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Gypsy, starring Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone in the towering role of Rose, played from August 11th through August 13th at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago

DreamWorks Studios announced today that Johnny Depp has been set to star and Tim Burton to direct Sweeney Todd, the award-winning Stephen Sondheim musical thriller

John C. Reilly will headline the cast of Heather Woodbury's Tale of 2Cities: An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks, a two-part epic that will be seen in separate performances at P.S. 122 from October 12th through 29th.

A new production of the Tennessee Williams classic Summer and Smoke, starring stage and screen star Rosamund Pike, will drift to the West End in October after playing at the Nottingham Playhouse

School Daze - a new comedy mixing Mozart and Tchaikovsky with a 1980s high school dance - will receive its world premiere at 37 Arts Theatre (450 W. 37th St.) as part of the third annual New York Music Theatre Festival on September 21

New Voice Theatre, a non-profit theatre company in Cinncinati, Ohio will present Journey to the West, an epic story set to premiere at the New York Musical Theatre Festival this fall.

Jor-El Productions will present A Bard's Day's Night ('s Dream) by Jory Levine at the American Theatre of Actors (ATA - 314 West 54th St.) beginning September 7th and ending October 1st.

Daphne Rubin-Vega, Amy Spanger, Eden Espinosa and more are lined up for the 'Songs for Soraya' benefit, presented by the cast of Rent, on August 27th

The Atlantic Theater Company will presents it second musical, a show with songs by country star Patty Griffin, in June of 2007

Eartha Kitt will star with Annie Golden and others in Mimi le Duck this fall at New World Stages and is also likely to appear in the Westport Country Playhouse's production of the Kander and Ebb musical All About Us

Pizzarelli and his Big Band came out swingin' in their salute to Sinatra and the 1956 movie, 'High Society'.

In her first outing at the JVC Jazz Festival - Newport, Jane Monheit created her own Newport moment

Special Guest Star Annie Golden will appear Saturday, August 19th in Dog Run Rep's Into the Weeds - Selections from the Bill Weeden Songbook, a musical revue conceived and directed by Jeff Cohen that has been extended through September 30th

The hit Off Broadway production of Nilaja Sun's No Child... has announced a new schedule for performances beginning the week of September 4, 2006 to allow for a weekday student matinee

The musical [title of show] - one of the hits of the summer theatre season - has extended its Off-Broadway run 3 more weeks through October 1 at the Vineyard Theatre

Nancy Anderson's Monday night concert at Birdland on August 14th celebrated the release of her new CD, 'Ten Cents A Dance,' and brought out scores of cheering friends, family and former coworkers