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With accolades pouring in for its current production of Sweeney Todd, Cygnet Theatre is excited to introduce its 'Playwright Companion Series' with a Concert Staging of Sondheim's Passion. This rarely staged musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, will feature some of Cygnet's finest artists and joins the list of other Sondheim works already produced or produced in staged-readings on Cygnet's stages. Directed by Kim Strassburger, Passion runs for two nights only - April 12th & 13th, 2010 at Cygnet's Old Town Theatre.

Tom Viertel, Chairman of the Board of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, has announced that Stephen Sondheim will present Harold Prince with the organization's Monte Cristo Award at a gala benefit on Monday, April 5, 2010 at Bridgewaters. The Award, given annually in recognition of a distinguished career exemplifying Eugene O'Neill's pioneering spirit and standard of excellence, has previously been presented to Kevin Spacey, Neil Simon, Jason Robards, Jr., Edward Albee, August Wilson, Zoe Caldwell, Brian Dennehy, Karl Malden, Arthur and Barbara Gelb, and Wendy Wasserstein.

Rehearsals begin today, Monday, April 5 for the World Premiere production of PARADISE FOUND, a new musical under the combined direction of Theater legend and 21-time Tony Award winner Harold Prince (the original productions of Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, The Phantom of the Opera, Company, Follies, Evita) and 5-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (Crazy For You, Show Boat, The Producers, Contact). This is their first collaboration since the landmark, Tony Award-winning revival of Show Boat. Following the New York rehearsal period, the production will open at London's acclaimed Menier Chocolate Factory with performances running May 19 through June 26.

With accolades pouring in for its current production of Sweeney Todd, Cygnet Theatre is excited to introduce its 'Playwright Companion Series' with a Concert Staging of Sondheim's Passion. This rarely staged musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, will feature some of Cygnet's finest artists and joins the list of other Sondheim works already produced or produced in staged-readings on Cygnet's stages. Directed by Kim Strassburger, Passion runs for two nights only - April 12th & 13th, 2010 at Cygnet's Old Town Theatre.

Take two diametrically different coaches and stick them together running their sons' team, and you've got a recipe for bad baseball - and great comedy. "It's a modern day Odd Couple," says Tim Lile, director of the upcoming Human Race Theatre Company production of Richard Dresser's Rounding Third, "with varying views on parenting and about male relationships as they develop in the sporting world."

Macha Monkey Productions presents The Adventures of Herculina, a play from award-winning playwright Kira Obolensky.

Take two diametrically different coaches and stick them together running their sons' team, and you've got a recipe for bad baseball - and great comedy. "It's a modern day Odd Couple," says Tim Lile, director of the upcoming Human Race Theatre Company production of Richard Dresser's Rounding Third, "with varying views on parenting and about male relationships as they develop in the sporting world."

The Opera Orchestra Of New York presents soprano Eglise Gutiérrez in recital on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at Merkin Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m. accompanied by pianist Danielle Orlando.

The Opera Orchestra Of New York presents soprano Eglise Gutiérrez in recital on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at Merkin Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m. accompanied by pianist Danielle Orlando. The Vidda-Award winning soprano in her New York Recital Debut will perform a wide ranging program of songs and arias by Handel, Caccini, Paisiello, Thomas, Rachmaninoff, Lecuona and Gershwin.

Macha Monkey Productions presents The Adventures of Herculina, a play from award-winning playwright Kira Obolensky.

Macha Monkey Productions presents The Adventures of Herculina, a play from award-winning playwright Kira Obolensky.

Take two diametrically different coaches and stick them together running their sons' team, and you've got a recipe for bad baseball - and great comedy. "It's a modern day Odd Couple," says Tim Lile, director of the upcoming Human Race Theatre Company production of Richard Dresser's Rounding Third, "with varying views on parenting and about male relationships as they develop in the sporting world."

The Opera Orchestra Of New York presents soprano Eglise Gutiérrez in recital on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at Merkin Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m. accompanied by pianist Danielle Orlando.

The Opera Orchestra Of New York presents soprano Eglise Gutiérrez in recital on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at Merkin Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m. accompanied by pianist Danielle Orlando. The Vidda-Award winning soprano in her New York Recital Debut will perform a wide ranging program of songs and arias by Handel, Caccini, Paisiello, Thomas, Rachmaninoff, Lecuona and Gershwin.

The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) and the Program in Vocal Performance/Musical Theatre at NYU's Steinhardt School are once again announcing the culminating performances of a unique partnership between a university training program and an Off-Broadway theatre: 4@15: FOUR NEW FIFTEEN-MINUTE MUSICALS on Saturday and Sunday, January 23 and 24, 2009 at 3 PM and 7 PM on both days. York's Associate Artistic Director, Brian Blythe directs, Tammy Holder music directs. Reservations are recommended.

LOMBARDI, a new play by Oscar winner and Steppenwolf Theater Company member Eric Simonson, is based on the best-selling biography When Pride Still Mattered, by Pulitzer Prize winning author David Maraniss. Opening on Broadway in the fall of 2010, this original work will bring the audience into the life and times of one of America's most inspirational and mercurial personalities, Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com presented Lucie Arnaz at Broadway at Birdland on Sunday November 18 and Monday November 19 at 7PM.