Alicia Keys and hubby Swizz Beatz had a bit of a date night this weekend at the opening night of the Broadway play “The Mountaintop.”    The couple joined a cavalcade of celebrities at the play, including Star Jones, Gayle King, Magic Johnson, Gabourey Sidibe, Justin Long, and Spike Lee.

“The Mountaintop” stars Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, and tells the story of an encounter between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a (fictional) hotel chambermaid on the night before the civil rights leader was killed.

More photos of the adorable Alicia and Swizz after the jump.

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Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore and Alicia Keys cover Glamour magazine’s upcoming October issue.

The actresses are on the October cover because of their connection to Breast Cancer Awareness Month. They have each directed a short film for Lifetime that deal with the women’s health issue, entitled Five.

Here’s some of what they had to say:

Jennifer on what she looks for in a relationship: “I would say I couldn’t be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.”

Demi on what she loves about Twitter: “At its core, Twitter is about sharing, and I think that in life we never feel better or more energized than when we’re giving to someone else.”

Alicia on spending time alone in Egypt and how it changed her: “It was a time of transition. There were certain people [I was working with] who weren’t right. I had friends who weren’t right anymore. I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too.”

Their issue is on sale Tuesday, September 6th.

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Alicia Keys keeps it classic in black and white at the 2011 BET Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles this weekend.

Keys, 30, performed her song “Typewriter” for the crowd. She segued into “A Woman’s Worth” and she was joined by Bruno Mars and Rick Ross.

The singer ended the medley with her huge hit “Fallin.”

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Alicia Keys performed on Monday at Hope Rising! – a benefit concert for the Stephen Lewis Foundation in Toronto, Canada.  The Foundation supports organizations “working on the front lines of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa.”

The cause is near and dear to Alicia’s heart, as it is closely related to the work of her own charity, Keep A Child Alive, which provides medication and care to children and families in Africa and India who are affected by AIDS.   When asked what keeps her committed, she said:

“These are human beings. You put these numbers out there — 30 million dead, 33 million-plus infected, 16 million AIDS orphans — these are people, this isn’t like some dot on a chart.

“This man sat next to me and he was like, ‘I just wanted to thank you for doing all of this because I wouldn’t be here without you.’ People have said that to me before. Maybe they meant, ‘I wouldn’t be in this city.’ But this man would not be alive. That affected me so heavily.”

As regular readers know, I love it when celebrities – well, actually anyone, to be honest – are deeply involved in a cause like this.   And I mean truly involved, not just lending their name and face to a cause.  Brava, Alicia!

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The sudden death of R&B singer Teena Marie this weekend has rocked the music world.  Singers and other celebrities voiced their sorrow on Twitter in tribute to the “Ivory Queen of Soul.” Here’s a sampling of their Tweets.

Mary J. Blige:

‘Rest in peace Teena Marie. My Love for u is forever.’

Alicia Keys:

‘Teena Marie??????Why???? how??? ;-(

‘God bless Teena Marie and her Family! Sending Blessings and prayers. I was just saying that Fire And Desire is one of the most beautifully performed songs.’

Sean Combs (Diddy):

‘R.I.P Teena Marie. God Bless. Damn I just saw her the other day.’

Marie, whose real name was Mary Christine Brockert, is survived by her daughter, Alia Rose. She made her debut in 1979 on Motown Records. She is particularly noted for having written, produced and arranged nearly every one of her songs since 1980.   Reports indicate that she died in her sleep, of natural causes.

Enjoy the following tribute to Teena Marie:  my favorite song of hers, ‘Square Biz.’

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Kim Kardashian, Justin Timberlake, Usher and lots of other celebrities are not posting to their Twitter or Facebook accounts in support of Alicia Keys‘ Keep A Child Alive drive to raise $1,000,000 in recognition of World AIDS Day on December 1st.

“It’s really important and super-cool to use mediums that we naturally are on,” Keys said. “It’s so important to shock you to the point of waking up. [...] It’s not that people don’t care or it’s not that people don’t want to do something, it’s that they never thought of it quite like that.”

The stars are staying digitally silent until the goal is reached but 3 days later and the total is nowhere near the million dollar mark. So what gives? Or more accurately what is preventing everyone from ponying up the cash?

I wonder if it’s simply that we are so over saturated by many celebs who use those pages as another kind of commercial to push yet another product, that as a group we are tuning them out (even if we are following them online.) Let’s be honest, twitter and Facebook can be like background noise – it’s there and you know it, you just don’t fully focus your attention on it.

Of course there is also the point that by making the stars give up their primary means of communication, you don’t have the 100 tweets and retweets a day reminding you to give up the cash.

I guess the thought was the silence would be deafening…? This could take a while.

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Alicia Keys no longer has a baby bump.  She and her husband, Swizz Beatz welcomed their baby boy , Egypt Daoud Dean in NYC on October 14.

Alicia Keys & Swizz Beatz Married In Corsica

This is their first baby together, but Swizz has three other kids.

Congrats to the happy newlyweds/parents!

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Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) were married at a private ceremony on the French island of Corsica on Saturday July 31st. The lovely, low-key couple had beautiful weather and fabulous guests (Queen Latifah and Bono) to celebrate their union.

Keys who is expecting the couple’s first child in November, reportedly wore a long white gown (Vera Wang is the rumored designer) and a headband. Beatz wore a white tux with a pink shirt.

Congratulations to the beautiful and happy couple!

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Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys were at the 11th Annual Art For Life Benefit in East Hampton, New York this weekend.  How gorgeous does Alicia look?  Talk about a baby glow!  Pregnancy look wonderful on this soon to be new mom.  Now if you look at Swizz’ face, he looks a little worried about things.  Haha.  I know, it’s just a bad snap of him, but it’s kind of comedy.  The new daddy fears that must be going on in there.

CONGRATS! Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz Are Engaged and Pregnant!

Alicia Keys ‘Unthinkable’ (I’m Ready) Official VIDEO

They are going to be great parents.  They have the “stuff” together.  I am very excited for them.

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Alicia Keys and her man, Swizz Beatz are pregnant and engaged to be married in a private ceremony later this year! Their rep confirmed to Life & Style!

Alicia Keys ‘Unthinkable’ (I’m Ready) Official VIDEO

Alicia Keys & Swizz Beatz Are Engaged! (Ring Photos)

Wedding Bells? Alicia Keys & Swizz Beatz Buying NYC Penthouse (Photos)

Congrats to the very happy couple!!

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