Bernie Telsey News

The hit revival is Ashley's 8th Broadway show, but her first since she became a mom.

Last night, Monday, March 1, MCC Theatre hosted its starry Miscast Gala at The Hammerstein Ballroom. In attendance were Jordan Ballard, Jackie Burns, Raul Esparza, Sutton Foster, Kelsey Fowler, Montego Glover, Alison Horowitz, Anastacia McCleskey, Marin Mazzie, David Miller (Il Divo), Aaron Tveit, and Tom Wopat, host Mo Rocca, honoree Julianna Margulies, plus special guests Judith Light, Josh Charles, Quincy Tyler Bernstein, Sami Gayle and Isaac Mizrahi.

BroadwayWorld's 2010 Valentine's Day gift to you, the 5th Annual 'What's the Most Romantic Broadway Love Song Ever?' brings you over 500 stars, industry professionals, and personalities from across the globe, and this year Barbra Streisand, Susan Boyle, Bernadette Peters, Cameron Mackintosh, HAIR, GLEE and many, many more!

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS presented the 21st Annual GYPSY OF THE YEAR COMPETITION over a two day event yesterday, December 7 and today, December 8 at the Palace Theatre on Broadway. The proceeds from the event benefit BC/EFA. This year's event raised more than $4,639,000 dollars. And the winners are in!

The Casting Society of America announced this year's winners at the New York 25th Annual Artios Awards® ceremony held at The Times Center, in the newly built New York Times Building (620 Eighth Ave) and hosted by comedian Janeane Garofalo. (The Los Angeles award ceremony was held simultaneously at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.

Nederlander Alliances, LLC and Pittsburgh CLO, co-producers and founding partners of The National High School Musical Theater Awards, presented the first annual Jimmy Awards in a ceremony held last night at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University. The Jimmy Award is named in honor of legendary Broadway theater owner and producer James M. Nederlander. The award features an illustration of James M. Nederlander drawn by world renowned artist Al Hirschfeld.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 134 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitation will be the only additions in 2009 to the Academy's roster of voting members.

Nederlander Alliances, LLC and Pittsburgh CLO, co-producers and founding partners of The National High School Musical Theater Awards, presented the first annual Jimmy Awards in a ceremony held last night at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University. The Jimmy Award is named in honor of legendary Broadway theater owner and producer James M. Nederlander. The award features an illustration of James M. Nederlander drawn by world renowned artist Al Hirschfeld.

Pittsburgh CLO and Nederlander Alliances, LLC. will present The , celebrating excellence in high school musical theater programs nationally, at Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, NYU (566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South) on Monday, June 29 at 7:30 p.m.

Following the recent number of successful post-show talkbacks, the best new Broadway play of the season* Reasons To Be Pretty welcomed a bevy of celebrity guests, including actor Andrew McCarthy and Tony Award nominee Raul Esparza. The production sent along some pictures of the star filled meet and greets that we are excited to share with you here on BroadwayWorld!

Stage and screen casting titan Bernie Telsey chats with MTV about American Idol favorite Adam Lambert's Broadway past, present...and future!

The show will go on, just not tonight and tomorrow as the February 19 and 20 performances of The MCC Theatre's THE THIRD STORY at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, have been canceled due to an off stage injury that Kathleen Turner has suffered. It is expected that Turner will resume performances starting with the February 21 matinee.

The exciting conclusion to the runaway Web series 'Legally Brown: The Search For The Next Piragua Guy' will be posted this weekend to coincide with the closing of Legally Blonde, The Musical on Broadway which plays its final performance at the Palace Theater on October 19th.

Tonight, October 16th, 2008 Seth's Chatterbox will deconstruct the LEGALLY BROWN episodes and unearth some of the show's 'lost' footage.

The exciting conclusion to the runaway Web series 'Legally Brown: The Search For The Next Piragua Guy' will be posted this weekend to coincide with the closing of Legally Blonde, The Musical on Broadway which plays its final performance at the Palace Theater on October 19th.

The 22nd ANNUAL EASTER BONNET COMPETITION was a great success with a record-breaking, $3,734,129 being raised this year by the 53 participating Broadway, Off Broadway, and national touring theater companies.

Easter Bonnet Competition announces celebrity presenters and judges including Mullally, Groff, O'Hara, and more

MCC Theater has announced that Blake West has been named the company's new Executive Director, effective immediately. West, who was previously the Director of Development at MCC, succeeds John Schultz, who left in October.

Celebrating 3 years on Broadway, the Annual 'Wicked Day' event featuring a costume contest, games, prizes and of course the 'Be Wicked' singing contest took place on October 29th and BroadwayWorld.com was there!

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