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memoraBEALEia : A Private Scrapbook about Edie Beale of Grey Gardens , a new book by Walter Newkirk, celebrates and pays tribute to Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com present LUCIE ARNAZ: 'LULU'S BACK IN TOWN.'

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com have announced LUCIE ARNAZ: 'LULU'S BACK IN TOWN' on July 16th/17th at 7pm and July 18th/19th at 8:30pm and 11:00pm, as part of the long-running, Nightlife Award-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland.

New Repertory Theatre in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, announces it will be extending the run of the World Premiere of 'According to Tip'.

Gateway Playhouse in Bellport remains and is so popular that local residents know better than to drive along South Country Road at certain hours lest they become entangled in traffic either entering or exiting the theater. The Gateway Playhouse is located on the site of the former Mott Estate on the eastern-most tip of Bellport , New York . Rumors are rife about the ghost of Lucretia Mott still haunting one of the buildings on the premises but she seems to be benign and hasn't caused any significant problems in the past few decades.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com have announced LUCIE ARNAZ: 'LULU'S BACK IN TOWN' on July 16th/17th at 7pm and July 18th/19th at 8:30pm and 11:00pm, as part of the long-running, Nightlife Award-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland.

Broadway, TV and film star Ken Howard brings Dick Flavin's homage to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O'Neill to glowing life in a one-man play receiving its world premiere at the New Rep in Watertown, Mass.

The New Repertory Theatre in Watertown, Mass., is staging the world premiere of 'According to Tip,' a one-man play featuring stage and screen star Ken Howard as the inimitable, sometimes irascible, but always indefatigable Speaker of the House of Representatives, Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill. Written by long-time Boston political pundit Dick Flavin, 'According to Tip' marks the 50-year career, and the world history it spanned, of one of the most colorful and effective political figures of the 20th century.

Walter Newkirk will be signing 'memoraBEALEia : A Private Scrapbook about Edie Beale of Grey Gardens' at The Gallery in Sag Harbor on June 14th

Walter Newkirk will be signing 'memoraBEALEia : A Private Scrapbook about Edie Beale of Grey Gardens' at The Gallery in Sag Harbor on June 14th

Author-performer of Off Broadway show talks about his current hit show.

memoraBEALEia : A Private Scrapbook about Edie Beale of Grey Gardens , a new book by Walter Newkirk, celebrates and pays tribute to Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale.

