Whoopi Goldberg News

Kristin Chenoweth, Matthew Morrison and Michael Cerveris are just a few of the Broadway and off-Broadway stars who have signed boxing gloves or tags for breast cancer bears to help raise money to support The Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.

Peter Nero and the Philly Pops opens its 2009-10 season with its signature show, Broadway Showstoppers! Celebrating its ninth year, Broadway Showstoppers is, without a doubt, Philadelphia's unparalleled Broadway show. Broadwayworld.com called it '... the envy of any New York production.'

It is difficult to imagine a greater fan of the recent Tony Award-winning Passing Strange than Spike Lee. After seeing the show twice in the same weekend during its stint at The Public Theater, Lee's 'nightmare,' he tells Blackbook.com was that 'at some point it was going to close and that it was just all going to all go away.' Hence the inspiration for his new documentary, 'Passing Strange,' which documents the stage show he filmed in July just prior to the show's closing. After winning several awards at Sundance, 'Passing Strange' is now playing at the IFC in New York, on the IFC channel and will soon be broadcast on PBS. Lee sat down this week with original creators Stew and Heidi Rodewald and Blackbook.com to discuss of 'Strange.'

Erica Watson - 'big, bold and beautiful' actor, comedian, director and commentator for the Oxygen Network and BET - returns to her hometown Chicago with the solo show 'Fat Bitch!' This five-night only run is a funny yet thought-provoking look at how society's obsession with weight, race and class have formed the way the world views her shape, and includes her interactions with men, from the boardroom to the bedroom.

Alec Baldwin, Kevin Bacon, Sigourney Weaver, and Chandra Wilson are just a few of the presenters announced to join host Neil Patrick Harris at Emmy Awards on Sunday.

Whoopi Goldberg, who performed alongside Swayze in the 1991 hit film 'Ghost,' told Entertainment Tonight: 'Patrick was a really good man, a funny man and one to whom I owe much that I can't ever repay. I believe in 'Ghost's' message, so he'll always be near.'

Neil Patrick Harris will host the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards on CBS on September 20th. He will also serve as a producer for the night. You can a fun little CBS promo for the upcoming telecast right here on STAGE TUBE.

Neil Patrick Harris will host the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards on CBS on September 20th. He will also serve as a producer for the night.

On singing at the Emmy Awards, Harris says 'I am comfortable singing in a context like that, I am least comfortable singing karaoke, and less comfortable singing in cabarets. I really only like singing when you understand the context, so an awards show is fine.' To read the full USA Today story, click here.

JIm Caruso's Cast Party will present Steven Brinberg as SIMPLY BARBRA in 'Love is the Answer...But What Was the Question?' Press notes state that 'Brinberg celebrates Streisand's latest recording and her appearance at the Village Vanguard in his return to Birdland. He will feature songs from the album as well as some of the 800 songs recorded but not used! Brinberg, who was chosen by the diva herself to sing at Donna Karan's birthday bash..will also duet with some very special guest stars.'

The Friars Club Comedy Film Festival will open its inaugural year on Thursday, September 24th with the U.S. premiere of 'A Serious Man' - the new film from Academy Award-winning writer/directors Joel & Ethan Coen. The Focus Features release will subsequently open in select U.S. cities on Friday, October 2nd.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting will be holding its 4th annual Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts this fall, bringing artists and activists together to discuss the relationship between art and social activism. Events will take place beginning on September 18th and end on September 28th.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) & Shea Sullivan will present R.R.R.E.D. A Secret Musical for FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY, October 1-3 at the 45th Street Theater. Based on a true study, R.R.R.E.D., with music & lyrics by Katie Thompson & book by Adam Jackman, Patrick Livingston & Katie Thompson, is directed by Andy Sandberg (Tony Award winning Producer of Hair), with musical supervision by Charlie Alterman (Next to Normal).

The Kite Runner, directed by David Ira Goldstein, plays in Tucson at the Temple of Music and Art from September 10 through October 3. It continues its run in Phoenix at the Herberger Theater Center from October 8 through October 25.

The guys are gambling, the dolls are dancing, and the audience will come up a winner when Cabrillo Music Theatre launches its 2009-2010 season with Guys and Dolls. Returning is Director Nick DeGruccio, whose previous Cabrillo production of Jekyll & Hyde led to three Ovation Awards, including Best Director. Returning with DeGruccio is Choreographer Roger Castellano, Ovation-nominated for Jekyll. Musical Direction is by Darryl Archibald, and the production will be overseen by Artistic Director Lewis Wilkenfeld. Cabrillo?s production of Guys and Dolls, created exclusively for the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, will open on Friday, October 16th, 2009 and run through Sunday, October 25th, for Cabrillo Music Theatre in the 1,800-seat Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, located at 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks.

It was announced today that Billy Crystal will bring 700 SUNDAYS, his Tony Award-winning Broadway blockbuster, to six cities for limited engagements this fall, launching at Washington, D.C.'s National Theatre September 8 - 17. The tour will also play Philadelphia, Dallas, Palm Beach, Miami and Atlanta. 700 SUNDAYS, a play performed and written by Mr. Crystal with additional content by Alan Zweibel is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff.

Broadway and TV favorite Neil Patrick Harris visited The Late Show with David Letterman on Friday, Sept. 4th, 2009 and talked '5-star vacations' with the comic legend. Late Show airs at 11:35pm on WCBS channel 2 in the tri-state area.

Songwriter Extraordinare and president of ASCAP talks about the music biz, Streisand and Emmy nomination.

ABC's 'The View' took home the 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host at the event this evening. After years of coming up empty handed in the Daytime Emmy's talk show host category, the ladies of 'The View' won the day.

Theatre favorite Neil Patrick Harris will be a guest judge on Fox's AMERICAN IDOL this season. The 'How I Met Your Mother' star joined the judges for the Dallas auditions. The ninth season of AMERICAN IDOL will premiere on Fox in January 2010.