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Christopher Sieber, who created the role of Sir Dennis Galahad in the Tony Award winning Broadway production of Monty Python's Spamalot, will join the London cast opening at the Palace Theatre in October.

The recent National Theatre hit Coram Boy is set to cross the pond to Broadway after Boyett Ostar extended its producing deal with the famed British theatre company through the end of 2007, according to Variety

Nominated for his first Academy Award, stage-vet Martin McDonagh won the Oscar for Best Short Film (Live Action) on Sunday, March 5, 2006.

The recent Broadway smash The Pillowman recieves Seattle premiere at ACT Theatre...

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced complete details for the fifth production of its 2005/2006 35th Anniversary Season, the World Premiere of PEN, a new play by David Marshall Grant.

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.

Spamalot's national tour will come to Houston from May 22nd through June 17th

Today (Monday, January 23), The National Tour of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2005, Monty Pythons SPAMALOT, begins rehearsals in New York, prior to a first performance in Boston on March 7 at the Colonial Theatre. Other cities confirmed for the tour include Chicago, Washington DC, Pittsburgh and Atlanta, with more dates to follow.

Monty Python's SPAMALOT, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2005, comes home to London in October 2006. SPAMALOT will have its first performance at the Palace Theatre in London's West End on 2 October 2006. Casting will be announced shortly and tickets will go on sale on 21 February 2006.

BroadwayWorld's Michael Dale takes a personal look at some moments that may not have made other top ten lists

2005 is Broadway's highest grossing calendar year ever, and the highest in paid attendance in two decades, according to the League of American Theatres and Producers

Brad Oscar, Audra McDonald, Steven Pasquale, John Dossett, Judy Blazer, Will Chase, Michael Felciano and Jennifer Simard are the latest names slated to participate in the upcoming all-star benefit, PLAY ON BROADWAY - the first-ever Broadway game show - on Sunday, October 16, 2005 (7:30 p.m.) at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for the Arts (111 West 46th Street).

Susan Vargo is pleased to announce plans for the new, spectacular all-star benefit, PLAY ON BROADWAY - the first-ever Broadway game show - on Sunday, October 16, 2005.

Red Bull Theater, Artistic Director Jesse Berger, the company that brought us the critical smash hit of Shakespeare's Pericles in 2003, announces their fall season with the return of Revelation Readings, a popular reading series exploring new plays of heightened language and neglected Jacobean plays.

Maria Friedman, the leading lady of the British musical theatre, makes her Broadway debut in London's smash hit musical, THE WOMAN IN WHITE, opening on Broadway Thursday, November 17th at the Marquis Theatre (211 W 45th St).

Sixty-nine theatre artists representing 51 shows have been nominated for 2005 Henry Hewes Design Awards

Benefit performances for the Actors' Fund of America of Glengarry Glen Ross and The Constant Wife will be held on Sundays August 14th and 21st

The Actors' Fund of America will host two benefit performances of The Pillowman and Glengarry Glen Ross on August 7th and August 14th

Plays by Rolin Jones, Harold Pinter, Martin McDonagh and a new musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater will be presented in the Atlantic Theater Company's 2005-06 season

The Actors' Fund's Auction of 1000 Stars 2005 will end on August 1st, but tickets for a number of benefit performances can still be ordered after

Ten new works from the Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway 2004-2005 theatre season have been selected for publication in the latest Best Plays Theater Yearbook

The Actors' Fund's Auction of 1000 Stars 2005 has started, and a number of benefit performances are still lined up for the rest of the summer, as well

The Actors' Fund will present a number of benefit performances in addition to its Auction of 1000 Stars from July to September

Silence! the Musical, the musical parody of the Silence of the Lambs that will play the New York International Fringe Festival from Aug. 12th through 28th, will feature Paul Kandel, Jenn Harris and Lisa Howard

Plays by 16 rising playwrights will be performed as part of the SPF 2005 Summer Play Festival, which runs from July 5th to July 31st at various Theatre Row venues