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Melissa Leo has won the 83rd Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Fighter, co-starring Mark Wahlberg, Amy Adams and Christian Bale.

Earlier tonight, Robert Stomberg and Karen O'Hara won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland starring stage and screen favorites Anne Hathaway, Matt Lucas, Michael Sheen, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp and more.

Jeffrey Tambor has withdrawn from the Tony Award-winning revival of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, following the Thursday, February 24 performance. Tambor started performances on Tuesday, February 15 in the role of Georges, opposite four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein as Albin.

Jonathan Groff, Kevin Kline, James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Alexis Bledel and Evan Rachel Wood star in Robert Redford's upcoming thriller, The Conspirator, which is set for national release on April 15, 2011.

THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON stars Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth, Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland. Jason Miller's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON is directed by Gregory Mosher. Preview performances began on Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 with an official opening on Sunday, March 6th, 2011 at the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre. This is a limited engagement through Sunday, May 29th, 2011. Click below for a first look of the production onstage!

Deadline.com reports that Dan Fogler has joined the cast of the ABC pilot Man Up, written by Chris Moynihan. In Man Up, in which a group of male friends come to terms with being a man in the modern age. Deadline writes tha the story specifically revlves around: 'Happily married father of two Will (Mather Zickel), his brother-in-law Kenny (Fogler) and the lovelorn Craig (Chris Moynihan).

Deadline.com reports that Katie Finneran has joined the cast of I Hate My Teenage Daughter for the new Fox comedy, I Hate My Teenage Daughter. Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer have written and will produce the pilot. According to the report, I Hate My Teenage Daughter 'centers on two women, Annie and Nikki (Finneran), who now have daughters just like the girls who picked on them in high school.'

Susan Stromen is teaming up with famed Ragtime music duo Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music) for a new dance musical supported by Lincoln Center, BroadwayWorld has confirmed. The still unnamed project received a reading last year and is prepping for a long workshop at Lincoln Center in June. The project is written by Peter Parnell (Cider House Rules). Stroman, of course, will direct and choreograph.

Now, Deadline.com is reporting that 'American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee 'will play a beautiful struggling actress who goes to all lengths (including sexual favors for the producer) to book the role of Marilyn Monroe in the musical. Also recently cast in the pilot, written by Theresa Rebeck and to be directed by Michael Mayer, are Jack Davenport and Megan Hilty. McPhee, repped by Gersh and the Schiff Co., made her TV pilot debut last season with NBC's half-hour The Pink House. She will next be seen in the romantic comedy You May Not Kiss the Bride.'

Stage and screen vet Jeff Daniels spoke at a Michigan film industry town hall meeting in Livonia, MI yesterday, February 24, 2011. Daniels, a Michigan native, urged a crowd of about 3000 to contact their representatives and the state legislature to plead to keep Michigan's generous film tax incentives in place. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is proposing to replace the film tax incentive program with a 5 million cap on future film credits, which Daniels and other film executives believe would virtually put an end to the booming Michigan film industry.

After being delayed from it's originally scheduled July 30, 2010 opening, BEASTLY, starring Neil Patrick Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, Alex Pettyfer and Mary Kate Olsen opened in LA. BroadwayWorld brings you photo coverage below.

The cast of SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark will perform on CBS's 'The Late Show With David Letterman' this Tuesday, March 1. The appearance will feature stars Reeve Carney, Jennifer Damiano, and T.V. Carpio, debuting the show's Act I anthem, 'Rise Above.'

The 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards announced a series of major changes designed to enhance the visibility and outreach of the Drama Desk Awards nationwide while, at the same time, creating a large national footprint for all segments of New York theater. The changes include a television broadcast deal with Ovation; moving the awards ceremony from a concert hall to a prestigious ballroom in Midtown Manhattan; presenting the awards at a gala sit-down dinner in an elegant setting, hosted by a major Broadway star; adding musical numbers from nominated New York stage productions; changing the day of the annual Drama Desk Awards from its traditional Sunday time-slot to a Monday night when most Broadway and Off Broadway shows are dark; and adding major media partners. The changes were announced at a news conference held today (Thursday, February 24, 2011) at Inc Lounge in the Time Hotel, 224 West 49th Street, by Robert R. Blume, who has been Executive Producer of the annual Drama Desk Awards since 1999.

Next month, Broadway's record-breaking, six-time Tony Award-winning musical smash CHICAGO is pleased to welcome back Christopher Sieber in the role of Billy Flynn, 'the silver-tongued prince of the courtroom,' for a limited engagement beginning Tuesday, March 8 and continuing through Friday, March 25.

Kathy Griffin, Robert Verdi, Jane Pauley, Kathie Lee Gifford, Hota Kotb, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and 'Real Housewives' Ramona Singer, Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, Alex McCord & Simon van Kempen walked the red carpet with hosts Sherri Shepherd and fashion designer Carmen Marc Valvo at the 23rd Annual Bailey House Auction and Party last night, February 23rd at The Lexington Avenue Armory. Festivities began at 6 PM. The evening benefits Bailey House, the landmark AIDS housing agency for homeless New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS.

According to an Equity Casting notice, Broadway's THE NOrMAL HEART will be performed as a staged reading, directed by Joel Grey. Accordingly, the production will be adding the character of a Reader / Examining Doctor, whose character description reads: 'Male, any age. He will introduce the play every evening, read stage directions, and play a pivotal scene with Emma every night. Casting personnel state, 'We are looking for exciting ideas to do a few weeks at a time.'

Broadway's Will Chase will be tonight's guest star on the season finale of the USA network's Royal Pains. Chase will play MS patient Benjamin Richards, a Hamptonite hosting his annual MS Fundraiser, and looks to hire someone to launch his foundation's new philanthropic effort- a fleet of mobile medical clinics in developing nations. When Benjamin experiences symptoms associated with MS flare-ups, HankMed treats him and discovers something altogether different is effecting his health.

The New York Times reports today that following his stint in DRIVING MISS DAISY, James Earl Jones will be hanging around Broadway a bit longer, assuming the role of Arthur Hockstader in the revival of Gore Vidal's 'The Best Man.' The production is scheduled to open in the spring of 2012. Orphan's Home Cycle director Michael Wilson will helm the revival. The plot centers around chief executive Hockstader trying to decide which presidental nominees to support: William Russell and Joe Cantwell.

On Monday, March 7, 2011, The 24 Hour Company will team with the Exchange to produce The 24 Hour Musicals at The Gramercy Theatre (127 East 23rd Street, between Park and Lexington Aves). Four brand new musicals will be written, cast, rehearsed and performed in a single day, featuring an star-studded line up of Broadway performers, composers, writers, directors, choreographers and musical directors. Creative director Ted Sperling (musical director of Light in the Piazza, South Pacific and Guys & Dolls), will lead some of the theatre's brightest talent from Broadway, film and television as they collaborate under one roof, in one day, to create original musical theatre.

The producers of the critically acclaimed AMERICAN IDIOT announced today that the GRAMMY® Award winning musical will launch a first national tour in the fall of 2011 in a city to be announced. Open call auditions, for all roles, will be held in Los Angeles, Toronto, Boston and Chicago this spring.