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Broadway's perfectly magical musical MARY POPPINS welcomed the West End's original 'Mary', Olivier Award winner Laura Michelle Kelly, and Tony® Award nominee Christian Borle (Broadway's Legally Blonde) beginning Monday, October 12 at 7pm. Produced by Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh, MARY POPPINS will celebrate its three-year anniversary at the New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street) on Monday, November 16.

Broadway's perfectly magical musical MARY POPPINS is pleased to welcome the West End's original ‘Mary', Olivier Award winner LAURA MICHELLE KELLY, and Tony® Award nominee CHRISTIAN BORLE (Broadway's Legally Blonde) beginning Monday, October 12 at 7pm. Produced by Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh, MARY POPPINS will celebrate its three-year anniversary at the New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street) on Monday, November 16.

Broadway's perfectly magical musical MARY POPPINS is pleased to welcome the West End's original ‘Mary', Olivier Award winner LAURA MICHELLE KELLY, and Tony® Award nominee CHRISTIAN BORLE (Broadway's Legally Blonde) beginning Monday, October 12 at 7pm. Produced by Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh, MARY POPPINS will celebrate its three-year anniversary at the New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street) on Monday, November 16.

Broadway's perfectly magical musical MARY POPPINS is pleased to welcome the West End's original ‘Mary', Olivier Award winner LAURA MICHELLE KELLY, and Tony® Award nominee CHRISTIAN BORLE (Broadway's Legally Blonde) beginning Monday, October 12 at 7pm. Produced by Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh, MARY POPPINS will celebrate its three-year anniversary at the New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street) on Monday, November 16.

'The Big Gay Musical', a movie by Fred M. Caruso, is an innocuous romp through a musicalized Eden and an idealized New York.

TA'REA CAMPBELL, began performances as NALA on Tuesday, March 3 in THE LION KING on Broadway. TA'REA CAMPBELL (Nala), a native of Philadelphia, joins the Broadway company after touring for three years as Nala in both the Cheetah and Gazelle tours of Lion King. Also on Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors; Standby for the title role in Aida.

Disney's The Lion King, which would have celebrated its 10th Anniversary on Broadway Sunday, November 11 with a gala performance at the Minskoff Theatre, is back on Pride Rock! Since its Broadway opening on November 13, 1997, The Lion King has been seen by 45 million people worldwide.

Disney's The Lion King celebrates its 10th Anniversary on Broadway Sunday, November 11 with a gala performance at the Minskoff Theatre.

