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Acclaimed theater company Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced nine initial performers who will participate in the return of its unique benefit evening STORIES ON 5 STORIES on Monday, November 9. Among those taking part in the special event will be two-time Academy Award winner and two-time Obie Award winner Diane Wiest (Memory House at Playwrights Horizons/PH, Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway), Tony Award winner Debra Monk (Assassins at PH, Redwood Curtain, Curtains), Obie Award winner Jason Butler Harner (current Stage Manager in Our Town, Hedda Gabler, The Coast of Utopia), Clarence Derwent Award winner Zoe Kazan (100 Saints You Should Know at PH; Come Back, Little Sheba; Things We Want), Theatre World Award winner Cassie Beck (The Drunken City and Prayer for My Enemy at PH), Cristin Milioti (The Retributionists at PH, the upcoming The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter), Sue Jean Kim (The Drunken City and BFE at PH, 365 Days/365 Plays), Carmen M. Herlihy (The Thugs, Crooked) and Greg Keller (Broadway's Uncle Vanya, The Rainmaker). Additional performers will be announced in the coming weeks.

Three generations divided by race, culture and time connect when a white Southern woman discovers old love letters leading her to an African American half-brother.

DelanoCelli Productions presents the World Premiere of Down Range, a raw and touching new play by Jeffrey Skinner exposing how returning soldiers survive the war at home. Performances will be held at Theatre 3, 311 West 43rd Street, 3rd Floor, in New York City through November 14th.

The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that 33 Variations star Colin Hanks will star in Matt Nix's new 13-episode, hour-long action/comedy series 'Jack and Dan,' on Fox. Nix is the mastermind behind the USA Network series 'Burn Notice.'

DelanoCelli Productions presents the World Premiere of Down Range, a raw and touching new play by Jeffrey Skinner exposing how returning soldiers survive the war at home. Performances will be held at Theatre 3, 311 West 43rd Street, 3rd Floor, in New York City from October 28th-November 14th.

DelanoCelli Productions presents the World Premiere of Down Range, a raw and touching new play by Jeffrey Skinner exposing how returning soldiers survive the war at home. Performances will be held at Theatre 3, 311 West 43rd Street, 3rd Floor, in New York City from October 28th-November 14th.

Acclaimed theater company Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced nine initial performers who will participate in the return of its unique benefit evening STORIES ON 5 STORIES on Monday, November 9. Among those taking part in the special event will be two-time Academy Award winner and two-time Obie Award winner Diane Wiest (Memory House at Playwrights Horizons/PH, Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway), Tony Award winner Debra Monk (Assassins at PH, Redwood Curtain, Curtains), Obie Award winner Jason Butler Harner (current Stage Manager in Our Town, Hedda Gabler, The Coast of Utopia), Clarence Derwent Award winner Zoe Kazan (100 Saints You Should Know at PH; Come Back, Little Sheba; Things We Want), Theatre World Award winner Cassie Beck (The Drunken City and Prayer for My Enemy at PH), Cristin Milioti (The Retributionists at PH, the upcoming The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter), Sue Jean Kim (The Drunken City and BFE at PH, 365 Days/365 Plays), Carmen M. Herlihy (The Thugs, Crooked) and Greg Keller (Broadway's Uncle Vanya, The Rainmaker). Additional performers will be announced in the coming weeks.

DelanoCelli Productions presents the World Premiere of Down Range, a raw and touching new play by Jeffrey Skinner exposing how returning soldiers survive the war at home. Performances will be held at Theatre 3, 311 West 43rd Street, 3rd Floor, in New York City from October 28th-November 14th.

Three generations divided by race, culture and time connect when a white Southern woman discovers old love letters leading her to an African American half-brother.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is proud to announce the full company for the new Broadway production of Noël Coward's comedy Present Laughter, starring Victor Garber as 'Garry Essendine', directed by Nicholas Martin.

DelanoCelli Productions presents the World Premiere of Down Range, a raw and touching new play by Jeffrey Skinner exposing how returning soldiers survive the war at home. Performances will be held at Theatre 3, 311 West 43rd Street, 3rd Floor, in New York City from October 28th-November 14th.

New York magazine caught up with Julie Taymor at the Monday, September 21st opening of the Metropolitan Opera season and the visionary director declared that SPIDERMAN, TURN OFF THE DARK is still set to swing to Broadway.

John Malkovich will star alongside Diane Lane in the Disney movie, 'Secretariat,' directed by Randall Wallace. Details regarding filming and a release have yet to be announced.

Rising singer-songwriter and Sire/Warner Bros. recording artist Regina Spektor will join playwright / director Tina Landau (Floyd Collins) and lyricist Michael Korie (Grey Gardens) to create the new musical BEAUTY, to be produced by Elephant Eye Theatrical (Stuart Oken, Michael Leavitt, Five Cent Productions), aiming for the 2011-12 Broadway season, following an out-of-town tryout to be announced. Landau will write the book and direct; Spektor the music, and Korie the lyrics.

The New York Times is reporting that tickets for Spider-Man will go on sale on October 31, 2009.

This week's issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine checked in with the rep for Evan Rachel Wood, who previous rumors stated was let go as Mary Jane, along with other contracted performers from SPIDER-MAN when the show hit financial troubles. Wood's representative tells the magazine however that she is still on board and that she was never set loose. Co-star Alan Cumming's rep was 'unavailable for comment.'

Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award-winner in years is coming to the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Michael Riedel reports in his Broadway Matinee column in the The New York Post today that while 'SPIDER-MAN, Turn Off The Dark' may have hit a snag on the road to Broadway, a friendly 'superhero' is trying to 'swing' in to get things rolling again.

The New York Times reports today that 'modest construction work is expected to resume on Wednesday morning at Broadway's Hilton Theater to prepare for the new musical production 'SPIDER-MAN, Turn Off the Dark,' even though the ultimate fate of the show is still in limbo, three people involved with the production said this afternoon.'

MUTINY AT PORT CHICAGO opened Friday, July 10th and runs through August 29, 2009. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm at Ruskin Group Theatre, 3000 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90405.

'SPIDER-MAN, Turn Off the Dark' is set to play at Broadway's Hilton Theatre, 213 West 42nd Street. The Wall Street Journal has an article on the slightly troubled history of the space today that is worth a read.

Directed by Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor with 22-time Grammy Award-winning Bono and The Edge creating new music and lyrics, SPIDER-MAN will be written by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger. Bono reveals to Irish Central how he came up with the title 'Turn off the Dark.'

Ruskin Group Theatre announces the WORLD PREMIERE production of 'MUTINY AT PORT CHICAGO' Written by Paul Leaf Opening Friday, July 10, 2009 with reception to follow. Running Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm

MUTINY AT PORT CHICAGO opened Friday, July 10th and runs through August 29, 2009. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm at Ruskin Group Theatre, 3000 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90405.

Today Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced the creative team for its world premiere of American Idiot. Based on the Grammy Award-winning album of the same name, the show features the music of Green Day and the lyrics of its frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. American Idiot is being staged by Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer, who also collaborated with Armstrong on the story. It features the work of Olivier Award-winning choreographer Steven Hoggett and music supervisor Tom Kitt, the Tony-winning composer who provided string arrangements for the band's latest album, 21st Century Breakdown.