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Best-selling author Alan Lightman will be on hand to introduce the cast of Broadway stars -- including John Treacy Egan ('Little Mermaid'), Alison Fraser ('Gypsy'), Kate Shindle ('Legally Blonde'), Amy Justman ('Company'), John Bolton ('Curtains') and Jim Weitzer ('Phantom of the Opera') -- who will perform the new musical EINSTEIN'S DREAMS, based on Lightman's best-selling novel, for one performance only on Monday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th St.) in New York City.

Commemorating both a memorable movie moment and an inspiring real-life triumph, one of the shirt/suit/tie ensembles worn by Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Focus Features' Milk will be auctioned off to benefit both Variety - The Children's Charity of Southern California and the Hetrick-Martin Institute, home of the Harvey Milk High School, in New York City. The Clothes Off Our Back Foundation will host the online auction of costume designer Danny Glicker's specially created ensemble as seen in Gus Van Sant's Milk, which is nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Costume Design. Focus CEO James Schamus made the announcement today.

Commemorating both a memorable movie moment and an inspiring real-life triumph, one of the shirt/suit/tie ensembles worn by Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Focus Features' Milk will be auctioned off to benefit both Variety - The Children's Charity of Southern California and the Hetrick-Martin Institute, home of the Harvey Milk High School, in New York City. The Clothes Off Our Back Foundation will host the online auction of costume designer Danny Glicker's specially created ensemble as seen in Gus Van Sant's Milk, which is nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Costume Design. Focus CEO James Schamus made the announcement today.

Broadway stars John Treacy Egan ('Little Mermaid'), Gregg Edelman ('Into the Woods,' 'Passion'), Alison Fraser ('Gypsy') and Kate Shindle ('Legally Blonde') will be featured in the cast at a benefit concert performance of the new musical EINSTEIN'S DREAMS-- based on Alan Lightman's best-selling novel -- for one performance only on Monday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th St.) in New York City.

Actor Dominic Cooper has been cast in the role of Hippolytus in the National Theatre's upcoming revival of Ph?dre. Co-starring Helen Mirren in the title role and directed by Nicholas Hytner, Artistic Director of the National Theatre, Jean Racine's 1677 classic tragedy is based on a Greek myth about a queen who falls passionately in love with her stepson in her husband's absence.

Macfadyen was tasked to play John Birt, the founding editor of London Weekend Television's (LWT) Weekend World and onetime director general of the BBC. A powerful figure in British television for more than three decades, he would go on to become special advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2001. Birt co-produced the Frost/Nixon interviews with Frost and organized the team that prepared the program's host for battle.

News from Broadway and theater in the Baltimore/Washington area

THE SEAGULL, featuring a new version by Christopher Hampton and directed by Ian Rickson, opens Wednesday, October 1 at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street). Previews will begin Tuesday, September 16. The production will play a strictly limited engagement of 14 weeks through December 21.

The critically acclaimed Royal Court Theatre production of Anton Chekhov's THE SEAGULL is now on sale exclusively to American Express cardholders. Now through July 25, AMEX cardholders can order tickets to the production.

Kristin Scott Thomas will star on Broadway in her Olivier Award-winning role of Arkadina in the critically acclaimed Royal Court Theatre production of Anton Chekhov's THE SEAGULL.

Columbia Pictures has entered into an agreement with CBS Films to create a new motion picture of the Lerner and Loewe classic musical My Fair Lady, to be produced by Duncan Kenworthy and Cameron Mackintosh. The new film will use the original songs of the much-loved Broadway show...

MTV has announced the nominations for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards.

Due to the on-going Hollywood writers' strike, The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards NBC telecast and champagne dinner in The Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom was officially cancelled last week and instead the Hollywood Foreign Press Association revealed the winners during an hour-long HFPA press conference at The Beverly Hilton.

Due to the on-going Hollywood writers' strike, The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards NBC telecast and champagne dinner in The Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom is officially cancelled. Instead, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association today announced that the recipients of Golden Globe Awards in 25 categories will be revealed during an hour-long HFPA press conference at The Beverly Hilton to be covered live by NBC News beginning at 6PM PST on Sunday, January 13.

The movie musicals Hairspray and Sweeney Todd are among the nominees for the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Walt Disney Pictures premiered 'Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End' May 19 at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, with Broadway and Film stars clashing on the high seas...

According to the London News Telegraph, Oscar-nominated actress Keira Knightley--a self-professed fan of musicals--will play the feisty Cockey flower girl tutured by Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady

The 78th Annual Academy Awards took take place on Sunday, March 5, 2006. Here's all the night's big winners!