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Tonight, March 31st, Doubt will celebrate its first anniversary on Broadway

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Tonight, March 15th, John Patrick Shanley's Doubt will celebrate its 400th Broadway performance

Doubt's Eileen Atkins will be interviewed on NY-1's 'On Stage' this weekend

A full cast is now in place for the Public Theater's production of Stuff Happens, opening April 13th

Byron Jennings has been cast as British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the Public Theater's upcoming production of David Hare's Stuff Happens, while Jay O. Sanders will be seen as George W. Bush

Cherry Jones will recreate her work as Sister Aloysius in the touring production of Doubt, which will launch in September of 2006

Tomorrow night, Theater Talk will interview Eileen Atkins, the new star of DOUBT on Broadway. Theater Talk, hosted by Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins, airs Friday night (early Saturday morning) at 12:30 AM on WNET, PBS Channel 13.

Ron Eldard, who stars as Father Flynn in the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning DOUBT on Broadway, will be featured on 'WB11 Morning News' and 'The Tony Danza Show' on Thursday, February 16.

Eileen Atkins, who has mostly recovered from a bad case of the flu, will join Ron Eldard, Jena Malone and Adriane Lenox in tonight's January 17th performance of Doubt

Announced earlier to join Doubt tonight, Eileen Atkins will not be performing due to the flu

Originally scheduled to debut on Tuesday, January 10th Eileen Atkins will join the show tonight. Ron Eldard, and Jena Malone are expected to follow suit shortly.

The cast will feature (in alphabetical order): Chris Bauer (Chaplin White), Stephen Lang (Colonel Littlefield), Trevor Long (Gunney), Margaret Colin (Margaret Littlefield), Jeremy Strong (Private Evan Davis), and Chris Chalk (Captain Lee King).

DOUBT has broken the house record at the Walter Kerr Theatre for the eighth time, grossing $603,566 for nine performances for the week of December 26-January 1. DOUBT had previously set a record of $550,109 for the week of July 11-17, 2005.

Stephen Lang has been cast in John Patrick Shanley's play Defiance, which will be presented by MTC, directed by Doug Hughes and will open on February 28th

Eileen Atkins, Ron Eldard and Jena Malone begin Doubt rehearsals today, December 12th

Jena Malone will make her Broadway debut as Sister James in DOUBT, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Doug Hughes.

Producer Jeffrey Finn announced today that Academy Award-winning film and stage star Hayley Mills will join legendary star Richard Chamberlain to headline the upcoming National Tour of the beloved play ON GOLDEN POND. The 30-week tour of the two-time 2005 Tony Award-nominated production will launch September 5, 2006 in Fort Worth, Texas at Bass Performance Hall. A complete list of touring cities and venues will be announced in the coming weeks.

Cherry Jones, the two-time Tony Award-winning star of Doubt, is featured in Out Magazine's annual Out 100 list of notable gay and lesbian newsmakers of 2005

Ron Eldard will star as Father Flynn in DOUBT, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Doug Hughes.