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Elaine Orbach, born January 19th, 1940 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Daughter of Anna and Salvatore Cancilla. The cause of death was pneumonia.

GO-GO KILLERS is a campy, stylized, choreographic, retro-futuristic play that depicts the New York metropolitan area ten years hence, imagining the potentially horrific outcomes of both the current economic crisis and the global warming debacle.

George Street Playhouse has announced full casting for New Year's Eve a world premiere from the pen of ARTHUR LAURENTS. George Street Playhouse Artistic Director DAVID SAINT will direct a starry cast comprised of WALTER BELENKY, KEITH CARRADINE, PETER FRECHETTE, MARLO THOMAS and NATASHA GREGSON WAGNER. New Year's Eve marks the ninth collaboration between Saint and Laurents at the New Brunswick Playhouse, and the return engagement of Ms. Thomas, who starred in Elaine May's Roger is Dead last season.

Revival Burlesque presents, 'T.V. Land Flashbacks: A Boob Tube Fantasy' All new for March, two shows! Saturday March 14 at 10pm, AND Sunday March 15 at 8pm. Join Annie A-Bomb, Heather Henderson, Deana Colada, Chloe Valentine, and Monsieur Thojone for a trip through the idiot box. The ladies will channel all your favorite sexy small screen characters, from that Jeanie in a bottle, to the red headed screwball comedienne from the 1950's, to the murdered prom queen from that demented David Lynch melodrama!

March 2, 2009 Los Angeles - The Off-Broadway hit ?Back to Bacharach and David? will have a short 23 performance engagement at The Music Box @ Fonda April 15 to May 17 (opening April 19).

Revival Burlesque presents, 'T.V. Land Flashbacks: A Boob Tube Fantasy' All new for March, two shows! Saturday March 14 at 10pm, AND Sunday March 15 at 8pm. Join Annie A-Bomb, Heather Henderson, Deana Colada, Chloe Valentine, and Monsieur Thojone for a trip through the idiot box. The ladies will channel all your favorite sexy small screen characters, from that Jeanie in a bottle, to the red headed screwball comedienne from the 1950's, to the murdered prom queen from that demented David Lynch melodrama!

Sleepwalkers Theatre closes its second season of progressive new works with the premiere of THE SHORT AND HAPPY LIFE by Ryan Michael Teller. Who was the real Harvery and exactly why did he explode into a thousand little pieces? Sleepwalkers co-founding Artistic Director Tore Ingersoll-Thorp helms this multi-media theatrical exploration of the abandonment and destruction of youth, featuring Maureen Coyne, Kevin Copps, Andrew Crocker, Damian Lanahan - Kalish, Ari Owens, and Ian Riley. THE SHORT AND HAPPY LIFE plays March 5 through 28 (press opening: Friday, March 6) at the Phoenix Theatre (414 Mason at Geary) in San Francisco. For tickets ($14) and information, the public may call 415-913-7272 or visit www.sleepwalkerstheatre.com.

Members from the upcoming Broadway cast of Hair were just added as special guests for Happy Ending Music and Reading Series. Affliction Night stars authors Jayne Anne Phillips and Sarah Manguso with musical guest Daniel Knox on February 4 at 7:00 PM.

Contrary to reports by the New York Post last week, Mel Brooks has recently stated that he will NOT be shutting down his film company Brooksfilms. Brooks told the Hollywood Reporter that 'I'm not quitting. Brooksfilms is still here and will be going on for awhile. I'm not at all slowing down and nobody has told me to stop'.

According to the 'Page Six' section of the NY Post, Mel Brooks is closing the curtain on his film company, Brooksfilms which he started in 1980. After his popular comedies started making their way onto the big screen, Brooks started the company so his future films would not be branded with the title 'A Mel Brooks Film' and be automatically categorized into farces. The first film the company launched was 'The Elephant Man' and later produced more hits such as 'Space Balls.'

TheaterWorks has announced the 20th Anniversary production of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy, starring stage and screen favorite Rosemary Prinz in the title role.

We talk to, and hear from, actor/writer/composer Grant James Varjas, actor John Good, and actor/co-composer/arranger Preston Clarke. They perform 'Now That it's Over' and 'Low to the Ground'.

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, will open on Broadway November 8th 2007 at the Hilton Theatre (213 W 42nd St). Previews begin October 11th 2007. The production stars Roger Bart (Dr. Frederick Frankenstein), Megan Mullally (Elizabeth), Sutton Foster (Inga), Shuler Hensley (The Monster), Fred Applegate (Kemp) and Christopher Fitzgerald (Igor).

Our Time Theatre Company, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing an artistic home for young people who stutter, will hold its Fifth Annual Our Time Benefit Gala entitled, 'Express Yourself,' continuing its tradition of honoring a person who has been an inspiration to those that stutter.

Transport Group Artistic Director Jack Cummings III has announced that the company will present three post-show talkbacks for its official 50th anniversary production of William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. The talkbacks will run as follows:

As I walk into the dark and slightly unsettling North London pub I scan the room for the type of person who'd play the role of 'The Elephant Man'. Marc Pickering is the actor I'm here to meet, but the grey hair atop the balding heads around me suggest he's upstairs rehearsing. With less than two weeks before the play hits the West End, it's not surprising the cast are busy. The story of the severely deformed John Merrick is a well known one and director Bruce Guthrie and his cast have a challenge ahead of them.

Our Time Theatre Company, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing an artistic home for young people who stutter, will hold its Fifth Annual Our Time Benefit Gala entitled, 'Express Yourself,' continuing its tradition of honoring a person who has been an inspiration to those that stutter

After 'whacking himself' on the season opener of the hit HBO series The Sopranos, Robert Funaro now returns to the stage in DREAD AWAKENING.