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Jennifer Ikeda and Ana Reeder join the cast of the MTC upcoming Broadway production of Caryl Churchill's 'Top Girls'

There has been a recent influx of Stephen Sondheim shows back in the East, with intriguing revivals of 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Company,'but for Los Angeles fans of Sondheim tuners, there is one show that stands as perhaps the most sophisticated from the composer, 'A Little Night Music,' now on stage at South Coast Rep...

South Coast Repertory leads off the 2007-08 Season with Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's waltz-filled musical comedy, A Little Night Music. Stefan Novinski directs with musical direction by Dennis Castellano; to run from September 7 through October 7 on the Segerstrom Stage.

Roundabout Theatre Company's limited engagement of 110 in the Shade will play its final performance on Sunday, July 29th at 2:00 PM

The Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of Eric Bogosian's 1987 play Talk Radio will take its final bow on June 24th after playing 150 performances at the Longacre Theater on West 48th Street.

The 2007 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards were presented live from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 10th, and Spring Awakening and The Coast of Utopia led the pack!

Direct from Broadway, the romantic new musical The Light in the Piazza returns to Chicago for a limited, two-week engagement at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, July 10 through 22, 2007.

June 5 at 5:30PM, Tony-winners and 2007 nominees Audra McDonald and John Cullum, stars of the hit Broadway revival of '110 In the Shade,' and other cast members performed three musical selections from the score, joined by veteran lyricist Tom Jones to sign copies of the new cast recording.

Tony Award-winning musical of passion, innocence, romance and disillusionment maintains its luster on national tour

Tony Award-winner and current nominee Audra McDonald, starring in Roundabout Theatre Company's 110 in the Shade, will be featured on WNYC's 'Soundcheck' on Tuesday, June 5th from 2:15PM-3:00PM on channel 93.9FM and WOR's 'Joan Hamburg Show' on Wednesday, June 6th from 9:00-11:00AM on 710AM

Beauty is most certainly in the eye of the beholder when the eye is beholding Broadway's Audra McDonald. So what is she doing playing a woman considered far too plain and unappealing to land a man? A damn fine acting job is what she's doing.

Tony Award-winner and current nominee John Cullum, currently starring in Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of 110 in the Shade, will be featured on Sirius Satellite Radio's 'Broadway's Best' with Seth Rudetsky, beginning Friday, June 1st at 7:00PM on Channel 77

Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, currently starring in Roundabout Theatre Company's 110 in the Shade, will be featured on NY1's 'On Stage' this weekend beginning Saturday, May 26th on channel 1.

Tony Award winner and current nominee Audra McDonald, currently starring in Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of 110 in the Shade, will perform the musical number 'Simple Little Things' live on ABC's 'The View'

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced a two-week extension of the Tony nominated, critically acclaimed, new Broadway production of 110 in the Shade now through Sunday, July 29th.

Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, which began its current run at the Longacre Theatre on Thursday, February 15, 2007 and was recently nominated for the Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Drama Desk award for Outstanding Revival of a Play, is continuing its series of post-show talkbacks with New York Post theater columnist and Theater Talk (WNET/Ch. Thirteen) co-host Michael Riedel.

Nominations have been announced for the 2007 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards. Click in to view all of this year's nominees! The Tony Awards will be broadcast LIVE from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 10th on PBS.

Talk Radio, recently nominated by the Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Drama Desk for Outstanding Revival of a Play, will continue its acclaimed and controversial series of post-show talkbacks when the Rev. Al Sharpton and The Village Voice's Michael Musto appears onstage at the Longacre Theater along with members of the cast following the 8pm shows on May 15th and 16th respectively.

A new and restaged 'Carmen,' directed by Cirque du Soleil's Franco Dragone, will premiere at La Jolla Playhouse beginning June 5, opening June 17.

Talk Radio, recently nominated by the Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Drama Desk for Outstanding Revival of a Play, will continue its acclaimed and controversial series of post-show talkbacks when 92.3 FreeFM's 'Radio Chick,' Leslie Gold, appears onstage at the Longacre Theater along with members of the cast following the 8pm show on May 8th