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Like a group of Jehovah's Witnesses on steroids, The Book of Mormon is currently playing at the Music Hall in Kansas City. The Broadway Across America satire musical with book, lyrics, and music by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone runs through March 8. The creators of South Park, Stone, and Parker with Lopez's music have created a musical religious comedy that makes Monty Python, Benny Hill, and Saturday Night Live look like dramatic pieces.

Producers of Memphis THE MUSICAL, which recently celebrated its 100th performance at the Shaftesbury Theatre, are delighted to announce that the Original London Cast Album is now available to purchase online for download. The CD will be available from 9 February at the Shaftesbury Theatre and via First Night Records.

Below, check out 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' monologue highlights from last night's broadcast.

MEMPHIS THE MUSICAL has today announced that 320,000 tickets are being put on sale as booking extends to 31st October 2015. The additional tickets will be available through the Box Office and all ticket agents from this Friday 7th November at 9am. Opening at the Shaftesbury Theatre to public and critical acclaim last month, David Bryan and Joe DiPietro's new musical, winner of four Tony® Awards including Best Musical, has been heralded as the West End's newest hit show

Stage One, the charity that supports new UK commercial theatre producers and productions, announces it is to receive new grants from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, significantly expanding the organisations work both in London and nationally.

The West End production of hit Broadway musical MEMPHIS at the Shaftesbury Theatre has its Opening Night on 23 October 2014. Winner of four 2010 Tony Awards® including Best Musical, MEMPHIS has an Award-winning original score by Bon Jovi founding member David Bryan and book by Joe DiPietro. Check out a first look below!

Preview performances commence tomorrow for the West End production of hit Broadway musical Memphis and to celebrate, BroadwayWorld brings you photos from inside the rehearsal room below!

Preview performances commence TOMORROW for the West End production of hit Broadway musical MEMPHIS and to celebrate, BroadwayWorld takes you inside the rehearsal room to meet the cast!

The Actors Fund Special Performance of The Book of Mormon is set for today, October 8, at 2 p.m.

Duke City Repertory Theatre presents The Drowning Girls, directed by Dr. John Hardy and written by Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, and Daniela Vlaskalic. Company members Amelia Ampuero, Katie Becker Colon, and Lauren Myers bring to life 20 characters, including the three 'Brides of the Bathtub.' The production runs today, October 2 - October 12, 2014 at The Cell Theatre, 700 1st. Street NW.

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Rehearsals have now begun for the West End production of hit Broadway musical MEMPHIS, which will have preview performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London from 9 October 2014 with Opening Night on 23 October 2014. Winner of four 2010 Tony Awards® including Best Musical, MEMPHIS has a Grammy® Award-winning original score by Bon Jovi founding member David Bryan and book by Joe DiPietro.

Duke City Repertory Theatre presents The Drowning Girls, directed by Dr. John Hardy and written by Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, and Daniela Vlaskalic. Company members Amelia Ampuero, Katie Becker Colon, and Lauren Myers bring to life 20 characters, including the three 'Brides of the Bathtub." The production runs October 2 - October 12, 2014 at The Cell Theatre, 700 1st. Street NW.

A great, big Broadway season is on its way, with fourteen productions already slated to open in the next few months. The craziness is almost upon us, but there is still plenty of time to catch up on what's been going on at Broadway's already occupied theaters . BroadwayWorld will be profiling the hits of the Great White Way that continue to draw crowds after months, years, and (in some cases) decades. Meet the current cast of Broadway's THE BOOK OF MORMON below!

The Music Institute of Chicago presents its 26th annual Chicago Duo Piano Festival today, July 11-20.

Dear Bookworks Bookworm, I read a book this month that I had every intention of liking, but didn't. It had a story line that interested me but the characters were one dimensional and flat and the writing that was not worth writing home about. Rather than review a book that disappoints, I decided to review a movie that I had just seen with Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche, Words and Pictures. This is a movie well worth the ticket price. It is always a pleasure seeing a movie where actors do what they should be doing best, acting and where writers are doing what they should be doing best, writing.

I see them occasionally - white shirts (usually with pockets), black trousers, clean-shaven, and cradling folders and totes. They often are on a corner; at times, they are walking through the parking lots of apartment complexes. They are unfailingly polite; more often than not, they respect our 'Puh-lease'-don't-bother-me looks or our efforts to look as if more important business is calling us elsewhere. These sweet-natured people are usually more interested in our welfare than we ourselves are, and, well, that's nice.

The Music Institute of Chicago presents its 26th annual Chicago Duo Piano Festival July 11-20.

Atlantic Theater Company will present LATINO MIXFEST, a series of free readings that will run Thursday, June 12 - Friday, June 27 at Atlantic Stage 2 (330 West 16th Street).