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Last night, the 2015 June Briggs Awards honored Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS Executive Director Tom Viola, Al Roker, National 9/11 Memorial Museum Director Alice M. Greenwald, and Bounce Music and Entertainment President Dean Vali at The Eventi Hotel in NYC. Scroll down for photos from the event!

Briggs Inc. announced today the 2015 June Briggs Awards winners for Excellence in Destination Management Services. The awards honor New York City's outstanding businesses that have excelled in service and performance in the destination management and hospitality industry. The awards presentation will take place January 12, 2015 at 6pm at The Eventi Hotel (851 Avenue of the Americas, NYC).

Thanks to the efforts of the cast of Irving Berlin's HOLIDAY INN and the generosity of our Goodspeed's audience members, the theatre company has raised $23,935.58 this holiday season for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, it was announced today.

The Fred Ebb Foundation (Mitchell Bernard, Trustee) has announced that its 2014 donation to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will total $1.65 million dollars, marking the largest single contribution in BC/EFA history and bringing the foundation's total contribution to BC/EFA to $10 million since it began ten years ago.

For the first time in 10 years, Broadway Bares creator Jerry Mitchell will return to the show's director's chair to helm what promises to be a scintillating and titillating 25th celebratory edition of Broadway Bares. Join Jerry and 200 of Broadway's sexiest dancers for two performances only on Sunday, June 21, at New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom, located in Manhattan Center. Show times are 9:30 pm and midnight.

DSW Inc. has partnered with Broadway's Tony Award-winning Best Musical - Kinky Boots, on an exclusive collection. The Kinky Boots Collection, to be sold at the 34th Street location in New York City, was curated in the spirit of the show and celebrates the power that comes with self-expression and being true to yourself. The collection takes its cue from the show's larger-than-life costumes and iconic boots, and has something for everyone with styles ranging from vibrant heels to fringed boots.

Surprise! Perez Hilton just unveiled an early Christmas present - a music video of him singing 'My Simple Christmas Wish (Rich, Famous & Powerful)' to support Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' CAROLS FOR A CURE. Watch below!

The 26th annual edition of Gypsy of the Year raised a record-breaking $5,229,611 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS thanks to six weeks of fundraising by 64 Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring companies.

The 26th annual edition of Gypsy of the Year, to be presented today, December 8 (4:30 PM) and tomorrow, December 9 (2 PM) at the New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street, NYC), will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking musical The Wiz and feature performances by the uber-talented 'gypsies' of 12 Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.

Today we turn our attention to a Golden Age master who was celebrated earlier this week via PETER PAN LIVE! and rightly so given this is now his centennial year, Adolph Green.

The 26th annual edition of Gypsy of the Year, to be presented Monday, December 8 (4:30 PM) and Tuesday, December 9 (2 PM) at the New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street, NYC), will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking musical The Wiz and feature performances by the uber-talented 'gypsies' of 12 Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.

CBS, the top-rated network in Daytime for 28 consecutive years, celebrates Thanksgiving with special themed episodes across the entire daypart, including holiday fare from LET'S MAKE A DEAL, THE PRICE IS RIGHT, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL and THE TALK.

CBS, the top-rated network in Daytime for 28 consecutive years, celebrates Thanksgiving with special themed episodes across the entire daypart, including holiday fare from LET'S MAKE A DEAL, THE PRICE IS RIGHT, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL and THE TALK.

An amazing fundraising auction occurred at IF/THEN over the weekend when Idina Menzel offered audience members the chance to join her in singing “Let It Go” from the Oscar winning animated film FROZEN on-stage at the Richard Rodgers theatre, raising $4,800 for BC/EFA.

Jesse L. Martin, Billy Porter, David Rockefeller, Jr., and Stephen DeRosa will salute NYU Tisch School of the Arts' Dean Emerita Mary Schmidt Campbell and Municipal Arts Society's President Vin Cipolla at The Acting Company's Gala tonight, November 17 at 360 Degrees Tribeca.

Tony Award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave participates in a special benefit reading from Blue Nights, an evocative memoir by acclaimed author, and close friend, Joan Didion.

Tony Award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave is in final rehearsals for a special benefit reading from Blue Nights, an evocative memoir by acclaimed author, and close friend, Joan Didion.

Below, Green shares with BroadwayWorld her history with the organization, what to expect from the concert and more!

Theatre royalty stops by PETER PAN LIVE! rehearsals!

Jesse L. Martin, Billy Porter, David Rockefeller, Jr., and Stephen DeRosa will salute NYU Tisch School of the Arts' Dean Emerita Mary Schmidt Campbell and Municipal Arts Society's President Vin Cipolla at The Acting Company's Gala on November 17 at 360 Degrees Tribeca.