Cheyenne Jackson and Alexandra Silber will play Tony and Maria in the San Francisco Symphony’s five-day concert version of West Side Story. The performers will take Davies Symphony Hall from June 26 through July 2, with a recording and subsequent cast album scheduled for later in 2013.

Joining Jackson and Silber are Jessica Vosk as Anita, Kevin Vortman as ...

Two-time Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver is set to join Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Cheyenne Jackson in the upcoming film 6 Dance Lessons In 6 Weeks. Deadline.com reports that the Australian actress will play Irene, a jaunty dance student who's learning to cut a rug with Jackson's dance instructor.

In addition to Jackson and Weaver, 6 ...

Cheyenne Jackson has been tapped to replace Sean Hayes as an energetic dance instructor in the independent film 6 Dance Lessons In 6 Weeks, reports Deadline.com.

Jackson will star as Michael Minetti, a dancer hired by an elderly retiree (played by Gena Rowlands) for private dance lessons in her Florida condo. Arthur Allan Seidelman will direct, with a screenplay ...

TV and stage stars Jonathan Groff, Jeremy Jordan, Christian Borle, Sierra Boggess and LaChanze were just a few of the famous faces that turned out on March 4 to honor Tony and Emmy winner Judith Light at MCC Theater's annual Miscast gala. The starry one-night-only extravaganza, hosted by Victor Garber, was held at the Hammerstein Ballroom and featured actors ...

Two-time Tony winner Christine Ebersole and Cheyenne Jackson will pop up on an upcoming episode of Smash, according to a post made by the actress on composer Marc Shaiman’s Facebook.

“I am writing to you from the set of Smash! I am playing a character named ‘Christine Ebersole’…,” the actress wrote on February 26, adding that she was “announcing ...

T.G.I.F., Broadway fans! Before we head out for happy hour, we’re revisiting the most important lessons we learned over the last seven days on the Great White Way. From Taydina dream casting to Banana Joe’s Broadway debut, check out a few of the crazy, weird and downright awesome things we learned this week.


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The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the second time this season to decide the eligibility of 14 Broadway productions from the 2012-13 season. The 14 productions discussed include Grace, Cyrano de Bergerac, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Heiress, Annie, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Scandalous, A Christmas Story, Dead Accounts, The Anarchist, Golden Boy, Glengarry Glen Ross ...

Cheyenne Jackson has been tapped to co-star with Arrested Development’s Jeffrey Tambor in Amazon Studios’ new comedy pilot The Onion Presents: The News, reports Deadline.com.

The project is set behind the scenes at the Onion News Network, the fictional news agency behind the popular spoof journalism site The Onion. Jackson will play Cameron, described as a rising news ...

Watch out, Nikki Finke! The Litchfield County Times surprisingly broke the news that three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep will star as the Witch in the movie adaptation of Into the Woods, directed by Rob Marshall. Broadway arranger and composer David Krane, who worked with Marshall on the Chicago movie, spilled the magic beans in a January 31 interview with the ...

It’s time to stock up on Champagne and noisemakers because 2013 is almost upon us, and with it will come a whole new slate of Weekend Polls for Broadway.com readers. But first, let’s look back at which polls fired up theater fans and drove them to make their voices heard and votes counted. Readers were invested in ...