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New York City Center's 2006 Encores! Season will open on February 9 with the six-time Tony Award-winning Kismet, starring Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie.

MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB will present its annual Winter Benefit, 'An Intimate Night,' an evening of cocktails and dinner followed by a special one-night-only cabaret-style show featuring Tony Award winning Broadway stars, Donna McKechnie and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

A panel of writers, producers, and press agents gathered at Tony's Di Napoli last week to discuss the complex relationship between the press and theatre.

The complete cast list, which includes Karen Akers, Chuck Cooper and Rachel York, has been announced for Broadway Originals, which will be performed as part of the First Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival on October 23rd

Country Music superstar and top CMA Awards nominee Lee Ann Womack and Broadway leading man, Tony Award Winner, Brian Stokes Mitchell, will co-host the Nov. 12 'Broadway Meets Country' concert, a benefit performance celebrating the universality and crossover appeal of these two popular genres and their performers.

Aside from natural disasters, acts of war and innocent people spending years in jail for crimes they didn't commit, there are few things as sad as talented theatre artists making fine contributions to a really lousy play.

Leading ladies such as Liz Callaway, Stephanie D'Abruzzo and Leah Hocking will headline two pre-Broadway industry readings of the revue Oh, What a Lovely War! on September 26th and 27th

Sharon Rosen proudly announces the cast for the pre-Broadway industry readings of the first North American revival of OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR.

THE 2005 NEW YORK MUSIC THEATER FESTIVAL, DENNIS GRIMALDI PRODUCTIONS and NICK CAVARRA are pleased to announce the New York premiere of the new musical 'RICHARD CORY,' directed by JAMES BRENNAN.

Husband-and-wife performers Lauren Kennedy and Alan Campbell chat about their upcoming concert in North Carolina, their careers and their toddler

A Broadway-bound revival of the satiric anti-war revue Oh What A Lovely War will first have an industry reading at the York Theatre on September 26th and 27th

The Irish Repertory Theatre's production of Brian Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come! will begin previews on July 14th and open on July 21st

Legendary set and costume designer Tony Walton will receive the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Acheivement in an all-star tribute on June 6th

Thirty years after failing to make it to Broadway, The Baker's Wife has been revised into a delectable treat

LOVE/LIFE, A Life in Song, will play on Sunday and Monday nights in the Vivian Beaumont Theater beginning Sunday, May 1.