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La Jolla Playhouse is proud to welcome back Charlayne Woodard with a moving new one-woman play 'The Night Watcher' directed by Robert Egan.

The After Party welcomes Marty Thomas and the cast of the 3S Theatre Collective's production of 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch.'

Award-winning actress Phylicia Rashad will be a guest speaker for the Harold Clurman Lecture Series at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting on Monday, June 9, 2008.

Columbia Pictures has entered into an agreement with CBS Films to create a new motion picture of the Lerner and Loewe classic musical My Fair Lady, to be produced by Duncan Kenworthy and Cameron Mackintosh. The new film will use the original songs of the much-loved Broadway show...

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents The Language of Trees, a new play by Steven Levenson, directed by Alex Timbers.

Playwrights Horizons has announced additional details for its 2008/2009 Season, including the final two productions of the six-play season. Jonathan Groff, Maura Tierney, and Annette O'Toole have been announced to star in three of the plays being presented.

Rumor has it that Stephen Sondheim and John Doyle will be teaming up again this fall to bring BOUNCE, the Sondheim and John Weidman musical, to the Public Theater in October.

Civic Light Opera wraps up their season with a production of KISMET that is fast, funny and beautifully sung. * * * * * (OUT OF 5)

Abingdon Theatre Company's Artistic Director, Jan Buttram, announced today the forthcoming 16th season lineup, which includes five plays by American playwrights.

CineVegas' Opening Night Film is 'The Rocker'

The Civilians, the acclaimed New York-based experimental theater troupe, recently announced that Marion Friedman has been named as their Managing Director.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com, the leading source for exclusive theater information and live-events tickets nationwide, are proud to announce CHRISTINE EBERSOLE & BILLY STRITCH in a concert celebrating their new recording SUNDAY IN NEW YORK, Monday, June 30th, 2008 at 7:00p.m., as part of the long-running, Nightlife Award-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland.

On Wednesday, June 4 at 4pm there was a CD signing celebrating ANNIE: The 30th Anniversary Cast Recording (Time Life) at Virgin Megastore Times Square.

Second Stage Theatre's already announced production of Richard Nelson's comedy, SOME AMERICANS ABROAD, directed by Gordon Edelstein, will officially open on Tuesday, July 15 at 6:30pm at Second Stage Theatre (307 West 43rd Street, just west of Eighth Avenue.

Signature Theatre Company's (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) world premiere production of EDWARD ALBEE'S OCCUPANT starring Tony® and Academy Award®-winning actress Mercedes Ruehl and two-time Emmy® winner and Tony® nominee Larry Bryggman officially opens tonight, Thursday, June 5th.

Coffee Cup (a theatre co.) presents the World Premiere of 'Standing Clear', a comedy about the distance we put between us on the subway.

EXPLODING MOMENT is pleased to announce the world premiere production of CAN I HELP YOU?, created by Catharine Dill.

'The School for Scandal', running June 28 through September 27 at The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, a beautiful outdoor amphitheater carved into the Topanga Canyon hillside.

Just in time for the fall elections, the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe skewers the system which puts the actual needs of the voters last with a new musical comedy, 'Red State.'