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The Tank Theatre and Fugly Productions presents a punk rock take on the Shakesperean orgy of sex, violence, and cannibalism.

Jersey Boys, the 2006 Best Musical Tony® Award-winner about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, has set a new house record at the August Wilson Theatre for the 14th time, grossing $1,105,859.00 for the week ending August 21

CERVERIS, the cast of Sweeney Todd and theatrical and recording stars Nellie McKay (The Threepenny Opera) and Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening) will perform for one night only at the Bowery Ballroom on Monday, August 21st at 8pm

More casting has been announced for an upcoming Los Angeles production of Urinetown starring Tony Award-winner John Rubinstein in the role of villainous toilet tycoon Caldwell B. Cladwell

Chicago will add two resident productions of Broadway musical--one a little past and one present--to its 2007 theatre season. The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL will present resident stagings of The Producers and Little Women; both will be limited-run

'Broadway Bullet,' a new, weekly theatre podcast that aims to cover the entire spectrum of the New York theatre scene, launched on Wednesday, August 16th with the first of 8 episodes dedicated to covering the New York Musical Theatre Festival

WHO: Spotlighters presents a Baltimore Playwrights Festival Entry WHAT: Hope's Arbor by Rich Espey WHEN: Friday and Saturday at 8PM, August 25 & 26 HOW MUCH: $15/$12 discounts for Seniors, Students and BTA Members.$10.00 discount for BWW readers!

The Fantasticks, currently in previews at New York's new Snapple Theater Center, will open on Wednesday, August 23rd

Richard Griffiths, Tony-winning star of The History Boys, will be featured on 'Charlie Rose' on Tuesday, August 29th

Classic discussions with playwrights Arthur Miller, August Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, Harvey Fierstein, John Guare, Alfred Uhry, and David Henry Hwang are among the newly added treasures available in the American Theatre Wing's online archive of the long-running 'Working in the Theatre' Seminars

Rehearsals began today, Monday, August 21st, for Monty Python's Spamalot, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2005, which comes home to London in October 2006

Broadway and cabaret star Jason Graae will join the San Francisco Opera this fall to play the drunken jailer 'Frosch' in Johann Strauss Jr.s' Die Fledermaus

Jekyll & Hyde: Resurrection, a brand new studio concept recording, will be available on GlobalVision Records starting this Tuesday, August 22

London's National Theatre has announced two literary adaptations for its winter 2006 season--stage versions of Emile Zola's Therese Raquin and of Virginia Woolf's The Waves

The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis has announced that legendary dramatists Neil Simon, Alfred Uhry and Tom Stoppard, whose groundbreaking plays are part of the Guthrie's 2006-07 season, will each visit the theater for speaking engagements this year

The premiere recording of the musical romance Summer of '42--starring Rachel York, Celia Keenan-Bolger and more--will be released by Jay Records in September.

There will be an industry reading of David A. Austin's new musical Writing Arthur on Monday, August 28; it will star Lisa Howard, Nancy Opel and more

The Public Theater's upcoming production of the classic Shakespeare tragedy King Lear--starring Kevin Kline as the proud monarch of the title--has been moved back from fall of 2007 to spring of 2007

The provocative upcoming musical White Noise will be featured on ABC Primetime's hourlong special, 'The Believers,' airing tomorrow night, August 22nd, at 10 p.m. EST