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Rehearsals have officially begun for the upcoming North American tour of The Sound of Music. Cast members Cayleigh Capaldi, Christiane Noll, and more gave BroadwayWorld an inside look at numbers from the beloved musical, including the iconic "Do-Re-Mi" and "My Favorite Things." Check out photos from inside the event below and watch hightlights here! The Jack O’Brien-directed tour also stars Kevin Earley as Captain Georg von Trapp, Nicholas Rodriguez as Max Detweiler, Kate Loprest as Elsa Schraeder, Ariana Ferch as Liesl von Trapp, and Ian Coursey as Rolf Gruber. The von Trapp children will be played by Eli Vander Griend (Friedrich), Ava Davis (Louisa), Benjamin Stasiek (Kurt), Haddie Mac...

Step inside rehearsals for the upcoming North American tour of The Sound of Music. Cast members Cayleigh Capaldi, Christiane Noll, and more gave BroadwayWorld an inside look at numbers from the beloved musical, including the iconic "Do-Re-Mi" and "My Favorite Things." The Jack O’Brien-directed tour also stars Kevin Earley as Captain Georg von Trapp, Nicholas Rodriguez as Max Detweiler, Kate Loprest as Elsa Schraeder, Ariana Ferch as Liesl von Trapp, and Ian Coursey as Rolf Gruber. The von Trapp children will be played by Eli Vander Griend (Friedrich), Ava Davis (Louisa), Benjamin Stasiek (Kurt), Haddie Mac (Brigitta), Ruby Caramore (Marta), and Luciana VanDette (Gretl), with Harper Burns, Oliver Cirelli,...

Full casting has been revealed for the highly anticipated North American tour of The Sound Of Music, directed by Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien. The production will star Cayleigh Capaldi as Maria Rainer, Kevin Earley as Captain Georg von Trapp, and Tony Award nominee Christiane Noll as the Mother Abbess. They will be joined by Nicholas Rodriguez as Max Detweiler, Kate Loprest as Elsa Schraeder, Ariana Ferch as Liesl von Trapp, and Ian Coursey as Rolf Gruber. The von Trapp children will be played by Eli Vander Griend (Friedrich), Ava Davis (Louisa), Benjamin Stasiek (Kurt), Haddie Mac (Brigitta), Ruby Caramore (Marta), and Luciana VanDette (Gretl), with Harper Burns, Oliver Cirelli, and Molly Glowacki as understudies. Additional cast members include...

Principal casting has been announced for the upcoming North American tour of The Sound Of Music. Tony Award nominee Christiane Noll as the Mother Abbess will join rising star Cayleigh Capaldi as Maria Rainer and Broadway veteran Kevin Earley as Captain Georg von Trapp. Nicholas Rodriguez will play the charismatic impresario Max Detweiler, and Kate Loprest brings elegance and ambition to Elsa Schraeder. Ariana Ferch portrays Liesl von Trapp, the eldest daughter full of spirit and first love, and Ian Coursey plays Rolf Gruber, a boy striving to prove himself in uncertain times. Complete casting will be announced at a later date. Director Jack O’Brien shared, “It is with a profound sense of excitement that our entire creative staff including associate director Matt Lenz, choreographer Danny Mefford, music supervisor Andy Einhorn, set designer Douglas W. Schmidt, <a...

Stage actor and writer Sidney DuPont has gathered a group of Broadway and Off Broadway performers to launch “The Walkout Project,” a movement to urge the exclusive patronage of Black-owned businesses on July 4.

DuPont and a large ensemble that includes Hamilton’s Tamar Greene and Jared Dixon have recorded the new song and music video “Walkout,” dropping tomorrow on the holiday.

Watch a trailer below.

“Black people have lived in fear,” DuPont said in a statement. “We have been methodically, systematically, and socially conditioned to make white people feel comfortable. We have done this to elevate in the workplace, for better housing opportunities, and for the basic safety of our lives and our Black children’s lives. And yet still, we are killed, beaten, and heavily policed. The Walkout Project was created by artists to cancel out the mentality of white comfortability...

