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Academy Award winner Jane Fonda will join Jennifer Garner, Kristen Stewart and Kerry Washington to present on the Oscar telecast, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today.

The producers of the Broadway production of ORPHANS, Lyle Kessler's play, directed by Daniel Sullivan, announced today that Ben Foster will join the cast immediately in the role of "Treat." Producers Frederick Zollo and Robert Cole said, "We are delighted that Ben will join Alec Baldwin and Tom Sturridge when rehearsals commence at ORPHANS tomorrow morning. He is an extraordinarily gifted actor."

Theatre couple Leslie Kritzer and Vadim Feichtner will tie the knot tomorrow, February 22 in a private ceremony in the Grand Tier Mezzanine Lobby of NY's City Center. Leslie and Vadim met there in the lobby at the closing night party for the Encores! production of On The Town in November 2008.

Producers Steven Van Zandt and Maureen Van Zandt have just announced that THE RASCALS: ONCE UPON A DREAM will premiere on Broadway this spring for 15 performances only. Directed by Steven Van Zandt and Marc Brickman, with music by Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati, THE RASCALS: ONCE UPON A DREAM has stage, video and lighting design by Brickman and has music production and is written by legendary guitarist Van Zandt. Performances begin Monday, April 15th at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 West 46th Street), and will play through Sunday, May 5th. Opening night is set for Thursday, April 18th. Larry Magid and BASE Entertainment are executive producers of THE RASCALS: ONCE UPON A DREAM.

In the video below, watch Wolfe sing through 'Goodbye Until Tomorrow' accompanied by composer Jason Robert Brown!

Stage Entertainment has just announced that Tanja Dik as managing director of Joop van den Ende Theaterproducties, market leader in the Netherlands.

Last week, it was announced that Andrew Lloyd Webbers The Phantom of the Opera (Das Phantom der Oper) will return to Hamburg. From December 2013 onwards, the legendary multi-award winning musical will be presented by Stage Entertainment at the Neue Flora Theater.

According to Deadline.com, SMASH star Jack Davenport has joined ITV's 6=part 'Breathless' drama series. The show is about 'a group of doctors and nurses in a gynecology ward at a period when Britain was on the brink of the 60s revolution.' Davenport will play Otto Powell- 'a brilliant and charismatic surgeon who believes he can make a difference to women's lives,' as described by Deadline.

GLAAD, the nation's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, today announced it will honor journalist, author, and talk show host Anderson Cooper at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, presented nationally by Ketel One and Wells Fargo.

MATILDA THE MUSICAL is the story of an extraordinary little girl who decides that despite a bad beginning filled with rotten parents, a terrifying school and a vicious head mistress, her story is going to be an astonishing one. With the help of her teacher, her friends and a little bit of imagination, Matilda proves that even if you're little, you can do big things. Tickets for Matilda The Musical on Broadway are available at www.telecharge.com. It will open on April 11, 2013; previews begin on March 4 at The Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street). BroadwayWorld is excited to premiere a special interview with the creative team, in which they chat about putting together the incoming musical. Check it out below!

Today in 1955, Silk Stockings opened at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 478 performances. Silk Stockings is a musical with a book by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath, and Abe Burrows and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The musical is loosely based on the Melchior Lengyel story Ninotchka and the 1939 film adaptation it inspired. It ran on Broadway in 1955. This was the last musical that Porter wrote for the stage.

Today in 2006, The Pajama Game opened at the America Airlines Theatre, where it ran for 129 performances. The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a seven-and-a-half cents raise are going unheeded. In the midst of this ordeal, love blossoms between Babe, the grievance committee head, and Sid, the new factory superintendent. The original Broadway production opened on May 13, 1954, and ran for 1,063 performances.

Happy Birthday, Lea Salonga! Salonga is best known for originating the lead role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon, for which she won the Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Theatre World awards. She was the first Asian to play the roles of Eponine and Fantine in the musical Les Miserables on Broadway. She also provided the singing voice of two official Disney Princesses: Jasmine in Aladdin (1992), and Fa Mulan in Mulan (1998).

Today in 2008, the first Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George opened at Studio 54, where it ran for 149 performances. Sunday in the Park with George is a 1983 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical was inspired by the painting 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' by Georges Seurat. The musical won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, two Tony Awards for design (and a nomination for Best Musical), numerous Drama Desk Awards, the 1991 Olivier Award for Best Musical and the 2007 Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production.

Emmy Award winner Holland Taylor received a commendation by Texas Governor Rick Perry making her an honorary Texan on January 10, 2013, for her play Ann about late Texas governor Ann Richards. Ann, a new play written and performed by Emmy Award-winning actress Holland Taylor, began previews on Broadway at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street) on Monday, February 18 and will open Thursday, March 7, 2013. Last night there was a 'Bosom Buddies' reunion backstage at ANN- Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari came to see Holland Taylor and Bob Boyett's. Check out phtoos from the reunion below!

Jessica Chastain recently wrapped up a limited run on Broadway in THE HEIRESS, but that was far from her first time on stage. According to Celebuzz, Chastain led San Francisco Bay's Theatreworks production of Romeo and Juliet back in 1998. Click here to check out more photos from the production!

Jesse Eisenberg and Vanessa Redgrave will star in the world premiere of Eisenberg's The Revisionist, directed by Kip Fagan, which opens tomorrow, February 21 at the Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street. The Revisionist is scheduled to run through March 31, 2013. Check out a photo preview below!

The New York Philharmonic will present Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel, February 27-March 2, 2013. As previously announced, the production will star Kelli O'Hara as Julie Jordan, Nathan Gunn as Billy Bigelow, Stephanie Blythe as Nettie Fowler, Shuler Hensley as Jigger Craigin, Jason Danieley as Enoch Snow, Jessie Mueller as Carrie Pipperidge, Kate Burton as Mrs. Mullin, and John Cullum as Fisher. Check out photos from inside rehearsal below!

As the Broadway production of Mary Poppins comes to a close, we asked current and original principle cast members, as well as current cast members who have been with the show since day one, to share with us some memories and tell us what being a part of the magic has meant to them. Steffanie Leigh, who is the current 'Mary Poppins,' shared:

Ford's Theatre Society and Signature Theatre co-present the Tony-winning musical "Hello, Dolly!," directed by Eric Schaeffer, March 15 through May 18, 2013, at Ford's Theatre (511 Tenth Street NW, Washington, D.C.). The production features Broadway's Nancy Opel in the title role and Edward Gero as Horace Vandergelder. Check out a first look at the cast in costume below!