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Neil Patrick Harris to Host Tony Awards Again Neil Patrick Harris to Host Tony Awards Again

The Tony Awards announced today that actor Neil Patrick Harris will once again be hosting the annual theater awards show. Harris has hosted the awards show three times in the past, hosting the 63rd, 65th, and last year’s 66th Annual …

Tom Hanks Tears Up After Broadway Debut Tom Hanks Tears Up After Broadway Debut

There may be no crying in baseball, but Tom Hanks demonstrated this week that there is plenty of room for emotion on Broadway. The actor this week made his Broadway debut in the play Lucky Guy. According to a New …

Debra Winger Takes On Rare Stage Role Debra Winger Takes On Rare Stage Role

Debra Winger, who starred in such memorable films as “Urban Cowboy” and “An Officer And A Gentleman”, has left the spotlight in recent years, becoming something of a recluse in Hollywood terms rather than be subjected to what she called …

Scarlett Johansson Back On Broadway Scarlett Johansson Back On Broadway

Scarlett Johansson, who won a Tony Award for her performance in “A View From A Bridge” in 2010, is set to make her way back to the big stage in a production of “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof”. Johansson, …

Marvin Hamlisch Dies at 68, “A Chorus Line” Composer Marvin Hamlisch Dies at 68, “A Chorus Line” Composer
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The Broadway arts community mourns the loss of a great and talented composer today. Marvin Hamlisch, a well-known composer from from New York, NY, is now dead. During his youth, Hamlisch was accepted into Juilliard School of Music’s Pro-College Division, …

Alec Baldwin Returns To Broadway, To Star in ‘Orphans’ Alec Baldwin Returns To Broadway, To Star in ‘Orphans’

Producers said wednesday in a release to EW, that “30 Rock” Star Alec Baldwin will appear in Lyle Kessler’s “Orphans” in Spring 2013. The play premiered in 1983 at The Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles. A film version was made …

Richard Adler, Composer and Lyricist, Dead at 90 Richard Adler, Composer and Lyricist, Dead at 90

Richard Adler, the composer and lyricist who co-wrote songs for the hit musicals “Damn Yankees” and “The Pajama Game”, as well as the hit songs “Whatever Lola Wants” and “Hernando’s Hideaway”, passed away at his Southhampton, New York home on …

American Idiot Musical Cast Goes To Google American Idiot Musical Cast Goes To Google

Google hosted the touring cast of the Broadway musical American Idiot for a Q&A session. The musical is based on the hit 2004 Green Day album of the same title. Bradley Horowitz, the VP of Product Management for Google+, posted …

Neil Patrick Harris Earns High Marks for the 2012 Tony Awards: Twitter Reacts Neil Patrick Harris Earns High Marks for the 2012 Tony Awards: Twitter Reacts

Neil Patrick Harris can apparently do no wrong. After opening the 2012 Tony Awards in true NPH fashion — “Welcome to the 66th Annual Tony Awards, or as we like to call it, Fifty Shades of Gay,” he joked at …

Candice Bergen Concealed Health Issues Out of Fear Candice Bergen Concealed Health Issues Out of Fear

Veteran actress, Candice Bergen, hid the fact that she had a stroke in 2006 out of fear that she would no longer be offered leading roles. When she was put in the hospital for her heart condition she collaborated with …