Brooke Smith News

Inspired by a true story, USA's new one-hour drama, GRACELAND, begins production in Fort Lauderdale, FL this week. From Executive Producer and WHITE COLLAR creator, Jeff Eastin, the series is slated to film 11 episodes (in addition to the completed pilot). GRACELAND stars Daniel Sunjata ('Rescue Me') and Aaron Tveit ('Les Miserables') and will bow summer 2013 on USA.

NBC today announced that Paget Brewster will guest-star in a special two-hour season premiere of LAW & ORDER: SVU. Currently the longest-running drama series on television, the show's 14th season will premiere tonight, September 26 from 9-11 pm ET. Brewster, who most recently starred as Emily Prentiss on 'Criminal Minds,' will guest star as the head of the DA's Public Integrity Unit who has the unenviable task of handling the case against Captain Cragen (Dann Florek), who is under suspicion of murder.

5Pound Theatre's Jason Cavanagh directs his original work Kiss Them All Soundly, an Into The Woods esq look at the darker, grittier side of three re-imagined nursery rhymes. Cavanagh delves into the realm of fantasy versus reality, digging into the sub-conscious of four famous childhood characters, Simple Simon, Georgie Porgie, Mary Had A Little Lamb and Alice (In Wonderland). It is an insighful look at the darker side of these characters and their stories, their motivations and their existence.

NBC today announced that Paget Brewster will guest-star in a special two-hour season premiere of LAW & ORDER: SVU.

On Sunday, February 5th, beginning at 9:00am ET/PT, ABC Family will air a "Bring it On-a-Thon," airing the five movies in the popular franchise back-to-back, featuring such ABC Family stars as Ashley Benson ("Pretty Little Liars"), Francia Raisa ("The Secret Life of the American Teenager") and Cassie Scerbo ("Make It or Break It").

'Bring It On: The Musical' opened on Friday, November 11 at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre. Currently in previews, the production will continue through December 10. BroadwayWorld brings you photo coverage from opening night below.

Aurora Theatre will brighten your holiday season with our original holiday musical spectacle Christmas Canteen 2010. This living Christmas card is filled with music that will evoke warm holiday memories.

Aurora Theatre will brighten your holiday season with our original holiday musical spectacle Christmas Canteen 2010. This living Christmas card is filled with music that will evoke warm holiday memories.

Aurora Theatre will brighten your holiday season with our original holiday musical spectacle Christmas Canteen 2010. This living Christmas card is filled with music that will evoke warm holiday memories.

Emmy(R) Award nominee Maura Tierney ('ER') has joined 'The Whole Truth' as a series regular. The new drama series from Jerry Bruckheimer Television will air Wednesdays from 10:00-11:00 p.m., ET this fall on ABC. With a unique alternative narrative structure that chronicles the way a case is built from the perspectives of both the defense and prosecution, 'The Whole Truth' shows each side equally and keeps its audience guessing, shifting allegiances of guilt or innocence until the very final scene.

The Royal Court Theatre will this month be screening two of Wallace Shawn's most acclaimed films, and staging readings of five of his plays, as part of its Wallace Shawn Season.

HIGHLAND HALL parents and performers Bruce Davison, Amy Brenneman, Brooke Smith, Elizabeth Perkins, Saul Rubinek, Bruce Weitz, Fred Goss, Jim Ortlieb, and Wendie Malick present a staged reading of James R. Winker's adaptation of THE CANTERBURY TALES, which premiered to high acclaim in 1984 at the Mark Taper Forum.

On Friday February 29 at 8PM, for one night only at UCLA's Royce Hall, Tony Award-winners Audra McDonald and Sara Ramirez, and Loretta Devine, will headline Good Medicine - a musical event with the casts of television series 'Grey's Anatomy' and 'Private Practice.'

Dozens of stars from stage and screen packed the Lunt-Fontanne on Thursday, January 10 for the official opening night of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid.'

The nominations for the 14th Annual Screen Actors' Guild Awards were announced on Thursday, December 20 at the Silver Screen Theater, West Hollywood, CA.

Tamara Tunie, Brooke Smith, Michael Cerveris and more will guest star in 'an oak tree'

More stars have joined the line-up of rotating actors playing the role of 'The Father in Tim Crouch's an oak tree

MCC Theater announced today that its 2006-07 mainstage season at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher St.) will include the 10th anniversary production of MCC's acclaimed Nixon's Nixon--reuniting playwright Russell Lees, director Jim Simpson with actors Gerry Bamman and Steve Mellor--and a world premiere by Neil LaBute, recently named MCC playwright in residence

Neil Labute's very funny and smart new comedy features one terribly clueless groom-to-be arranging reunions with the women he left behind

Neil LaBute's Some Girl(s), presented by MCC, opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on June 8th, and BroadwayWorld was there!