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Welcome to BWW's ON THIS DAY Series celebrating theatrical birthdays, openings and special events that took place on this day in theatre history! Happy Birthday, Judy Kuhn ! Kuhn made her Broadway debut was in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Monday night marks the national premier broadcast of the American Masters installment on Mel Brooks.

Paris's Theatre du Chatelet recently presented Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine 's Pulitzer Prize-winning SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, starring Julian Ovenden , and the production was filmed and broadcast by Mezzo TV.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Normally, you work your way into the off-the-wall questions with movie stars.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the American Film Institute will honor Mel B rooks with the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest accolade for a career in film.

Most of the original team are back on-board for 'Rio 2' but audiences will have to hold out till 2014! The sequel to 2011's 'Rio' is getting closer, with the return of Ice Age director Carlos Saldanha and a new trailer looks like the new movie has just as much feathery fun to offer as the original.

This past week, the four big networks unveiled their fall schedules and all the brand spanking new sitcoms and dramas that will start premiering in September .

On the surface it seemed one of the stranger matches of the 20th century: the serious, award-winning dramatic actress Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, and the man whose fertile imagination introduced both flatulence around an Old West campfire and a singing-dancing Adolf Hitler to the silver screen, Melvin Kaminsky.

On June 25, 2013 Reviver Records will release Let Us In Americana,its second album from the Let Us In series, which follows the success of 2011's Let Us In Nashville.

Alice and the Mad Hatter attend the 2011 Mad Hatter Party benefiting Children's Advocacy Center - Hope House.

Actor Justin Timberlake poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Inside Llewyn Davis at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 19, 2013.

With rumors still circulating that James Corden is in talks to play "The Baker" in the upcoming Disney film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim 's INTO THE WOODS, BWW brings you two clips of Corden singing: a performance of Queen 's "Don't Stop Me Now" and a duet with Gary Barlow on "Pray." Click below to hear Corden sing! As BroadwayWorld previously ... (more)

John Payne and Robin McAuley, right, goof around after performing with other band members during song rehearsal for "Raiding the Rock Vault" in the LVH Theater at LVH on Wednesday, March 6, 2013.

The Drama League announced yesterday, May 17th, the winners for the 79th Annual Drama League Awards: Distinguished Production of a Musical, Kinky Boots; presented by Diane Paulus ; Distinguished Play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, presented by Pam MacKinnon ; Distinguished Revival of a Musical, Pippin, presented by Alex Timbers ; ... (more)

Disney is releasing " Peter Pan " to Diamond Edition DVD on August 20, 2013 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the animated movie.

She is a great role model, a great philanthropist, a great actress and, most importantly of all, a brilliant mum When I say "star", I mean we were both in the animated movie Shark Tale, alongside Robert De Niro and Will Smith.

The White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat and a little girl meet up in the Berkeley Playhouse production of Disney's Alice in Wonderland Jr .

I have never read "The Great Gatsby." When in high school and college, through no planning on my part, I always ended up taking an English course from the one educator of the bunch teaching that course that didn't have us read it.

Rows and rows of hard cases-the way we used to rent movies and more tales of the pre-Netflix days in "Rewind This!" Finally, the weekend is here.

BuySoundtrax Records is proud to announce the release of Music From the Films of Ridley Scott , available digitally on May 14th and, in stores and from www.buysoundtrax.com on May 27, 2013.