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Trinity Repertory Company opens their 44th season with a new staging of All the King's Men by Adrian Hall, adapted from Robert Penn Warren?s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, with music by Randy Newman and directed by Brian McEleney.

The Boston Pops closed out its 2007 Tanglewood season on Sunday, August 26, with a swinging tribute to George Gershwin that featured Jean-Yves Thibaudet on piano and the vocals of Broadway's Marin Mazzie and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

Producers Greg Schaffert and Bud Martin hope to bring this swashbuckling new musical by George Stiles, Paul Leigh and Peter Raby to the Great White Way in the near future.

The Ogunquit Playhouse announces Eddie Mekka and Ryan Landry will star in its production of 'Hairspray,' which runs August 28 - September 15, in the roles of Wilbur and Edna Turnblad, respectively.

The Second Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival will take place on September 27th through September 30th.

Tony Award-winning talents will take the stage of Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, Connecticut to celebrate guest of honor John Kander, the Tony Award-winning composer of Chicago, Cabaret and Curtains, on Monday, September 24.

Complex characters and local flavor pair off in Israel Horovitz's gripping drama at Gloucester Stage Company

Williamstown Theatre Festival ends season with a well-acted but only partially satisfying production of Lillian Hellman's 'The Autumn Garden'

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, the new musical by Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen, the team who created last season's Musical Theatre Lab premiere of The Burnt Part Boys, inspired by Chris Van Allsburg's (Jumanji and The Polar Express) children's book, is next at Barrington Stage Company's Musical T

Broadway star Jeffrey Carlson, most recently seen in Hamlet at D.

Due to high demand for tickets, the Williamstown Theatre Festival has added an additional performance of Lillian Hellman's The Autumn Garden on Wednesday, August 22 at 3:00

Berkshire Theatre Festival presents Mrs.

Cirque Jacqueline, Andrea Reese's acclaimed one-woman play that played to Massachusetts audiences in 2005 and 2006, will return to Provincetown in a limited seven-performance engagement from August 25 - September 1, 2007 at The Art House.

2nd Story Theatre in Warren, RI may have exceeded its artistic reach with the second in a summer series of plays.

It was a night of successes, big and small, personal, professional and public.

The Williamstown Theatre Festival has added a performance of The Physicists on Wednesday, August 15 at 3:00 on the Center Stage

State of the Union, which is the Warren, RI theater's second summer production runs August 10 - September 1.

TheaterWorks has announced the lineup for the company's 2007-2008 season

A production of Tennessee Williams' poetic drama Sweet Bird of Youth starring Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad will be among the hightlights of the Westport Country Playhouse's 2007/8 season

Action hero and sex symbol of 50-plus movies and more than a dozen television series, Lorenzo Lamas talks about making the leap to the musical theater stage in 'The King and I' at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine

Westport Country Playhouse will bring the legendary talents of Stephen Sondheim to its stage with Being Alive, a world premiere musical revue, August 24 through September 9.

There's not enough meat to satisfy the guests of 'Party Come Here,' Daniel Goldfarb and David Kirshenbaum's new musical which recently received its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts

Funked Up Fairy Tales, the new hip musical by Kirsten Childs at Barrington Stage Company's Musical Theatre Lab, has been extended through August 18, due to popular demand

The Festival will premiere The Prophet Muhammad, an original work developed in the leapFROG program.

The second Late-Night Cabaret of the season runs August 9-11