Worldwide Entertainment News

Radio City Music Hall announced today that the Radio City Box Office and Stage Door Tour will remain closed tomorrow, October 30 due to Hurricane Sandy.

Radio City Music Hall announced today that Radio City Box Office and Stage Door Tour will be closed tomorrow, October 29, due to potential severe weather conditions and public transportation shutdown in New York City.

The much-loved Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. Gang takes center stage in an all-new family musical, SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES, presented by Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Life Like Touring. Featuring everyone's favorite characters from one of television's longest-running animated series, SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES is set to thrill audiences at the Beacon Theatre from Friday, February 22 to Sunday, February 24, 2013. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, October 31 at 11AM.

The season finale of MSG Varsity's Emmy award-winning series THE ROCKETTES SUMMER INTENSIVE takes one last look at the journey for twelve tri-state high school dancers who were invited to train alongside the legendary Rockettes. The episode will air tonight, October 14th at 9:00 p.m. on MSG Varsity, Optimum channel 14.

Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE) announced today the 137th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show will return to Madison Square Garden on February 11-12, 2013. Entries from all over America and the rest of the world are once again heading to New York City for the world's most famous dog show at the World's Most Famous Arena.

MSG Entertainment and the Garden of Dreams Foundation has just announced Garden of Laughs, an unprecedented Garden of Dreams event to be held on Saturday, January 26, 2013 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Executive Produced by Emmy Award-winner, Rory Rosegarten, this one-night-only event will feature stand-up performances by some of the biggest names in comedy, including Adam Ferrara, Darrell Hammond, Robert Klein, Ray Romano and Wanda Sykes, with more comedians to be announced. The night of stand-up comedy is being created specifically to benefit the Garden of Dreams Foundation, a non-profit charity that works with all areas of The Madison Square Garden Company, including MSG Entertainment, Rangers, Knicks, Liberty, MSG Networks and Fuse.

The season finale of MSG Varsity's Emmy award-winning series THE ROCKETTES SUMMER INTENSIVE takes one last look at the journey for twelve tri-state high school dancers who were invited to train alongside the legendary Rockettes. The episode will air on Sunday, October 14th at 9:00 p.m. on MSG Varsity, Optimum channel 14.

Fuse, the national music television network of The Madison Square Garden Company, is ringing audiences a week of interviews and live performances with FUSE MUSIC WEEK: LIVE FROM RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL. Beginning on Friday, September 21, Fuse's newly created news division - Fuse News - will be stationed at Radio City Music Hall to capture exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes footage that will air on the linear network.

TNT has given the greenlight to THE HERO (working title), a new reality-competition series that will set out to find the next great hero.

MSG Entertainment and Zumba Fitness have announced that the Rockettes have been selected as the featured entertainers for the "Kickoff Keynote Session" at the 2012 Zumba Instructor Convention. Today, August 9, 2012, the legendary New York dance company will kick off the convention at the Orange County Convention Center in Florida with a high energy performance for the largest Zumba convention in the world, attended by more than 8,000 Zumba instructors from around the globe.

MSG Entertainment will present Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical for a limited engagement at The Theater at Madison Square Garden beginning Thursday, December 13 through Sunday, December 30, 2012. Celebrate the holidays with this heart-warming classic tale that will entertain the whole family as the show makes its triumphant return to New York City. Tickets go on-sale to the general public on Monday, August 13 at 12PM.

The touching new play SPRING AT THE WILLOWBROOK INN by Jonathan Van Dyke and Douglas C. Evans, will make its NY premiere as part of The Fresh Fruit Festival tonight, July 26-July 29.

The touching new play 'Spring at the WIllowbrook Inn' by Jonathan Van Dyke and Douglas C. Evans, will make it's NY premiere as part of The Fresh Fruit Festival July 26-29. 'Spring at the Willowbrook Inn' follows the lives of Cooper Stanwyk and Joshua Hill from their first meeting in 1967 at a motivational conference. This unlikely pair develop a deep relationship based on mutual understanding and love as their lives unfold separately. Through correspondence and decades of meeting at the Willowbrook they become a pivotal role in each others lives, supporting each other through the unpredictabilities each one faces.

MSG Entertainment and S2BN are proud to welcome Yo Gabba Gabba! Live! Get the Sillies Out to The Theater at Madison Square Garden on Friday, November 30 through Sunday, December 2, 2012.

The stars were shining, including Chita Rivera, Marge Champion, Stephen Schwartz and more, in Flushing Meadows Corona Park Wednesday evening when Queens Theatre hosted its 2012 Gala Fundraiser, a star-studded celebration of the world premiere of HEAT WAVE: THE Jack Cole PROJECT, a new musical homage to legendary stage and screen choreographer Jack Cole. The event raised more than $150,000 for the theatre and its programs, including its educational and outreach programs that bring theatre and the arts to public school students. See photos from the gala below!

According to Variety, Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment has joined forces with Zorlu Property Group in Turkey to create an Istanbul-based performing arts center. Scheduled to open in 2013, the center will include both a 2,300 and 770-seat theatre.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles® (BAFTA Los Angeles), which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, announced today that American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance producer Nigel Lythgoe will chair the Britannia Committee, which oversees the production of the Britannia Awards. The 2012 Britannia Awards will take place on Wednesday, November 7 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

BROADWAY ROX, a new concert event, recently played Queens Theatre (14 United Nations Avenue South in Flushing Meadows Corona Park). Produced by Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment, BROADWAY ROX celebrated the rock and pop hits of Broadway including songs from Wicked, Jersey Boys, Rent, The Who's Tommy, Mamma Mia, Spring Awakening, Hair, Rock of Ages, Jesus Christ Superstar and many more. The musical evening featured a 5 piece band with music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Jason Howland (composer of Little Women) and is directed by Rob Evan and Rich Affannato. Check out highlights from the concert below!

BROADWAY ROX, a new concert event, will be presented at Queens Theatre (14 United Nations Avenue South in Flushing Meadows Corona Park) for two days only, Friday and Saturday, February 17th and 18th.

Where can your imagination take you? Anywhere you want to be! Audiences in New York City are invited to make a world of adventure come to life with Elmo, Abby Cadabby and friends as the stage lights come up on Sesame Street Live '1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo & Friends'.