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Tony and Academy Award winner Denzel Washington will speak to graduating students at the 255th University of Pennsylvania commencement May 16, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Catch Me If You Can cast member Alex Ellis is seen discussing and rehearsing for her Broadway debut in Catch Me If You Can in Episode 2 of the new web series “Diary of a Chorus Girl.…
“Bared,” a documentary chronicling the history of the annual burlesque show and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fundraiser “Broadway Bares,” is seeking funding for …
Pop star Ricky Martin, who will appear on Broadway in Evita in 2012, received the Vito Russo Award at the 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards March 19.
The award was presented by producer Craig Z…
Sophisticated Ladies, the Tony Award-winning revue of Duke Ellington's music, will celebrate its 30th anniversary at Birdland April 25 at 7 PM.
Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken, Olivier Award-nominated actress Patina Miller and the cast of Sister Act recently held an open rehearsal for the media where they performed songs …
A trailer for the upcoming film of the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis, filmed live on stage from the Shubert Theatre, has been released.
The Jan. 18-21 performances of the musical were f…
Emmy Award winner and Tony nominee James Gandolfini will star in an upcoming film for HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Stage and screen actor Jonathan Cake will join the cast of "Desperate Housewives" for a four-episode appearance this season and as a regular next season, according to zap2it.com.
Stage and screen actor Steven Weber will guest star on the April 19 season finale of NBC's "Parenthood," according to digitalspy.com.
The Spidey Project: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, the no-budget Spider-Man musical created as an alternative to the $65 million Spider-Man musical currently playing on 42nd St…
Choreographer-performer Siudy and the cast of the “flamenco fantasia” she co-created, Between Worlds, recently gave the Times Square crowds a taste of their new dance show, flash…
Tony and Emmy Award winner Cherry Jones and veteran stage and screen actors Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn have been cast in pilots for the upcoming TV season, according to deadline.com.
To celebrate the joint birthdays of two major musical theatre composers, Stephen Sondheim (81) and Andrew Lloyd Webber (63), Playbill.com offers a sampling of some of their most memorable cr…
The proposed film remake of the classic musical Gypsy, which would star Barbra Streisand as stage mother Rose, is close to being given the green light despite earlier reports that it would n…
Grandma Addams, currently embodied by Jackie Hoffman in the Broadway musical The Addams Family, will turn 116 on March 30. To celebrate, the show’s producers are offering free tickets…
Veteran stage couple and comedy legends Ben Stiller and Anne Meara will be seen in An Evening with Stiller and Meara April 4 at 8 PM at the George Street Playhouse in New Bru…
Samuel L. Jackson, who reportedly will play Martin Luther King, Jr. in The Mountaintop on Broadway this fall, has signed on to star in the "neo-noir thriller" "The Samaritan,&…
Tony and Emmy Award winner John Lithgow will guest star on the March 21 and April 18 episodes of CBS' "How I Met Your Mother," according to ew.com.
The cast of the revival of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play That Championship Season recently spoke with “CBS Sunday Morning” about the play’s examination of …
“Rock The Audition: How to Prepare For and Get Cast in Rock Musicals,” a new book by Sheri Sanders, will be released May 24.
The how-to guide, to be published by Hal Leonard Book…
Footage of Tony Award winner Sara Ramirez performing “The Story,” one of the songs that will be featured in an upcoming musical episode of “Grey’s Anatomy,” has…
Emmy Award winner and Tony nominee Allison Janney and Grammy Award winner James Taylor performed “A Song for You” on the March 16 episode of the ABC sitcom “Mr. Sunshine.…
The cast of the hit Fox series “Glee” visited PaleyFest 2011, hosted by the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles, in Beverly Hills March 16 to talk about working on the show " a…
Matt Doyle, who is currently appearing in War Horse at Lincoln Center Theater, has started a video blog chronicling the backstage adventures behind the fantastical British tale of a horse se…