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Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre and home of the U.S. Center of the International Theatre Institute (ITI-US), invites all theatres, individual artists, institutions and audiences to celebrate the 50th annual World Theatre Day on March 27, 2012. Each year, a renowned theatre artist of world stature is invited by ITI Worldwide in Paris to craft an international message to mark the global occasion. This year the message will be written by award-winning actor, director and producer John Malkovich. Upon its release in March, the message will be translated into more than 20 languages to reach tens of thousands in the international theatre community.

The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport presents the Neil Simon comedy, The Sunshine Boys.

A likely return to TV in a new comedy series has forced LILY TOMLIN to postpone her performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, which was originally scheduled for April 15, 2012, and will now take place on May 6, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall. As a part in the Center's 2011-2012 Comedy Planet Series, LILY TOMLIN's performances are always filled with unforgettable laughter.

Lily Tomlin and her longtime partner, writer Jane Wagner, were honored with the 345th star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars on Friday.

BASE Entertainment has just announced that DINER, a new musical based on the critically acclaimed 1982 film with a book by Academy Award winner and original DINER screenwriter Barry Levinson and music & lyrics by 9-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, will have its pre-Broadway world premiere at San Francisco's SHN Curran Theatre (445 Geary Street). Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall, DINER will play a strictly limited four week engagement from Tuesday, October 23, 2012, through Sunday, November 18, 2012, with an opening night of Friday, November 2, 2012. Due to these confirmed San Francisco dates DINER will now bow on Broadway in the spring of 2013, instead of the fall of 2012 as previously announced. Design team and casting will be announced at a later date.

Fred Weintraub, an 85-year-old Bronx native, who has spent more than 50 years in the entertainment business, is coming to NYC March 29 - April 5, to promote his new memoir, 'Bruce Lee, Woodstock and Me.' The founder of the Greenwich Village nightclub The Bitter End (which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year), began his adventurous life in the Fort Apache section of The Bronx, after which it took him to Greenwich Village and the founding of the world famous Bitter End, where he launched the careers of such famous entertainers as Woody Allen, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, Joan Rivers, Billy Crystal, Bill Cosby, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul and Mary, Dustin Hoffman, Carly Simon, David Amram, and Neil Diamond, among others, and then out West to Hollywood where he discovered Bruce Lee and produced 'Enter The Dragon,' and then produced the original Woodstock movie and 40 more films with stars such as Steve McQueen, George C. Scott, Robert Duvall. Karen Dunst and dozens of others.

Let's see what the critics had to say about the new Broadway production of Arthur Miller's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece DEATH OF A SALESMAN directed by eight-time Tony Award® winner Mike Nichols and starring Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, Obie Award winner Linda Emond as Linda Loman and Andrew Garfield, making his Broadway debut as Biff Loman.

HBO has released a statement regarding the sudden cancellation of production on its new drama series LUCK.

A likely return to TV in a new comedy series has forced LILY TOMLIN to postpone her performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, which was originally scheduled for April 15, 2012, and will now take place on May 6, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall. As a part in the Center's 2011-2012 Comedy Planet Series, LILY TOMLIN's performances are always filled with unforgettable laughter.

On Saturday, March 10th, Jonah Hill returns for his second time as host of NBC's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. The Shins will serve as musical guest. Making their second SNL appearance, The Shins' fourth album 'Port of Morrow,' due out March 20th.

On Saturday, March 10th, Jonah Hill returns for his second time as host of NBC's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. The Shins will serve as musical guest. Making their second SNL appearance, The Shins' fourth album 'Port of Morrow,' due out March 20th.

David Nevins, President of Entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc. and Executive Producers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa will be honored with the 2012 IFF Achievement in Television Award for the critically-acclaimed series 'Homeland,' at the opening night event taking place on Thursday, March 15th at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, California. 'Homeland' is based on a hit Israeli television show that was developed into a Golden Globe Award-winning American series by its executive producers and Showtime, marking the highest profile American transformation of an Israeli series to date.

Philadelphia Theatre Company will present PTC@Play, a two-week festival of new work on February 2-March 11 at PTC's home at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre (Broad and Lombard Streets).

For the seventh consecutive year, ABC's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE: AFTER THE ACADEMY AWARDS'(R) will be televised LIVE from the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26th immediately following 'The 84th Annual Academy Awards' hosted by Billy Crystal and late local news.

As first reported on Deadline.com, Emmy and Tony award winning comedian Lily Tomlin is set to return to primetime TV, starring in ABC's upcoming TV pilot MALIBU COUNTRY opposite Reba McEntire.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre and home of the U.S. Center of the International Theatre Institute (ITI-US), invites all theatres, individual artists, institutions and audiences to celebrate the 50th annual World Theatre Day on March 27, 2012. Each year, a renowned theatre artist of world stature is invited by ITI Worldwide in Paris to craft an international message to mark the global occasion. This year the message will be written by award-winning actor, director and producer John Malkovich. Upon its release in March, the message will be translated into more than 20 languages to reach tens of thousands in the international theatre community.

Deep Ancestry is a 'global journey in search of the secrets of our distant past.' Since 2005, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and director of The Genographic Project, Spencer Wells, has led a team of scientists in collecting hundreds of thousands of DNA samples from participants around the world.

Curt Columbus directs a delightful, fast-paced production that is filled with first-rate performances.

According to Deadline.com, stage veteran Mercedes Ruehl has joined the cast of HBO's 'Luck' as a series regular. Ruehl will return as 'Julietta Caligari' in this second season.