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In an interview that aired this morning on NBC's TODAY, the fitness expert explained his disappearance.

There's no doubt that Jeanine Tesori's music in the musical "Violet", currently playing at ArtsWest, is stirring and powerful but it's the lyrics and book by Brian Crawley that truly pack the punch in the show. But of course they would as the show is rife with hot button topics of that era as well as our own. And while the ensemble manages some of the tightest and most technically proficient performances I've seen I didn't always get from them the importance or danger associated with the stakes of those issues and so didn't always feel the emotional connection to the story.

A charming, beautifully realized look at the life and works of Stephen Sondheim.

CBS Films and Lionsgate announced that Golden Globe-winner John Goodman (10 Cloverfield Lane, Inside Llewyn Davis, Argo) will join Academy Award-Winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Zootopia) and Academy Award-nominee Mark Wahlberg (The Departed, Lone Survivor) in PATRIOTS DAY.

Russell Simmons, Lena Hall, Bevy Smith and Tamara Tunie - who served as the event's host - were just a few of the many attendees at today's 4th-Annual RUSH HeARTS Education Luncheon at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. BroadwayWorld has photos from the event below!

freeFall Theatre continues a strong tradition of musical theatre hits with an intimate portrait of Broadway icon Stephen Sondheim in his own words and music. Chris Crawford directs and stages the Tampa Bay area premiere of James Lapine's award-winning Broadway hit, SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM. Opening night is tonight, March 12 at 8pm.

BANSHEE returns for its eight-episode fourth and final season FRIDAY, APRIL 1 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on CINEMAX. Alan Ball, Greg Yaitanes, Jonathan Tropper, Peter Macdissi, Adam Targum and Ole Christian Madsen executive produce.

Due to popular pre-sale demand, Aurora Theatre Company announces that it will again extend the West Coast Premiere of Sarah Treem's (Netflix's House of Cards, HBO's In Treatment, Showtime's The Affair) thought-provoking THE HOW AND THE WHY, the third fully staged production to be performed in the company's second stage performance space, Harry's UpStage. Acclaimed Bay Area actress and director Joy Carlin (Talley's Folly, After the Revolution, Body Awareness, Jack Goes Boating, Awake and Sing!) helms this intimate and keenly perceptive play. The company will add an additional two weeks of performances to the previously extended run dates. Originally extended through May 8, THE HOW AND THE WHY now plays through May 22nd (added performances: Tuesday, May 10, 7pm; Wednesday, May 11, 8pm; Thursday, May 12, 8pm; Friday, May 13, 8pm; Saturday, May 14, 8pm; Sunday, May 15, 2pm; Tuesday, May 17, 7pm; Wednesday, May 18, 8pm; Thursday, May 19, 8pm; Friday, May 20, 8pm; Saturday, May 21, 8pm; Sunday, May 22, 2pm) at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley. For tickets ($35-45) and information the public can call (510) 843-4822 or visit auroratheatre.org.

Pioneer Theatre Company presents HONOR KILLING, the final installment of PTC's new play reading series, Play-By-Play. HONOR KILLING by Sarah Bierstock runs March 11 and 12, 2016. Guest artist Pam Berlin directs.

freeFall Theatre continues a strong tradition of musical theatre hits with an intimate portrait of Broadway icon Stephen Sondheim in his own words and music. Chris Crawford directs and stages the Tampa Bay area premiere of James Lapine's award-winning Broadway hit, SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM.

The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director;  Evans Haile, Interim Executive Director) welcomes the return engagement of the game show for musical theater lovers called Tune in Time, presented by Amy Engelhardt and Heather Shields, with an evening celebrating Broadway's Online/Internet Showstopperson Monday, March 14, 2016 beginning at 7:30 p.m. at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). 

Academic Theatre at the Community College of Baltimore County, Essex performs Plautus' hilarious The Menaechmi Twins March 17, 18 and 19 at 8 p.m., March 21 at 10 a.m. and March 22 at 11:15 a.m. in the College Community Center Theatre at CCBC Essex, 7201 Rossville Boulevard.  Tickets are $8 general admission, $5 seniors, students, CCBC faculty, staff and alumni.  Admission is free for CCBC students with a current ID.  For tickets and information, call the CCBC Box Office at 443-840-2787 (ARTS).

ABC Entertainment and Marvel Television test the physical and mental limits of three super-fans as they compete for the adventure of a lifetime in this new five-part digital original series, “Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Academy.”

Pioneer Theatre Company presents HONOR KILLING, the final installment of PTC's new play reading series, Play-By-Play. HONOR KILLING by Sarah Bierstock runs March 11 and 12, 2016. Guest artist Pam Berlin directs.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's Cabaret & Performance Conference will hold two days of auditions for its 2016 Junior Fellows summer program. Auditions will be in held in Waterford, CT on Saturday, April 9, and in New York City on Sunday, April 10.

In conjunction with its upcoming production of August Wilson's HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED, the Huntington Theatre Company will host a number of special events and post-show conversations. 

Parents of a group of teenagers leave to hit the vaudeville circuit. The local sheriff (Joe Gately) threatens to send the kids to a work farm unless they do something productive. So they end up by doing what they do best - putting on a show.

Hallmark Channel's Daytime Emmy(R) nominated series 'Home & Family' in partnership with DreamJobbing announces a nationwide talent search to find the next DIY star to join the on-air team.

Inspired by true events from the underground dance clubs of 1950s Memphis, Tennessee, MEMPHIS follows the fame and forbidden love of a radio DJ who wants to change the world and a club singer who is ready for her big break. Winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, MEMPHIS is filled with laughter, emotion and roof-raising rock 'n' roll, and features a Tony-winning book by Joe DiPietro (I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change) and a Tony-winning score with music by Bon Jovi founding member David Bryan.

In conjunction with its upcoming production of August Wilson's HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED, the Huntington Theatre Company will host a number of special events and post-show conversations.