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Charles Shubow gives you the scoop on the week in Washington D.C. and Baltimore theatre

Rosie Leaves 'The View' and Broadway Musicals Will Suffer

New Musical 'Saving Aimee' a HIT!!!

Carolee Carmello will star in the world premiere musical 'Saving Aimee' at the Signature Theatre April 10 - May 13.

'The View' to celebrate Rosie's Birthday March 21 with Three Broadway Musical Performances

Emily Skinner, Christiane Noll and Jacquelyn Piro-Donovan will join the previously announced Marc Kudisch in Signature Theatre's American Premiere production of the musical The Witches of Eastwick

Full casting has been announced for the Washington, D.C. premiere of Meet John Doe, which will be presented from March 16th through April 29th at Ford's Theatre.

'Spring Awakening' Finally Gets National Exposure on Letterman Feb.21

Marc Kudisch has been cast as devilish Darryl Van Horne in Signature Theatre's American Premiere production of the musical The Witches from Eastwick.

Casting has been announced for the world premiere production of Saving Aimee, which will be presented at Arlington, VA's Signature Theatre from April 10th through May 13th in the Max.

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On Saturday, January 13th and Sunday, January 14th, Virginia's Signature Theatre will unveil its new two-theater complex in Shirlington Village

In this second of a two part interview, The Times They Are A-Changin's musical supervisor talks about life in New York and Baltimore, working for Disney, and several new shows he is working on.

Tickets to the highly-anticipated American premiere of The Witches of Eastwick go on sale Tuesday, October 31

Donna Lynne Champlin, James Moye, Patrick Ryan Sullivan, Melanie Vaughan and more have been cast in Goodspeed Musicals' upcoming production of the new musical Meet John Doe

On August, 14th at 11:30PM, a concert reading of the new musical SSA (Ass Backwards) will be presented at Joe's Pub

Broadway's Sally Murphy and DC theatre veteran Andrew Long will headline Signature Theatre's upcoming production of the Lerner and Loewe classic My Fair Lady, running from September 26th through November 19th

The New York Post's Michael Riedel has reported that the Kennedy Center's hit production of Mame, starring Christine Baranski, may settle for a Broadway run at the Palace for a limited run beginning in July--if the show isn't curtailed by production expenses

Mame, starring Christine Baranski as the glamorous aunt of the title, opened at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theatre on June 1st after beginning previews on May 27th

In the famous Act One finale of Mame, the musical's irresistible title character single-handedly revives the drowsy South, sending its courtly gentlemen and Georgia peaches into an ecstatic serenade of acceptance and very high octaves. It's a rousing number in the Kennedy Center's gorgeously-mounted production, but it's hard to find the same kind of enthusiasm with Christine Baranski filling Mame's jodhpurs