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9-1-1 Season 8, Episode 11 has no shortage of guest stars as it finally introduces Captain Bobby Nash's mother played by Lesley Ann Warren alongside other newcomers like Ben Franczuski, Ron Orbach, and Anirudh Pisharody. 

After an intense episode involving Maddie's terrifying abduction, the latest episode of ABC's stacked-cast drama series sees Firehouse 118 responding to a call at a local mega-church, leading to a tense reunion between Bobby and his mother. 

Elsewhere, Eddie Diaz's departure from 9-1-1 has led Buck to look for new friends. 

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Pretty much everyone, including Athena, is shocked to learn Bobby’s mom isn’t dead in the teaser for ABC’s 9-1-1 season eight episode 11, “Holy Mother of God.” Episode 11, directed by Aisha Hinds, will air on Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 8pm Et/Pt.

The cast is led by Peter Krause as Bobby Nash and Angela Bassett as Athena Grant-Nash. Jennifer Love Hewitt plays Maddie Han, Oliver Stark is Evan “Buck” Buckley, Kenneth Choi is Howie “Chimney” Han, Aisha Hinds stars as Henrietta “Hen” Wilson, Ryan Guzman is Eddie Diaz, and Gavin McHugh is Christopher Diaz.

“Holy Mother of God” Plot: The 118 responds to a call at a mega-church, where Bobby runs into his estranged mother (Lesley Ann Warren). Meanwhile, Buck is looking to expand his social circle now that Eddie has left.

Angela Bassett and Lesley Ann Warren in ‘9-1-1’ season 8 episode 11 (Disney/Christopher Willard) 9-1-1 Synopsis, Courtesy...

The Old Globe's West Coast Premiere of The Twenty-seventh Man by award-winning novelist Nathan Englander, directed by Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, will now play an extra week of performances -- through March 22, 2015. Tony and Emmy Award winner Hal Linden 'Barney Miller,' The Rothschilds leads a cast of Broadway and Globe veterans including Ron Orbach, Robert Dorfman, Eli Gelb, James Shanklin, and Lowell Byers. Opening night is tonight, February 19 at 800 p.m., and BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...

The Old Globe welcomes Tony and Emmy Award winner Hal Linden 'Barney Miller,' The Rothschilds to star in the West Coast Premiere of The Twenty-seventh Man by award-winning novelist Nathan Englander, directed by Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. The cast also features Ron Orbach, Robert Dorfman, Eli Gelb, James Shanklin, andLowell Byers. The Twenty-seventh Man will run tonight, February 14 through March 15 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Opening night is Thursday, February 19 at 800 p.m. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast below...

The Old Globe welcomes Tony and Emmy Award winner Hal Linden 'Barney Miller,' The Rothschilds to star in the West Coast Premiere of The Twenty-seventh Man by award-winning novelist Nathan Englander, directed by Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. The cast also features Ron Orbach, Robert Dorfman, Eli Gelb, James Shanklin, andLowell Byers. The Twenty-seventh Man will run February 14 through March 15 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast below...

Stars and casts from the current Broadway line-up have been busy in the studio, recording for the 2013 Broadway's Carols for a Cure, Volume 15. Singing traditional and original holiday songs, this annual holiday music CD benefits Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS Bcefa, one of the nation's leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you exclusive photos from Soul Doctor's recording session for 'The Chanukah Song' with castmembers Ryan Strand, Dianna Barger, Ethan Khusidman, Richard Cerato, Teddy Walsh, Alexandra Frohlinger, Afra Hines, Jc Schuster, Ron Orbach, Amber Iman, Heather Parcells, Jacqueline Antaramian, Vasthy Mompoint, Abdur-Rahim Jackson, Eric Anderson, Tara Chambers, Maria Conti and Seth Farber.

Before I saw Soul Doctor: Journey of a Rockstar Rabbi, I knew nothing about Shlomo Carlebach. Two and half hours of gentle Jewish liturgical folk-rock later, I’m still not sure I know the guy. It’s not for lack of earnestly proffered information: This unctuous, amiably shambling biomusical pamphleteers you mercilessly with plenty of (selective) facts. We open with Carlebach, the sorta-famous “Singing Rabbi” of the sixties, playing a concert in Vienna, when he’s heckled by a composite-character named Reb Pinchas (Ron Orbach), Shlomo’s square, sour childhood tutor, who thinks Carlebach’s message of universal peace and love (delivered in Vienna, of all places!) is obscuring the very particular circumstances of the Holocaust and cheapening the ongoing struggle of the Jewish people. Is it? Does Reb Shlomo have an authenticity problem? Is he too in love with love — the pasteurized, unkosher love of the secular world? And...

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Cst 25th Anniversary Season production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Cst Associate Artistic Director Gary Griffin Cst's Follies, Broadway's The Color Purple is now playing through April 8, 2012, and features a celebrated company of artists that includes stage and screen actor Ron Orbach as Nick Bottom, former Saturday Night Live funnyman Tim Kazurinsky as Peter Quince, and veteran Cst actors Tracy Michelle Arnold as HippolytaTitania and Timothy Edward Kane as TheseusOberon. Performing the role of Puck is Elizabeth Ledo.