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The second show of The Public's free Shakespeare in the Park season, LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, directed by Alex Timbers, with songs by Michael Friedman and book adaptation by Alex Timbers, begins previews next week on Tuesday, July 23 and will run through Sunday, August 18, with an official press opening on Monday, August 12. BroadwayWorld brings you a sneak peek of the cast singing excerpts from the show at Joe's Pub below!

Goodspeed Musicals, the first two time Tony Award-winning theatre in the country, extended the wildly popular Hello, Dolly! for 12 additional performances. This beloved American musical will now run through September 14, 2013. BroadwayWorld brings you highlights below!

From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook', which took place on January 28, 2013, at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut, will soon be airing on select public television stations throughout the tri-state area. BroadwayWorld brings you highlights below!

For the first and only time, Sting will perform songs from his new album, The Last Ship, for 10 concerts to benefit The Public Theater in their intimate, 260-seat Anspacher Theater from September 25 - October 9. An evening of music and storytelling with one of the world's most prolific artists, these performances will offer unique insight into the creative process of both his new album, to be released September 24, and his forthcoming play of the same name, premiering in 2014. All proceeds benefit The Public Theater and are tax deductible. Below, check out an audio preview from the new musical, titled 'Practical Arrangement.'

Happy Birthday Tony Kushner! Kushner's best known work is Angels in America, a seven-hour epic about the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era New York, which was later adapted into a miniseries for which Kushner wrote the screenplay. His other plays include Hydriotaphia, Slavs!: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, A Bright Room Called Day, Homebody/Kabul, and the book for the musical Caroline, or Change. His new translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children was performed at the Delacorte Theater in the summer of 2006 starring Meryl Streep and directed by George C. Wolfe. Kushner has also adapted Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan, Corneille's The Illusion, and S. Ansky's play The Dybbuk.

In the video below, standby Eric Ankrim teams with Krysta Rodriquez, Zachary Levi and the rest of the cast to rap about filling in for Levi, who will be out of the show to attend Comic-Con in San Diego.

DANCING WITH THE STARS duo Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy star in Broadway's FOREVER TANGO, which opened last night, July 14, at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 W 48th Street). Forever Tango, the internationally acclaimed entertainment phenomenon began preview performances last week, and is slated to run through Sunday, August 11. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there to chat with the cast at the opening night party and you can check out what they had to say below!

DANCING WITH THE STARS duo Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy star in Broadway's FOREVER TANGO, which opened last night, July 14, at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 W 48th Street). Forever Tango, the internationally acclaimed entertainment phenomenon began preview performances last week, and is slated to run through Sunday, August 11. BroadwayWorld brings you a preview of the cast in action below!

Happy Birthday Laura Benanti! Benanti recently starred as Candela in 2010's Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown and in the title role of the Patti LuPone revival of Gypsy in 2008, for which she was honored with the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award, and a Drama League nomination. She previously starred in the Encores! production. Broadway: The Sound of Music (Maria, opposite Richard Chamberlain), Swing! (Tony nomination: Best Featured Actress), Into The Woods (Cinderella; Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, LA Ovation and Tony nominations), Nine (Claudia, opposite Antonio Banderas; Outer Critics Circle, Drama Leauge nominations), The Wedding Singer (Julia Sullivan) and much more.

Featured in yesterday's event was the cast of iLuminate: Artist of Light, currently playing at New World Stages. Check out highlights below!

Featured in yesterday's event was the cast of STOMP (Jason Mills, Alan Asuncion, Marivaldo Dos Santos, Delaunce Jackson, Dustin Elsea, John Angeles, Stephanie Marshall, Yako Miyamoto). Check out highlights below!

Featured in yesterday's event was the cast of NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (Phillipa Soo, David Abeles, Nick Choksi, Grace McLean, Ashkon Davaran, Mariand Torres, Catherine Brookman, Lucas Steele, Nicholas Belton, Blake DeLong, Luke Holloway, Lulu Fall, Shaina Taub, Brittain Ashford, Lauren Zakrin, Azudi Onyejekwe, Amber Gray), performing 'Prologue,' ' Charming,' and 'Sonya Alone.' Check out highlights below!

Featured in yesterday's event was the cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (Ann Harada, Jill Abramovitz, Kristine Bendul, Stephanie Gibson, Shonica Gooden, Kendal Hartse, Laura Irion, Linda Mugleston, Kirstin Tucker, Andy Jones, Heidi Giberson), who performed 'Stepsister's Lament' and 'Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?' Check out highlights below!

Featured in yesterday's event was the cast of Pippin (Erik Altemus, Bethany Moore, Stephanie Pope, Viktoria Grimmy, Olga Karmansky), who performed 'Corner of the Sky,' 'On the Right Track,' 'Love Song,' and 'Simple Joys.' Check out highlights below!

Happy Birthday Arthur Laurents! Laurents' first play, Home of the Brave, opened on Broadway in 1945, followed by many others. He wrote his first musical, West Side Story, in 1957, followed by Gypsy and others. His first screenplay was The Snake Pit in 1948, followed by others including Rope, Anastasia, The Way We Were and The Turning Point. His own play, Invitation to a March in 1960, was the first of several he directed. I Can Get It for You Wholesale in 1961 was the first musical he directed, followed by others including La Cage aux Folles and Gypsy with Angela Lansbury, then Tyne Daly and most recently, Patti LuPone. He pased away in May 2011.

Today in 2011, the return engagement of the second Broadway revival of HAIR opened at the St. James Theatre, where it ran for 67 performances. Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. Hair tells the story of the 'tribe', a group of politically active, long-haired hippies of the 'Age of Aquarius' living a bohemian life in New York City and fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War.

Happy Birthday Cheyenne Jackson! Jackson has been featured in Broadway shows including XANADU, FINIAN'S RAINBOW, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, and AIDA. His first Broadway leading role in ALL SHOOK UP earned him a Theatre World Award for 'Outstanding Broadway Debut.' He's been seen in such television shows such as 30 ROCK, GLEE, UGLY BETTY, and CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM.

Happy Birthday Yul Brynner! His best-known role remains that of King Mongkut of Siam in the Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical The King and I which he played 4,525 times on stage over the span of his career. He appeared in the original production and later touring productions as well as a 1977 Broadway revival, London Production in 1979 and another Broadway revival in 1985. He also appeared in the film version for which he won an Academy Award as Best Actor and in a short-lived TV version (Anna and the King) on CBS in 1972. Brynner is one of only nine people who have won both a Tony Award and an Academy Award for the same role.

Last night on FOX's 'So You Think You Can Dance,' Jasmine Harper and Aaron Turner took on a Spencer Liff Broadway routine to SMASH's 'They Just Keep Moving the Line,' as performed by Megan Hilty. Check out the full number below!