New Repertory Theatre in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts announces the World Premiere of According to Tip, a play with music by Dick Flavin, starring Tony and Emmy award-winner Ken Howard. Just in time for election season, According to Tip will open for the press on Friday, June 27, 2008 and will play through Sunday, July 13, 2008. 'Just in time for election season, New Rep brings you the World Premiere of According to Tip. Featuring Broadway and TV star Ken Howard, this play traces the colorful and historically memorable career of Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill, former Speaker of the House. Tip will escort you back in time from Barry's Corner in Cambridge to the White House. Get the inside scoop on politics during the Red Scare, Watergate, and Vietnam in this touching played filled with humor, music, and beguiling Irish wit,' press notes state. New Repertory Theatre presents provocative and intelligent works of both established and emerging playwrights in an intimate setting that involves and engages the audience. New Rep has earned a reputation for dynamic productions that honor the writers and feature talented professional actors from the New England theatre community as well as guest artists from around the U.S. New Rep has received Elliot Norton and IRNE Awards for outstanding acting, scenic design, direction, and production. Programming at New Repertory Theatre is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Lead Sponsor for According to Tip, Bank of America. The Artists Rick Lombardo (Director) is now in his twelfth season as New Rep's Producing Artistic Director. Earlier this year: A Streetcar Named Desire, A Pinter Duet: The Lover & Ashes to Ashes, The Clean House, and Dessa Rose. Last season: The Pillowman, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (which he also adapted), Silence, and The Wild Party, as well as Hamlet for Actors' Shakespeare Project. Other New Rep Credits: Ragtime (IRNE Awards-Best Director of a Musical and Best Musical); Bill W. and Dr. Bob (which he also directed Off-Broadway in the spring of 2007 at New World Stages in NY); Romeo and Juliet; Into the Woods (multiple IRNE Awards); Quills; Approaching Moomtaj; The Threepenny Opera; A Girl's War; his new musical adaptation of Moliere's Scapin; Waiting for Godot (IRNE Award, Best Drama); Sweeney Todd (2004 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director, IRNE Award for Best Director, and Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Musical Production); The Weir (IRNE Award, Best Drama); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Director); The Scarlet Letter; American Buffalo; A Moon for the Misbegotten; Twelfth Night; Beast on the Moon; Das Barbecu; Tartuffe; and The Real Thing; among others. Additional credits include the world premiere of Moby Dick: An American Opera, for which he received the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre by Northern Ohio Live. He is honored to be a two-time recipient of the Elliot Norton Award from the Boston Theatre Critics Association for Outstanding Director. Ken Howard (Tip) Ken Howard launched his acting career in 1968 when he won a role in the original Broadway production of Promises, Promises, for which he won both a Tony and an Emmy. He originated the role of Thomas Jefferson in 1776 for which he won a Theatre World Award. He returned to the role for the 1972 film version. He won a Tony for his work in Child's Play in 1970. From 1976 - 1981, he starred in as the title character in the TV series The White Shadow. He earned an Emmy in 1980 for his narration of The Body Human: Facts for Boys. Other film and television includes: The Thron Birds, The West Wing, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Crossing Jordan, Rambo, Cane, Smother and Michael Clayton. Upcoming work includes: Conrad in Still Waters, Sheriff Sedgewick in Two: Thirteen, Officer Ford in The Beacon, and Phelan Beale in the film adaptation of Grey Gardens. Dick Flavin (Playwright) is a nationally known writer and speaker. He has made thousands of speaking appearances all across America, chiefly addressing groups on the subject of how to use humor as a strategy in business and in life. His television commentaries have appeared on NBC-TV, CNN and WBZ-TV in Boston. He is the winner of seven New England regional Emmy Awards for writing and commentary. He was the narrator of The Teammates, an ESPN documentary that was nominated for three national Emmy Awards. Known as the 'Poet Laureate of the Boston Red Sox,' he has written countless poems and song parodies about the team and its history, some of which are being compiled into a compact disc and DVD. The most well-known of them, Teddy at the Bat, a salute to Red Sox legend Ted Williams that is based on Ernest Lawrence Thayer's immortal Casey at the Bat, has been performed by Mr. Flavin at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, at Fenway Park and in cities and towns across the country. He was the co-host of and contributing writer to Red Sox Stories, a weekly television series that ran during the 2007 baseball season. He has also written and performed special material for the Boston Pops and Symphony orchestras. In addition to According the Tip, his play on the life and times of the late Speaker of the House, Tip O'Neill, Mr. Flavin has also written I Feel a Song Comin' On, a soon to be produced musical about the lyricist Dorothy Fields.

Straight Up With a Twist, the hilarious new comedy written and performed by Paul Stroili, has critics cheering and audiences roaring with laughter. Directed by Bill Penton, Straight Up With A Twist has extended its limited engagement and now will have an open ended run at The Players Theater (115 MacDougal Street).

The 1969 Broadway musical 1776 a great choice for revival almost anytime, but especially during a hard-fought Presidential primary season like the one facing us now.

Tippi Hedren and Ken Howard will star in Love Letters by A.R. Gurney, as a theatre benefit for The Shambala Preserve; directed by Tony Torrisi at the Warner Grand Theatre on Saturday, September 15 at 7:30PM

A sense of flippant musical comedy silliness, combined with a legit soprano of crystalline clarity, provided a keen balance of artistry and entertainment in Kristin Chenoweth's Metropolitan Opera concert debut

Betty Buckley, Doug Sills, Len Cariou, Jean Louisa Kelly and more will star in the Hollywood Bowl's staged reading of Sunset Boulevard on August 6th

Anne Heche, Christian Slater, Andre De Shields, Thora Birch, Michael York and others led the all-star cast of the Actors' Fund's benefit reading of Casablanca on October 2nd

John Rubinstein, Michael York and opera star Suzanna Guzman will join Anne Heche, Christian Slater and other stars in the October 2nd LA Actors' Fund benefit reading of Casablanca