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The New York Post's Michael Riedel is reporting that film stars Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig will team up in a new play this fall on Broadway.

Salt Lake City's Deseret News reports that four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and 2009 Tony Nominee Will Swenson are set to star in the Hale Center Theater Orem's production of 110 in the Shade. The production will be a fundraiser for the community theater and will from June 28th to August 7th, 2010.

Adam Lambert is now a household name thanks to his exposure on 'American Idol', the singing sensation has hit New York City and the Season 8 runner-up will be making the media rounds all this week. Lambert taped a performance of 'Mad World' this morning for the CBS Early Show, the segment will air on Thursday, May 28th. Lambert was a true stand out this season, the young Los Angeles based singer usually had the audience in the palm of his hand with one swooning performance after another.

Variety reports that Al Pacino is set to star in the upcoming HBO film, 'Kervorkian' about right-to-die champion Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Barry Levinson is set to direct the film, which will revolve around Kervorkian's construction of his infamous 'Mercy Machine,' his first assisted suicide in the early 1990s and the resulting media frenzy.

The Broadway League has released end-of-season statistics for the 2008 - 2009 season, which began May 26, 2008 and ended May 24, 2009.

The news today that the musical A Tale of Two Cities will be presented in concert form at the Theater Royal in Brighton, England, in preparation for a future CD and broadcast on the PBS station WGBH-Boston would at present seem premature.

The Public Theater's Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson announced today that the 2009-2010 Season will feature premieres by Peter Sellars, Richard Foreman, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Mike Daisey, and Suzan-Lori Parks and include performances by John Ortiz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Willem Dafoe.

Michelle Williams will make her West End stage debut starring as ?Roxie Hart' in the smash hit West End musical 'CHICAGO' at the Cambridge Theatre from Monday 13 July until 22 August. Michelle Williams, the Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, record producer and actress, rose to fame as one third of Destiny's Child. Destiny's Child, comprising Michelle Williams, Beyoncé Knowles and Kelly Rowland, is the top selling female group of all time.

Jamie Pugh's 'Impossible Dream' of winning it all on Britain's Got Talent ended last night as he was voted off the program. The singer - who performed The Impossible Dream on the live reality show yesterday - is now set to back to work as a van driver and pizza delivery man.

The new York Times reports that Brooks McNamara passed away on May 8, 2009 at the age of 72. He was most well known and regarded for his role as the founding director of the Shubert Archives. The immediate cause was pneumonia, said his wife in a statement to the Times, Nan. Mr. McNamara had been suffering from sporadic cerebellar ataxia, a degenerative nerve disorder.

August: Osage County, which, on Friday, May 22nd, surpassed The Heidi Chronicles in the list of Broadway's longest running plays, welcomes Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad to the cast tonight, Tuesday, May 26th. Ms. Rashad will star as Violet Weston.

Rock Of Ages Tony-nominated star Constantine Maroulis, Tony Award-winner (for Gypsy) Laura Benanti and her husband Steven Pasquale (Reasons To Be Pretty) and Tony-nominated Judy Kuhn (Les Miz, Chess, Rags, She Loves Me) are among the Broadway honorees and performers at the Thursday June 25 Inside Broadway Broadway Beacon Awards at 5:30 PM at The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY.

Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle has made it through semi-finals of Britain's Got Talent where she battled it out with 39 other acts including a 11-year-old street dancer, a woman with her dancing dog and fellow 'Lez Miz' singing performer Jamie Pugh. The semi-finals began tonight Sunday, May 24, 2009 on UK's ITV with Susan Boyle singing Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Memory' from CATS.

Playhouse South will present The Lion in Winter, a comedic drama by James Goldman. Performances will be June 19-21 and June 26-28, 2009 in the Clark Haines Theater, 3700 Far Hills Avenue in Kettering. Friday and Saturday performances are at 8:00 pm and Sunday at 2:00 pm.

Variety is reporting that Michael Haneke's 'The White Ribbon,' the black-and-white drama set in a rural German village on the eve of WWI, received the Palme d'Or from the jury of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on Sunday. The trade paper also reports that Sony Pictures Classics nabbed the North American rights to the film before the festival.

Strawdog Theatre Company of Chicago announces their 22nd anniversary season of presenting 'the whole wide world in a little black box,' with the three mainstage plays focusing on the theme of 'why we fight': the Midwest premiere of Matt Pepper's 'St. Crispin's Day,' David Harrower's translation of Bertolt Brecht's 'Good Soul of Szechuan,' and Curt Columbus' translation of Anton Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya.' The shows run Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sundays at 7 p.m.

Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle has made the semi-finals of Britain's Got Talent where she will battle it out with 39 other acts including a 11-year-old street dancer, a woman and her dancing dog and fellow 'Lez Miz' singing performer Jamie Pugh.

Susan Boyle gets a second chance tonight, Sunday, May 24th to wow the world after her first appearance made her an Internet sensation. Boyle stunned and charmed tens of millions of viewers last month, when judges skeptical about her dowdy image were won over by her soaring voice and confident performance.

The critically acclaimed Broadway production of DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS by Eugene O'Neill will close today, May 24, 2009 after 16 previews and 32 performances.

After the 'American Idol' finale, Adam Lambert answered questions from reporters in a mass media conference and his message was all the music about his successful goal of creating togetherness. The questions and answers came fast and furious as the singing sensation met the press, here are some highlights below!