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Broadway Producer Ken Davenport and Davenport Theatrical just presented the first annual Davenport Songwriting Contest. 10 songs competed for the title of 'Best Song' and a $500 Grand Prize. The contest was held at the Davenport Theatre (354 West 45th Street New York, NY 10036) on January 30th, 2014. Click below and continue through the playlist to watch all the performances!

If/Then, starring Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel, will begin previews on Broadway on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 and will officially open on Sunday, March 30, 2014 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Below, get a sneak peek of If/Then star Anthony Rapp performing 'You Don't Need To Love Me' from the new Broadway musical!

Edinburgh Univeristy Footlights present the SCOTTISH PREMIERE of Lin-Manuel Miranda's multi-award winning musical, In The Heights, running 11th - 15th February at the Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh. Click below for a sneak peek at highlights of the cast in rehearsal!

VOWVOW is an inaugural and extremely ambitious musical theatre workshop being presented by the Marymount Manhattan College Musical Theatre Program (Pat Hoag Simon, Coordinator for Musical Theatre) and The Directory Of Contemporary Musical Theatre Writers (David Sisco, Founder & Curator) that opens wide the creative process of the Broadway musical theatre industry to twenty very fortunate musical theatre students currently enrolled in Marymount Manhattan College's progressive Musical Theatre Program. Click below to watch a behind-the-scenes video about the project!

Ron Campbell, actor and current clown for touring troupe Cirque du Soleil, returns to the stage to reprise a role he starred in, in San Francisco. Accompanied by writer/director D.W. Jacobs, he sat down with us to talk about San Jose Rep's upcoming production of 'R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE.' Watch the interview below!

National Theatre Live's fifth season continues with the highly-anticipated premiere of the Donmar Warehouse production of Shakespeare's CORIOLANUS with Tom Hiddleston in the title role and Mark Gatiss as Menenius, directed byJosie Rourke, broadcast to cinemas and performing arts venues around the world from their Covent Garden home today, January 30, 2014 (with many encore dates in U.S. cities). Check out the trailer below!

Academy Award, Tony Award and Emmy Award winner Christopher Plummer takes the stage for 16 performances only in a Center Theatre Group special event, "A Word or Two," which opened at the CTG/Ahmanson Theatre on Wednesday, January 22, 2014. Written and arranged by Plummer and directed by Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, "A Word or Two" is presented in association with the Stratford Festival of Canada and continues through February 9, 2014. Click below to watch interviews with Plummer and McAnuff on opening night!

In this week's episode of 'In Focus', host Eden Lane sits down with two of the stars -- Caroline Bowman (Eva) and Sean MacLaughlin (Peron) -- of the EVITA tour, stopping in Denver this week. She also takes viewers behind the scenes for rehearsal of Parasol Arts new Tango Ballet, El Corazon de Tango - The Heart of Tango. Watch the interviews below!

In the video below, 'Russian' Broadway's best gather together to make a statement against Russia's anti-gay propaganda law. In this hilarious and important spoof, the Russian government outlaws theatrical performances on 'The Great Red Way', and the community responds. Click below to watch Andrew Rannells, Harvey Fierstein, Laura Osnes, Michael Urie and many more of Broadway's biggest stars in LOVE AND PUNISHMENT!

Idina Menzel (Wicked, Rent, Frozen) sang 'Tomorrow' as part of the sixth annual Living For Today at Joe's Pub in New York City on Sunday, January 19, 2014. Check out her performance below!

The Abbey presents the Downtown Broadway Cabaret Series, which featured Broadway's Norbert Leo Butz (Big Fish) in 'Memory & Mayhem Unplugged' in Orlando, Fla. Check out his performance of WICKED's showstopper 'Defying Gravity' below!

NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to announce the second annual Visions + Voices Global Performance Series which will focus this spring on China. Visions + Voices: China will be running February 20-May 12, 2014. Check out a sneak peek at the performances below!

Friends In Theater's founder Phil Accorso stopped by the Nederlander Theater to visit FITC alumna Kara Lindsay and her cast mates, Ben Fankhauser, Jess LeProtto, Adam Kaplan, and Tommy Martinez. Check out the video below!

Joey Contreras, Bobby Cronin, Jonathan Reid Gealt, McGuire & Simo, Michael Mott, Drew Overcash, Zoe Sarnak, and Brad Simmons will star in INSPIRED 3: A Benefit Concert for A PLACE TO BARK (TN) & SECOND CHANCE RESCUE NYC, on Sunday, January 26 at 7pm at Stage 72, NYC. Watch a trailer for the show below!

Ron Campbell, actor and current clown for touring troupe Cirque du Soleil, returns to the stage to reprise a role he starred in, in San Francisco. Accompanied by writer/director D.W. Jacobs, he sat down with us to talk about San Jose Rep's upcoming production of 'R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE.' Watch the interview below!

National Theatre Live's fifth season continues with the highly-anticipated premiere of the Donmar Warehouse production of Shakespeare's CORIOLANUS with Tom Hiddleston in the title role and Mark Gatiss as Menenius, directed byJosie Rourke, broadcast to cinemas and performing arts venues around the world from their Covent Garden home on Thursday, January 30, 2014 (with many encore dates in U.S. cities). Check out the trailer below!

Goodman Theatre introduces a new subscription package for 2014, 'Great Women at Play,' featuring works written and directed by a handful of the most popular female playwrights working in the American theater today. This special package for women-and men-includes five plays for the price of four, a complimentary visit to the exclusive Goodman Lounge and the opportunity to win a $100 gift certificate from the Goodman's preferred restaurant partner, Petterino's. Visit GoodmanTheatre.org/GreatWomen for more information, and check out a video of the artists involved below!

The Chicago Tribune just posted a video of Ben Jacoby and Julia Udine performing 'All I Ask of You' from The Phantom of the Opera, which is currently on tour and running at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre through March 2. Watch the duo sing below!

The Bridges of Madison County, the new musical by the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning team of Marsha Norman ('night Mother, The Color Purple) and Jason Robert Brown (The Last Fie Years, Parade) will begin performances this Friday, January 17, 2014, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street). The sitzprobe for The Bridges of Madison County was held at Carroll Music Studios on January 9, 2014. Go behind the scenes with the cast and orchestra below!

Producers Scott Sanders and Wynton Marsalis present After Midnight, directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle and featuring the big-band sounds of nine-time Grammy Award-winner Wynton Marsalis' Jazz at Lincoln Center All-Stars, After Midnight began previews on Friday, October 18, 2013 at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 W 47th St) and celebrated opening night on November 3. Below, watch Grammy Award winner Fantasia (The Color Purple) belt 'Sunny Side of the Street' onstage!