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Too Little Too Late is the first theatrical venture from Red Elevator Productions. Featuring original and premiere short plays from six of the most promising young writers on the New York theater scene, the show deals with the disconnections that we face in the modern world.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company, the Mid-South's professional classical theatre, continues its Second Stage Season this spring with a unique production of William Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar playing March 23 - April 11 in Germantown for nine public performances only.

According to an equity casting notice, the West End hit, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, will open on Broadway at a house to be announced on March 6, 2011. According to the same notice, the production will first play the Prince of Wales Theater in Toronto, with previews beginning October 12, 2010.

Red Elevator Productions presents: TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: an evening of original and premiere short plays:

As previously reported, Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical will celebrate a year in the West End on 23 March 2010 having completed over 425 performances at the Palace Theatre since its opening last year. From 8 March Jason Donovan (Tick) and Oliver Thornton (Adam) will be joined by Don Gallagher as Bernadette, as booking for the show extends until 26 February 2011. Over the summer (6 June - 5 September 2010) there will be Sunday performances of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical at 3pm. The show is reportedly Broadway-bound thereafter in 2011.

Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical will celebrate a year in the West End on 23 March 2010 having completed over 425 performances at the Palace Theatre since its opening last year.

Don Gallagher takes over from Tony Sheldon as Bernadette from March 8th 2010

Red Elevator Productions presents: TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: an evening of original and premiere short plays:

The trials and tribulations of a quirky, perpetually single twenty-something lawyer are captured in "Ally McBeal" Season Two, arriving on DVD April 6 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Red Elevator Productions presents: TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: an evening of original and premiere short plays:

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the nation's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, announced today the nominees for its 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards. By recognizing and honoring media for outstanding images of the LGBT community, the GLAAD Media Awards serve as a benchmark for the media industry and complement GLAAD's work to bring LGBT images and stories to Americans.

Broadway stars Teri Dale Hansen ('The Boys from Syracuse') and Norm Lewis ('The Little Mermaid' and the upcoming 'Sondheim on Sondheim') bring beloved music of the Great White Way to Princeton on Saturday, January 30, as part of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra's PSO POPS! sixth annual Broadway Concert.

Following on from the hugely successful run in summer 2009, the hit music-hall musical Frank's Closet returns to London's Hoxton Hall for a limited six-week Christmas run. The perfect outing for the festive season, Frank's Closet flings open its doors from December 3-January 10, 2010.

Spotlighters Theatre presents Rodgers and Hammerstein's CINDERELLA opening Friday, November 27 at 8pm and running through Sunday, December 20. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm, with a Thursday performance on December 17 at 8pm.

Jean-Baptiste Molière is on top of the world - at the centre of Louis XIV's court, author of countless popular hits, and in love with a woman half his age. But what the audiences see as sparkling satire, the authorities see as dangerous and subversive. As soon as he takes a wrong step, his fall from grace is assured.

A Noise Within (ANW), the critically acclaimed classical repertory theatre company hailed by critics as 'adventurous,' 'compelling and current,' 'ingenuity at work,' and 'what great theatre is all about,' launches its 2009-10 season with Shakespeare's spellbinding Richard III directed by ANW Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director Geoff Elliott, opening Saturday, October 3 and closing Saturday, December 12, 2009 (previews begin Saturday, September 26), at the company's theatre in Glendale.

Leading lady Muriel Brassler (Portia), though an accomplished stage actresses, was described by Houseman as 'decorative, adequate and hardly memorable'.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced early casting for the 2010 Shakespeare in the Park summer season. Daniel Sullivan will direct THE MERCHANT OF VENICE in rotating rep with THE WINTER'S TALE, directed by Michael Greif. The repertory company will feature Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Solanio/Young Shepherd); Jesse L. Martin (Gratiano/Polixenes); Al Pacino (Shylock); Lily Rabe (Portia/First Gentlewoman); Ruben Santiago-Hudson as (Prince of Morocco/Leontes); and Max Wright (Old Gobbo/Old Shepherd).

Following on from the hugely successful run in summer 2009, the hit music-hall musical Frank's Closet returns to London's Hoxton Hall for a limited six-week Christmas run. The perfect outing for the festive season, Frank's Closet flings open its doors from December 3-January 10, 2010.