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Broadway's own song and dance man, Hinton Battle, a three-time Tony Award-winner, returned recently in a new capacity as a playwright. His musical, Love Lies - Treat Her Like a Lady, a selection of the Midtown international Theater Festival, had its last performance as part of the festival on Saturday night with special guest attendees, Lady Gaga's parents, Cynthia and Joseph Germanotta. Check out the couple with Battle, David Garfinkle and the cast below!

Actor Isiah Whitlock, Jr. who has received high praise for his work on HBO's The Wire, took time out of his busy schedule to catch the Off-Broadway production of William Luce's BRONTË A Portrait Of Charlotte, starring Maxine Linehan as the author of Jane Eyre. Whitlock met both Maxine and her director, Timothy Douglas, pictured below! He is scheduled to begin shooting a new film in New York in June.