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Director and producer Ava DuVernay is a fearless director and storyteller, who has continued to create awareness and opportunities through her art and ABFF Honors is proud to present her with the 2018 ABFF Honors Industry Visionary Award.
FOX gets festive with a night of holiday programming Thursday, Dec. 14, featuring the return of TARAJI'S WHITE HOT HOLIDAYS and a brand-new, holiday-themed SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO: CHRISTMAS.
Producer Brian Moreland announced today that stage and screen star Taye Diggs will make his directorial debut with a private industry reading of Thoughts of a Colored Man on a Day When the Sun Set Too Early, Thursday and Friday, November 16 17, 2017 at Ripley-Grier in New York City.
Syracuse University's Department of Drama presents The House of the Spirits, an adaptation of Isabel Allende's novel written by playwright Caridad Svich. Svich's adaptation is a theatrical response that works to capture the feel of Allende's magical realism. The House of the Spirits opens on Nov. 11 in the Storch Theatre at the Syracuse Stage/SU Drama Complex, 820 E. Genesee St. A preview performance is on Nov. 10.
It's been two decades since an entirely new kind of princess graced our television screens, singing songs of possible dreams. Twenty years ago, Cinderella came back to the small screen, starring Brandy Norwood in the title role, with a multi-cultural, star-studded supporting cast of Bernadette Peters, Victor Garber, Whoopi Goldberg, Jason Alexander and Whitney Houston.
Royal Family Productions, a non-profit theatre company known for its innovative productions and development of new original work, will present a week-long workshop of Ayodele Casel's DIARY OF A TAP DANCER V.4, directed by Torya Beard at the Royal Family Performing Arts Space (145 West 46th Street, 3rd Floor) from November 12-16, 2017.
Idina Menzel's little sister Cara Mentzel pens a must-read memoir Voice Lessons
Breaking the nightclub standard, Obsidian Theatre and Rich's Nightclub present Hedwig and the Angry Inch live onstage.
Syracuse University's Department of Drama presents Crazy For You from the legendary songbook of George and Ira Gershwin.
BroadwayWorld extends a huge congratulations to Idina Menzel and Aaron Lohr, who got married over the weekend. Scroll down to look at the beautiful photos Menzel shared today on Twitter!
Singer, songwriter MARQUES HOUSTON, released his latest single today exclusively on iTunes, titled Together, from the soundtrack for the upcoming film, 'TIL DEATH DO US PART, which will be in theatres on September 29.
Rent. Jonathan Larson's musical masterpiece inspired by Puccini's La Boheme celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Its theme, characters and life lessons are as current today as they were 20 years ago. You can't help but believe that Mark, Maureen, Joanne, Mimi, Roger, Angel, Tom, and Benny, continue to be watched over by Mr. Larson, their creator and guardian angel, whose untimely death missed opening night of his legacy by a few short days. I think his sudden death gave all the more meaning to the song 'No Day But Today'. Launching careers of performers such as Anthony Rapp, Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs, today these big names continue to pay tribute to him singing the show's most popular tunes to an escalating fan base of Rent admirers.
TV fans rejoice! For the first-time ever, all 194 episodes of the Emmy Award-winning pop-culture phenomenon Will & Grace will be available to stream and on-demand. The iconic series will be available on the NBC app, Hulu and on-demand through satellite, cable and telco pay TV providers, beginning Thursday, September 21, one week ahead of the return of Will & Grace on NBC.
Maddie Ziegler reunites with Sia in the video for the new song 'Rainbow,' written by Sia for the soundtrack of MY LITTLE PONY: THE MOVIE. Ziegler, best known for her appearance on the reality series DANCE MOMS, first worked with Sia in her 2014 music video for 'Chandelier'.
Singer, songwriter MARQUES HOUSTON, released his latest single today exclusively on iTunes, titled “Together,” from the soundtrack for the upcoming film, 'TIL DEATH DO US PART, which will be in theatres on September 29.
Royal Family Productions, a non-profit theatre company known for its innovative productions and development of new original work, is partnering with We So Hapa, a non-profit group founded to showcase multi-ethnic talent, for this diversity-centric, one-night-only cabaret event entitled Songs of Otherness on Friday, September 1, 2017 at Royal Family Performing Arts Space (145 West 46th Street, 3rd Floor).
At yesterday's TCA press tour held in Los Angeles, FOX Chairman and CEO Dana Walden revealed that the broadcast will air sometime in late 2018.
Every theatre production comes with its share of backstage drama. One Hit Wonderland, the Broadway musical comedy depicted in Gary De Leon and Greg Lisi's indie film OPENING NIGHT is no exception. Sex, drugs, and crazy characters collide in this rousing tongue-in-cheek comedy full of splashy production numbers and entertainment in-jokes. It's a movie for, and about, theatre people - their quirks, their insecurities, and above all, their passions.
The show, which has amassed a cult following and a dedicated set of fans, was a popular production, produced world-wide and throughout the country at various times since its 1998 off-Broadway premiere.
Jane Lynch of Glee fame, recently chatted with BroadwayWorld about her new gig on Hollywood Game Night. Lynch, who was last seen on Broadway in 2013 as Miss Hannigan in Annie, gushed about her love of theatre and her plans to return soon.
