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Dozens of stars from stage and screen arrived for the officially opening of the new production of Cyrano de Bergerac on Thursday, November 1.

The Public Theater will conclude its fall season with the world premiere of David Henry Hwang's new play Yellow Face, directed by Leigh Silverman. A co-production with the Center Theatre Group, this backstage comedy begins previews on Monday, November 19 and will run through Sunday, December 23 with an official press opening on Monday, December 10 at 7 PM.

The new production of Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand's 1897 romantic classic, with a translation and adaptation by Anthony Burgess is set to begin previews on Friday, October 12 with an opening night set for Thursday, November 1. Directed by 5-time Tony Award Nominee, David Leveaux, the production will play a strictly limited 10-week engagement at the Richard Rodgers Theater, 226 W. 46th Street.

Lincoln Center Theater has announced casting for the two lead roles in its upcoming production of the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical South Pacific. The Tony Award nominated singer-actress Kelli O'Hara will star as Ensign Nellie Forbush and internationally acclaimed baritone Paulo Szot will make his Broadway debut as Emile de Becque. The production, the first to be mounted on Broadway since the Pulitzer Prize winning musical premiered in 1949, will be directed by Barlett Sher and will begin performances Saturday, March 1 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Opening night is Thursday, April 3.

Producers of Disney's The Lion King in South Africa have announced that due to tremendous public response, the production will be extended until December 2nd.

Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director, Tim Sanford; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional creative team members for the World Premiere of the new musical Saved, which will be the sixth and final production of its upcoming 2007/2008 Season.

Last week Disney's The Lion King opened in South Africa at the new Montecasino Teatro in Johannesburg. Oprah Winfrey attended the star-studded event with 149 students from the girls academy she opened near Johannesburg earlier this year.

Radio Golf, August Wilson's final work in his 10 play Century Cycle, the historic decade-by-decade portrait of 20th Century African-American life, will play its final performance at the matinee Sunday, July 1st at Broadway's Cort Theatre

Disney's The Lion King opens tonight in South Africa at the new Montecasino Teatro in Johannesburg

August Wilson's evocative final work, debates the issues of urban renewal, racial assimilation and progress at the expense of the preservation of cultural heritage.

Preview performances of Disney's The Lion King began last night (Tuesday, May 22) in South Africa at the new, 1850-seat Montecasino Teatro in Johannesburg.

Yellow Face often blurs the lines between fact and fiction, with many of Hwang's personal travails making their way into the play, yet never fully emphasizing what is truth. Even with such ambiguities, the play is a scathing rebuke of minority critics, especially journalists, which get their fair share of ridicule throughout the work...

Ray Charles Live! -- A New Musical, a musical biography of soul legend Ray Charles, will receive its world premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse on November 9th for a run through December 9th

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Craig Lucas' deceptively light comic romantic fantasy can send you out of the theatre smiling, and then keep you awake at nights wondering.

March 16 in Johannesburg, South Africa is the first day of rehearsals for the official 10th anniversary production of Disney's The Lion King

Anthony Chisholm, John Earl Jelks and James A. Williams join the previously announced Harry Lennix (Stomp the Yard, Fox's '24,') and Tony Award winner and Olivier Award Nominee Tonya Pinkins (Jelly's Last Jam; Caroline, or Change) in RADIO GOLF, the tenth and final work in two-time Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright August Wilson's historic, decade-by-decade portrait of 20th Century African-American life.