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The Drama Desk and Obie Award-wining Mint Theater Company (Jonathan Bank, Artistic Director) continues the 2008-2009 season with The Widowing Of Mrs. Holroyd by D.H. Lawrence beginning February 4th. In conjunction with that, they will present a series of play readings, speakers and discussions to add to the experience, all under the banner 'EnrichMINT events.' READINGS - $35 each or $95 for all three (save $10) January 19th, 2009 at 7:30 PM The Marrying Of Ann Leete by Harley Granville Barker, directed by Gus Kaikkonen with Mary Bacon, Ross Bickel, Chet Carlin, Paul Coffey, Jack Davidson, Kurt Everhart, Jonathan Hogan, Allison McLemore, Chris Mixon, Thomas M. Hammond, Laurie Kennedy, Lee Moore, Patti Perkins, Saxon Palmer, Sandra Struthers-Clerc, Marc LaVasseur, and Kyle Yackoski

The Drama Desk and Obie Award-wining Mint Theater Company (Jonathan Bank, Artistic Director) continues the 2008-2009 season with The Widowing Of Mrs. Holroyd by D.H. Lawrence beginning February 4th. In conjunction with that, they will present a series of play readings, speakers and discussions to add to the experience, all under the banner 'EnrichMINT events.' READINGS - $35 each or $95 for all three (save $10) January 19th, 2009 at 7:30 PM The Marrying Of Ann Leete by Harley Granville Barker, directed by Gus Kaikkonen with Mary Bacon, Ross Bickel, Chet Carlin, Paul Coffey, Jack Davidson, Kurt Everhart, Jonathan Hogan, Allison McLemore, Chris Mixon, Thomas M. Hammond, Laurie Kennedy, Lee Moore, Patti Perkins, Saxon Palmer, Sandra Struthers-Clerc, Marc LaVasseur, and Kyle Yackoski Written in 1899 when Granville Barker was 22, Ann Leete was the first play that Barker wrote without a collaborator. The Stage Society presented the play in 1901 but it was not seen again until the Royal Shakespeare Company produced it in 1975 with Mia Farrow in the title role. 'Its absence from the stage for more than two generations was unfortunate for English drama:' writes Dennis Kennedy in Granville Barker and the Dream of Theater, 'It is an extraordinary piece...' The play has never been produced in the U.S.

We all know we're going to die someday… just not today. So, why are we here and is there more to our journey? Those questions were the inspiration behind Tony Award-nominated writer Jack Murphy's new play 'Gods of Autumn,' which makes its world premiere at Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy on Wednesday August 20, 2008; starring Jarrod Emick and Jessica Phillips. Murphy also directs.

On Sunday, August 17th popular NYC Comedy Troupe FUCT will be performing at the Broadway Comedy Club with special opening act Booth and Pat.

TV stars Sally Struthers and Eddie Mekka appear in Ogunquit Playhouse's Production of Fiddler On The Rood.

The NYC-based comedy troupe FUCT returns to the Studio at Cherry Lane Theatre for a night of new scenes, songs, and stunts.

The Pools at The Palazzo Las Vegas Open With VIP Brunch and Fashion Show Hosted by 'Sex and the City's' Kim Cattrall.

REVIEW: Run of the Mill's annual Variations project takes on the theme of Power. At the Baltimore Theatre Project through May 18.

Multicultural story theater, with a touch of romance and a large dollop of stage fights, is on display now at the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago...

Ten Grand Productions, Inc. presents the New York City Premiere of A Year in the Life of Twenty-five Strangers Living in a City by the Lake by Matthew Fotis.

Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of the Menier Chocolate Factory's Sunday in the Park with George has been extended an additional two weeks through Sunday, June 29th! This Olivier Award winning production of Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine's Pulitzer Prize winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, is directed by Sam Buntrock with musical staging by Christopher Gattelli.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), is thrilled to announce the launch of CONNECT: The Dot Project. By logging on to www.sundaydots.com, fans & friends of the show can easily create their own 'dot' which then becomes a part of George Seurat's famous painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

The Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, the Metropolitan Opera's exhibition space for contemporary visual art, will present Chuck Close Philip Glass 40 Years, a new exhibition which opens on Monday, March 17.

REVIEW: Agatha Christie's best-known play opens at Spotlighters.

ONE OF THE GREATEST musical theatre teams fo the modern theatre, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, have amassed a hug canon of songs and shows knownt he world over. They drop by to talk to us about their new show, The Glorious Ones, now playing at Lincoln Center at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The team informs us of where they get their ideas, how they write, and the hardest hitting question: who comes first... Ahrens or Flaherty?

Theresa Rebeck's new play has a terrific set-up, but the predictable plot directions coupled with questionable directing choices makes the evening frustrating and disappointing.

In what seems to have happened effortlessly and somehow 'under the radar' (highly unusual in the world of theatre) Disney HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL seems to have snuck in and is about to change the landscape.

Love and marriage - you can't have one without the other (at least in Massachusetts)

Victor Garber and Brooks Ashmanskas lead a topnotch cast in Noel Coward's mirthful drawing-room comedy as Huntington Theatre Company closes out its 25th anniversary season

Gihieh Lee and Tim Nevits' musical fantasy of a 12-year-old girl trying to save her mother from dying of a terminal illness mixes a life-affirming message with a tender understanding of the cold hard facts of death