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Hairspray stars Laura Bell Bundy, Kerry Butler, and Marissa Jaret Winokur will host the 2025 Chita Rivera Awards. They will be joined by presenters and performers Tituss Burgess, Donna Murphy, Stephen Schwartz, Savion Glover, Nathan Lee Graham, Shoshana Bean, Eva Noblezada, Nicole Fosse, Noah Fosse, Liz Cho, Khori Petinaud, Lorna Luft, Stephanie Pope, Vy Higginsen and more. There will also be special performances from Boop!, Gypsy, the Verdon Fosse Legacy, and The Sing Harlem Choir. The 2025 Chita Rivera Awards will be presented on May 19 at 7:30pm at the NYU Skirball, and produced by Joe Lanteri, Founder and Executive Director of the New York...

Tituss Burgess, Donna Murphy, Savion Glover, Nathan Lee Graham, Lorna Luft, Stephanie Pope, Vy Higginsen and more will be presenters at the 2025 Chita Rivera Awards. There will also be special performances from Boop!, Gypsy, The Verdon Fosse Legacy, and The Sing Harlem Choir. The 2025 Chita Rivera Awards will be presented on May 19 at 7:30pm at the NYU Skirball and produced by Joe Lanteri, Founder and Executive Director of the New York City Dance Alliance Foundation, Inc., in conjunction with Patricia Watt. See the full list of nominees Here! This year, the Chita Rivera Awards will be honoring Ben Vereen with the Lifetime Achievement Award, which...

Exclusive: Police officer turned video game writer and technical director Morley Nelson is currently in production in Minnesota on Uncontained, a horror-thriller that he is directing from his original screenplay.

Uncontained takes place deep in the wintery forests of North America and centers on a Homeland Security agent desperately trying to conceal her son’s variant infection from the government. When the local militia take interest, she must rely on the special skills of a stranger with secrets of his own.

Courtney Blythe Turk (Assassination Nation) and Chris Goodson (The Thing About Pam) are producing, with Byung Sa (A Shot Through the Wall) exec producing. Nelson and Turk are starring alongside Peter O’Meara, Hayley LeBlanc and Brett Zimmerman.

Nelson, O’Meara, Zimmerman and Turk are represented by Roar; LeBlanc...

A gifted assemblage of dancers gave their time and miraculous talents in support of Dancers For Good to raise funds for the vital services of the evening’s beneficiary, The Actors Fund.

Dance Humanitarian Award recipient Bebe Neuwirth

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Members from Amy Marshall Dance Company, Carolyn Dorfman Dance, Eryc Taylor Dance, Martha Graham Dance Company, Pam Tanowitz Dance, Paul Taylor Dance Company and special guest stars Adrienne Canterna and tap dancer Luke Hawkins transported an audience of over 350 people by the mesmerizing and awe-inspiring capacity of the human body to express itself through the marvelous wonder of movement through dance.

The Legendary Chita Rivera

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Notable attendees included: Chita Rivera, Michael Apuzzo, Eric Gunhus, Barbara Davis, Bebe Neuwirth, Luke Hawkins, Stephanie Pope, Howard Williams, Lloyd Culbreath, Luke Hawkins, Bernt Heiberg, Cristina Cuomo, Andrea Greeven Douzet, Raul Ruiz, Simon Sutton, Don Sutton,...

The Music Box Theatre will soon be home to the American Repertory Theatre production of Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz's Pippin, directed by Diane Paulus. The cast features Matthew James Thomas as Pippin, Tony and Olivier Award nominee Patina Miller as Leading Player, Tony Award nominee Terrence Mann as Charles, Tony Award nominee Charlotte d'Amboise as Fastrada, Rachel Bay Jones as Catherine and Tony Award winner Andrea Martin as Berthe. Other members of the company include Erik Altemus as Lewis, Gregory Arsenal, Andrew Cekala, Lolita Costet, Colin Cunliffe, Andrew Fitch, Orion Griffiths, Viktoria Grimmy, Olga Karmansky, Bethany Moore, Brad Musgrove, Stephanie Pope, Philip Rosenberg, YanNick Thomas, Molly Tynes, Anthony Wayne.The cast met the press earlier today and you can check out a photo preview from the festivities below...