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Pernell Roberts, best known for his roles on Bonanza and Trapper John, M.D. died Sunday of cancer in Malibu. He was 81 and is survived by his wife Elanor Criswell.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced complete casting for NEIGHBORS, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Niegel Smith, the second show of the 2009-2010 Public LAB season. NEIGHBORS begins performances on Tuesday, February 16 and runs through Sunday, March 7. Tickets go on-sale on Wednesday, January 20.

Kate Baldwin, last seen on Broadway in the recently closed critically acclaimed revival of Finian's Rainbow, is set to guest host Victor Herbert's 150th Birthday Celebration at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center on February 1.

Symphony Space is celebrating the magic of composers for a week in February with their 'Composers Now' series. From February 22 through the 28th, in various venues throughout New York City, today's composers, both world-renowned and slowly emerging, will share the music of our times and engage in dialogue.

Sigourney Weaver, Justin Timberlake, Kyra Sedgwick, Ray Romano, Jeremy Renner, Carey Mulligan, Anthony Mackie, Anna Kendrick, Felicity Huffman and Brian Geraghty will be presenters at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, Executive Producer Jeff Margolis announced today. They join previously announced presenters Alec Baldwin, Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Jane Lynch, Michelle Monaghan, Chris O'Donnell, Anna Paquin, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci in honoring their colleagues at this year's Actors ceremony.

James Taylor is set to perform a benefit concert for Haiti on Friday, January 22 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. All proceeds will benefit Partners in Health and Taylor will match proceeds from all ticket sales.

Recent singing sensations Adam Lambert and Susan Boyle will make an interesting duo on today's syndicated episode of Oprah. As per the Daily Mail, a US source reveals that, 'Oprah bosses have been really keen to get Susan on. America has gone Susan Boyle crazy and as US TV's biggest show, it makes sense for her to appear. It just goes to show what a huge star Susan Boyle has now become in America.'

Although Keira Knightley was never officially offered the part of Eliza Doolittle in the upcoming film adaptation of My Fair Lady, rumors were afloat that she would step into the role ever since she met with producers Cameron Mackintosh and Duncan Kenworthy. According to the Daily Mail, she has now officially withdrawn herself from consideration for the role because she feels the project is taking too long to get off the ground.

GLEE co-creator Ryan Murphy talked details of the second half of the first season, and how GLEE is taking it slow - that is, they will not be making it to Nationals by the end of the first season. The first thirteen episodes were GLEE's road to sectionals, and the last nine episodes of the first season will focus on regionals and New Directions nemesis Vocal Adrenaline.

Neil Patrick Harris guest starring on the Joss Whedon directed episode of GLEE sounds like a perfect match. GLEE creator Ryan Murphy agrees. According to the Ausiello Files, Murphy is creating a role just for Harris which will include some singing and dancing. As Harris is currently starring in CBS's How I Met Your Mother, CBS needs to approve Harris's appearance on Fox's GLEE.

Broadway vet Paul Rudd will be teaming up with Zach Galifianakis yet again for the upcoming comedy 'Will,' which Perez Hilton summarizes as centering around 'Rudd whose life and destiny is being written by a scribe in Heaven played by Galifianakis. But one day the scribe stops writing and it's up to Rudd to go on about his day on his own.' Demetri Martin wrote the script and Little Miss Sunshine's Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton are directing.

Last night's two-hour season premiere of the ninth season of American Idol still garnered masterful ratings, despite recent shakeups and changes. With Paula Abdul's departure and Simon Cowell's very recent announcement that he, too, is leaving the show, American Idol still was the most watched show of the night with 29.9 million viewers.

Producers David Richenthal, Eric Falkenstein and Randall Wreghitt have announced that Tobias Segal, Daniel Orsekes, Michael Cummings, Simone Joy Jones, Yvette Ganier and Lance Chantiles-Wertz complete the cast of the first revival of William Gibson's THE MIRACLE WORKER as the Tony Award® winning play celebrates its 50th Anniversary of opening on Broadway.

Lookingglass Theatre presents the world premiere of Trust, written by David Schwimmer and Andy Bellin, and directed by Schwimmer and Heidi Stillman. Trust is based on the screenplay by Andy Bellin and Rob Festinger. Schwimmer has previously directed a film version of Trust starring Clive Owen and Catherine Keener.

Food for Thought Theatre opens their twenty-first season with the American premiere of the Noel Coward play Star Chamber starring Tammy Grimes, John Shea, Frances Sternhagen, KT Sullivan, and directed by Antony Marsellis. Star Chamber is a comedy which takes place on the stage of a West End theater and involves a cast of actors from the 1930s.

Hampstead Theatre today announced that Edward Hall has been appointed Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Hampstead Theatre, taking over from Anthony Clark at the end of January. Hall's inaugural season will be announced later this spring/early summer to open in the autumn of that year.

Tony Award Winner Kristin Chenoweth, who is currently developing a feature film based on the life of Dusty Springfield, told E! News back in April that she'd love to have Kerry Washington (currently starring in David Mamet's RACE on Broadway) play her lesbian lover in the film. E! caught up with Washington recently and she was delighted with the idea. She told E! 'It's very exciting. I feeling like I've been waiting to make out with her forever.'

Kevin Spacey is set to star in Dayyan Eng's black comedy 'Inseparable,' which, according to Variety, makes him 'the highest-profile Hollywood actor to ever star in a Chinese production.'

Sarah Paulson will guest star on tonight's episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, playing the role of murder suspect in her parent's murder. Lost's Naveen Andrews also guest stars in tonight's episode as a detective called in to help solve the case.

Two of the biggest names in Hollywood, Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, are teaming up again for the upcoming film 'Larry Crowne.' Hanks, who has written the script, will also direct the film. This will be his first directing stint in over a decade (he directed 'That Thing You Do' in 1996). The plot for 'Larry Crowne' involves a middle-aged man who is forced to find a new career.