Eliza Dushku News

An all new SPIDER-MAN spoof will debut at the Blank Theatre Company's 19th Annual Young Playwrights Festival, titled SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE LIGHTS. The show, which is one of twelve productions that will be featured at the four week event, is the brainchild of 17-year old Adam Brodheim from New York City.

This May, FOX delivers major television events, all-new episodes and big guest stars, including an unprecedented ANIMATION DOMINATION crossover event May 1; the one-hour season finale of FAMILY GUY May 22, taking place in a galaxy far, far away; the three-hour, two-night season finale of AMERICAN IDOL, featuring the final performance show May 24 and the final live results show that's sure to captivate America May 25; primetime broadcasts of NASCAR ON FOX races April 30 and May 7; and primetime MLB ON FOX baseball match-ups May 14 and May 21.

A slew of stage vets have joined the casts of upcoming TV pilots, according to a variety of reports.

Photos from arrivals at Spike TV's 2010 Video Game Awards held at the LA Convention Center on December 11, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.

PlayDead (makers of Limbo ) accept the Best Independent Game award from director/producer Guillerma Del Toro onstage during Spike TV's 2010 Video Game Awards held at the LA Convention Center on December 11, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.

Michael Urie, series' standout from ABC's 'Ugly Betty,' has landed a new gig post-season closing on TBS's new TV pilot 'Brain Trust.' Brain Trust features D.B. Sweeney in the lead role of police detective Billy Doyle who struggles and triumphs by teaming up with an ultra-geeky trio: Professor Nelson Kirby (Jed Rees), Professor Franklin Gordon (Urie) and Professor Monica Ashton (Lindy Booth). Urie has starred off-Broadway in THE TEMPERMENTALS and ANGELS IN AMERICA. Urie isn't the only one gaining promising new gigs; Wynn Everett, William Ragsdale and Suzy Nakamura have all landed supporting roles on TNT's new TV pilot, 'Bird Dog.' Bird Dog features actress Eliza Dushku as police officer Gail McGrath, who partners up with her father, a NYC cop. Everett will play a journalist, Ragdale a local deputy, and Nakamura a local Medical Examiner and Chief of Staff of the local hospital.

Photos from the 200th Episode Celebration of ABC's 'Dancing with the Stars' in Hollywood, California November 1, 2010.

TV Guide repots that Eliza Dushku will make a guest appearance on the Big Bang Theory this season. Dushku will appear in the seventh episode of the CBS comedy 'as an FBI agent who questions Wolowitz's friends so he can get top-secret security clearance.' The Big Bang Theory premieres tonight, September 23 at 8pm EST on CBS.

Hollywood's Blank Theatre Company's Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival is now seeking submissions from playwrights 19 years of age and younger through March 15, 2010.

Richard O'Hagan profiles Cubbington Players' leading man

Ian Somerhalder, who plays Damon, the bad seed brother in the new series Vampire Diaries based on the young fiction book series by Ljane Smith, has plenty to flash his fangs in celebration for.

Stage and screen star Keith Carradine will join the cast of the FOX TV series 'Dollhouse,' according to TV Guide.

Comic-Con 2009 soared back into the San Diego Convention Center July 23-26 -- with the popular Preview Night on Wednesday, July 22 -- Comic-Con's 40th was the the biggest and best convention ever. The event attracted stars from the world of stage, tv and film and BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there to capture the celebs as they mixed and mingled with the eager fans!