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Roger Rees, the Welsh actor, writer and director will take over the role of Gomez Addams in Broadway's THE ADDAMS FAMILY starting Tuesday, March 22. Reese will replace the celebrated Nathan Lane, who originated the role when the musical opened a year ago.

Tony Award nominated actress Christina Applegate, who starred in SWEET CHARITY, is set to star in a currently untitled comedy pilot for NBC. The show will be an irreverent look at parenthood from the viewpoint of a career woman who never thought she'd be a mother.

Today Producing Artistic Director Edward Stern announced his 20th - and final - season at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. The Playhouse' s 52nd season includes two world premieres and three regional premiere productions, as well as the return of one of the most popular musicals in its history.

The NewFilmmakers NY Series screens at Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street. NewFilmmakers LA screens in the Stanley Kramer Theater at the Sunset Gower Studio. Many features screened at NewFilmmakers are now available on NewFilmmakers Online.

The Palais Royale - South Bend's Premier Event Facility -- is pleased to host Easter Brunch on Sunday, April 24, 2011. Patrons can relax in the historical charm of the elegant ballroom while enjoying gracious service. The event will feature an outstanding buffet with delicious appetizers, omelets prepared by a chef, carved roasted leg of lamb, ham, salad, assorted entrees, and desserts. Non-Alcoholic beverages are included. A full cash bar including top shelf liquor and specialty wines will be available at additional charge. A special children's buffet will also be available and the Easter Bunny will present sweet treats to children. A harpist will play background music on stage. Photographer Peter Ringenberg will be available to take family photos for a nominal cost.

Theatre East presents 'The Soldier Dreams' by Daniel Macivor, Off Broadway at The Lion Theatre (Theatre Row), 410 West 42nd Street, NYC. Judson Jones directs the new play. The opening is Tuesday, March 29 at 7:00pm. Lea Anello is the set designer; Jessica M. Burgess, Lighting Designer; Scott O'Brien, Composer & Sound Designer; Kohli Calhoun ,Voice & Dialect Coach; Eric Kasprisin, Production Manager and Megan O'Brien is the Production Stage Manager.

The SUNY New Paltz Department of Theatre will present a New Play Festival on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 8, 9 and 10th in Parker Theatre on the SUNY New Paltz campus. The festival is part of the Mainstage season and will continue the theatre department's commitment to developing and producing new works for the stage. Over seventy one-act scripts from forty Hudson Valley playwrights, SUNY Alumni and SUNY students were submitted, with eleven short plays chosen for presentation ranging from the realistic to the surreal, from outrageous comedy to the highly dramatic. The New Play Festival was created by SUNY theatre faculty director Nancy Saklad, designer Ken Goldstein, playwright John Patrick Bray, and Laurence Carr, who teaches Dramatic Writing in the English Department and heads the SUNY Playwrights' Project. Robert Miller, a member of the faculty of the SUNY New Paltz Communications Department and Producing Director of Mohonk Mountain Stage Company, serves as Artistic Director. "Nothing in theatre is more exciting or rewarding than working with new scripts. It's where the action," Miller noted. The plays, running 10 to 25 minutes in length, were written by Hudson Valley playwrights Mary Gallagher, James Farrell, Lew Gardner and Sybil Rosen; SUNY New Paltz alumni Julie Demers, J. Holtham, Bruce Pileggi, Craig Sarich and Evan Leed; SUNY student Annette Storkman; and SUNY Theatre Faculty Emeritus Beverly Brumm. SUNY New Paltz theatre students will direct and act in the pieces and create designs, both as lobby displays and as production elements. 'What the Festival offers our students is the opportunity to work with texts that are not 'established.' Many of our students will continue to work with new plays when they are in the profession," explained John Patrick Bray one of the Festival's co-founders. Some of the plays will be presented as readings while others will be more fully realized and contain more complete production values. "The main idea is to focus on the scripts, to illuminate the words. We want each script to reach its next stage of development, and to have our audiences help shape these plays," said Laurence Carr, playwright coordinator. The SUNY New Play Festival will be presented as two separate series. Series A, made up of seven 10-minute plays will be presented Friday, April 8 at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, April 9 at 2:00 p.m. Series B, presenting three longer one act plays, will be produced Saturday, April 9, at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday afternoon, April 10 at 2:00 p.m. Admission is five dollars for each series, and an audience feedback session will follow.

Join Face Off Unlimited, JeBon Sushi, and the American Red Cross as we raise money for the relief effort in Japan.

Click below to watch the first promo for NBC's new singing competition, 'The Voice,' which will feature judges Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, and Cee Lo Green as they search for the next great voice in America.

The BILLY ELLIOT cast member killed on Thursday night by a double-decker bus in London was a young girl 'living her dream as a dancer,' her family told reporters.

In this week's SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK Weekly Web-Mail, music director and conductor Kim Grisby answers a fans questions. To watch the video, click below.

PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL cast member James Brown III, the Fashion Institute-trained designer behind the fashion line James George III, will debut his new men and women's label in stores and online this Fall.

Broadway Comedy Club Listings For the Week of 3/28

After sold-out performances and standing ovations, the Heavenly J's return to where it all began. At Canyon Moon Theatre on Friday March 25 at 7:30 p.m, they were ROCK-YOUR-SOUL.

Susan Grilli and Provincetown Counter Productions is thrilled to announce the cast and creative team for its strictly limited engagement of James Goldman'sThe Lion in Winter.

Rebecca Salter, an artist born in 1955 and educated in southwestern England, made an unconventional decision upon completing her university studies to move to Japan in 1979 for a two-year stay - to study with an avant-garde ceramic artist in Kyoto, continuing her involvement in that medium. When informed of the unexpected death of her intended mentor two months before she was scheduled to depart for Japan, she forged ahead with the journey and was able to structure her own studies - remaining in Kyoto for six years. She immersed herself in Japanese life and culture [including mastering reading and writing Japanese] and even exhibited her works with some regularity, gaining a reputation in Kyoto.

Talk show listings for Friday, March 25.

Talk show listings for Thursday, March 24.

Talk show listings for Wednesday, March 23.