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Stephen Sondheim turns 80 on Monday, March 22nd, 2010 and he will celebrate this landmark event with Roundabout Theatre Company at a special performance of Sondheim on Sondheim and star-studded tribute at Roundabout's 2010 Spring Gala: Sondheim 80.

BroadwayWold.com is pleased to introduce illustrator Ken Fallin, who will be bringing to you original illustrations of everyone's favorite Broadway stars each week. This week's feature: Victor Garber starring in Noel Coward's PRESENT LAUGHTER.

Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook enters Week Two of its twelfth season celebrating the diversity of American popular song.

As previously reported, Broadway star, Tony, Grammy and Golden Globe Award winner, Bernadette Peters will pen a second children's book, Stella is a Star, set for publishing and release this spring by Blue Apple Books. The book, inspired by Peters' dog Stella, will feature illustrations by Liz Murphy. Proceeds will go to Broadway Barks, the charitable organization co-founded by Peters and Mary Tyler Moore over over 10 year ago in support of animal shelters.

As previously announced, on Monday, February 8, 2010, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bernadette Peters, Christine Ebersole, Audra McDonald, Victor Garber, Chita Rivera, Donna Murphy, Cheyenne Jackson and many more will take part in The Drama League's 26th annual all-star gala, 'A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF BROADWAY.'

Melora Hardin's new album ALL THE WAY TO MARS traverses the galaxy in a madcap manner most immediately reminiscent of a ‘60s cocktail hour album and for that frivolous and fun factor alone it deserves high praise - but there is far more here than what at first meets the eye.

Alto Polis Music Management & Positive Motions Foundation, 'Positive Motions' Concert Series will present the Inaugural Concert of the Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Mikael Avetisyan, Artistic Director & Principal Conductor, with Soloists, Ruslan Biryukov, Cello; Maksim Velichkin, Cello and Marine Abrahamyan-Abdasho, Soprano on Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Glendale.

Laura Benanti, Matt Cavenaugh, Jenn Colella, Joanna Gleason, John McMartin, Laura Osnes, David Hyde Pierce, Bobby Steggert, Elaine Stritch, Jim Walton, and Chip Zien have joined the New York Philharmonic's presentation of SONDHEIM: The Birthday Concert, Monday, March 15, and Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.

BroadwayWold.com is pleased to introduce illustrator Ken Fallin, who will be bringing to you original illustrations of everyone's favorite Broadway stars each week. This week's feature: Jim Brochu as the legendary Zero Mostel in ZERO HOUR, by Jim Brochu and directed by Piper Laurie, now playing at Theatre at St. Clements.

The Drama League is pleased to announce that Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bernadette Peters, Christine Ebersole, Audra McDonald, Victor Garber, Chita Rivera, Donna Murphy and Cheyenne Jackson are among the roster of performers slated to appear in its annual all-star benefit gala, 'A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF BROADWAY.'

Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook returns on January 13th for its twelfth season celebrating the diversity of American popular song. For 16 nights of pop, folk, cabaret, country, rock, and show tunes, the series will explore the best of the golden age of musical standards through to today's most dynamic contemporary songwriting.

Alley Theatre presents the world premiere of the new musical Wonderland about Alice, a children's book writer in Manhattan who is suffering through a creative block, estranged from her husband and alienated from her daughter. It takes a trip to a strange-yet-familiar Wonderland for her to regain her life's balance and again find the love and everyday magic that reside in us all - if we know how to look. With a book by Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy (The Civil War), lyrics by Jack Murphy, music by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlett Pimpernel, The Civil War), and directed by Gregory Boyd, Wonderland begins previews Friday, January 15, opens officially Wednesday, January 20 and runs through Sunday, February 14.

THE COMMON AIR, written by Lyras and McCaskill, has been extended through February 26th. The comedy, directed by Mr. McCaskill, features Alex Lyras portraying 6 diverse characters caught in an airport delay.

Tony® Award winning actress/singer Bernadette Peters, one of the most sought-after stars in musical theater, brings her celebrated show An Evening with Bernadette Peters to the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Sunday, Jan. 3 at 7 p.m.

BroadwayWold.com is pleased to introduce illustrator Ken Fallin, who will be bringing to you original illustrations of everyone's favorite Broadway stars each week. This week's feature: Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim.

BroadwayWold.com is pleased to introduce illustrator Ken Fallin, who will be bringing to you original illustrations of everyone's favorite Broadway stars each week. This week's feature: Angela Lansbury in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

The Toronto Star is reporting that Catch Me if You Can, the highly anticipated new Terrence McNally/Marc Shaiman musical, may be having it's out of town try out in Toronto before heading to Broadway.

Alto Polis Music Management & Positive Motions Foundation, 'Positive Motions' Concert Series will present the Inaugural Concert of the Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Mikael Avetisyan, Artistic Director & Principal Conductor, with Soloists, Ruslan Biryukov, Cello; Maksim Velichkin, Cello and Marine Abrahamyan-Abdasho, Soprano on Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Glendale.

Bernadette Peters devotes her time and talents to numerous events that benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Peters' 'pet project' is Broadway Barks, which she co-founded with friend Mary Tyler Moore, which is an annual, star-studded dog and cat adoption event presented each summer in Shubert Alley, benefiting over two dozen rescue shelters throughout the New York City area. She recently added author and songwriter to her roster of achievements with her debut children's book Broadway Barks which debuted on The New York Times Bestseller list.