Hottest Articles on BWW from Tuesday, Jan. 15

1) Twitter Watch: Constantine Maroulis Calls Out Clay Aiken for Skipping JEKYLL & HYDE Performance

On Twitter, Broadway veterans Clay Aiken and Constantine Maroulis are having a twitter battle, after Aiken posted a photo of the Jekyll & Hyde set, but apparently never showed up for the show. Aiken tweeted @clayaiken A night at the theatre. Breaking photo rules @dpac Maroulis responded @ConstantineM: wow pretty corny..Say ur comin, tix arranged, then you send ur mama and asst instead? Lol. @pklittle: @ConstantineM @clayaiken @dpac so....who took the pic?' His mama/asst - his team made a BIG deal he was comin and wanted M/G when u post PICS from the free seats ur sposed to be in and its your mom? Ehh. :) (more...)

2) 2012 BWW Philadelphia Awards Winners Announced - Dann Dunn Gets Two Wins!

Votes are cast, polls are closed, and results have been tabulated! This was our BIGGEST year yet! After a record number of voters in over 30 regions worldwide, BroadwayWorld is VERY excited to announce the 2012 Philadelphia Winners! Thanks to all who voted and HUGE congrats to all the winners! (more...)

3) Photo Flash: First Look - Harvey Fierstein & More in New SMASH Season 2 Photos

NBC has released new photos of the highly anticipated second season of SMASH including shots from the premiere episode, 'On Broadway', and episode 2, 'The Fallout'. The series returns Tuesday, February 5 9/8c on NBC. Below, check out photos of Season 2 guest stars Harvey Fierstein, Jeremy Jordan, Jennifer Hudson, Krysta Rodriguez & more! (more...)

4) BWW Interviews: Betty Buckley About DEAR WORLD And The Hall Of Fame!

Betty Buckley talks about London, Cats, and being inspired by Gillian Lynne... (more...)

5) STAGE TUBE: Meet the Cast of RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA!

Check out the recently released commercial for the show below and meet the cast with videos of them from past productions and roles! (more...)

6) 2012 BWW San Francisco Awards Winners Announced - THE GAME SHOW SHOW Wins Big!

Votes are cast, polls are closed, and results have been tabulated! This was our BIGGEST year yet! After a record number of voters in over 30 regions worldwide, BroadwayWorld is VERY excited to announce the 2012 San Francisco Winners! Thanks to all who voted and HUGE congrats to all the winners! (more...)

7) BWW TV: Chatting with the Cast of PICNIC on Opening Night- Sebastian Stan, Maggie Grace, and More!

William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Picnic returns to Broadway in a striking new production helmed by acclaimed director Sam Gold (Roundabout's Look Back in Anger, Seminar). Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn stars alongside theatre veterans Reed Birney (The Dream of the Burning Boy) and Elizabeth Marvel (Other Desert Cities), rising stars Maggie Grace ('Lost') and Sebastian Stan ('Gossip Girl'), Emmy Award winner Mare Winningham (recently seen in Tribes), Madeleine Martin (August: Osage County) and Ben Rappaport (Hope Springs). BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there for the opening night festivities to chat with the whole gang. Check out what they had to say below! (more...)

8) Review Roundup: Toronto's North American Premiere of THE WIZARD OF OZ

Producers Bill Kenwright, The Really Useful Group, David Mirvish, Troika Entertainment & Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures present the all-Canadian cast of the North American premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's new stage adaptation of THE WIZARD OF OZ, which opened on December 20 at the Mirvish Theatre. (more...)

9) Photo Flash: Holland Taylor-Led ANN Show Poster Released!

ANN, a new play written and performed by Emmy Award-winning actress Holland Taylor, will begin previews on Broadway at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street) Monday, February 18, 2013 at 8pm, and will open Thursday, March 7, 2013.Check out the just-released show poster below! (more...)

