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Get ready to celebrate Motown's 50th! The Temptations, one of the most successful groups in the music history, is coming to the Union County Performing Arts Center on Thursday, April 23rd, presented by WCBS-FM and Rrazz Entertainment. Opening for the Temptations are The Honey Cone featuring Edna Wright and Goumba Johnny Sialian, WTKU personality.

The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) is hosting a NEW WORKS READING SERIES to support new plays and emerging playwrights. As part of its mission statement, The Irish Repertory Theatre 'encourages the development of new works focusing on the Irish and Irish American experience, as well as a range of other cultures.'

It's not your imagination, The Temptations, one of the most successful groups in music history, will perform at the Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway on Thursday, April 23rd, presenting by WCBS-FM and Rrazz Entertainment. Just added to open for the Temptations are The Honey Cone featuring Edna Wright and Goumba Johnny Sialiano, WTKU personality.

The 2009 Festival of New American Musicals, a four-month musical theatre festival, will be held in April through July, 2009, throughout Southern California. Marcia Seligson, Bob Klein, and Linda Shusett are the Executive Producers of the second annual Festival.

Oscar & Emmy Award winning screen legend JANE FONDA will return to Broadway in MOISES KAUFMAN's 33 VARIATIONS. Performances begin on Monday, February 9th, 2009 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 West 49th Street). The official opening will be Monday, March 9th, 2009. The engagement will play through May 24th, 2009. Tickets are now available for sale to the general public.

Oscar & Emmy Award winning screen legend JANE FONDA will return to Broadway in MOISES KAUFMAN's 33 VARIATIONS. Performances begin on Monday, February 9th, 2009 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 West 49th Street). The official opening will be Monday, March 9th, 2009. The engagement will play through May 24th, 2009. The play marks Fonda's first time on Broadway in 46 years.

Thriller - Live, billed as the UK's 'next big musical', and featuring the mega-hit songs of Michael Jackson & The Jackson 5, has found their 'Young Michael', actually three of them reports UK theatre website WhatsOnStage. Layton Williams, Sterling Williams, and Kieran Alleyne have been cast in the musical and will rotate as the young Michael Jackson

Thriller - Live, billed as the West End's next big musical, which features the mega-hit songs of Michael Jackson & The Jackson 5, is going to make one young boy's dreams come true - a starring role in the West End. In connection with West End transfer of the Thriller-Live tour producers  are launching a major hunt to find an young undiscovered talent to sing the songs of the young Michael Jackson in the show, which will open on January 2 at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.

Oscar & Emmy Award winning screen legend JANE FONDA will return to Broadway in MOISÉS KAUFMAN's 33 VARIATIONS. The play marks Fonda's first time on Broadway in 46 years.

The Irish Repertory Theatre will open its 2008-2009 season with the world premiere of Tony Award winning playwright Frank McGuinness's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's THE MASTER BUILDER. McGuinness' adaptation was commissioned by the Irish Rep and will be directed by Ciaran O'Reilly.

The Irish Repertory Theatre will open its 2008-2009 season with the world premiere of Tony Award winning playwright Frank McGuinness's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's THE MASTER BUILDER. McGuinness' adaptation was commissioned by the Irish Rep and will be directed by Ciaran O'Reilly.

Manhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce guests and dates for After Words, the popular discussion series at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street).

Paper Mill's robust and rowdy mounting features a dazzling cast, terrific tunes and wildly athletic choreography that'll leave you cheering for more.

The bold and ambitious 2007 Soulpepper season will revisit relationships established with specific playwrights and embrace some new and thrilling challenges and discoveries.

The hit Broadway musical, JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, which has taken Broadway by storm, will launch a National Tour in San Francisco beginning in December, 2006. JERSEY BOYS, which opened to rave reviews on November 6, 2005, continues to set new weekly box office records at the August Wilson Theatre and has been among the top grossing shows on Broadway ever since.

The Public Theater will present two series of readings--New Work Now! and New Work Then!--in celebration of its history of producing new plays; the two series will be held from September 9th to September 18th and from September 2nd to October 3rd

With its production of Bus Stop, the Williamstown Theatre Festival is launching a tradition of dedicating the final performance of every season to the memory of late actor Christopher Reeve

Broadway's Lost Treasures III, which will premiere on PBS on August 7th, will offer up a treasure trove of Tony Awards rarities from the past

Becky Ann Baker, Jessica Hecht and Ellen McLaughlin are some of the stars of the Williamstown Theatre Festival's production of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, which will run at the Main Stage from July 20th to 31st

In the third in a series of Women's History Month profiles, Nugent talks about producing hits and flops, getting backers, making movies and leveling the playing field for women in theater.