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Tickets for Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary production of LES MISERABLES are now on sale for the premiere Philadelphia engagement at the Academy of Music beginning January 4- 15, 2011. The Philadelphia engagement will mark the first official stop on the multi-city national tour. The all new production of LES MISERABLES features glorious new staging and spectacular reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo. The press opening is Wednesday, January 5 at 7:30 pm.

The Tank: home for emerging arts presents Jungle Cake Corporation Thursday, November 4, 2010; 7:00 pm - $10 Friday, November 5, 2010; 7:00 pm-$10

Tickets for Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables are now on sale for the premiere Philadelphia engagement at the Academy of Music beginning Jan. 4 - 15. The Philadelphia engagement will mark the first official stop on the multi-city national tour. The all new production of Les Misérables features glorious new staging and spectacular reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo. The press opening is Wednesday, Jan. 5 at 7:30 pm.

niversal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions bring the 2009 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Billy Elliot the Musical to the Triangle's DPAC, Durham Performing Arts Center from November 2-14, 2010. Based on the international smash-hit film and featuring music by Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall, choreography by Peter Darling and direction by Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot the Musical has earned critical acclaim on Broadway including 10 Tony Awards.

Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Eric McCormack (Will & Grace, Who Is Clark Rockefeller?) has signed up to play the lead role in TNT's PERCEPTION (working title), a dramatic pilot from executive producer Kenneth Biller (Smallville, Legend of the Seeker) and co-executive producer Mike Sussman (Star Trek: Voyager). This marks McCormack's third project with TNT after previously starring in the 2009 series Trust Me and co-producing the 2007 pilot Imperfect Union. He will also act as a producer on PERCEPTION.

The 2010-2011 Necessary Angel season is the company's most ambitious to date.

Cameron Mackintosh is delighted to announce the casting of his highly acclaimed new 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables making its United States premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse prior to a major US National Tour. The all new production of Les Misérables features glorious new staging and spectacular reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo.

Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions in association with Weinstein Live Entertainment are thrilled to announce, with Broadway In Chicago that Billy Elliot the Musical, currently playing at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph), is extending its run in Chicago by fifteen weeks through October 24, 2010.

Coyote REP Theatre Company presents the world premiere of The New Normal by Donnetta Lavinia Grays (Playwright.

Driven by innovative concepts and memorable characters that are leaders in their field, Bravo continues to unveil diverse new development that includes 'LA Therapists' (working title), 'Miss Advised' (working title), 'The Proposal Planner' (working title), 'The Headhuntress' (working title) and 'What If' (working title). The announcement was made by Eli Lehrer, Vice President of Development for Bravo. Broadening the network's development slate and building on the record-breaking success of watercooler series like 'The Millionaire Matchmaker,' 'The Rachel Zoe Project,' and 'Flipping Out,' the new projects will offer viewers an inside look into the unique world of therapists, relationship experts and headhunters. For more information, visit www.BravoTV.com. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BravoPR.

Coyote REP Theatre Company presents the world premiere of The New Normal by Donnetta Lavinia Grays (Playwright.

The Tank: home for emerging arts presents Jungle Cake Corporation Thursday, November 4, 2010; 7:00 pm - $10 Friday, November 5, 2010; 7:00 pm-$10

According to report by Whatsonstage.com, Gareth Gates will join the cast of the West End production of LES MISERABLES at the Queens Theatre. Gates will replace Alistair Brammer as Marius from October 18-November 20, and then January 31-June 18.

Coyote REP Theatre Company presents the world premiere of The New Normal by Donnetta Lavinia Grays (Playwright. Actor: Broadway's Well and In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play) and directed by Isaac Byrne (NYIT Award Winning Director), and staring Nell Mooney* (As The World Turns), Andrea Caban* (NYIT Award Winning Solo Artist), Emily Rossell* (The Civilians - Let Me Ascertain You) and Michael Mason Working Man's Clothes - New York is Dead). The New Normal is a groundbreaking original full-length play inspired by the life of 2009 Puget Sound Survivor of the Year, Anna Warren Schumacher. It is a hard hitting play that tells the unique story of how a young woman finds humor and grace in the unexpected challenges of survival.

Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions in association with Weinstein Live Entertainment announced today, along with Broadway In Chicago, that the first national tour of Billy Elliot the Musical, the 2009 Tony Award-winning Best Musical featuring music by Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall, choreography by Peter Darling and direction by Stephen Daldry, will now play its final performance in Chicago on Sunday, November 28th at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph Street). Now entering its final six weeks, Billy Elliot to date has performed to over 365,000 people and grossed $27 million dollars (through October 17).

According to report by Whatsonstage.com, Gareth Gates will join the cast of the West End production of LES MISERABLES at the Queens Theatre. Gates will replace Alistair Brammer as Marius from October 18-November 20, and then January 31-June 18.

Cameron Mackintosh announced the casting of his highly acclaimed new 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables making its United States premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse prior to a major US National Tour. The all new production of Les Misérables features glorious new staging and spectacular reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo.

According to a report by Baz Bamigboye in UK Daily Mail, Alfie Boe is in talks with Cameron Mackintosh to reprise the role of Val Jean in the West End next year. When approached about the engagement, Boe replied, 'It's something that might well happen.'

The Les Miserables 25th Anniversary O2 concert, which played its last performance on October 2, 2010 starred Ramin Karmiloo, Samantha Barks, Alfie Boe, Nick Jonas,Norm Lewis, Matt Lucas, Lea Salonga, Jenny Galloway, and Camilla Kerslake. Click below to watch a new special video -- Les Miserables: 25 Years Young

From an application field of 140 campuses, the Wexner Center for the Arts and The Ohio State University have been awarded a $140,000 Creative Campus Innovations grant by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters to support the development of New York-based theater company The Builders Association's ROAD TRIP (working title), a multimedia theater work looking at the contemporary foreclosure crisis through the lens of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.