Walt Disney News

Disney/ABC Television Group (DATG) and Corus Entertainment today announced that they have entered into an expansive licensing agreement to launch ABC Spark, a dedicated millennial-focused channel and multi-platform offering, in Canada in Spring 201

As part of the LA Phil's World Music series, Goran Bregovic, the Sarajevo-born musical icon of the Balkans, debuts at Walt Disney Concert Hall with his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra featuring a Serbian gypsy band, a string ensemble, an Orthodox male choir and two Bulgarian sisters singing back-up.

Nicholas Goldsborough in association with the Odyssey Theatre is presenting award-winning German theater and film actor Clemens Schick who will appear in Windows at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble for a limited engagement, October 26 through October 30, 2011.

Los Angeles Opera Music Director James Conlon returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall to lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic in three performances of music by Benjamin Britten, Sergei Prokofiev and Antonín Dvorák, Friday, November 4, at 11 a.m., Saturday, November 5, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, November 6, at 2 p.m. Brilliant 24-year-old pianist Yuja Wang, whose performance of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto at the Hollywood Bowl earlier this summer mesmerized the audience, plays Prokofiev's popular Third Piano Concerto in the program.

The phrase 'you've got to see it on the big screen!' is often heard by film audiences, and it's true-some movies were simply meant to be seen large.

The 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards, presented by Starz Entertainment, have announced that the cast of DreamWorks Pictures and Participant Media's 'The Help' - Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Chris Lowell, Ahna O'Reilly, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Cicely Tyson and Mike Vogel - will be recognized at the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony with the 'Hollywood Ensemble Acting Award.'

Tony Award-winner and three-time Emmy nominee Jane Krakowski makes her Walt Disney Concert debut, Sunday, October 23, at 7:30 p.m.

Philippine Development Foundation ('PhilDev') announces that Filipino-American Robert Lopez-Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist and co-creator of Broadway smash hit musicals Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon-will be honored with an Award of Excellence at its upcoming gala event, PhilDev Celebrates Broadway: Suites by Sondheim, on Monday, November 7, 2011 at 7:30pm at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City.

In anticipation of MARY POPPINS' premiere Providence engagement at the Providence Performing Arts Center February 8 - 19, 2012, patrons who purchase MARY POPPINS tickets in person at the PPAC Box Office this Saturday, October 22 from 10A to 2P will receive a FREE classic MARY POPPINS 'Parrot head' umbrella!

Yum! Family Series Program and Stage One Family Theatre will kick off the 65th season of theater for young audiences with the literary classic Ferdinand the Bull.

As seen and heard on PBS, Disney and XM Kids, the Imagination Movers are rising stars in the world of kids entertainment because they brilliantly combine pop music, education and fun! Clad in their trademark blue coveralls, these hard-working entertainers started writing music for their own children and now dazzle families worldwide with high-energy rock and interactive live show

Helen Hayes Award winner Brian Childers (Danny and Sylvia) and Kimberly Faye Greenberg (One Night with Fanny Brice, Ghostlight at NYMF) will lend their voices to Broadway Does Disney, a one-night cabaret performance to benefit Theatrical Gems.

As previously announced by BWW's Spain Editor Juanjo Gonzalez, DISNEY THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS (Thomas Schumacher, producer and president) in association with STAGE ENTERTAINMENT SPAIN (Julia Gomez Cora, general director), Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon (Mayor of Madrid) and Simon Amselem (Managing Director, The Walt Disney Company Spain and Portugal), have announced the Spanish premiere of Disney's landmark musical event, THE LION KING, to open October 21 at Lope de Vega Theatre on Madrid's Gran Via.

Violinist Hilary Hahn returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall in a recital of music by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, as well as selections from her own commissioning project, In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores, Tuesday, November 1, at 8 p.m.

Conductor Semyon Bychkov leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Katia & Marielle Labèque in the world premiere of Richard Dubugnon's Concerto for Two Pianos and Double Orchestra, 'Battlefield,' commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, on Friday & Saturday, November 11 & 12 at 8 PM and Sunday, November 13 at 2 PM at Walt Disney Concert Hall. This will mark the first time Semyon and Marielle (husband and wife) perform together at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' makes its highly anticipated annual return to its favorite haunt - Hollywood's legendary El Capitan Theatre -for a special engagement from October 21 through October 31, once again in spine-tingling 4-D, it was announced today by Lylle Breier, senior vice president of worldwide special events for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' makes its highly anticipated annual return to its favorite haunt - Hollywood's legendary El Capitan Theatre -for a special engagement from October 21 through October 31, once again in spine-tingling 4-D, it was announced today by Lylle Breier, senior vice president of worldwide special events for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.