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Michael Riedel of the New York Post is reporting this morning that the New York Broadway revival of Waiting for Godot is still on-- and that star Bill Irwin will be joined by Nathan Lane on stage. Irwin will be playing Vladamir to Lane's Estragon.

Eric Schaeffer, the Artistic Director of Signature Theatre, tonight announced that Signature will honor Stephen Sondheim at a Gala Benefit in April and establish an annual award as a tribute to America's most influential contemporary musical theater composer. Signature will salute Mr. Sondheim at a black-tie Gala Celebration on Monday, April 27, 2009, in Washington, DC highlighted by a musical tribute, festive dinner, and dancing and inaugurate an annual honor to be known in future years as The Sondheim Award.

It was announced today that the upcoming previously announced revival of West Side Story will begin previews on February 23, 2009 with an official opening slated for March 19, 2009.

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director), Off-Broadway's preeminent theater company, will honor Tony Award-winning actress Patti LuPone and The Baruch-Routh-Frankel-Viertel Group at this year's Primary Stages 24th Anniversary Gala Benefit to be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel (109 East 42nd Street) on Monday, October 27, 2008.

WEST SIDE STORY, the landmark American musical, will return to Broadway in a new production directed by two-time Tony Award winning librettist Arthur Laurents.

Florida Repertory Theatre is proud to announce the opening of Broadway's nine-time Tony Award-winning musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum starring Tony Nominated actor, Stephen Mo Hanan. Forum opens at the Historic Arcade Theatre on Friday, February 15 and runs through March 16, 2008

It was a night of successes, big and small, personal, professional and public. Theatre by the Sea, the venerable Rhode Island institution that had been shuttered since 2003, officially re-opened on Friday night.

Nathan Lane will take on the role of President Charles Smith in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet's previously announced November, a new play about a presidential election.

Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, writers of the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, are the librettists for THE ADDAMS FAMILY, Drama Desk Award-winning composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party) is writing the score, and Improbable Theater founders Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Shockheaded Peter) will direct and design. EET plans to premiere THE ADDAMS FAMILY in the 2009-2010 Broadway season, preceded by an out-of-town tryout.

Jim Stanek will return to the cast of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change on Monday, April 9 for two weeks only through April 22

Terrence McNally was honored by Nathan Lane at the 10th annual Research in Action Awards, a benefit for the Treatment Action Group, one of the leading worldwide organizations in AIDS research advocacy on Sunday, December 10 in New York

Kristin Chenoweth and Nathan Lane - both Tony-winning stars who are known for crossing over from theatre to film to TV and back again - are working on a sitcom pilot, according to the New York Times

Oldies 1150 Presents Hamilton Theatre Inc.'s A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum From November 3 to 18, 2006

Award winning filmmaker Taylor Hackford will make his Broadway debut as director of the new musical, Leap of Faith, to premiere in the 2007-2008 season.

On Monday, April 10, 2006, the American Theatre Wing's annual Spring Gala honored The Odd Couple stars Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane for their creative achievements.

EVITA, one of the world's greatest musicals, returns to London's West End after 21 years this summer. Directed by the award-winning Michael Grandage and featuring lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the brand new production of the smash-hit stage show has its Press Night at the Adelphi Theatre on June 21st.

On April 10th, the American Theatre Wing will honor Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane for their creative achievements

On December 11th, Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane will go 'Inside the Actors Studio'

A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim will feature the Boston Pops and Marin Mazzie, Gregg Edelman and Faith Prince from June 16th to 18th

Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick will team up once more this fall as the mismatched title pair of the revival of 'The Odd Couple'

David Spencer's The Musical Theatre Writer's Survival Guide, a comprehensive reference book like none ever published before, about creating musical theatre, will be released by Heinemann Publishing on July 25, 2005.

Mary Testa and Solange Sandy, both joining the show in April, will be the latest in a long line of Chicago replacements

The formidable Producer's Group is being absorbed into Lang Syne Films, Inc.

The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton and Barbra Streisand (Honorary Chairs), with Young Playwrights Inc. and producers Richard Maltby, Jr., Kevin Stites and Sheri M. Goldhirsch are proud to present 'CHILDREN AND ART,' a spectacular musical gala evening in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 75th birthday, for one performance only at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street) on Monday, March 21, 2005 (7:30 p.m. curtain), the eve of Sondheim's birthday.

For the first time onstage three Broadway performers who have shared the same role of the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera, joined forces for an evening of song and music.