Dan Castellaneta News

LAUNCH PAD alumni playwrights have rallied to provide new material for UCSB's Department of Theater and Dance students. In an overwhelming response to an invitation from LAUNCH PAD Artistic Director Risa Brainin and Professor Annie Torsiglieri, 24 playwrights have written monologues and short plays inspired by the prompt a?oeAlone, Togethera?? and tailored specifically for the Zoom platform. 

Get Extreme With 'the Extremesons' In an all-new couch gag on 'The Simpsons.' From animator Michal Socha, The Couch Gag airs in an all-new episode of 'The Simpsons' this Sunday, April 19 @ 8/7c on FOX.

The theaters may be closed, but the show goes on at L.A. Theatre Works. The world's leading producer of audio theater, LATW offers audiences around the globe free access to state-of-the-art recordings of both contemporary and classic plays, each performed by leading actors of stage and screen.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that James Lipton, executive producer, writer, and host of the Bravo cable television series Inside the Actors Studio, has died at age 93.

THE SIMPSONS returns SUN, JAN 5th. Catch up now on FOX NOW or Hulu!

The Simpsons + The Holidays = WOO HOO! The Simpsons PLUS+SIZE Marathon starts 12/17 on FXX.

Bart learns that he was born with an evil twin.

Making history yet again, THE SIMPSONS has been renewed for its 31st and 32nd seasons on FOX, by which time, the series will have produced 713 episodes.

THE SIMPSONS celebrates milestone by airing 'Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire' on (Sunday, Dec. 23, 8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT).

Celebrate THE SIMPSONS becoming television's longest-running primetime scripted series!

JK Simmons (“Whiplash”), Kevin Pollak (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) and artist John Baldessari Make Guest-Voice Appearances on this weeks episode of The Simpsons.

Watch Trailer for Ed Sheeran's Guest Spot on THE SIMPSONS. Don't miss an all-new episode of THE SIMPSONS, SUN, JAN 7 at 8/7c on FOX!

Watch All-New Holiday-Themed Couch Gag for THE SIMPSONS Airing this Sunday, 12/10 on FOX!

Nickelodeon fans of all ages are getting a Thanksgiving treat this year, as the highly anticipated, brand-new HEY ARNOLD!: THE JUNGLE MOVIE bows Today, Nov. 24, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. (ET/PT).

In advance of the network's 20th year broadcasting the World Series, FOX Sports today announced that a comedic 'Simpsonized' documentary, SPRINGFIELD OF DREAMS: THE LEGEND OF HOMER SIMPSON, will air adjacent to regional NFL broadcasts on Sunday, Oct. 22 on FOX. The World Series, presented by YouTube TV, begins Tuesday, Oct. 24 on FOX.

In advance of the network's 20th year broadcasting the World Series, FOX Sports today announced that a comedic 'Simpsonized' documentary, SPRINGFIELD OF DREAMS: THE LEGEND OF HOMER SIMPSON, will air adjacent to regional NFL broadcasts on Sunday, Oct. 22 on FOX. The World Series, presented by YouTube TV, begins Tuesday, Oct. 24 on FOX.

Twenty-five years after THE SIMPSONS' Homer at the Bat originally aired, America's favorite family once again forays into America's favorite pastime.

Nickelodeon fans of all ages are getting a Thanksgiving treat this year, as the highly anticipated, brand-new HEY ARNOLD!: THE JUNGLE MOVIE bows Friday, Nov. 24, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. (ET/PT).

As announced last year, Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie will feature a storyline that picks up from where the original series ended in 2004 and will resolve unanswered questions and plotlines including Arnold finally getting answers about the whereabouts of his missing parents.

Pulling double duty as both playwright and star, Dan Castellaneta portrays Oscar Levant in his latest new work, FOR PIANO AND HARPO. Levant was a concert pianist, and contemporary of George Gershwin, whose genius gave him entree into the glittering worlds of classical music, Broadway, and Hollywood but whose private demons ultimately undermined his career. The play explores Levant's addictions and mental health issues while committed to a Mt. Sinai psych ward in 1956, on the Jack Paar Show in 1962, and during an extended stay at the home of his friend, Harpo Marx, in 1935.