. Michael Douglas narrates everyone's favorite elephant - The Story of Babar - The Little Elephant, a 1931 classic written by Jean de Brunhoff. Also on the CD will be English Baritone Mark Stone singing Goodnight Moon also by Margaret Wise Brown. The CD, distributed by Naxos, will be released today, November 15th and will be available at www.GPRRecords.com, Amazon, and iTunes.

BWW Reviews: WHITE CHRISTMAS: Nostalgic, Sentimental, Romantic AND an Irving Berlin Score

You would have to be some sort of modern-day Ebenezer Scrooge-mean and spiteful, unfeeling and cold-not to be totally captivated by Irving Berlin's White Christmas, the exuberant stage musical based on the classic holiday film that many hold dear and now onstage at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Andrew Jackson Hall through Sunday, November 18.

Broadway Leading Man David Elder Has a WHITE CHRISTMAS Homecoming in Nashville

For David Elder, making the trip to Nashville to star in the national touring company of Irving Berlin's White Christmas-the stage musical based on the holiday film favorite-is a homecoming of sorts. For it was in Music City that the talented young man from Texas first set off on his circuitous route to stardom.

Catherine Zeta-Jones Narrates THE RUNAWAY BUNNY, Michael Douglas Narrates THE STORY OF BABAR on CD, 11/15

GPR Records (Glen Roven, Peter Fitzgerald, Richard Cohen, artistic directors) will release a children's CD of Catherine Zeta-Jones narrating The Runaway Bunny, based on the best selling children's classic by Margaret Wise Brown. Michael Douglas narrates everyone's favorite elephant - The Story of Babar - The Little Elephant, a 1931 classic written by Jean de Brunhoff. Also on the CD will be English Baritone Mark Stone singing Goodnight Moon also by Margaret Wise Brown. The CD, distributed by Naxos, will be released on November 15th and will be available at www.GPRRecords.com, Amazon, and iTunes.

PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT Announces Full National Tour Itinerary!

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert played its final performance on Broadway on June 24, 2012, after 23 previews and 526 performances. Now, according to an Equity casting notice, a national tour for the show will launch from Minneapolis on January 8.

WHITE CHRISTMAS Comes to Columbus, 11/20-25

Irving Berlin's White Christmas, the stage adaptation of the beloved classic film is coming to Columbus this holiday season. Bring your loved ones to a heart-warming celebration of Americana November 20-25 at the Ohio Theatre (39 E. State St.).

REBECCA Producers Have 10 Weeks to Raise $4.5 Million

Following REBECCA's cancellation on Broadway and the news that financier and stock broker Mark C. Hotton was arrested yesterday for his role in the show's collapse, Bloomberg reports that REBECCA's producers now have 10 weeks-until Dec. 31-to raise $4.5 million or face returning millions more to their investors.

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