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Comic playwright Christopher Durang talks with BWW about musicals, politics, maturity, and the hits & misses of his career.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed Tuesday the 79th Academy Awards poster design, which features dozens of the most memorable and quotable lines from motion pictures, including a handful of films adapted from Broadway hits...

To honor the life of Betty Comden, the marquee of every Broadway theatre will be dimmed on Tuesday, November 28 at exactly 8 p.m. for one minute in her memory

Betty Comden, whose work with the late Adolph Green epitomized Broadway's Golden Age, has died at the age of 89, according to the New York Times

For the first time since its inception six years ago, the musical theater concert sensation Broadway by the Year will be available for presentation in venues outside New York City. Hailed by The New York Times, Variety, Time Out NY, The Daily News, The New York Post and other major media, the series created, written and hosted for The Town Hall by Scott Siegel will now be available to audiences from coast to coast.

NBC will search for the next Sandy Dumbrowski and Danny Zuko in 'You're the One That We Want,' a new talent competition series from BBC Worldwide Productions for mid-season, where America will ultimately get to choose the two leads for a new Broadway production of Grease

Florence Lacey will headline Trouble in Shameland, a new musical that will run as part of the The New York International Fringe Festival from August 11th through 27th

Some of Broadway's brightest--including Bryan Batt, Mary Bond Davis and more--were featured in the cast of 'The Broadway Musicals of 1978' on June 19th

Wicked, Avenue Q, Caroline or Change, Evita and Spamalot join a long list of musical productions opening in 2006..

The New York Times reports that Charlotte d'Amboise, and Michael Berresse will star as Cassie, and Zach respectively in the upcoming revival of A Chorus Line.

The Broadway by the Year series will showcase musicals from 1930, 1956, 1968 and 1978 in 2006, and other events will also be featured at Town Hall

In 2006, four new Broadway by the Year concerts will feature songs from the musicals of 1930, 1956, 1968 and 1978

Performances of THE PAJAMA GAME will begin Friday, January 27th on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre with the official opening set for Thursday, March 2nd. The limited engagement is scheduled to run 20 weeks through June 18th, 2006.

Robert Wright, whose musicals with George Forrest gave a Broadway voice to classical composers, passed away on July 27th at the age of 90