SNL Stars on the Broadway Stage
Ana Gasteyer is not the only Saturday Night Live alum to have flexed her acting muscles on the Broadway stage. BroadwayWorld is rounding up your favorite SNL stars who are also Broadway stars. Check out our list here!
ABC News Studios to Produce Documentary on Journalist Barbara Walters
ABC News Studios, in partnership with Imagine Documentaries, will produce a new documentary on ABC’s very own Barbara Walters coming to Hulu in 2025. Directed by Emmy®-winning filmmaker and journalist Jackie Jesko, this film will feature unaired footage from ABC’s extensive archives and interviews with people who knew and worked with the broadcast legend who paved a path in journalism unlike any other.
Interview: Local Spotlight on Emmy Award-Winning News Anchor Tracy Kornet
BroadwayWorld readers know the theater is blessed with talented people who not only perform on the stage but also manage operations behind the scenes. From tech crews, producers, directors, and writers, to publishers, instructors, and dramaturgs, these folks have their own “stage presence” that leans toward the creative side of this craft.
Interview: Morgan Scott On Starring in THE CHER SHOW National Tour
Cher needs only one name to be immediately identified. When it comes to dramatizing her life for the stage, however, it’s not surprising that it takes three performers to play her in the Tony Award-winning musical “The Cher Show,” which comes to the Boch Center Wang Theatre March 15–17 on its North American tour.
Review: THE INTERVIEW, Park Theatre
What role does a journalist play in telling the truth versus getting a good story? How does one find the line between the truth and an agreed narrative? Jonathan Maitland’s new play, The Interview, attempts to tackle these questions by taking a close look at the BBC Panorama interview with Princess Diana in 1995.
ABC to Profile Elizabeth Taylor on SUPERSTAR Series
The star-studded television event features interviews with celebrities such as Fran Drescher, Rosie O’Donnell, Camilla Belle, Melissa Rivers and Dita von Teese. The program also includes conversations with Kate Andersen Brower, who wrote Taylor’s biography; Larry Hackett, the former editor of People and an ABC News contributor.
Photos: THE VIEW Co-Hosts Reunite to Honor Barbara Walters
The episode featured The View's current panel, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, and Alyssa Farah Griffin. Original co-hosts Debbie Matenopoulos, Star Jones, and Meredith Vieira appeared. Sherri Shepherd, Elizabeth Hasselback and Lisa Ling joined the ladies. Rosie O'Donnell revealed why she was not present. Check out photos!
VIDEO: Watch THE VIEW Hosts of the Past & Present Honor Barbara Walters In Special Tribute Episode
Watch video clips from The View's tribute episode to Barbara Walters. The original panel, Joy Behar, Meredith Vieira, Debbie Matenopolous, and Star Jones reunited, plus Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hoston, Sara Haines, and Alyssa Farrah Griffin and other former co-hosts including Sherri Shepherd, Elizabeth Hasselback, and Lisa Ling honored Walters.
Hugh Jackman Is Open to Playing Peter Allen From THE BOY FROM OZ Again
Hugh Jackman has revealed that he is open to playing Peter Allen from The Boy From Oz again. Jackman, who said that playing Peter Allen was 'the most fun [he's] ever had,' looked back on the celebrities who joined him onstage during performances, including Matt Damon, Barbara Walters, and Sarah Jessica Parker, in a new interview.
THE VIEW Ends Season 25 as Most-Watched Daytime Talk Show
“The View” finishes the 2021-2022 season ranked No. 1 among all network and syndicated daytime talk shows and news programs in Households (1.7 – tied with “Dr. Phil”) and Total Viewers (2.411 million). In fact, after its historic finish during the 2020-2021 season, “The View” took take the top spot in both measures for the 2nd consecutive year.
THE VIEW Names Ana Navarro & Alyssa Farah Griffin as New Co-Hosts
Communications strategist Alyssa Farah Griffin joins the table as co-host in the conservative seat, and a familiar face to “The View” audience, Ana Navarro, has been officially named co-host. The two Republican co-hosts will join moderator Whoopi Goldberg and co-hosts Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines on The View panel.
THE VIEW Hosts to Reunite For BEHIND THE TABLE Special
ABC News announced today the new Hulu Original “Behind The Table: A View Reunion,” which takes viewers inside the hotel room at the Essex House hotel in New York City where current and original co-host Joy Behar, the show’s first moderator Meredith Vieira and original panelists Star Jones and Debbie Matenopoulos auditioned 25 years ago.