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Daniel Merriam's imagination is unsurpassed in a world where playfulness and beauty are everything. These new works were inspired by a medieval castle in France where Merriam was an Artist in Residence last summer.

Gangplank, a searing comedy-drama by Ward Morehouse III and Mark Druck, begins a 12-performance, two week engagement at Off-Broadway's Chernuchin Theatre, 314 West 54th Street in Manhattan, on Monday, April 19.

The Town Hall (123 W. 43rd St.), Times Square's landmark concert venue, is pleased to present Brian Stokes Mitchell in concert on Saturday April 17th at 8PM. Tickets are on sale now for $50 and $45.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director; Mary McCann, Atlantic School Executive Director) is proud to announce its 25th Anniversary Spring Gala on Monday, April 12, 20010 at Gotham Hall (1356 Broadway).

Despite a few glimmers of hope and the promise of a transformative evening of theatre, the current Circle Players production of To Kill a Mockingbird is a thoroughly passionless and completely uninspired staging of Harper Lee's classic Southern tale and, clearly, is one of the biggest disappointments of the Nashville theatre season.

? Beckie Menzie & Tom Michael celebrate their 10th anniversary as one of Chicago's most beloved musical duos with That 60's Show. Marking the 50th anniversary of the decade that forever revolutionized popular music, Menzie and Michael's new show will feature songs by many of that era's favorite performers including The Beatles, The Supremes, The Everly Brothers, Elvis Presley, Petula Clark and many more performed in the duo's award winning style.

On March 18th, Situation Interactive held its second annual fundraiser for Situation Cares. The fund was created three years ago after the loss of Ian Bennett, Situation Interactive's former Creative Director, first employee and friend.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) announces Sherie Rene Scott starring in Everyday Rapture, the critically acclaimed new Broadway musical by Dick Scanlan & Sherie Rene Scott and directed by Michael Mayer.

Roundabout Theatre Company has just announced that Everyday Rapture, starring Sherie Rene Scott will open at the American Airlines Theatre in place of the indefinitely postponed Lips Together, Teeth Apart. The critically acclaimed musical by Dick Scanlan & Sherie Rene Scott is directed by Michael Mayer.

The SPOTLIGHT Series for Rosie's Broadway Kids invites you to come join us for an intimate series of evenings of songs and stories featuring BROADWAY'S BEST at the Maravel Arts Center 445 W. 45th St.

The SPOTLIGHT Series set to benefit with Rosie's Broadway Kids. Come join us for an intimate series of evenings of songs and stories featuring BROADWAY'S BEST at the Maravel Arts Center, located at 445 W. 45th St. on Monday, March 29th - 7:30PM.

People's Light & Theatre Company presents KING LEAR, by William Shakespeare, thru March 28, 2010 on the Main Stage.

The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs has announced the nominees for the 2010 24th Annual MAC Awards. The ceremony honoring the nominees, will take place on May 4, 2010 at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, and will be hosted by Sharon McNight. Leslie Uggams will be honored for Lifetime Achievement, with Board of Directors Awards being presented to Peter Leavy and playbill.com. The event will begin at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm. Lennie Watts will direct the evening, with Tracy Stark musical directing.

I'm twelve years old when Mom & Dad tell me we're going to New York. I've already got the theatre bug - they've been taking me to see touring productions since the days I'd fall asleep at their feet - and I'm beside myself. I've already memorized Les Miz and Phantom, and the idea of actually seeing Broadway blows my preteen mind. We're still two months away from the trip but I think of nothing else. The summer days go by slowly as I count down the minutes till we depart.

The SPOTLIGHT Series set to benefit with Rosie's Broadway Kids. Come join us for an intimate series of evenings of songs and stories featuring BROADWAY'S BEST at the Maravel Arts Center, located at 445 W. 45th St. on Monday, March 29th - 7:30PM.

Producers Phil Monat, T. Richard Fitzgerald and Randall L. Wreghitt announced today that TALLEY'S FOLLY, the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Lanford Wilson (Burn This, Fifth of July, Balm in Gilead) will have its first-ever Broadway revival as part of the 2010-2011 Season. The production will begin previews in spring 2011, with exact dates and a theater to be announced.

But three other individuals are perhaps most responsible for the overall delight that is Tennessee Rep's 25th Anniversary season production: director Rene Dunshee Copeland, whose imaginative work helps to re-invent this musical on a basis that is at once more intimate while, somehow, is on a grander scale; music director Paul Carrol Binkley, whose concept for performing the work's music gives it the ideal down-home feel that only a band of expert Nashville players can give it; and design genius Gary Hoff, who transforms Johnson's black box space into something we've never seen in that venue before - the proscenium theatre you've only seen in your mind's eye - and who, in so doing, elevates Nashville theatrical design beyond its previous limits, fashioning it into something of opulently epic proportions.

Joy Franz will make a special one-night only appearance in Misty Rowe's dance musical 'Fandance: The Legend of Sally Rand' held at the Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven, NJ on March 20.

Tony Award® Winner Sutton Foster reunites with esteemed Music Director Michael Rafter for a national tour of An Evening with Sutton Foster, featuring Broadway show stoppers and selections from her debut album Wish. Produced by Fox Theatricals, the tour will launch at The Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis on Thursday, February 4th followed by concert appearances in the following cities:

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