By Lee Pfeiffer

Those of us who share the rather unusual- and sometimes bizarre-profession of reviewing films for a living all share a nasty little secret: there are countless classic movies that we haven't seen. I'm not alone in making this mea culpa. No less than the late, great Robert Osborne, whose insightful introductions on Turner Classic Movies helped launch that channel's success, once confided in me that even he could list numerous classic movies that he had yet to catch up with. When he confessed this to Lauren Bacall, she told him that she envied him because she wish she could recapture the sheer joy of seeing a great film for the first time. I've never seen the 1942 musical "Holiday Inn". I can't say why but perhaps it's because that as a boy growing up in the Sixties, such productions seemed quaint and unappealing when I had a celluloid tidal wave of WWII flicks,...

It's no surprise that summer tends to bring out the hottest guys in New York. And as the dog days of summer start to wane on the streets of the Big Apple, it's time to once again turn our attention to where the hottest of the hot like to spend their time: the New York stage.

Sure, movies and television have their share of rippling abs, but glimpsing a hottie on the screen is nothing compared to the live, in-the-flesh experience. So without further ado, we present the Hottest Guys of New York Theater!

Cesar Abreu

Ricky Martin isn't the only sexy stud to come to us via the pop group Menudo - we can thank our lucky stars we also get the stunning, studly Cesar Abreu. Currently dancing for the Metropolitan Opera, Cesar has also, unsurprisingly, been featured many times in the annual stripfest Broadway Bares.

Nick Adams

No stranger to this list,...

Alexander Greenfield will direct a cast that includes Kate Shindle Wonderland, Legally Blonde, Alex Brightman Wicked, Glory Days, Theresa McCarthy Titanic, Floyd Collins, and Nicholas Rodriguez Tarzan, One Life to Live, Arena Stages Oklahoma in a reading of Michael Finkes new musical Reporting Live on July 25th at 12 and 4 p.m. as well as July 28th at 2 p.m. as part of the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival Developmental Reading Series.

Amy Locane-Bovenizer Car Crash: Melrose Place Actress Giggled After Fatal Crash

A police officer says an actress who had appeared in the original Melrose Place was giggling and laughing after a motor vehicle crash that killed a New Jersey woman. The officer says Amy Locane-Bovenizer said police and emergency personnel were "being overly dramatic."

The Courier News of Bridgewater reports Montgomery Police Officer William Wilkes testified Monday during a hearing to determine whether statements the actress made to police after the June 2010 crash will be admissible at her trial.

Locane-Bovenizer is charged with aggravated manslaughter stemming from the death of 60-year-old Helene Seeman.

Natalia Livingston turns farmhouse into country retreat

“We have a great vision for it. There are lot of different areas of possible use,” said Livingston who resides in Los Angeles. "We started thinking this would be an ideal location for films."

Members of the Livingston...

A little over two years ago, AfterElton.com brought readers a list of the 37 Hottest Guys in Theater, and since then, the New York Stage has only become increasingly sexified. The lines between Broadway and Hollywood continue to blur, and as young men come to recognition in NYC, they're often quickly whisked away to Tinseltown to showcase not only their amazing talent, but often they're breathtaking good looks.

While it's tempting to include every Hollywood hottie who graces the stage on this list (a certain Lee Pace and Luke Macfarlane spring to mind), the point here is to honor the men who are mostly known for rockin' the live stages here in New York.

And so, without further ado, we present, in alphabetical order, the list (39!) of this year's hottest guys in theater!

Nick Adams

A perennial AfterElton favorite, the muscular, openly gay Nick first made waves a few years...

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"Introducing the Real Housewives of Lascaux."

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Happy 52nd Birthday to David Hyde Pierce (here with partner Brian Hargrove at the opening of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying).

