Talk about authenticity! To find musicians to fill the folksy cast of Once, producers of the forthcoming West End production of the Tony-winning musical looked to the streets of Dublin for singers and actors with a genuinely Irish sound. Open auditions for the show (which starts at the Phoenix Theatre on March 16, 2013) were held at Whelan’s, one ...

Will the real Frank Abagnale Jr. please stand up? The real-life man, on whom the musical is based, visited the cast of the national tour of Catch Me If You Can in Providence, Rhode Island. Abagnale, who worked for the FBI for decades after serving time for fraud and check forgery, posed with the cast and participated in a Q ...

Green Bay Packer Donald Driver is feeling blue, but in the best way possible! The wide receiver met up with Blue Man Group performers Russell Rinker and Charles Henry at a taping of local NFL-wives talk show, The Better Half, on October 9. The guys were there to promote Blue Man Group’s current engagement at the Fox Cities Performing ...

Excitement was sky high as the cast of Catch Me If You Can celebrated the national tour’s opening at the Providence Performing Arts Center on October 7. “It was so exciting!” Stephen Anthony said of the opening night performance. Anthony stars as real-life con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., who passed himself off as a doctor, lawyer and jet pilot ...

The release of the Les Miserables movie is just over two months away, and excitment should only continue to rise now that there's a new poster featuring Hugh Jackman to plaster across movie theater walls across the country. As Jean Valjean, Jackman sports a brooding determination above the tag line "Freedom is Mine." Take a look at the poster ...

The Broadway cast of the Tony-winning play War Horse, including the show’s title character, Joey, took a trip to New York's Citi Field on September 10 to participate in “Hooves on First,” a fundraiser to raise awareness about the treatment of horses. War Horse’s life-sized puppet Joey stole the show as he greeted fans before the game ...

Twilight fans are counting the days until the November 16 release of Breaking Dawn Part 2, the fifth and final film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s mega-selling vampire saga. Now there’s an extra reason for Broadway Twihards to get tickets: theater actress Lisa Howard has snagged the juicy role of Siobhan, leader of the Irish Coven. Described by heroine ...

People from every nation have found themselves deeply immersed in the 2012 Summer Olympics, currently underway in London, and it turns out that horses want to display their national pride too. The National Theatre’s company of the Olivier and Tony-winning play War Horse joined in the festivities on July 31 as Joey the horse, led by Captain Nicholls (Alex ...

As the December release date nears for Tom Hooper’s highly anticipated big-screen adaptation of the Tony-winning musical Les Miserables, fans are getting more and more glimpses from the movie’s European set. Les Miz buffs know that from the ABC Café to streets of Paris, some of the most exciting scenes in the musical surround the students’ revolution led ...

As the national touring cast of The Book of Mormon prepares to head out on a musical mission across America, Tony nominee Gavin Creel and Jared Gertner are in the final stages of getting into character as Uganda-bound missionaries Elder Price and Elder Cunningham, respectively. The company is set to leave New York on July 27 and will begin performances ...