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Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series The Last of Us

Weekly Commentary: HBO is guaranteed a win in this category having all six slots split between “The Last of Us” and “Succession.”

While “Succession” is the undisputed frontrunner for the top prize, many believe “Last of...

Keen Company presents Boy, their spring production, starring Bobby Steggert Ragtime, Mothers amp Sons, Heidi Armbruster Time Stands Still, Disgraced, Ted Koch Pillowman, Death of a Salesman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Paul Niebanck A Walk in The Woods, Barbecue, In the Next Room or the vibrator play, and Rebecca Rittenhouse Commons of Pensacola,'Blood amp Oil'. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from opening night below...

Recently, CBS served up the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Elementary" episode 4 of season 4. The episode is entitled, "All My Exes Live in Essex," and it turns out that we're going to see some pretty interesting stuff take place as the murder of a fertility lab tech, prompts Holmes and Watson to investigate, and more. In the new, 4th episode press release: Holmes And Watson Investigate The Murder Of A Fertility Lab Technician Who They Discover Had A Secret Life, On "Elementary," Thursday, Nov. 26. Press release number 2: When Holmes and Watson investigate the murder of a fertility lab technician, they are going to discover the woman had a secret personal life that leads them to multiple suspects. Also, the tables will get turned on Watson when she's investigated by an NYPD detective. Guest stars feature: Gabriel Olds (Mark Lawton), Robert Manning, Jr. (Dr. Branford Fisher), Jenn Colella...

Best buddies Paul (Bryan Callen) and Marty (Michael Rapaport) find themselves in the doghouse with their wives, Liz (Heidi Armbruster) and Lianne (Kathy Searle) because of their boorish ways and emotional absences. When a night drunkenly cavorting with strippers winds up on Facebook, they decide to save their marriages by recruiting Paul's bachelor brother-in-law (John Stamos) to instruct them how to make themselves more loveable - by working out and developing their cultural sides. Gender-fuelled romantic comedy.

Two couples, a pleasant house, plenty of wine, and some arcing sexual current: Could there be a theatrical vehicle with a more interchangeable set of parts? Theresa Rebeck keeps squirting dramaturgical WD40 into her whirring contraption of a play Poor Behavior and, for a while, it works. Unctuously clever dialogue oozes out of Ian, the cynical Irishman (Brian Avers). His wife, the mercurial Maureen (Heidi Armbruster), careens into wittily unhinged rants. Marital arguments click smoothly along fixed tracks. It’s always entertaining to watch a weekend in the country speed so efficiently toward disaster. Soon enough, though, the machine starts to creak, giving off a clangor of whys and whines and reproaches that you can hear rumbling toward a huffy exit from ten minutes away.In a Primary Stages production at the Duke on 42nd Street, director Evan Cabnet tries to make Poor Behavior seem rooted and specific. The front...

Actors Heidi Armbruster, Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Rachel Botchan will participate in staged readings of The Snow Geese by Sharr White The Other Place, Anapurna at the Cape Cod Theatre Project, which opened its 19th Season last weekend. Readings are today, July 11th, the 12th, and the 13th at 8 p.m. at Falmouth Academy. Tickets can be purchased by clicking here.

Ayad Akhtar’s play “Disgraced" -- which examines the struggle of a Pakistani-American corporate lawyer to reconcile his heritage with his ambition -- won this year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama. After premiering at Chicago’s American Theater Company, the play ran off-Broadway last fall in the smallest of the three theaters at Lincoln Center. The Gotham production starred "Daily Show" contributor Aasif Mandvi as the legal eagle and Heidi Armbruster as his wife, an artist who uses Islamic imagery in her work. One of the other finalists -- Amy Herzog’s domestic drama “4,000 Miles” -- also played at Lct while Gina Gionfriddo’s wry comedy “Rapture, Blister, Burn,” debuted at another off-Broadway house, Playwrights Horizons. Administered by Columbia University, the Pulitzer Prize for drama is designated "for a distinguished play by an American author,...

The Acting Company will present a benefit staged reading of Stage Door by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman at 7 pm on Monday, March 18 at the Ailey Studios Joan Weill Center for Dance, 405 West 55th Street Ninth Avenue. The performance, starring Kristine Nielsen Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Merwin Goldsmith Grand Hotel, Me and My Gal, Heidi Armbruster Disgraced, Time Stands Still, Zoe Winters 4,000 Miles, Gossip Girl will be followed by a reception with the cast and director, Irene Lewis, former Artistic Director of Baltimore's Centerstage. A dozen Acting Company Alumni Members-Beth Bartley, Kaliswa Brewster, Georgia Cohen, Susan Finch, Adam Green, Julie Jesneck, Jonathan Kaplan Tony nom. Falsettos, Lisa McCormick, Kevin Orton, Kathleen Wise, Bjorn Dupaty, Ray Virta-will also perform. Tickets 35 and 60 Patron are available from 212-258-3111.

The Lincoln Center TheaterLCT3 production of Disgraced, the new play by Ayad Akhtar, directed by Kimberly Senior, has been extended for a second time through Sunday, December 23 at the Claire Tow Theater 150 West 65 Street. The production, which features Heidi Armbruster, Erik Jensen, Aasif Mandvi, Omar Maskati and Karen Pittman, was originally scheduled to run through November 18 and was then extended through Sunday December 2. Disgraced is produced by arrangement with the Araca Group.

Disgraced is the story of Amir Kapoor The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi, a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly moving up the corporate ladder while distancing himself from his cultural roots. When Amir and his wife Emily Heidi Armbruster, a white artist influenced by Islamic imagery, host a dinner party, what starts out as a friendly conversation escalates into something far more damaging. Now playing thru November 18 only at the brand-new Claire Tow Theater...

Tika Sumpter co-stars in the feature comedy My Man Is A Loser, which is currently in production in New York City and is set for release in 2013. Written and is being directed by acclaimed comedian and writer Mike Young, the project's synopsis reads: Two married guys employ their single playboy friend to help them get their mojo back to save their marriages. During the ensuing adventures, things start to backfire leaving the wives to wonder if the new versions of their husbands are worse than the old ones. Michael Rapaport and Bryan Callen star as the 2 married dudes, and John Stamos plays their single playboy pal. Kathy Searle and Heidi Armbruster play the wives I presume....