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On January 10th, Eden Espinosa, Carol Kane, Derrick Williams and Cristy Candler will join the Broadway cast of Wicked

Marty Thomas and Philip Officer will be among the performers at A Marvelous Party, New Year's 2005 at the Hideaway Room at Helen's

On December 1st, Brad Oscar will sing a medley of Christmas favorites at the 2005 Christmas Pageant of Peace Opening Ceremony

On January 10th, Eden Espinosa, Carol Kane and Derrick Williams will join the Broadway production of Wicked

Rick Elice, Bob Fennell, Stewart Lane and other producers, marketing experts and theater writers took part in the Drama Desk's first panel discussion of the 2005/2006 season on November 21st

Patrick Stewart revives his one-man Christmas Carol, Billy runs against Poppins for Best Musical, Blue Man Group opens and Wicked plans to fly East?

Cast members from Wicked and Naked Boys Singing! will perform in Cabaret Cares on November 14th

The Marriott Theatre, the Porchlight Music Theatre's Sweeney Todd, Congo Square Theatre Company's Seven Guitars and Jefferson Mays were among the winners in the 2005 Jefferson Awards

On November 14th, performers for the Broadway production of Wicked will perform in a benefit for Cabaret Cares

Brad Oscar, Audra McDonald, Steven Pasquale, John Dossett, Judy Blazer, Will Chase, Michael Felciano and Jennifer Simard are the latest names slated to participate in the upcoming all-star benefit, PLAY ON BROADWAY - the first-ever Broadway game show - on Sunday, October 16, 2005 (7:30 p.m.) at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for the Arts (111 West 46th Street).

Susan Vargo is pleased to announce plans for the new, spectacular all-star benefit, PLAY ON BROADWAY - the first-ever Broadway game show - on Sunday, October 16, 2005.

Wicked Day and a Wicked singing contest will be some of the October events in Chicago that will celebrate 6 month anniversary of the smash sit-down production of Wicked

Rob Evan has been cast as King Solomon in the musical Sheba, which will receive staged readings by the Amas Six O'Clock Musical Theatre Lab as part of the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival

LIBERTY SMITH, a musical comedy about the American Revolution, starring Kevin Earley (Thoroughly Modern Millie) in the title role and directed by Joe Calarco, will receive two readings during the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Performances begin Wednesday evening, October 19, 2005 and will continue through Sunday evening, December 4, 2005. Opening night is Sunday evening, October 23, 2005 at 7:30PM.

The event will star Ben Vereen & Liza Minnelli and feature Bryan Batt, Shoshana Bean, Victoria Clark, Charlotte D'Amboise, Jill Eikenberry, Raul Esparza, Shuler Hensley, Megan Hilty, Bill Irwin, Brian d'Arcy James, Isabelle Keating, Adriane Lenox, Terrence Mann, Rue McClanahan, Michael McElroy, Julia Murney, Bebe Neuwirth, Kelli O'Hara, Denis O'Hare, David Hyde Pierce, Carole Shelley, Christopher Sieber, Michael Tucker, Frederick Weller and The Broadway Inspirational Voices, plus the casts of The Light in the Piazza, Hairspray, Mamma Mia!, All Shook Up, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Two Gentlemen of Verona and Wicked.

WPIX Channel 11, Tribune Broadcasting's WB Television Network affiliate (a.k.a. The WB11), has begun shooting 'The 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival,' a half-hour special report on the ambitious efforts of the eponymous annual festival, now in its second year.

The pair will co-host the 14th annual BROADWAY ON BROADWAY, a free outdoor concert in Times Square on Sunday, September 18 at 11:30am. Performances are expected from All Shook Up, Avenue Q, Beauty and the Beast, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hairspray, Lennon, The Light in the Piazza, The Lion King, Mamma Mia!, The Producers, Rent, Sweet Charity, Sweeney Todd, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Wicked. New shows The Color Purple, Souvenir and In My Life will perform as well.

The Broadway Show League celebrated with their End of Season Party and Awards Ceremony on Thursday night, September 1st 2005 at Tony's DiNapoli Times Square, and BroadwayWorld was there.

ANA GASTEYER and KATE REINDERS from Chicago's Long-Run Production of WICKED will perform 'For Good' at the Jerry Lewis Telethon Benefiting the Muscular Dystrophy Association

BroadwayWorld's got all the details on what's coming up in Philly's major theaters!

In what has been a first for The Provincetown Theater, tickets for all four Idina Menzel performances from August 20 - 23, 2005 sold in record time.

The off-off-Broadway Vital Children's Theatre has announced its season of 5 musicals for 2005-06

After receiving rave reviews, Wicked continues in its megahit run at the Oriental Theatre, where it stars Ana Gasteyer as Elphaba and Kate Reinders as Glinda