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Perfect Crime, the Off Broadway psychological thriller, will partner with Mensa, the high IQ society, for a special matinee performance on Saturday, December 6, 2008 that will feature an audience of Mensa geniuses who will attempt to solve the mystery behind the longest-running play in the history of New York theater. The event will also feature a post-show discussion with Alison Gaylin, Edgar-nominated author of Hide Your Eyes, You Kill Me and Heartless, who will speak about the psychology of the criminal mind.

Perfect Crime, the Off Broadway psychological thriller, will partner with Mensa, the high IQ society, for a special matinee performance on Saturday, December 6, 2008 that will feature an audience of Mensa geniuses who will attempt to solve the mystery behind the longest-running play in the history of New York theater. The event will also feature a post-show discussion with Alison Gaylin, Edgar-nominated author of Hide Your Eyes, You Kill Me and Heartless, who will speak about the psychology of the criminal mind.

The Board of Trustees of Theatre Development Fund (TDF), the country's largest not-for-profit service organization for the performing arts, founded in 1968, has announced the election of Earl D. Weiner to the position of chairman of the Board of Trustees. The announcement was made by TDF's current chairman, David D. Holbrook, who just completed a second tenure as chairman which began in November 2005. Mr. Holbrook's first tenure as chairman was from November 1990 - November 1997.

The Lark Play Development Center has announced the selected playwrights for the 2008-09 Playwrights' Workshop Fellows 2008. This year's writers include Thomas Bradshaw (Southern Promises), Samuel D. Hunter (Lark's 2008 PONY Fellow), Lisa Kron (Well), Deirdre O'Connor (Hero), and Playwright-in-Residence Arthur Kopit (Lark Playwright Advisor).

13, A New Musical, with music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, officially opens at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre tonday, Sunday, October 5, 2008.

The upcoming Broadway production of IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS, a new musical stage reinvention of the beloved classic film, is pleased to announce that Stephen Bogardus, Kerry O'Malley, Jeffry Denman, Meredith Patterson, Charles Dean and Susan Mansur will lead a cast of 33 in the highly anticipated holiday engagement.

13, A New Musical, with music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, will begin previews on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 and officially open at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 W. 45th Street) on Sunday, October 5, 2008.

The Tricycle Theatre Announces their Summer/Autumn Season.

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The Drama League (Jano Herbosch, President)announced the recipients of its three annual specialty awards, to be presented along with its five annual production and performance awards at The 74th Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Friday, May 16, 2008 (noon).

The Actors Fund announced today that Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell will take to the stage at Carnegie Hall for the very first time as a solo artist on October 15th, 2007.

'Is He Dead?' opening at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre on November 29 will star Norbert Leo Butz, Jenn Gambatese, David Pittu, Tom Alan Robbins.

The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Grey Gardens will play its final performance on Sunday, July 29, 2007

Producers of the hit musical Grey Gardens announced today that the opportunity for theater-goers to see the two most acclaimed performances of the 2006-2007 Broadway season - those of Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson, who both won Tony Awards for their work in the musical - will be through Sunday, July 29th only. On that date, Wilson will give her final performance as 'Edith Bouvier Beale' in the acclaimed musical at The Walter Kerr Theatre

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, will open on Broadway November 8th 2007 at the Hilton Theatre (213 W 42nd St). Previews begin October 11th 2007. The production stars Roger Bart (Dr. Frederick Frankenstein), Megan Mullally (Elizabeth), Sutton Foster (Inga), Shuler Hensley (The Monster), Fred Applegate (Kemp) and Christopher Fitzgerald (Igor).

The producers of the hit Broadway musical Grey Gardens announced today that the production will have its London debut next season with its acclaimed leading lady, Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole, recreating her performance.

Stage and screen legend Celeste Holm recently visited five-time Billboard award-winning 106.7 Lite FM host Valerie Smaldone at the latter's midday radio show.

The hit Broadway musical Grey Gardens will be the subject of a feature on Court TV's popular weekly celebrity news magazine Hollywood Heat, premiering this Thursday, May 10.

In conjunction with their Off Broadway production of Zak Berkman's Beauty On The Vine, Epic Theatre Center has announced the programming for their 'Beyond Beauty Initiative.' The program seeks to bring together a diverse array of women with different backgrounds to share experiences and creatively explore how definitions of beauty, power and success impact society as a whole.

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The 2007-2008 season at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, which was announced today by CTG's Artistic Director Michael Ritchie, will be a yearlong celebration of the best in musical theatre.

Marc Kudisch has been cast as devilish Darryl Van Horne in Signature Theatre's American Premiere production of the musical The Witches from Eastwick.

Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance will return to the New York City's repertoire, beginning previews on Saturday, March 3 and opening on March 7; the production will star Marc Kudisch as the Pirate King

Adam Brazier and Julie Martell will join Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown for his October 16th Toronto concert

The recent National Theatre hit Coram Boy is set to cross the pond to Broadway after Boyett Ostar extended its producing deal with the famed British theatre company through the end of 2007, according to Variety