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The London production of The Drowsy Chaperone, which opened at the Novello Theatre on May 14th, will have its final performance on Saturday, August 4th 2007, following a decision made by the producers.

Martha Plimpton will play 'Helena' in Shakespeare in the Park's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.

The national tour of the scamming, scheming, double-crossing hit Broadway musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, will play Chicago's Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, July 31 through August 12, 2007.

One-minute A Chorus Line video blogs of Broadway fans, talking about the biggest risk they ever took or the greatest challenge they ever faced and how it changed them, will be featured on a new series to be seen on a www.chorusline.com.

As of Tuesday July 10, the weekly performance schedule for A Chorus Line will be as follows: Tuesday at 7:00pm, Wednesday through Saturday evenings at 8:00pm, with matinee performances on Wednesday and Saturday at 2:00pm and Sunday at 3:00pm.

Masterworks Broadway has added Avenue Q as the latest addition of Masterworks Broadway Podcast Theatre, a series of podcasts created to give a glimpse behind the scenes to some of Broadway's greatest treasures.

The first national tour of the smash hit 'Avenue Q' features a cast of veteran performers from the Broadway and Las Vegas productions. Performances begin in San Francisco August 7, 2006.

Direct from Broadway, the romantic new musical The Light in the Piazza returns to Chicago for a limited, two-week engagement at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, July 10 through 22, 2007.

Tony Award-winning musical of passion, innocence, romance and disillusionment maintains its luster on national tour

From June 4th, the full new cast of Avenue Q will be together on-stage at the Noel Coward Theatre, and then on 28th June the show will celebrate it's first birthday with a night full of surprises and puppet-style fun…

A new documentary will go behind the scenes of the hit Broadway revival of A Chorus Line

The Coast of Utopia and Spring Awakening won the top honors at The 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards, which were presented on Sunday, May 20 at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center!

On Thursday 21 June the cast of the hit West-End musical Monty Python's SPAMALOT will perform a special midKnight matinee in aid of The Theatrical Guild (TTG). To coincide with the summer solstice, this one-off midsummer midKnight performance, on the longest day of the year, will start at 11.30pm.

Beth Leavel and James Naughton announced the nominees for the 2007 Drama Desk Awards this morning at The Friar's Club. The awards will take place on Sunday, May 20th at the F. H. LaGuardia Concert Hall.

The Drowsy Chaperone, a completely original musical comedy, will launch a national tour in September 2007 with a return to Toronto, where it was the sleeper hit of the 1999 Toronto Fringe Theatre Festival before transferring to a hit commercial run at Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre.

The Broadway cast of LEGALLY BLONDE will perform two numbers on NBC-TV's 'The Today Show' on Friday, April 27th in the 8am and 9am hours

Pythons Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam will join cast members from the hit musical Monty Python's Spamalot to lead the general public in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the World's Largest Coconut Orchestra.

The National Tour of the scamming, scheming, double-crossing hit Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will play Chicago's Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, July 31 through August 12, 2007

Jennifer Tanarez will join the London cast of Avenue Q as Christmas Eve on April 16th

Direct from Broadway, the romantic new musical THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA returns to Chicago for a limited, two-week engagement at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, July 10 through 22, 2007