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Kelsey Grammer and new wife Katye Walsh held their wedding at the Longacre Theatre, where Grammer recently completed his run in La Cage Aux Folles. The wedding took place Friday. The reception following took place at the Plaza Hotel. Click below to hear his song to his new bride!

Virginia's Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre, through its groundbreaking American Musical Voices Project (AMVP), announces the world premiere of the musical comedy And the Curtain Rises (formerly known as Wheatley's Folly). Beginning performances on Thursday, March 17, 2011, And the Curtain Rises marks the third production presented as part of Signature's AMVP, the largest commissioning program for new musicals in the country, following Michael John LaChiusa's Giant in 2009 and Ricky Ian Gordon's Sycamore Trees last year. The Washington Post has said that 'Signature's AMVP is the most ambitious embrace of new musical theater in the DC region.'

North Carolina Theatre, the region's premier producer of professional Broadway musical revivals is thrilled to announce that Cybill Shepherd will be starring as leading lady, Dolly Gallagher Levi, in their upcoming production, Hello, Dolly!. Sponsored by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC, Hello, Dolly! will run Saturday, May 7th through Sunday, May 15th in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh.

THE KING'S SPEECH has earned the Academy Award for ‘Best Picture.'

Christian Bale has just won a 'Best Supporting Actor' Academy Award for THE FIGHTER.

Natalie Portman has snagged the 'Best Actress' Academy Award for her performance in BLACK SWAN.

Enthusiastic fans of Tony and Brandon's signature soirees are advised to tuck a bit of Broadway into their Friday night - Rockit's March 11th show will find them 'Oo-ing and Ah-ing' at the splendors of critically acclaimed Broadway production, 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert.' Sure to be an electrifying night, the bill promises performances by lead Nick Adams, featuring dance floor classics from the story's on-stage program, presented in conjunction with Quo's top tier sound and light system.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) has announced that DAVID GARRISON will complete the cast of Lynn Nottage's new play, BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK. This world premiere comedy will also feature the previously announced STEPHANIE J. BLOCK, DANIEL BREAKER, KIMBERLY HÉBERT GREGORY, KEVIN ISOLA, SANAA LATHAN, and KAREN OLIVO. Directed by Jo Bonney, BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK is Ms. Nottage's first play to be produced in New York since she won the Pulitzer Prize for Ruined in 2009.

New York City Center, one of the city's premier cultural institutions for dance and musical theater, is New York's first performing arts venue to sell tickets directly to iPhone users via its new, free iPhone app. The app, now available in Apple's iTunes app store, provides up-to-the-minute performance and ticket information on City Center's world-class performances and enables users to purchase tickets without a computer.

Stage and screen scribe Aaron Sorkin won the 83rd Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Social Network. Read his ontage speech and the transcript from his backstage interview below!

Melissa Leo has won the 83rd Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Fighter, co-starring Mark Wahlberg, Amy Adams and Christian Bale.

Earlier tonight, Robert Stomberg and Karen O'Hara won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland starring stage and screen favorites Anne Hathaway, Matt Lucas, Michael Sheen, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp and more.

Jeffrey Tambor has withdrawn from the Tony Award-winning revival of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, following the Thursday, February 24 performance. Tambor started performances on Tuesday, February 15 in the role of Georges, opposite four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein as Albin.

Jonathan Groff, Kevin Kline, James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Alexis Bledel and Evan Rachel Wood star in Robert Redford's upcoming thriller, The Conspirator, which is set for national release on April 15, 2011.

THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON stars Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth, Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland. Jason Miller's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON is directed by Gregory Mosher. Preview performances began on Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 with an official opening on Sunday, March 6th, 2011 at the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre. This is a limited engagement through Sunday, May 29th, 2011. Click below for a first look of the production onstage!

Deadline.com reports that Dan Fogler has joined the cast of the ABC pilot Man Up, written by Chris Moynihan. In Man Up, in which a group of male friends come to terms with being a man in the modern age. Deadline writes tha the story specifically revlves around: 'Happily married father of two Will (Mather Zickel), his brother-in-law Kenny (Fogler) and the lovelorn Craig (Chris Moynihan).

Deadline.com reports that Katie Finneran has joined the cast of I Hate My Teenage Daughter for the new Fox comedy, I Hate My Teenage Daughter. Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer have written and will produce the pilot. According to the report, I Hate My Teenage Daughter 'centers on two women, Annie and Nikki (Finneran), who now have daughters just like the girls who picked on them in high school.'

Susan Stromen is teaming up with famed Ragtime music duo Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music) for a new dance musical supported by Lincoln Center, BroadwayWorld has confirmed. The still unnamed project received a reading last year and is prepping for a long workshop at Lincoln Center in June. The project is written by Peter Parnell (Cider House Rules). Stroman, of course, will direct and choreograph.

Now, Deadline.com is reporting that 'American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee 'will play a beautiful struggling actress who goes to all lengths (including sexual favors for the producer) to book the role of Marilyn Monroe in the musical. Also recently cast in the pilot, written by Theresa Rebeck and to be directed by Michael Mayer, are Jack Davenport and Megan Hilty. McPhee, repped by Gersh and the Schiff Co., made her TV pilot debut last season with NBC's half-hour The Pink House. She will next be seen in the romantic comedy You May Not Kiss the Bride.'

Stage and screen vet Jeff Daniels spoke at a Michigan film industry town hall meeting in Livonia, MI yesterday, February 24, 2011. Daniels, a Michigan native, urged a crowd of about 3000 to contact their representatives and the state legislature to plead to keep Michigan's generous film tax incentives in place. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is proposing to replace the film tax incentive program with a 5 million cap on future film credits, which Daniels and other film executives believe would virtually put an end to the booming Michigan film industry.