The Geffen Playhouse's Backstage at the Geffen annual fundraiser, which recognizes leadership in the theater community while raising funds for the Geffen Playhouse's education programs, will honor Tony and Emmy Award winning actress Kristin Chenoweth and Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Barry Meyer.

Despite speculation that the previous overload of Glee downloads would effect album release sales, Glee: The Music, Vol. 1, a collection of 17 songs featured on the TV show, officially debuted at #4 on the Billboard charts today. The disk was released by Columbia Records last Wednesday, November 3.

GLEE star Chris Colfer is featured singing WICKED's famous anthem 'Defying Gravity' in a new solo cut from the hit Fox series. You can check out the audio right here on STAGE TUBE!

Stray Cat Theatre presents Speech and Debate, By Stephen Karam, Directed by Ron May. Sex, Lies and Podcasts with a George Michael soundtrack. Kinda-sorta like a pre-Glee Glee.

GLEE star Lea Michele is featured singing WICKED's powerful anthem 'Defying Gravity' in a new solo cut from the hit Fox series. You can check it out right here on STAGE TUBE!

It is undeniable that Glee is a certified hit. A multi-media mega-hit, in fact, as the show continues to top not only broadcast charts but the iTunes charts, as well. The question on many minds, however, in anticipation of the final numbers tabulating the success of the first Glee album release out on Wednesday, is just how much fans want of the singing troupe.

Eddie Sarfaty's MENTAL Nov. 10 at Actor's Express. On Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 8 p.m., Atlanta goes mental when Actor's Express presents comedian and author Eddie Sarfaty in a hilarious evening of stand-up comedy, MENTAL: An Evening of Homo-Neurotic Comedy.

The upcoming GLEE episode 'Hairography' airs Wednesday, Nov. 25th (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. You can see some sneak peek images of the hit show right here on BWW! The episode features a guest appearance by R&B/Rap artist and actress Eve.

Acclaimed theater company Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced nine initial performers who will participate in the return of its unique benefit evening STORIES ON 5 STORIES on Monday, November 9. Among those taking part in the special event will be two-time Academy Award winner and two-time Obie Award winner Diane Wiest (Memory House at Playwrights Horizons/PH, Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway), Tony Award winner Debra Monk (Assassins at PH, Redwood Curtain, Curtains), Obie Award winner Jason Butler Harner (current Stage Manager in Our Town, Hedda Gabler, The Coast of Utopia), Clarence Derwent Award winner Zoe Kazan (100 Saints You Should Know at PH; Come Back, Little Sheba; Things We Want), Theatre World Award winner Cassie Beck (The Drunken City and Prayer for My Enemy at PH), Cristin Milioti (The Retributionists at PH, the upcoming The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter), Sue Jean Kim (The Drunken City and BFE at PH, 365 Days/365 Plays), Carmen M. Herlihy (The Thugs, Crooked) and Greg Keller (Broadway's Uncle Vanya, The Rainmaker). Additional performers will be announced in the coming weeks.

On November 9 at 7:00pm, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center will launch its Newsmakers conversation series, celebratrating important figures in the arts and politics, with Glee's Jany Lynch.

To celebrate the release of the album members of the Glee cast is traveling to certain locations to greet the fans who purchase 'Glee: The Music, Vol. 1.' The Glee cast visited Best Buy on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009 in Paramus, New Jersey and you can see some pictures of the meet and greet below!

Nine time Tony Award winner Stephen Sondheim will hold an onstage discussion about his life and works at Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin, Texas.

Producer Daryl Roth announced today that Michele Lee (Tale of the Allergist's Wife), Tony Award-winner Debra Monk (Curtains), Tracee Ellis Ross ('Girlfriends') and Casey Wilson ('Saturday Night Live') will join the rotating cast of Love, Loss and What I Wore. They join the show January 6 through January 31, 2009, alongside the returning Katie Finneran. Love, Loss, and What I Wore, an intimate collection of stories by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, directed by Karen Carpenter and based on the bestselling book by Ilene Beckerman, opened October 1, 2009 to rave reviews at the Westside Theatre (407 West 43 Street, NYC) and has been extended through March 2010.

'Tis the season for Holt Renfrew's annual 'Holiday Window Unveiling,' and this year the Toronto-based luxurious retailer will have a little something extra to sing about as Tony and Emmy award winner Kristin Chenoweth is expected to be on hand, according to a report in the National Post. The event is scheduled to take place on Thursday, November 5.

Eddie Sarfaty's MENTAL Nov. 10 at Actor's Express. On Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 8 p.m., Atlanta goes mental when Actor's Express presents comedian and author Eddie Sarfaty in a hilarious evening of stand-up comedy, MENTAL: An Evening of Homo-Neurotic Comedy.

To celebrate the release of the album members of the GLEE cast is traveling to certain locations to greet the fans who purchase 'Glee: The Music, Vol. 1.' The GLEE cast visited the Borders at the Time Warner Center Columbus Circle on Tuesday, Nov. 3rd, 2009 New York City and BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there for the fan frenzied 'meet and 'Gleet'!'

