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Tiler Talks: Checking in with Tiler Peck Tiler Peck spoke to Dance Informa about the recently wrapped NYCB winter season . In the interview, she also leaked that she's participating in an NYC reading of Little Dancer , the Degas-inspired musical that she led at the Kennedy Center in 2014. The musical has a score by Ragtime  team Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, and was directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman ( Dot , Double Feature ). Fingers crossed the reading goes well, and the production books a slot on Broadway! Natasha, Pierre, and the Imperial Theatre The Broadway bow of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 will take up residency at the Imperial Theatre beginning in October. The musical, which is inspired by a portion of War and Peace , is written by Dave Malloy ( Preludes ), and will star Josh Groban and Denee Benton , both of whom will be making their Broadway debuts. (Benton starred in the recent A.R.T. production of the musical.) Specific dates a...

Long Day's Journey to Broadway Added to Roundabout's 2015-2016 season is a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night , and a fantastic cast is in tow. The revival, set to begin previews March 31, 2016, with opening night scheduled for April 19, will be led by Jessica Lange , Gabriel Byrne and—wait for it—Tony Award winner John Gallagher, Jr. , who'll be returning to the stage for the first time since 2011's Jerusalem . Directed by Jonathan Kent , the play, Broadway.com reports , is being "mounted in association with...Ryan Murphy." Other cast and creative team members will be announced later. (Young adult theatergoers: this is a Roundabout production so if you're between the ages of 18 and 35, you can purchase Hiptix for just $25.) Annaleigh Ashford and Julie White Team Up for Sylvia A revival of A. R. Gurney 's Sylvia will bow on Broadway this fall, and it boasts two fantastic ladies as the stars. Tony nominee A...

Casting News Taye Diggs ( Rent ) has been confirmed as the next Hedwig in the Tony-winning revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch . Diggs will begin performances on July 22, and continue for a 12-week run. The fantastic Rebecca Naomi Jones will continue in the role of Yitzhak. (Scroll down for her first backstage vlog.) Broadway.com has more. Uma Thurman ( Pulp Fiction ) and Kristin Chenoweth ( On the Twentieth Century ) will co-star in The Brits Are Coming , a comedic heist movie written by James Okaley and Alex Michaelides, and directed by Oakley. The Hollywood Reporter has details.    Tony winner John Gallagher, Jr. ( American Idiot , The Newsroom ) has his next gig lined up: The talented star has joined the cast of The Belko Experiment , a film written by James Gunn. Greg McLean will direct the picture, set to begin shooting in Bogota, Colombia, this June. Gunn posted the news on Facebook in a thoughtful message about the first time Gallagher auditioned for hi...

So you meet (or reunite) with someone. You both get a little tipsy. You sleep together. Then what? The next morning, regardless of whether or not the sun is up, can be a delicate, intense, exciting, scary, complex time, and in his new play, Neil LaBute explores those precious moments. His two-hander, starring Tony nominee Thomas Sadoski ( Other Desert Cities , Wild ) as Doug and Amanda Seyfried ( Les Miserables , A Million Ways to Die in the West ) as Beth, plays out in real time, beginning in the wee hours of the morning. Doug and Beth have a history but have just slept together for the first time, and over the course of 85 minutes, they try to figure out what's next. LaBute takes his time in revealing details, which I appreciate. Giving away too much too soon would have made the work overwrought and melodramatic. Withholding for too long would be tantalizing to the point of tedious. Instead, LaBute creates a timeless and universal arc of a fledgling relationship. No spo...

I've never been a fan of Westerns; not that I've particularly disliked them, I've just never had a taste for them. But I have always been a fan of Blazing Saddles , and for a while I have been a Seth MacFarlane fan. So when I learned the two would be melding, creating a Western with MacFarlane's comedic sensibility, I was excited. A Million Ways to Die in the West , set in 1882, is written by the same trio behind the hit Ted : MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild . MacFarlane once again directs, and this time he is the star and not just the voice behind the star. He plays Albert Stark, a sheep farmer who is a self-proclaimed nerd. He's your typical Western tough guy, and when he talks his way out of a duel instead of shooting his way out, his girlfriend, Louis ( Amanda Seyfried ), dumps him in favor of the slick Foy ( Neil Patrick Harris ). Enter Anna ( Charlize Theron ), who arrives in Old Stump and quickly strikes up a friendship (and maybe more?) with...