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The Rochester Broadway Theater League has announced their 2010-2011 M&T Bank Broadway Season at the Auditorium Theatre (885 East Main St.).

Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Jamie-Lynn Sigler has been approached to star in a new Lifetime pilot.

Reeve Carney, who's set to play the lead web-slinger in Broadway's SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK, will perform at Piano's (158 Ludlow Street) on Sept. 15 with his band, Carney.

British actress Carey Mulligan is in negotiations to star in the action thriller Drive, according to The Hollywood Reporter. If cast, the Education star will join Ryan Gosling, who's already attached to the project. Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston is also said to be in negotiations to join the cast.

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Mercy star Taylor Schilling will team up with Zac Efron in The Lucky One on the big screen. Based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One centers on a U.S. marine (played by Efron) who is fixated on a photograph of a woman he does not know, attributing his survival of three tours of duty in Iraq to this keepsake. Upon returning home, he sets out to search for the face in the photograph (Schilling).

Global Spectrum has announced the productions for this season's Broadway in Augusta and Beyond Broadway Series, bringing some fan favorites to the town. The Broadway in Augusta program includes Grease and The Color Purple. The Beyond Broadway Series will feature Blue Man Group, and The Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller. The two series will occupy the Bell Auditorium and the James Brown Arena.

Back in January, Glee star Lea Michele told MTV she would love to see Matthew Morrison (who plays Mr. Schuester) and Justin Timberlake have a dance-off on the hit FOX TV show.

James Iglehart, Rhett George, Bryan Fenkart, Danielle Williamson, Brad Bass and Bryan Langlitz, among others, will perform during Broadway Impact's final summer concert series at Joe's Pub on Aug. 23 at 7 p.m.

The soundtrack to the indie rock musical Clear Blue Tuesday, directed by Elizabeth Lucas, will be released on Aug. 24 by Sh-K-Boom Records. Clear Blue Tuesday takes audiences through seven Tuesdays. The film follows the transformation of 11 New Yorkers over the span of seven years.

A number of stars perform songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber in a new recording that pays tribute to the acclaimed musical theatre composer.

Asolo_Rep_20010101 Asolo Rep unveils Asolo Rep Extras, a series of one or two performance shows featuring talented acts from across the United States. The line-up includes the return of A Tale of Two Cities star James Barbour, Broadway's Barbra Russell and Ron Sharpe, Charles Ross in One Man Star Wars, Second City's Fair and Unbalanced, and John Epperson as Lypsinka in The Passion of the Crawford. The shows enhance Asolo Rep's 2010-11 season of full run productions already announced.

Warehouse PAC is planning a staged reading of Sarah Ruhl's 'Eurydice,' a retelling of the Orpheus myth.

Chicago's Abbey Pub has been featuring local, regional and national music acts since 1973 and today has announced their upcoming schedule for this fall. highlights include Anatomy of Habit, Chicago Barn Dance lessons and more. Advance show tickets can be purchased at www.abbeypub.com.

A moral conflict resurfaces in the Tony Award winning play, where crimes from the past threaten the future of two seemingly typical families. This classic reveals the lethal consequences of deceit and greed. All My Sons opened Aug. 14 and runs until Oct. 2 at the Ruskin Group Theatre.

Brian Wetzel's autobiographical one-man, two act, theatrical show is coming to Santa Rosa's 6th Street Playhouse on Aug. 21.

One of the biggest off-Broadway and Broadway successes comes to Bellingham, Ma starting Aug. 20 in a new production, directed by Michael La Fleur.

The 'Wizards of Waverly Place' actor is using comedy to raise funds and awareness for St. Louis's Foodbank.

L.A. Theatre Works' Radio Theatre Series will air 'Atomic Bombers' by Russell Vandenbroucke, starring Larry Cox, Jeannie Elias, Robin Gammell, Jon Matthews, Phillip Mershon, Danny Mora, Wolf Muser, Lisa Jane Persky, John Vickery, Tom Virtue, and Ron West.

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has announced more than $960,000 in grants from the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative (PTI) to 13 theater companies, presenters, and theater independent artists.

The 24th Street Theatre in Los Angeles will present Aristides Vargas' La Razón Blindada, opening Sept. 18, 2010.