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Rehearsals are currently underway for the Lincoln Center Theatre production of Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia

In October, Mamma Mia!, the international hit musical set to the songs of ABBA, will celebrate its 5th anniversary on Broadway with a month full of events--including an Actors' Fund benefit performance, the release of a special edition CD/DVD and a new book chronicling Mamma Mia!'s history

Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! welcomes Pearce Bunting, Carolee Carmello, Michael Mastro and David McDonald to Broadway at the Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway at 50th Street). MAMMA MIA!'s fifth anniversary will be marked by a special performance and celebration on Wednesday, October 18th at 7PM.

In celebration of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' global hit musical Mamma Mia! playing five sold-out years on Broadway, the Mamma Mia! 5th Anniversary Special Edition CD with bonus CD recording will be released by Decca Broadway on Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Lincoln Center Theater has announced additional casting for its upcoming production of Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia

Mamma Mia! stars Leah Hocking and Olga Merediz will be featured during pledge break segments during PBS' WLIW Channel 21 fundraising drive airing of 'ABBA In Concert' tomorrow - Friday, August 11th from 2:30 - 3:30pm and 7:30pm - 8:30pm

Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' global hit musical Mamma Mia! will celebrate five years on Broadway on Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. at the Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre with all proceeds to benefit the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative of The Actors' Fund of America, a nationwide human services organization that helps all professionals - both performers and those behind the scenes - in performing arts and entertainment

Oscar-winner Tom Hanks, with his production company Playtone, may soon be bringing the hit ABBA musical Mamma Mia! to the big screen

Oscar-nominated film and theatre star Amy Irving and theatre veteran Jason Butler Harner have signed onto the cast of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia, which is set to run in three parts at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre from October of 2006 through March of 2007

Billy Crudup, Jennifer Ehle, Richard Easton and more have signed on to the cast of Tom Stoppard's three-part The Coast of Utopia, which will run at Lincoln Center from October of 2006 to March of 2007

Randy Graff and Tom Wopat will star in a workshop of a new musical based around the songs of Carole King and Gerry Goffin

On June 7th, the Broadway production of Mamma Mia! will welcome Leah Hocking as Donna Sheridan

Variety reports that Mamma Mia! is headed to the big screen, aiming for a late 2007 release.

Michele Pawk has departed the Broadway production of the hit ABBA musical Mamma Mia!

This evening Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' MAMMA MIA!, the global smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, celebrates its Third Anniversary at the Mandalay Bay Theatre in Las Vegas, solidifying the show's reputation as the gold standard of Broadway musicals on the Strip.

Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' MAMMA MIA!, the global smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, celebrates its Third Anniversary at the Mandalay Bay Theatre on Thursday, February 23, solidifying the show's reputation as the gold standard of Broadway musicals in Las Vegas.

On February 8th, Michele Pawk will rejoin the Broadway cast of Mamma Mia!

On March 6th, a new cast--including Helen Hobson, Joanna Monro and Geraldine Fitzgerald--will be welcomed into the West End production of Mamma Mia!

The Las Vegas production of Mamma Mia! will celebrate its third anniversary by welcoming a new cast

Mamma Mia! celebrated its 5th New Year's Eve on Broadway with a record gross of $1,381,821.66 for the week ending January 1, 2006 at the Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre