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Bartlett Sher, who has received great acclaim as well as a Tony nomination and Drama Desk Award as Best Director of A Musical for the current Lincoln Center Theater production of South Pacific, will direct the new musical BRUCE LEE: JOURNEY TO THE WEST, to be produced on Broadway by Elephant Eye Theatrical. Joining Sher are Tony nominees David Yazbek (The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) composing the music and writing the lyrics and David Henry Hwang (M Butterfly, Yellow Face) penning the book.

The Drama League (Jano Herbosch, President)announced the recipients of its three annual specialty awards, to be presented along with its five annual production and performance awards at The 74th Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Friday, May 16, 2008 (noon).

Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series, a forum for public discussion between Lincoln Center Theater artists and interested theatergoers, continues its 2007-2008 season on Wednesday, March 26, at 6:00 pm with a pre-performance talk with Bartlett Sher, the director of LCT's new production of 'Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC.'

Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series, a forum for public discussion between Lincoln Center Theater artists and interested theatergoers, continues its 2007-2008 season on Wednesday, March 26, at 6:00 pm with a pre-performance talk with Bartlett Sher, the director of LCT's new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed Tuesday the 79th Academy Awards poster design, which features dozens of the most memorable and quotable lines from motion pictures, including a handful of films adapted from Broadway hits...

Jonathan Rayson, Megan Reinking and more will star in The Children, a musical comedy based on the 1980 B-horror film of the same title that will be performed as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival

The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio will present an interview with Tony Award-nominated Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher on their weekly theatrical interview show, 'Downstage Center,' on XM's On Broadway (XM Channel 28)

The Children, a musical comedy based on the 1980 b-horror film of the same title, will be performed as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival from September 12th through 24th

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.

Bartlett Sher and Michael Yeargan, as part of LCT's Platform Series, will discuss Awake and Sing! on April 20th

Bartlett Sher and Michael Yeargan, as part of LCT's Platform Series, will discuss Awake and Sing! on April 20th

Farm Avenue Productions and Joseph Smith are proud to announce CYCLING PAST THE MATTERHORN, a new play by award-winning playwright Deborah Grimberg, starring Tony Award winner and two-time Academy Award nominee Shirley Knight.

Starring Gabriel Byrne (Cornelius Melody) with Dearbhla Molloy (Nora Melody), Emily Bergl (Sara Melody), John Horton (Nicholas Gadsby), Byron Jennings (Jamie Cregan), Kathryn Meisle (Deborah), Randall Newsome (Paddy O'Dowd), Ciaran O'Reilly (Dan Roche) and Daniel Stewart Sherman (Mickey Maloy).

In the conclusion of BWW's series on groundbreaking women in theater, Rashad sounds off on many subjects...but not her history-making Tony triumph last season.

Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of André Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) will continue its 20th Anniversary season with THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, a new musical with book by Craig Lucas, music and lyrics by Adam Guettel and direction by Bartlett Sher.