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The Cape Cod Theatre project has announced participating directors for their summer season running July 8-31. Joining the CCTP will be Mark Brokaw and Cary Perloff for their productions of Guidance and The Color of Desire.

Today, in order to fulfill its commitment to deliver daring and diverse work, the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced special schedules for certain shows in its upcoming season: The Great Game: Afghanistan, The Last Cargo Cult, and The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.

The casting for The Cape Cod Theatre Project's production of Daria Polatin's GUIDANCE has been announced. The play will star Johanna Day, Jason Butler Harner, Sarah Steele, Dan McCabe, and Andrew Polk.

The Cape Cod Theatre Project presents a staged reading of Guidance by Daria Polatin July 8 through 10. Headlining the reading will be Jason Butler Harner and Tony Nominee Johanna Day. The reading will take place at the Falmouth Academy at 8pm. The director is to be determined. GUIDANCE tells the story of a new high school guidance counselor gets caught up in the lives of his students. Not even his Advil addiction can save him in this comedy about love and life in a complex world.

Oscar-winning producer/writer/director Oliver Stone and Bruce Wagner have entered into a development deal with EPIX it was announced today. Their first project will be a one hour scripted dramatic series, 'Still Holding,' based on the iconoclastic Wagner's critically acclaimed novel of the same name. The series will explore the colliding worlds of three disparate people in Los Angeles, and the violent consequences of love and betrayal, of holding on and letting go. Stone and Wagner will serve as executive producers. They previously worked together on the mini-series 'Wild Palms.'

Rupert Murdoch and Jonathan Burnham, consider yourself warned. Playwright Donald Margulies has assumed the role of a publishing soothsayer, and what he predicts isn't pretty...

The Ensemble Studio Theatre, which probably has more plays per square inch in development than any other institution on the planet or Eleventh Avenue, has a play-making program entitled First Light underwritten by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that challenges and broadens the view of science in the popular imagination.

The Cape Cod Theatre project has announced participating directors for their summer season running July 8-31. Joining the CCTP will be Mark Brokaw and Cary Perloff for their productions of Guidance and The Color of Desire.

The Ensemble Studio Theatre, which probably has more plays per square inch in development than any other institution on the planet or Eleventh Avenue, has a play-making program entitled First Light underwritten by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that challenges and broadens the view of science in the popular imagination.

Steve Jobs, three tall women, five Irish sisters, and an entire small town haunted by one strange urban legend. Seattle Repertory Theatre announces its 2010-11 season, which brings to life a whole host of characters (fictional and otherwise) in eight plays by some of the most exciting new writers and celebrated contemporary playwrights. Season tickets go on sale April 8.

Principal photography began Friday, March 26, in New York on Columbia Pictures'/Sony Pictures Animation's hybrid live-action and animated family comedy, The Smurfs, it was announced today by Bob Osher, president of Sony Pictures Digital Productions, Hannah Minghella, president of Sony Pictures Animation and Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures.

The upcoming Broadway production of Lucy Prebble's critically acclaimed play ENRON, directed by Rupert Goold, is proud to welcome actors JORDAN BALLARD (Hairspray), BRANDON J. DIRDEN (Prelude to a Kiss), ANTHONY HOLDS (Spamalot, Pal Joey), TY JONES (Judgment at Nuremberg, Henry IV, Julius Caesar), TOM NELIS (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Aida), JEFF SKOWRON (The Lion King, High Society), LUSIA STRUS (the upcoming untitled Gus Van Sant project), BEN HARTLEY (Swan Lake, The Little Mermaid) and ELLYN MARIE MARSH to the company.

Even as it debuts another world premiere tonight and eagerly awaits previews for its latest Broadway outing, Berkeley Repertory Theatre proudly announces a slate of eight new shows. The Tony Award-winning nonprofit - known for developing exhilarating new plays - introduces a series of stunning scripts and stellar performers for the coming year.

New York Times technology columnist David Pogue, a former Broadway musical conductor, performed an impromptu tribute number to Steve Jobs and Apple during a Boston Book Festival session on e-books and the future of reading.

AskMen.com the world's largest lifestyle portal for men with more than 11 million visitors monthly, revealed its highly anticipated 4th annual reader-voted list of the Top 49 Most Influential Men of 2009 today.

WALL-E has won the Oscar for Best Animated Film, we've got Andrew Stanton's Oscar Acceptance Speech.

A talented group of recognizable stage and screen stars, headed by 'Will and Grace' alum Sean Hayes, pitched in to create some industry buzz around the musical Nerds://A Musical Software Satire, performing a staged reading at the Brentwood Theatre in Los Angeles July 30, 2007...

Nerds://A Musical Software Satire began previews at the Philadelphia Theatre Company on January 25th and will open on January 31st for a run through February 25th.

With rehearsals now underway for the Philadelphia Theatre Company premiere of Nerds://A Musical Software Satire, the show's creators have launched a new daily blog, offering fans and audience members a first-hand look into the process of preparing the new musical for its Janaury 2007 debut

The Philadelphia Theatre Company will present the premiere of Nerds://A Musical Software Satire for 36 performances only