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Upon receiving the inaugural Bridge Award (Premio Puente) at Sin Muros, the Latina/o Theater Festival held at Stages Repertory last February, Gente de Teatro (Houston, TX) celebrates its 23rd season with a second comedy from Catalan playwright Jordi Galceran: Cancun. Every year without fail, two couples, intimate friends, spend their vacation in a remote location. However, what had always been a perfect scene turns into an intricate and provoking puzzle, drawing a thin line between fantasy and reality. In Cancun, everything seems possible, and the frustrations of every day become entangled with the dreams of what could have been.

According Deadline, actor/director Kevin Connolly shared that the upcoming GOTTI A REAL AMERICAN GODFATHER is set to be released on June 15. John Travolta is set to star as Teflon Don. The movie also stars Pruitt Taylor Vince, Kelly Preston, Spencer Lofranco and Stacy Keach. Read more about it here, from Deadline. 

In a festive 70th birthday celebration honoring one of theatre's most celebrated composers, NBC is set to air 'Andrew Lloyd Webber Tribute to a Superstar' on Wednesday, March 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

Plays Through March 17th

James invites Elton John and Sharon Stone to play a game of James That Tune, in which James uses a keyboard to play Elton's hits, and the two must guess what song James is playing. The catch: James doesn't know how to play a keyboard.

In his latest show at Cafe Carlyle titled HEART TO HEART, John Lloyd Young continues to hearken back to an earlier era in look, sound, and song choice, mostly performing pieces from the 60s and 70s.

Morphing identity, bending gender, mapping space through gesture and singing the song of suffering so exquisite that its high notes touch the exultant limits of transcendence, for over three decades it is fair to say that Kelly has been a foundational figure of the downtown stage. Now, John allows us to see his concurrent practice as a visual artist-more modest and ancillary to his career in hybrid theatrics-but just as central to his aesthetic core, quieter and suffused with a fragile melancholia, and just as revelatory.

Adam Blanshay Productions Present John Dagleish and George Maguire in A Long Way From Home, featuring Adam Sopp on Piano.

Model Chrissy Teigen appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last month. The conversation turned to her husband John Legend's upcoming role of Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.

John Denver was one of the top recording artists of an era. He also was an active and recognized humanitarian and environmentalist. Denver's songs such as "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Rocky Mountain High", "Annie's Song", "Back Home Again" and scores of other beloved melodies were an introspection of love, nature, family, and home. Chris Collins, an award-winning singer/songwriter, who leads the band of Boulder Canyon, carries on the musical legacy that John Denver gave to the world. Their tribute makes a return stop at the State Theatre on Saturday, March 3.

THE CHEKHOV DREAMS, a dark romantic comedy, is currently in previews with Opening Night set for this Saturday, February 3rd at The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row, 410 West 42 Street. Playwright John McKinney will be this week's special guest on the popular WPKN Radio (89.5 FM) program 'State of the Arts" Friday at 12:25 pm. The show can be heard online at www.wpkn.org.

Amid inclement weather and other January obstacles, Ilia Volok opened the Off-Broadway run of his riveting one-man show, DIARY OF A MADMAN, this past Wednesday to great excitement. His re-imagined version of Nikolai Gogol's dark piece, which won enormous praise during its West Coast tour and garnered great success during its East Coast try-out at New York's Beckman Theatre now is enjoying an Off-Broadway run at the spacious John Cullum Theatre.

Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Barb Jungr & John McDaniel today, January 16, 2018 at 7pm in Float Like a Butterfly The Sting Project, a collection of songs related to Sting and The Police.

Dare to venture out in the snow with a great deal on tickets to JOHN LITHGOW: STORIES BY HEART! The new Broadway production is offering $39 tickets select orchestra and mezzanine (regular $109 - $139) $29 tickets select rear mezzanine (regular $39).

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts presents A Date With John Waters on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m.

You're usually not supposed to laugh in class after everything that the teacher says, but John Leguizamo cannot control his students (audience) during his one man hit show LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS. Recently Co-Producer Jamie deRoy & some friends visited John backstage as the blackboard was being prepared for another lesson in Latin history and current events that has audiences rollicking at Studio 54. Check out photos below!

PURE FLIX, the leading independent faith and family film studio, announces the completion of principal photography for GOD'S NOT DEAD: A LIGHT IN DARKNESS, scheduled to release in theaters next Easter on March 30, 2018.

It may not be as well-known a holiday tradition as seeing the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, but for the fifth straight year, the Summoners Ensemble Theatre's delightful presentation of John Kevin Jones' thoroughly engaging solo performance of A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Merchant's House Museum is one of the hardest-to-get tickets in town.

On this week's LATE SHOW, actor John Leguizamo revealed that he found out how little he really knew about his heritage while doing research for his new Broadway play, LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS. Watch the appearance below!

Seven-time GRAMMY Award winner Carrie Underwood and 10-time GRAMMY Award winner John Legend will host GRAMMYS GREATEST STORIES: A 60TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL to be broadcast Today, Nov. 24 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/ PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Barb Jungr & John McDaniel on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 7pm in Float Like a Butterfly The Sting Project, a collection of songs related to Sting and The Police.

Emmy winner John Leguizamo makes his highly-anticipated return to Broadway in Latin History For Morons. The production officially opens at Studio 54 on Wednesday, November 15, 2017 for a strictly limited engagement through Sunday, February 4, 2018. Today, BWW takes a look back on the award-winning entertainer's prolific Broadway career!