Are Ricky martin and Carlos Gonzalez getting married? If so, can I be the ring bearer? Robyn has always felt like an outsider, and she thinks that's part of the reason why she has such a loyal gay following; "I think the gay community just gets me, and I'm very lucky to have that audience — it's a very loyal and dedicated audience." Below you can see the latest episode of the web series Then We Got Help, featuring Ae favorite Nicholas Rodriguez as Danny, who in workout...

Ed is traveling back home after giving his speech last night (I hope he took my advice and pictured everyone in jockstraps), so I'll be handling the Meme. Every time i give you one of these 80's puzzles, you impress me with your knowledge, so this one is a bit tougher. A few months ago I presented ten of my favorite 80's singers, and here are ten more. How many can you name?

Broadway hottie (and one of the stars of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) Will Swenson will direct a feature film version of Carol Lynn Pearson’s play Facing East, about a Mormon couple who grapple with their faith after the suicide of their gay son. A portion of the film's profits will benefit The Trevor Project.

Food goddess Ina Garten is trying to recover from that sick kid PR disaster. She's changed her mind and will invite him to watch her cook,...

On episode 2.44 of We Love Soaps TV, Damon L. Jacobs and Kevin Mulcahy Jr. travel to Gossip in New York City to attend the Then We Got Help! Season Two launch party. Along the way they speak with executive producers Julie Ann Emery and Kevin Earley (who also star), and actor Blake Hammond (who plays Eric opposite Nicholas Rodriguez's Dan).

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Given all of the outrageous and inaccurate things Newsweek "journalist" Ramin Setoodeh has said in the past, it's no surprise that his latest attempt to play the victim ("the gay media elite is mean to me!") over on The Daily Beast is as poorly written and reasoned as his usual work. But this time it also includes a mention of us that completely misrepresents the article it references. (We also write about the rest of Setoodeh's bait-and-switch/I'm a victim! argument.)

In an attempt to obfuscate and distract his past observations about gay actors being unable to play straight roles, Setoodeh changes the subject to the fact that according to him the Hollywood powers that be don't seem willing to cast gay actors in gay parts. To support his claim, he references our article 2010: The Year Gay TV Grew Up and writes "The blog AfterElton.

This week: Judgmental lesbians, gay humor that isn’t offensive, how to deal with lying, anti-gay sacks of s**t!

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Q: I was having a discussion with a lesbian on the hideous impact the fashion industry has had on women. As a fat girl and a lover of fashion, I'm pretty vocal on how I feel about the industry -- that is, if Karl Lagerfeld were ever to cross my path, I will throw sandwiches at him. The lesbian I was talking with about that happily agreed. Then the debate soured. Her explanation on the body issues in the fashion industry? It's because it's run by gay men, and, of course, they're not attracted to curves so they make their models look like "young boys." Naturally this infuriated me,...

Welcome to a new edition of Gays of Our Lives. You don’t want to miss the clips from last week’s episodes that I’ve got in Gool Theater, as they are the stuff that good soaps are made of. Meanwhile, As the World Turns introduces snarky Dr. Reid Oliver and a new story arc for Luke and Noah. Does it have potential or is it dead on arrival?

Also, find out if the second episode of Raw is any better than the first and see what happens when Lucas asks Marco what he wants from him on the German version of Good Times, Bad Times.

How was Dr. Reid Oliver’s debut last week?

In Gool Scoops And Spoilers, Kyle and Oliver discover their lives are getting much more complicated by the baby drama on Oltl and Luke learns just how evil his bio-dad Damian can be on As the World Turns.

What?! It’s not enough that we spent the whole year providing you with insightful news and analysis on gay and bisexual entertainment – now we have to pick which 2009 projects we think best represented gay and bisexual men?!

Sorry, we’re getting a little Grinch-y around here come year-end.

But the fact is, gay and bisexual entertainment-related news is inexorably linked with the issue of visibility. If you know anything at all about the history of such entertainment, you know that it’s almost always been “controversial.” As passionate as the creators of these projects have always been, there’s been a similarly strong counter-pressure to keep these themes hidden or under wraps.