Ars Nova (voted 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine), as part of the FREE Out Loud reading series, presents THE RED BEARD OF ESAU, written by Rachel Shukert and directed by Alex Timbers. THE RED BEARD OF ESAU will be read by Jeff Binder, Elliotte Crowell, Billy Eichner, Sam Forman, Van Hansis, David Josefsberg, Julie Lake, Maggie Lauren, Austin Lysy, Reginald Veneziano and Taylor Wilcox on Monday, January 29 at 7 PM at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street). A Neanderthal woman and Cro-Magnon man embark on a passionate love affair at the very dawn of time. But fate, not to mention an assortment of mystics, priestesses, dwarfs, and beautful blonde Californian twins have other things in store for them. Things that could threaten their very existence! Can love survive? Find out in THE RED BEARD OF ESAU, the world's first genocidal romantic comedy. RACHEL SHUKERT (Writer) is a playwright and author based in New York City. Her plays include Bloody Mary (NYIT Award nominee), Sequins for Satan, The Blackstone Hotel, and Soiled Linens. Her work has been developed and produced at Ars Nova, the Williamstown Theater Festival, the Culture Project, the Ontological/Hysteric, and the EVOLVE series at Galapagos. In 2003, she was the Playwright-in-Residence at e74 productions in Amsterdam, and her work was performed extensively throughout the Netherlands. As a performer, she has appeared with Richard Foreman's Ontological/Hysteric Theater, in New York and internationally; Les Freres Courbusier, the T.E.A.M., Salt Theater, e74, and with her own company, the Bushwick Hotel, which she founded in 2002 with the director Stephen Brackett. She is a regular contributor to Nerve.com (2005 ASME finalist, 2006 'Best Writing' Webby Award) and her work will be featured in their latest print anthology. She has also contributed to Heeb Magazine, McSweeney's, Babble, Culturebot, and Critical Moment. Her upcoming collection of essays, Have You No Shame? will be published by Random House/Villard. ALEX TIMBERS (Director) Recent credits include Gutenberg! The Musical! (The Actor's Playhouse and 59E59), A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (New York Theatre Workshop; OBIE Award- NYC and Garland Award, Best Director- LA), Hell House (St. Ann's Warehouse), underground with David Dorfman Dance (BAM Next Wave and US tour), Boozy (Culture Project- 10 Best of 2005, Daily News and Time Out), Marge (Summer Play Festival), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Williamstown Theater Festival), and Heddatron (HERE). Alex is a Williamstown Directing Fellow, a Drama League Directing Fellow, and the Artistic Director of award-winning theater company Les Freres Corbusier. OUT LOUD has attracted a variety of the industry's top artists, including writers Stephen Belber, Jorge Cortinas, Daniel Goldfarb, Stephen Guirgis, Rinne Groff, Rogelio Martinez, Adam Rapp, Sarah Ruhl, Julian Sheppard, Jonathan Marc Sherman; directors Peter Askin, Jo Bonney, David Esbjornson, Moises Kaufman, Brian Kulick, James Lapine, Lisa Peterson, David Warren; and actors Jason Biggs, Kathleen Chalfant, Robert Sean Leonard, Marsha Mason, Denis O'Hare, Rosie Perez, Paul Rudd, Mercedes Reuhl, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Swoosie Kurtz, David Strathairn, Fred Weller. Ticket & Schedule Information THE RED BEARD OF ESAU will be read on Monday, January 29 at 7 PM. The Out Loud Series is FREE and open to the public. Reservations are required. Please call 212-977-1700. Ars Nova is located at 511 West 54th Street. For more information, check out www.arsnovanyc.com.

Casting has been announced for Birth and After Birth, the new play by Tina Howe that will begin previews at the Atlantic Theater Company on September 13th for an October 3rd opening; it will run through October 29th

Three young actors--Jordan Bridges, Christopher Denham and Jerzy Gwiazdowski--will join the cast of the acclaimed Martin McDonagh play The Lieutenant of Inishmore, beginning Tuesday, August 22, replacing Jeff Binder (James), David Wilmot (Padraic) and Domhnall Gleeson (Davey), respectively

A new block of tickets through October has just been released for The Lieutenant of Inishmore

On Sunday, July 16th at 8pm, the Actors' Fund of America will offer a Special Performance of Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore at the Lyceum Theatre

Almost three dozen stars joined founders Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore for 'Broadway Barks 8!, which will took place on Saturday, July 8th in Shubert Alley, and BroadwayWorld was also there!

Alison Pill and David Wilmot, who star in Broadway's The Lieutenant of Inishmore, will be featured on XM-28 On Broadway Satellite Radio this Tuesday, June 20 at 12 noon and again at 9:00pm Broadway time

David Wilmot, who stars in the title role of Broadway's The Lieutenant of Inishmore, will be featured on NY-1's 'On Stage' this Saturday 6/3 and Sunday 6/4 at 9:30am and 7:30pm; the show will also be featured on NPR's Weekend Edition on June 11th

David Wilmot of The Lieutenant of Inishmore will be featured in two upcoming interviews--with 'On Stage' from June 3rd to 5th and on radio's 'Studio A' on June 5th

National Public Radio has made its 'Studio 360' interview with Wilson Milam, the Tony Award-nominated director of Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore, available online

Broadway's The Lieutenant of Inishmore will be featured on National Public Radio's 'Studio 360' this weekend

Catch scenes from The Lieutenant of Inishmore right now on BroadwayWorld.com!