No dear playgoers, it has not come to pass that some smart producer put up a quickie, low-budget revival of Spamalot in the Barrymore Theatre and tried cutting costs by removing all the songs. But there's definitely a Pythonic style in the look and text of Ionesco's Exit The King as co-adapted by Geoffrey Rush (who also stars) and Neil Armfield (who also directs). You can sense it in the way Brian Hutchison, as a faithfully detail-oriented armored guard, dutifully announces each royal occurrence as it happens, correcting himself, when necessary, with bellowing authority ('The King is dead.'... 'The King's alive.'... 'Long live the king.'). It's there when AndRea Martin, as a sullen, much-abused servant, makes a comic production out of trying to keep the monarchs' royal robes draped straight, and it's abundantly present when Rush, as the 400-year-old King Berenger, who is down to his last 90 minutes of life ('When the play is over you'll be dead.'), kicks up what's left of his heels in a silly little dance.

If the blocked sight lines caused by Santo Loquasto's dominating set - the wooden skeleton of a Russian two-story country home - seem at first a bit of an annoyance in Classic Stage Company's engrossing and well-acted production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, the wonderful moodiness his work helps create becomes more evident as the evening moves onward. With most of the action taking place on the porch pushed to the forefront, the audience can partially view the unseen business of others through thick structural beams. Or perhaps watch scenes with those not directly involved in the forefront. And while the clarity of your view depends on which of the three sections you're seated in, it seems intentional that nobody can tell exactly what is happening in one key moment.

Though Ervin Drake's 'The Friendliest Thing (Two People Can Do),' from his 1964 hit What Makes Sammy Run?, has been called the first song from a Broadway musical to be directly about having sex, Suzanne Carrico employs no vampy winks or purring vocals as she observes with heightened intellectual interest the unnecessity of foreplaying drinks and dances when a couple in lust could simply get right to it.  (Yes, I just made up two words in that sentence.  Deal with it.)  Her new show at The Metropolitan Room, opening less than three weeks afters winning the MAC Award for Outstanding Debut, is named for this suggestive showtune but the self-described geek cleverly treats the song as a subtext to Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields' 'Welcome To Holiday Inn,' sandwiching the cerebral sexuality between slices of broader, comical pass-making.  This is either the smartest show about sex or the sexiest show about smarts in town.In outstanding company both offstage (Mary Cleere Haran is her director) and on (she's got music director/arranger Tedd Firth on piano and Steve Doyle on bass), Carrico has the kind of sunny, uncomplicated voice that can fill Harold Arlen and Leo Brown's 'Hooray For Love' with perky glee, matched with the kind of acting skill that can explore the dark dramatic longings of Arlen and Johnny Mercer's 'I Had Myself a True Love,' climaxing in an anguished belt that is far more about the woman she portrays than her ability to vocally shine.She calls this her hanky-panky show and most every number has something to do with sex.  There's the sweet simplicity with which she approaches Jimmy Roberts and Joe DiPietro's 'I Will Be Loved Tonight,' where a woman who has gone too long without a lover's touch anticipates how the evening's date will end, and the wry exasperation of 'Toothbrush Time,' William Bolcom and Arnold Weinstein's tense contemplation on why last night's lover is taking so long to get out of the apartment.  She savors the snazzy jazz jauntiness of Michael John La Chiusa's 'The Thief' and turns George Gershwin and B.G. DeSylva's 'Do It Again!' into a lopsided debate between the mind and the libido (guess who wins).The very funny sexpot character song, 'Femininity' (Jay Livingston/Ray Evans), is given an interesting personal twist as she introduces it with some of her own feelings as an adolescent girl surprised by the different way boys would look at her once she started developing.  Her admiration for the romantic passion expressed by Alan and Marilyn Bergman fuels her detailed story-telling in 'Like a Lover' and 'The Island.And for those who believe that hanky-panky is never complete without a bit of cuddling after, she finishes the evening with a very satisfied and satisfying 'Embraceable You' by the Gershwins.

Today, Tuesday, Nov. 3, Columbia Records and Twentieth Century Fox Television releases 'Glee: The Music, Volume 1,' the first in a series of soundtracks that feature some of the music heard in the first season of the critically acclaimed series on FOX. 'Glee: The Music, Volume 1' features spectacular renditions of several chart-topping hits, including Queen's 'Somebody to Love' and Neil Diamond's 'Sweet Caroline.'

Kristin Chenoweth, who portrayed the role of April Rhodes on Glee recently, will be featured on the upcoming album, Glee: The Music, Volume 1. The Broadway star will be featured in the songs she performed on the show including Alone by Heart with the Glee regular Matthew Morrison, and Maybe This Time by Kander and Ebb featuring additional Broadway favorite Lea Michele.

The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Columbia Records will release 'GLEE: The Music, Volume 1' on November 3rd. The release will contain 17 tracks performed during the show's first season.

'Tis the season for Holt Renfrew's annual 'Holiday Window Unveiling,' and this year the Toronto-based luxurious retailer will have a little something extra to sing about as Tony and Emmy award winner Kristin Chenoweth is expected to be on hand, according to a report in the National Post. The event is scheduled to take place on Thursday, November 5.

The cast of the Fox hit GLEE performed the National Anthem before game 3 of the World Series. The cast sang before the game which was played at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.

GLEE star and BWW favorite Matthew Morrison spoke to Access Hollywood's Billy Bush about a number of topics including the hit FOX show and his upcoming solo CD.