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Cameron Mackintosh and the National Theatre of Great Britain bring award-winning production to Boston, featuring dazzling costumes and sets, creative choreography, outstanding direction and performances - the complete package!

This is not your mother's nursery rhyme.

TheaterWorks, downtown Hartford's home for the hottest new plays, has announced four additional performances of the hit comedy The Little Dog Laughed.

Boston University celebrated its up-coming InCite Arts Festival during a press event recently held at the Hudson Hotel (356 W 58th St.

Stage vet Alvin Epstein is set to star as Prospero in the Actors' Shakespeare Project's production of William Sheakespeare's The Tempest at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, March 13-April 13.

Mark Jacoby will join two-time Tony Award winning stars Chita Rivera and George Hearn in the Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA) production of The Visit.

Casting has been completed for Jip: His Story, the winner of this year's American Harmony Prize, written by Danny Duncan and Emily Klion.

Joanne Fayan flaunts her comedy chops, as she inhabits the character of Mary Dale, in Charles Busch's satirical look at 1950's Hollywood

Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) has made some revisions in the previously announced 2008 season of productions.

Artistic Director Tony Estrella realizes a personal goal in bringing Martin McDonagh's chilling play, 'The Pillowman' to The Gamm.

Kevin Moriarty has made 'Richard III' accessible to any audience, familiar with Shakespeare or not, which makes this production an unqualified success.

The Providence, RI theatre will present Teo Castellanos' 'Scratch & Burn' for one night only, Friday February 22, 2008

Courtney Adler has recently been named Associate Producer at North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT).

Variety reports Shirley Jones, who starred in the 1962 film version of The Music Man as Marian the Librarian, will return to her roots in a staged concert version of The Music Man at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts.

Playhouse on the Green, a 228-seat theater located in the heart of downtown Bridgeport, has named Matt Schicker its new producing artistic director.

For its final Downstage @ New Rep production this season, New Repertory Theatre is excited to present two plays running in rotating repertory, each expressing a unique view of the Middle East situation.

Rachel Harker and Stephen Russell are fine-tuned instruments under the direction of Rick Lombardo in Pinter Duet at New Rep Downstage

Theater Works Hartford presents The Little Dog Laughed, by Douglas Carter Beane, directed by Rob Ruggiero to began previews January 25, will open February 1 with performances through March 9, 2008.

Broadway legend Chita Rivera is coming to Boston to be honored for her stage and screen achievements at Boston Youth Moves' annual fundraising gala, Swellegance.

Classical music commentator Rob Kapilow presents an engaging exploration of some of George Gershwin's most beloved songs in Rob Kapilow's What Makes it Great? The Songs of George Gershwin.

Will Chase will join Natascia Diaz (Spider Woman/Aurora) and Hunter Foster (Molina), playing the role of the young radical Valentin at the Signature Thetre in Arlington, VA.

Barrington Stage Company presents the Berkshire Area premiere of Trumbo from February 14 through 24.

The largest student produced musical in the nation enters it's 66th year this Friday when Carousel has it opening night at Northwestern University.

Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Angels in America, has long been my favorite play.

New Repertory Theatre continues exploring this season's theme of isolation and connection with Molière's The Misanthrope, using Constance Congdon's 19th century French setting