Wendy Williams News

From stage to screen, Broadway will be represented on TV for the week of April 15, 2019!

Award-winning non for profit, Broadway Sings for Pride, will host its 9th annual Pride benefit event, "Fearless", on Monday, June 24, 2019.  The event will be held at the Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Family Auditorium at the JCC Manhattan at 7:30pm. For the second year in a row, the full show will be live streamed.

Wild World of Animals is an exploration into the fascinating world of the wildlife we share with the planet; featuring live animals including some of the most majestic, interesting, bizarre, and critically endangered species in the world. The fantastic animal lineup encompassing arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals makes its way to the State Theatre for two shows on Saturday, April 20th.

Casting has been announced for the upcoming 15th Anniversary edition of Dennis Hensley's The MisMatch Game, the show the Los Angeles Times called, witty, ribald ... an adventure in surrealist era bending! The side-splitting parody of the '70s game show returns to the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Renberg Theatre for two shows only on Friday, March 29, and Saturday, March 30, at 8pm.

Just last night, Nicole Vanessa Ortiz, fresh on the heels of starring in Spamilton and Smokey Joe's Cafe, made her Feinstein's/54 Below solo concert debut in Becoming Her: A Diva's Tribute. Since she was a child, female vocalists have inspired Nicole to use her gifts as an artist on stage. She landed on American Idol as a finalist, won the grand prize on "The Wendy Williams Show" singing competition, and made such an impression singing on BET's Apollo Live that Gladys Knight personally invited her on tour!

Nicole Vanessa Ortiz, fresh on the heels of starring in Spamilton and Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller, makes her Feinstein's/54 Below solo concert debut in Becoming Her: A Diva's Tribute-a musical salute to chart-topping divas, today, March 7 at 9:30pm (doors open at 8:45pm).

This January, Black Violin hit the stage with their new 2019 Impossible Tour with over forty high-energy shows scheduled into the summer. The band makes its much-anticipated return to Cincinnati at Music Hall's Springer Auditorium on Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 7:30 PM as part of the Cincinnati Arts Association's 2018-19 Season.

Extend your dance skills and technique in the Marblehead School of Ballet's (MSB) celebrated Summer Intensive Dance 2019 program.   The MSB, a dance and cultural gem on the North Shore of Massachusetts, announces Jessica Davison, a member of the Radio City Rockettes in New York City, returns for a third year to teach a jazz master class in the program. 

Incomparable vocalist Nicole Vanessa Ortiz will make her Feinstein's/54 Below solo debut in Becoming Her: A Diva's Tribute, on Thursday, March 7 at 9:30pm. Becoming Her: A Diva's Tribute is a celebration of women in music whose iconic anthems have shaped the way we experience love, heartache, and triumph. In this intimate evening, Ortiz will perform songs that have shaped and influenced her music and theater career, as well as favorites from chart-topping divas like Big Mama Thornton, Pat Benetar, Selena, and other groundbreaking women who have inspired her.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents Majah Hype on Sunday, May 12th at 5 P.M. and 7:45 P.M.

This February, the unPOPable GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW, will begin its incrediBUBBLE 13th year in New York City today, February 15. New York's MUST SEE bubble extravaganza, GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW has had 4,659 performances in the Big Apple and has been seen by over 779,000 people at New World Stages (340 West 50 Street).

This February, the unPOPable GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW, will begin its incrediBUBBLE 13th year in New York City on Friday, February 15. New York's MUST SEE bubble extravaganza, GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW has had 4,659 performances in the Big Apple and has been seen by over 779,000 people at New World Stages (340 West 50 Street).

Nicole Vanessa Ortiz, fresh on the heels of starring in Spamilton and Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller, makes her Feinstein's/54 Below solo concert debut in Becoming Her: A Diva's Tribute-a musical salute to chart-topping divas, on Thursday, March 7 at 9:30pm (doors open at 8:45pm).

Clip Show is an award-winning, NYC-based sketch comedy troupe comprised of nine writers, actors & comedians: Brian Flynn, Jonathan Greaser, Myles Hewette, Logan Lampton, Ganesh Nair, Joe Pardavila, Ryan Stanisz, Heather Beeman and Travis Tack. WHAT: Clip Show has been performing together for three years and has secured a monthly residency at the Peoples Improv Theater (PIT), one of the top comedy theaters in NYC. Each month, the cast creates a completely new and unique show to deliver one hour of live, uproarious, and clever comedy that lies at the intersection of silly, shocking, and sincere. This month's show marks Clip Show's third birthday as a sketch comedy group.

Nick Cannon has been named the first guest host for The Wendy Williams Show, according to Deadline. 

 E! expands its original nightly programming line-up with a 20-episode order of the new unscripted comedy blind dating series, “Dating #NoFilter,” to air Monday through Thursday starting Monday, January 21st at 10:30p ET/PT. From Lime Pictures and All3Media America, “Dating #NoFilter” is a fresh and hilariously honest take on the modern dating scene for the socially savvy, right-swiping generation. In each buzzy half-hour episode, three pairs of outspoken comedians will serve up play-by-plays as they follow real singles on the most outrageous, intimate, and surprising first dates. Throughout the blind dates, the comedians will offer their candid and unique POVs as they weigh in on every accidental love story pulling at viewers' heart strings and the “OMG-no!” cringe-worthy moments, with real, unfiltered and clever commentary.

Tune in Friday, December 7 at 9:00 pm ET/PT to watch the broadcast premiere of the concert special “En Vogue” on AT&T* AUDIENCE Network via DIRECTV Ch 239. The show will also be available streaming on-demand through DIRECTV NOW and WatchTV. 

Bread Winners Association recording artist Kevin Gates has unveiled an incredible new companion visual for “M.A.T.A.,” a fan-favorite featured on the multi-platinum rap superstar's new mixtape LUCA BRASI 3. Gates – who teased the video over the weekend with a controversial presidential clip – filmed the visual at his new business venture, an escape room in Los Angeles called the “House On Carolina,” which is a replica of one of Kevin's Baton Rouge trap houses and open to the public indefinitely. “M.A.T.A.” is streaming now, watch HERE.

Black Violin will continue their successful Classical Boom Tour. The band will return to the road after spending the summer working on their upcoming album due out in 2019. The tour is a continuation of their well-received winter run which included back-to-back sold out performances at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C..

Emmy Award-winning TV personality, style expert, fashion designer, and New York Times best-selling author Carson Kressley and Billboard magazine's "Dance Music Artist of the Decade" Kristine W will bring their hit show, Stand Up With a Twist, to Feinstein's at the Nikko on Friday, January 25 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, January 26 at 8 p.m. In this unique night of comedy and music, Carson and Kristine take audiences on a journey through their showbiz experiences filled with laughter and the songs that unite us all.