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For the first time Tony and Academy Award Winner and Broadway legend Joel Grey will be headlining at The Night of 1000 Voices. He will be joined by the current Phantom in Las Vegas, Anthony Crivello, Tony Award Winner for his performance in Kiss of The Spiderwoman, Ruthie Henshall and members of the Cast of Avenue Q and special guests. This exciting and exclusive performance will introduced by I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Queen, Myleene Klass and will be for the benefit of The National Artistic Society.

Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Eartha Kitt, Charles Grodin and others to be announced will read classic, contemporary and humorous love poems in 'Come Be My Love….Love Spoken Here,' on Saturday February, 10, 8 p.m., at Westport Country Playhouse.

Back in NYC after doing sketch comedy and nonmusical theater in L.A., Angela will play the 'Drowsy' lead Janet for a week in September.

Catch this BroadwayWorld.com exclusive as we take you backstage with the cast and creative team of the east coast premiere of 'The Opposite Of Sex' starring Kerry Butler, Gregg Edelman, Kaitlin Hopkins, David Burtka and more. You won't want to miss this special presentation featuring several clips from the show, only right here on BroadwayWorld.com!

Williamstown Theatre Festival scores big with East Coast Premiere

The Williamstown Theatre Festival production of The Opposite of Sex, the musical's East Coast premiere starring Kerry Butler, Gregg Edelman, Kaitlin Hopkins and more, began August 9

The Williamstown Theatre Festival production of THE OPPOSITE OF SEX, the musical's East Coast premiere, begins August 9.

The Storefront's 'New Mondays' concert on July 31st will feature songs by Stephen Schwartz, David Zippel and Deborah Abramson

James Badge Dale ('24'), Emmy and Golden Globe Nominee Wendie Malick ('Just Shoot Me'), Mark Moses ('Desperate Housewives') and Ashley Williams ('Huff,' 'Good Morning Miami') will star in the U.S. premiere of BURLEIGH GRIME$.

Marisa Tomei will headline a reading (closed to the public) of Alan Bowne's Beirut on April 17th; she will reprise her role from the original production

The Douglas J. Cohen musical The Opposite of Sex--previously seen in San Francisco--will be one of the shows presented as part of this summer's Williamstown Theatre Festival

CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BOY -- a new solo play written and performed by Steven Fales, and directed by Tony Award winner Jack Hofsiss ('The Elephant Man') -- will have its Off-Broadway premiere, with preview performances starting January 27, 2006 prior to the play's official opening night on February 5 at the newly renovated Soho Playhouse (15 Vandam St.) in Manhattan.

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) is pleased to announce that Tyne Daly and John Slattery will join Cynthia Nixon in the theatre's world premiere production of Rabbit Hole, written by David Lindsay-Abaire, and directed by Tony Award-winner Daniel Sullivan (Proof, Sight Unseen, Brooklyn Boy) at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street).

Marie-France Pisier will star as the feminist novelist and philosopher in the one-woman show Liaison Transatlantique: Letters of Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren from September 30th through October 2nd as part of the Act French festival

WPIX Channel 11, Tribune Broadcasting's WB Television Network affiliate (a.k.a. The WB11), has begun shooting 'The 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival,' a half-hour special report on the ambitious efforts of the eponymous annual festival, now in its second year.

LESTAT stars Hugh Panaro in the title role, Carolee Carmello as Gabrielle, Jack Noseworthy as Armand, Jim Stanek as Louis, Roderick Hill as Nicolas, Michael Genet as Marius and Allison Fischer as Claudia.

John Bolton, Heather Ayers and Jeff Gurner will star in Gregg Coffin's 'Five Course Love'

The Playright Horizons show begins previews on August 30 and opens on September 25.

Kerry Butler, along with Cheryl Freeman, Tyler Maynard, Anika Larsen and Karen Olivo, will star in Tina Landau's staging of Kirsten Childs' new work, Miracle Brothers, which opens on August 25th at the Vineyard Theatre

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents Kate Burton as 'Constance Middleton', Michael Cumpsty as 'John Middleton', John Dossett as 'Bernard Kersal' and Lynn Redgrave as 'Mrs. Culver' in the new Broadway production of W. Somerset Maugham social comedy The Constant Wife, directed by Mark Brokaw at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street).

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) announces Lynn Redgrave will return to Broadway as 'Mrs. Culver,' with Kate Burton as 'Constance Middleton' in the new Broadway production of W. Somerset Maugham social comedy The Constant Wife.

After love letters from the critics and intense audience acclaim, the splendidly savage and delightfully bitter British musical comedy trio FASCINATING AIDA have announced the triumphant Off Broadway return of their show Absolutely Fascinating. By popular demand, an exclusive limited engagement will run at the Kirk Theatre on Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street) from April 6 to May 15. Founding members and seasoned veterans Adele Anderson and Dillie Keane are again joined by dazzling new diva Liza Pulman, with musical director Russell Churney on piano. The official opening night is set for April 11

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) is pleased to announce full casting for their upcoming world premiere production of BROOKLYN BOY by Donald Margulies, directed by Daniel Sullivan. The production is being co-produced with South Coast Repertory.

While 'Dorian - The Musical' made its LA debut in late-September, the show itself is nearly 10 years in the making...

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone & Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; John G. Schultz, Executive Director) will re-team with NEIL LaBUTE for the world premiere of his latest work, FAT PIG starring in alphabetical order: ASHLIE ATKINSON (Theresa on F/X's 'Rescue Me'); ANDREW McCARTHY (Broadway: Side Man; feature films: Less Than Zero; Pretty in Pink; St. Elmo's Fire); JEREMY PIVEN (Ari Jacobs on HBO's 'Entourage') and KERI RUSSELL (Golden Globe winner for WB's 'Felicity'). Jo Bonney (Living Out; Fifth of July) directs.