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According to Variety, stage and screen veterans Brian Dennehy and Dianne Wiest have officially been cast in A Big Year, directed by David Frankel. Dennehy and Wiest join an all-star cast, including Steve Martin, Jack Black, and Anjelica Huston, among others.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sam Rockwell is joining the cast of DreamWorks' new film, Cowboys and Aliens, directed by Jon Favreau. The film will be the second collaboration between Rockwell and Favreau, the first being Iron Man 2, out in theaters this Friday, May 7.

According to Variety, Samuel L. Jackson and Neil LaBute are set to develop an as-of-yet unnamed television series together with the Showtime network.

According to The New York Times and other published reports, a suspect has been arrested in the Times Square bomb scare case.

Award-winning actor Mamie Gummer will debut as The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's first artist-in-residence. She will star as Lady Dunmore, in a new Revolutionary Story scene, 'Lady Dunmore Prepares for the Ball.

Irene Lewis, Artistic Director of CENTERSTAGE, and Jay Smith, President of the theater's Board of Trustees, announced today that Ms. Lewis will leave CENTERSTAGE in June 2011 after completion of the 2010-11 season, which will mark her 19th year as Artistic Director.

Kate Mulgrew, who starred as Katherine Hepburn in Tea at Five, one of Hartford Stage's most successful productions of all time, will return to the Tony Award-winning theatre (Michael Wilson, Artistic Director; Michael Stotts, Managing Director) in William Shakespeare's classic play, Antony and Cleopatra. Tina Landau will direct the production, which will run at Hartford Stage October 7 - November 7. Antony and Cleopatra will be the first production in Hartford Stage's renovated and expanded Church Street facility. Construction on the renovation project will take place this summer.

Olivier-winner Leanne Jones will be starring in a new production of Jonathan Larson's tick, tick...BOOM! at the Union Theatre in Southwark starting May 19. Jones, who originated the role of Tracy Turnblad in the West End premiere of Hairspray, will play Susan.

Robert Lopez, the Tony-winning composer of Avenue Q, is using his songwriting talents to benefit an Off-Broadway theater. Lopez will write an original song for and about the highest bidder at BiddingForGood.com.

Glenn Close, Richard Gere, Carey Lowell, Edie Falco, Christopher Meloni, Isaac Mizrahi, Lynn Redgrave, Edward Albee, Greg Louganis, Richard Belzer, and Cindy Adams are among the many celebrities that are featured in Docurama Film's My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story, directed by Mark St. Germain. The film is set to be released on DVD on May 25.

The Tony Awards has unveiled their updated website, www.tonyawards.com, integrating new features and interactive fan capabilities, and debuting a brand new look.

Allen Swift, the voice behind Mighty Mouse, died on April 18 in his Manhattan home at 87.

While not perfect, this week's episode of GLEE finally goes in a new direction that points to a promising future for the series. Though still inconsistent in tone and unbalanced in attention to the cast as an ensemble, GLEE is finally beginning to find a 'Home.'

According to Variety.com, this year's Tony Awards could potentially make history in the Best New Musical category as being the first year in which four jukebox musicals are nominated for the award. The article cites American Idiot, Come Fly Away, Million Dollar Quartet, Fela!, and Everyday Rapture as the frontrunners for the category, all of which use preexisting music ranging from Sinatra to Green Day.

Betty Cuningham Gallery announces an exhibition of a survey of drawings by Rackstraw Downes. It will be the artist's third show and first drawings show at the gallery. Included in the exhibition will be approximately twenty works on paper selected from the past thirty years. Downes will be present for an opening reception on June 3.

Variety is reporting that Jack V. Booch, the former executive producer and director of the Theater Guild of NY, died February 11 in Portland of cancer. He was 73.

According to contactmusic.com, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett of Gorillaz are teaming up with graphic novelist Alan Moore to write a musical about the life and achievements of 16th-century alchemist John Dee.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, film and television productions that wish to film in New York City will have to pay a $300 fee for City Hall permits for the first time in the city's history.

According to contactmusic.com, stage and screen legend Liza Minnelli has confirmed that she will be appearing in Sex And The City 2, in addition to being on the film's soundtrack. In the film, Minnelli will perform at the wedding of Stanford Blatch, the gay character and ladies' confidante played by Willie Garson.

Join DiverseWorks for the opening reception of Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The YesMen April 30 through June 5th.