10) Audra McDonald to Guest on CBS's THE GOOD WIFE

According to The Hollywood Reporter, five-time Tony Award winning actress Audra McDonald will guest star on the CBS legal drama THE GOOD WIFE later this season. (more...)

11) STAGE TUBE: On This Day 1/15- THE 39 STEPS

Today in 2008, The 39 Steps opend at the American Airlines Theatre, where it ran for 771 performances. The play is a farce adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock. Patrick Barlow wrote the adaptation, based on the original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon of a two-actor version of the play. The play's concept calls for the entirety of the 1935 adventure film The 39 Steps to be performed with a cast of only four. One actor plays the hero, Richard Hannay, an actress plays the three women with whom he has romantic entanglements, and two other actors play every other character in the show: heroes, villains, men, women, children and even the occasional inanimate object. This often requires lightning fast quick-changes and occasionally for them to play multiple characters at once. Thus the film's serious spy story is played mainly for laughs, and the script is full of allusions to (and puns on the titles of) other Alfred Hitchcock films, including Rear Window, Psycho, Vertigo and North by Northwest. (more...)

12) Victor Garber Officially Comes Out

According to USA Today, 'Argo' star and Broadway veteran Victor Garber, 63, has officially come out. 'I don't really talk about it, but everybody knows,' he told blogger Greg Hernandez last week at the Televison Critics Assosciation press tour. (more...)

13) Virginia Stage Company Presents Pre-Broadway Run of FROG KISS, Now thru 2/3

In a magical World Premiere, Virginia Stage Company will present the new pre-Broadway musical Frog Kiss, tonight, January 15-February 3, 2013 at the Wells Theatre in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. 'Once Upon a Town,' a series of whimsical events designed to delight and engage the community, will complement the musical. (more...)

14) Reiner, Baldwin to Present SAG Life Achievement Award to Dick Van Dyke

Veteran writer, director, producer and actor Carl Reiner, along with seven-time SAG Award winner and 18-time nominee Alec Baldwin, will present the SAG 49th Life Achievement Award to Dick Van Dyke at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, executive producer and director Jeff Margolis announced today. (more...)

15) STUDENT CENTER: Conquering KCACTF — Day 2: John Glover's Words of Wisdom and Honesty Hour

In full festival hangover, we crawled out of bed early Monday morning to kick off day two of KCACTF. With our usual Starbucks in hand, most of our group headed to campus to see FOR SALE, by Garrett Lee Milton, a student playwright from James Madison University. (more...)

16) Photos: Tony Winner Jason Robert Brown & OCSA Rehearsing for PERFORMING W/ PROS Concert, 2/1-2

The Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA), a nationally recognized arts school that provides bright and talented students with a creative and challenging educational environment, is pleased to welcome Tony Award-winning American musical theatre composer, lyricist and playwright, Jason Robert Brown, to participate in the school's 10th Anniversary of "Performing w/the Pros." BroadwayWorld brings you an exclusive look inside the rehearsals with Jason Robert Brown and the OCSA students! Check out the photos below! (more...)

17) Nathan Lane to Return to CBS's THE GOOD WIFE, 1/27

Broadway's Nathan Lane returns to guest star in the CBS drama series THE GOOD WIFE on Sunday, January 27th. (more...)

18) Kirk Douglas to Receive Publicists' Lifetime Achievement Award

The Publicists of the International Cinematographers Guild (IATSE Local 600) will present iconic actor Kirk Douglas with its 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award at its 50th Annual Awards Luncheon to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Friday, February 22. (more...)

19) BWW's On This Day - January 15, 2013

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 15 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events! (more...)

20) Broadway's Patrick Ryan Sullivan and Matthew McGee Join freeFall's AN EMPTY PLATE IN THE CAFE DU GRAND BOEUF

No menu necessary at the world's greatest restaurant, the Cafe du Grand Boeuf in Paris. Why? 'Because we have everything,' headwaiter Claude (Matthew McGee) admonishes waiter-in-training Antoine (Greyson Lewis). (more...)