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According to Variety, AMC's hit series 'Mad Men' will return for its fourth season this summer on July 25. Season four of the Emmy-winning program will come back in its normal Sunday time-slot at 10:00PM.

Yesterday, July 20, AMC's critically acclaimed television show 'Mad Men' had its season 4 premiere in Hollywood, California. 'Mad Men' was created by Matt Weiner and first aired in 2007. Season 4 will premiere on AMC on July 25. BroadwayWorld brings coverage of the event below.

Daniel Radcliffe will make his Broadway musical debut as J. Pierrepont Finch in a new production of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING opening at Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45th Street) Sunday, March 27, 2011, at 5pm.

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and Upright Cabaret are thrilled to announce the performers for their fifth and final 'American Icon Series' concert experience for the 2009/2010 season at the NEW Cabaret Lounge at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & UPRIGHT CABARET are thrilled to announce the performers for their fifth and final UPRIGHT CABARET experience for the 2009/2010 season at the NEW Cabaret Lounge at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

Amongst the nominations were Broadway vets Lea Michele and Matt Morrison for Best Actress and Actor in a Comedy and GLEE for Best Comedy Series.

One of America's greatest songwriters will be honored on his 100th birthday with the broadcast of the documentary, 'Heart & Soul: The Life and Music of Frank Loesser.' The film will air on Turner Classic Movies at 10:15pm EDT on June 29, 2010, the centennial of Loesser's birth.

According to an article written for the San Francisco Examiner, TCM will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Frank Loesser's birth with a marathon of his films. The marathon will begin with his 1967 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,' starring original Broadway star Robert Morese (8 p.m. EDT).

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and Upright Cabaret are thrilled to announce the performers for their fifth and final 'American Icon Series' concert experience for the 2009/2010 season at the NEW Cabaret Lounge at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

Today, we are taking a listen to five of the greatest and most deservedly classic-status cast albums of all time, with all five selections also being Tony-winning Best Musicals recently remastered, repackaged and re-released by Masterworks Broadway in time for Tony Award season which this week is finally coming to a close. In salute of Broadway now - and as it was fifty years ago when the first of these scores premiered - we take stock of what we have got, for better or worse. Surely, the strength of these shows' scores speak and sing out loud for themselves: 42nd Street, 1776, HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, MAME and CITY OF ANGELS. From Herman to Coleman to Loesser and beyond we go, with a glance to the future and the all-to-recent past...

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & UPRIGHT CABARET are thrilled to announce the performers for their fifth and final UPRIGHT CABARET experience for the 2009/2010 season at the NEW Cabaret Lounge at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills will host evenings celebrating the 45th anniversary of Rodgers & Hammerstein's iconic1965 television production of Cinderella starring Lesley Ann Warren and a salute to the innovative 1960's television musical comedy series That's Life which starred Robert Morse (Mad Men) and E.J. Peaker (Hello Dolly) as part of it inaugural PaleyFest Rewind Classic TV Festival.

The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills will host evenings celebrating the 45th anniversary of Rodgers & Hammerstein's iconic1965 television production of Cinderella starring Lesley Ann Warren and a salute to the innovative 1960's television musical comedy series That's Life which starred Robert Morse (Mad Men) and E.J. Peaker (Hello Dolly) as part of it inaugural PaleyFest Rewind Classic TV Festival.

Theatre World Awards for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut performances during the 2009-2010 theatrical season will be presented by former Theatre World Award winners. Past award recipients expected to present (or perform) at this year's ceremony include: Kate Burton (Winners, 1983), Michael Cristofer (The Cherry Orchard, 1977), Viola Davis (Seven Guitars, 1996), Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening, 2007), Robert LuPone (A Chorus Line, 1976 Special Award), Alli Mauzey (Cry-Baby, 2008), Michael McKean (Accomplice, 1990), Brian Stokes Mitchell, (Mail, 1988), Alfred Molina (Molly Sweeney, 1996) Loretta Ables Sayre (South Pacific, 2008), John Tartaglia (Avenue Q, 2004), and Vanessa Williams (Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1995). The award-winning composer, arranger, and pianist Alex Rybeck will serve as musical director for the event.

Theatre World Awards for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut performances during the 2009-2010 theatrical season will be presented by former Theatre World Award winners. Past award recipients expected to present (or perform) at this year's ceremony include: Kate Burton (Winners, 1983), Michael Cristofer (The Cherry Orchard, 1977), Viola Davis (Seven Guitars, 1996), Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening, 2007), Robert LuPone (A Chorus Line, 1976 Special Award), Alli Mauzey (Cry-Baby, 2008), Michael McKean (Accomplice, 1990), Brian Stokes Mitchell, (Mail, 1988), Alfred Molina (Molly Sweeney, 1996) Loretta Ables Sayre (South Pacific, 2008), John Tartaglia (Avenue Q, 2004), and Vanessa Williams (Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1995). The award-winning composer, arranger, and pianist Alex Rybeck will serve as musical director for the event.

Marcia Milgrom Dodge, whose critically acclaimed production of 'Ragtime' transferred from the Kennedy Center to Broadway last fall and is nominated for six Helen Hayes Awards, will direct and choreograph the Reprise Theatre Company production of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize winner 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.' The production will end its run May 23rd.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock & Willie Gilbert music & lyrics by Frank Loesser directed & choreographed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge Reprise Theatre Company @ The Freud Playhouse, UCLA through May 23

AMC announced today that Sunday, July 25th will mark the highly-anticipated return of television's best drama, AMC's 'Mad Men.' Airing Sunday nights at 10 PM (ET/PT), the award-winning series returns to the network for its fourth season. On Sunday, August 1, AMC will debut its newest original series 'Rubicon,' starring James Badge Dale ('The Pacific'), with its first two episodes airing back-to-back, from 8PM-10PM (ET/PT), followed by 'Mad Men' at 10 PM. Following its debut, 'Rubicon' will move to its regular timeslot, airing Sundays at 9 PM (ET/PT).

According to Variety, AMC's hit series 'Mad Men' will return for its fourth season this summer on July 25. Season four of the Emmy-winning program will come back in its normal Sunday time-slot at 10:00PM.

Actress/ singer Michele Lee will appear in S.T.A.G.E. benefit's Original Cast on May 1 at the Luckman Theatre. Star of stage, screen and TV, Lee starred on Broadway with Robert Morse in How to Succeed in Businees Without Really Trying (1961-65) and then repeated the role of Rosemary on film in 1967, Bravo Giovanni in 1962, Seesaw in 1973, winning a Drama Desk Award as Best Actress and a Tony nomination as Best Actress in a Musical and in Charles Busch's comedy The Tale of the Allergist's Wife (2000-2002), receiving a Tony nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Play.