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The award-winning Off-Broadway musical comedy, Altar Boyz, will return to Chicago in an all-new production at Drury Lane Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut Street, in a limited engagement beginning Sunday, October 7, 2007

Ken Davenport and Robyn Goodman, in association with Walt Grossman, Ruth Hendel, Sharon Karmazin, Matt Murphy and Mark Shacket, have announced that Altar Boyz, the acclaimed musical comedy at New World Stages, winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical Off-Broadway, will begin offering the AltarCard, a pass that allows an audience member to see Altar Boyz as many times as they like in the month of May, for only $199.

The winners of the Kevin Kline Awards have been announced

A winning combination of catchy songs, heart-pumping dance, and good wholesome Jesus-loving makes 'Altar Boyz' a non-stop rockin' evening.

Seventeen St. Louis theater companies are represented in the nominations for the second annual Kevin Kline Awards. Thirty-seven plays and musicals produced in the St. Louis area during 2006 now share 115 nominations in 22 different categories for the coveted award. The nominations were announced on KWMU-FM's 'Cityscape' on January 19.

Currently in the midst of its first National Tour, new musical 'Altar Boyz' will open in San Francisco tonight at the Orpheum Theatre. A limited number of orchestra pit rush seats will be available for $25 cash two-hours before curtain.

A new musical, BIG TENT, based on the life of Tammy Faye Bakker, currently being developed by Ryan J. Davis, Jeffery Self, Ben Cohn, & Sean McDaniel, will have a private reading on Tuesday, February 27th.

Altar Boyz, the acclaimed musical comedy at Dodger Stages, winner of the coveted Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical Off-Broadway, will have its 3rd anniversary Off-Broadway March 1st.

The cast of the long-running Off-Broadway hit Altar Boyz recently got ready for Valentine's Day with a full treatment at Salon Ziba.

Altar Boyz, starring Matthew Buckner (as Matthew), Ryan J Ratliff (Mark), Jesse JP Johnson (Luke), Jay Garcia (Juan) and Nick Blaemire (Abraham) will kick off a two-week engagement at The Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles tonight.

The cast of Altar Boyz will record a song for the Songs of Love Foundation, described as 'the only non-profit organization dedicated to providing a source of inspiration, joy and possibly even healing by creating personalized one-of-a-kind songs for sick children.'

An array of Broadway stars will take part in a January 26th reading of the Jule Styne musical Bar Mitzvah Boy, which will be presented at Chelsea Studios

Ken Davenport and Robyn Goodman, in association with Walt Grossman, Ruth Hendel, Sharon Karmazin, Matt Murphy and Mark Shacket, proudly announce that the cast of ALTAR BOYZ will record a song for the Songs of Love Foundation, the only non-profit organization dedicated to providing a source of inspiration, joy and possibly even healing by creating personalized one-of-a-kind songs for sick children.

Stephen Schwartz and Charles Strouse's Rags was presented on December 11th, 2006 as the 4th Annual World AIDS Day Concert

Variety reports that the Off-Broadway hit Altar Boyz will take the 'Raise the Praise' tour to Budapest, Hungary

Rush tickets for the World AIDS Day concert of Rags will be offered to theatre students

A press rehearsal for Rags, which will be presented on December 11th, 2006 as the 4th Annual World AIDS Day Concert, recently took place

Tony Award-winner Michael Rupert, soon to be see on Broadway in Legally Blonde, has replaced the previously announced Harvey Fierstein as Avram in the upcoming World AIDS Day concert of Rags

Lewis Cleale and John Treacy Egan have joined the cast of Rags, which will be presented on December 11th, 2006 as the 4th Annual World AIDS Day Concert. This year's presentation, a 20th Anniversary Concert of the Broadway musical Rags, will be held at Times Square's brand new Nokia Theater

A new musical Big Tent, based on the life of Tammy Faye Bakker, is currently being developed by Ryan J. Davis, Jeffery Self, Ben Cohn, and Sean McDaniel