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ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER is scheduled to hit theaters on June 22nd from 20th Century Fox. The horror, thriller film, directed by Timur Bekmambetov, stars Broadway veteran Benjamin Walker alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Dominic Cooper, Rufus Sewell, Alan Tudyk, Anthony Mackie, Jimmi Simpson, Jaqueline Fleming and Robin McLeavy.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER is scheduled to hit theaters on June 22nd from 20th Century Fox. The horror, thriller film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov and stars Broadway veteran Benjamin Walker. The cast also includes Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Dominic Cooper, Rufus Sewell, Alan Tudyk, Anthony Mackie, Jimmi Simpson, Jaqueline Fleming and Robin McLeavy.

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) continues its 27th season with the world premiere of the new play, Rx, written by Kate Fodor.

Village Theatre announced today casting for its upcoming production of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, which opens January 18 in Issaquah.

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) continues its 27th season with the world premiere of the new play, Rx, written by Kate Fodor.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is set to present Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of Bill Cain's Equivocation in the first collaboration between Arena Stage and OSF.

Since nobody knows Halloween better than teenagers, Kids 'N Comedy, New York's leading presenter of young comic talent, will present 'Warm-Up to Halloween,' a one-of-a-kind show of original standup material featuring eight teen comics, October 23 at Gotham Comedy Club, 208 West 23rd Street.

McCarter Theatre will present the world premiere of Marina Carr's Phaedra Backwards, directed by Artistic Director Emily Mann, October 18 through November 6.

A two-time Tony Award nominee, De Shields, whose prolific career spans more than four decades, was a member of the original company of Ain't Misbehavin' which initially opened at the Manhattan Theatre Club's cabaret in February, 1978.

SBCC Theatre Arts Department will present a student showcase production of the 2007 Jane Chambers' Award-winning TROJAN BARBIE by Christine Evans, directed by R. Michael Gros, as the fall production in the Interim Theatre .

McCarter Theatre will present the world premiere of Marina Carr's Phaedra Backwards, directed by Artistic Director Emily Mann, October 18 through November 6.

SBCC Theatre Arts Department will present a student showcase production of the 2007 Jane Chambers' Award-winning TROJAN BARBIE by Christine Evans, directed by R. Michael Gros, as the fall production in the Interim Theatre .

Since nobody knows Halloween better than teenagers, Kids 'N Comedy, New York's leading presenter of young comic talent, will present 'Warm-Up to Halloween,' a one-of-a-kind show of original standup material featuring eight teen comics, October 23 at Gotham Comedy Club, 208 West 23rd Street.

'Poor Behavior,' a new play about lust and deception, marriage and fidelity by renowned playwright Theresa Rebeck, will have its world premiere at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum on September 18, as part of the Taper's 2011 season.

Welcome to the effervescent, energetic world of Fats Waller, a world of rent parties, hot jazz and the exuberance of the Harlem Renaissance. The 'joint' will definitely be 'jumpin' as Crossroads Theatre Company presents the Tony Award- winning musical, Ain't Misbehavin', directed and choreographed by André De Shields. The season-opening show will run from October 6 through 23. Tickets are on sale now!

GAN-e-meed Theatre Project's second season of Career Labs for Women in Theatre begins on September 12 with Balancing Act: The Work/Life Continuum, a panel discussion.

GAN-e-meed Theatre Project's second season of Career Labs for Women in Theatre begins on September 12 with Balancing Act: The Work/Life Continuum, a panel discussion.

Rizzo 39 Productions proudly presents the award-winning Donna/Madonna as part of the 14th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC. The solo musical comedy debuted in New York last November as part of the United Solo Theatre Festival, where it was named 'Best One-Man Show.' Fresh from its Los Angeles debut this July, Donna/Madonna will appear at the Players Theatre (115 MacDougal St, NYC 10012) under the following schedule: THU 8/18 @ 5:15PM; FRI 8/19 @ 2PM; SAT 8/20 @ 4:45PM; WED 8/24 @ 9PM; THU 8/25 @ 7PM (this date followed by a talkback as part of the FringeHIGH program for teenage theatergoers)

Rehearsals began this week for 'Poor Behavior,' Theresa Rebeck's new play making its world premiere at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum with previews beginning September 7 and opening set for September 18, 2011.

Rehearsals began this week for 'Poor Behavior,' Theresa Rebeck's new play making its world premiere at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum with previews beginning September 7 and opening set for September 18, 2011. Directed by Doug Hughes, the cast for 'Poor Behavior' includes Johanna Day, Sharon Lawrence, Reg Rogers and Christopher Evan Welch (in alphabetical order).

Johanna Day, Sharon Lawrence, Reg Rogers and Christopher Evan Welch (in alphabetical order) have been cast in the world premiere of "Poor Behavior," a new play about lust and deception, marriage and fidelity opening at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum September 18, 2011. Written by renowned playwright Theresa Rebeck and directed by Doug Hughes, "Poor Behavior," begins previews September 7; performances will continue through October 16.

According to DarkHorizons.com, Broadway veteran Benjamin Walker is in talks to star in the upcoming film, Paradise Lost, directed by Alex Proyas. Walker would play the archangel Michael in this movie adaptation of John Milton's classic poem.

Michael Reidel reports in the New York Post this morning that Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson star Benjamin Walker will be back in the New York theater loop when he leads a reading of Bus Stop next month as cowboy Bo Decker. Amanda Seyfried will co-star alongside Walker as Cherie. Shuler Hensley will also participate. Hollywood's Paula Wagner, who owns the rights to the project will produce. Scott Ellis directs. A revival of Bus Stop is reportedly bound for Broadway.

According to published reports, BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON star, Benjamin Walker, and actress Mamie Gummer, daught of Meryl Streep, wed this past weekend in an intimate ceremomy at the home of Streep and husband Don Gummer.

Goodman Theatre Artistic Director RoRobert Falls announced today that he will direct bert Falls The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O'Neill's epic portrait of hope and disillusionment, running April 22 - June 10, 2012 in the Albert Theatre. Falls' major revival features Tony Award-winning stage and screen stars Nathan Lane Nathan Lane as hardware salesman and pipe dreambuster Theodore 'Hickey' Hickman, and Brian Dennehy Brian Dennehy as one-time syndicalist-anarchist Larry Slade. Hailed by The New York Times as a 'ferocious American classic that has lost none of its power,' The Iceman Cometh marked Falls' and Dennehy's first O'Neill collaboration at the Goodman in 1990-a production which featured Dennehy in the role of Hickey.