As a result, for a website like ours, covering the “news” of these projects inevitably becomes a question of championing the ones of quality (and giving the hook to those who don’t measure up, or that...

Welcome to an all new edition of Gays Of Our Lives. In Gool Theater, it’s Thanksgiving in Llanview and Oakdale, and we’ve got some great clips as As The World Turns’ Luke and Noah and One Life To Live’s Kyle and Oliver celebrate the holidays. In European soaps there’s a shocking secret revealed on the Dutch version of Good Ties, Bad Times and Roman and Deniz realize All That Matters as they deal with a tragic death.

In Gool Scoops And Spoilers, Noah’s anger over his blindness rages out of control, and Luke struggles to find a way to help his boyfriend on As The World Turns. On One Life To Live, Nick Chavez is back, kicking off a new story arc for Kyle, Nick and Oliver. Will Nick's return interfere with Kyle and Oliver’s chance at a real first date? Also, it’s...

Welcome to another edition of Gays of Our Lives. This week we start with Gool Theater where Luke and Noah’s new story arc begins. And if you think Oakdale’s cutest gay teens have had some strange storylines before … this one takes the cake. Plus, Fer faces losing his boyfriend when David might have to move away in Física o’ Química, Simon ‘Doctors’ a boy being bullied and helps to console a gay man who might lose custody of his adopted daughter. And Riley looks to be de-gayed on Degrassi: The Next Generation.

Gool Scoops And Spoilers has the dish on Emmerdale as bad boy Aaron Livesy acts out, Luke gets a really bad idea on As the World Turns (what else is new?), Kyle and Oliver celebrate their first Thanksgiving together on One Life to Live and the Walkers go to Hawaii for Justin and Rebecca’s wedding on Brothers & Sisters.

This week one of our biggest editions of Gays of Our Lives ever includes an interview with One Life to Live head writer Ron Carlivati, responsible for the Kyle/Oliver love story that has had daytime talking and made instant stars out of Brett Claywell, who plays Kyle Lewis, and Scott Evans, who plays Oliver Fish. We talk about the creation of the storyline, how the actors felt when they learned about the plot twist and why Kish has became such a sensation.

Plus, we find out what’s next for Llanview’s gays. Where do Oliver and Kyle go from here? Is Kyle’s ex Nick (Nicholas Rodriguez) out of the picture? And what about that baby that Oliver unknowingly fathered? We cover all of that and more in our interview.

In Gool Theater, we’ve got some rather steamy and romantic clips from One Life to Live as...

Welcome to another edition of Gays of Our Lives. In Gool Theater this week all three of the U.S. soaps (As the World Turns, One Life to Live and The Young and the Restless) have clips. Find out which one had me in tears, which one disappointed me and which one put me in a blind rage.

Plus, Simon faces his doppelganger on Doctors, Fer finds out that sleeping with his boyfriend isn’t as fun as he expected on Física o’ Química, and the battle between Lucas and Dex continues on the Dutch version of Good Times, Bad Times.

In Gool Scoops And Spoilers, Luke and Mason go to war over Noah, but it’s Noah who suffers deadly consequences on As the World Turns, things get steamy between Kyle and Oliver on One Life to Live, Ugly Betty battles with her own sister for the new stud...

If you’ve ever doubted how quickly the world can change once an impasse is broken, consider the incredible case of the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, which is currently featuring a complicated love triangle among three gay male characters. Next week, two of them are planning to participate in a mass “protest” gay wedding ceremony that will also include a (faked) lesbian marriage involving one of the show’s long-time female characters.

But just two years ago, viewers of the CBS soap As the World Turns were growing increasingly frustrated because it seemed clear that the producers of that show were not allowing its two gay teen characters to kiss — a controversy that eventually spilled over into the mainstream media.

As the World Turn’s gay kissing moratorium was finally broken on April 23, 2008 — 211 eleven days after the characters kissed for the first time. But even then, it...