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Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) announced today that Tony® award winner Mary-Louise Parker will star in a new Broadway production of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen. The production features a new adaptation by Christopher Shinn and will be directed by Ian Rickson. Hedda Gabler will begin previews on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 and open officially on Sunday, January 25th, 2009 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd Street). This will be a limited engagement.

Barrington Stage Company, under the artistic leadership of Julianne Boyd, presents the Berkshire-area premiere of The Violet Hour, an imaginative and thought-provoking play about love, time and fate, by award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out).

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) announced New York premiere of Lisa Loomer's Distracted, directed by Mark Brokaw with Cynthia Nixon as 'Mama.' Distracted will begin performances in February 2009 at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street). This will be a limited engagement.

Roundabout Theatre Company's Artistic Director Todd Haimes is proud to announce the launch of a seat naming initiative to support the $32 million capital campaign - Building Partnerships for Artistic Excellence: A Campaign for Roundabout Theatre Company.

LONE STAR LOVE, a new musical comedy starring Academy Award nominee Randy Quaid in his Broadway debut as Colonel John Falstaff, has announced full casting as it begins rehearsals this week for its Seattle engagement at The 5th Avenue Theatre, September 8 - 30. LONE STAR LOVE will open on Broadway on Monday, December 3 at New York's Belasco Theatre; previews will begin Thursday, November 1.

A concert reuniting Tony Award-nominated Side Show stars Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner will be among the highlights of the second annual Broadway Cabaret Festival, which will take place from October 20th through 22nd at Town Hall

International superstar Hugh Jackman--currently touring his native Australia in The Boy from Oz--may soon be performing with the famed Sydney Theatre Company--in a straight play

A concert reuniting Tony Award-nominated Side Show stars Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner will be among the highlights of the second annual Broadway Cabaret Festival, which will take place from October 20th through 22nd at Town Hall

Hugh Jackman is considering three vehicles for his Broadway return--Pal Joey, a play that he did not name, and a musical based on the film Leap of Faith, with music by Alan Menken

According to The New York Post's Michael Riedel, both the Shubert Organization and producer Marc Platt are trying to lure Hugh Jackman to upcoming revivals of Stop the World, I Want to Get Off and Pal Joey, respectively

Michael Riedel reports in today's New York Post, that rumors regarding Hugh Jackman's return to Broadway in 'Stop the World, I Want to Get Off' is false, and that Jackman instead is 'dead set' on Pal Joey.

Tony-nominated orchestrator Michael Gibson, who often collaborated with John Kander, has passed away at the age of 60