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The all African-American production of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof directed by multiple Emmy winner and two-time Tony nominee Debbie Allen officially opened on Thursday March 6, 2008 at the Broadhurst Theatre

The all African-American production of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof directed by multiple Emmy winner and two-time Tony nominee Debbie Allen officially opened on Thursday March 6, 2008 at the Broadhurst Theatre

Mike Nichols returns to Broadway this spring to direct Morgan Freeman, Frances McDormand and Peter Gallagher in Clifford Odets's The Country Girl. The production will play a limited engagement on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45th Street) beginning Thursday, April 3 and open on Sunday, April 27.

The Village Voice, the nation's first and largest alternative weekly newspaper, announced the judges for the 53rd Annual Village Voice Obie Awards. The Voice's chief theater critic Michael Feingold will again chair the Obie Awards committee for this season.

Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, producers of the movie-musical Hairspray, are currently in the midst of developing a pilot production deal with CBS.

Jason Alexander, new artistic director of Reprise! Broadway's Best, announced that Cleavant Derricks, Meg Gillentine, Amelia McQueen, Ken Page, Ty Taylor, Lillias White and Jackee Harry would head up the cast of Damn Yankees. Damn Yankees will perform Tuesday, November 6 through Sunday, November 25 (opening November 7) at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.

Oscar-winners Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand are likely to make their Broadway debut in a revival of Clifford Odets' 1950 backstage drama The Country Girl this spring

Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, under their Storyline Entertainment banner, are the producers of critically acclaimed and award-winning feature films, television movies and series. The dynamic duo sat down for a phone interview with BroadwayWorld.com to discuss their latest collaboration on HAIRSPRAY.

Prolific thespian Richard Harris has reprised his role of King Arthur once again, as he takes to the small screen in Acorn Media's DVD release of Lerner & Loewe's 'Camelot.' Also out is 'The Best of the Tony Awards - The Plays' for the first time individually.

Acorn Media wil release Camelot, The Best of the Tony Awards-The Plays and Wallis and Edward

On May 1, Acorn Media will release home video debut of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, the Tony-nominated revival, mounted for Broadway in the early 1980s at New York's historic Winter Garden Theatre and filmed for television by HBO. It will also release 'The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays' the same day

The Shakespeare Theatre Company will host its 20th Annual Gala on Sunday, March 4, 2007, at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium (1301 Constitution Avenue NW).

Megan Dodds will reprise her role in the American premiere of the award-winning Royal Court Theatre production of My Name is Rachel Corrie

Obie Award-winning actor, director and producer Harold Scott has died at the age of 70

Standing a little over six feet tall, born and raised in New York City, Jack Mulcahy's career in the entertainment business began as a musician. From there, he tried other things. His first film, 'Porky's,' proved successful, leading to the sequel, 'Porky's II: The Next Day.' Mulcahy played the lead role of Jack McMullen in the critically acclaimed comedy classic, 'The Brothers McMullen.' Other television and film credits include 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order,' 'NYPD Blue,' and 'Cadillac Man.' Mulcahy now leads a cast of 11 in Alex De Witt's comedy, PRIME TIME, which he is starring in, as well as producing.

Acorn Media has announced the May 2nd DVD release of the 'Broadway's Lost Treasures Collection,' a 4-volume boxed set of performances from the annual Tony Award broadcasts

The 78th Annual Academy Awards took place on Sunday, March 5, 2006. It was Hollywood's biggest night of the year, but with the worlds of stage and screen colliding more often by the day - how could we resist bringing you photo coverage of the night? We couldn't!

The show, will begin previews on April 3, 2006 and will open on May 1, 2006.

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