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Theater veteran Robert R. Oliver will step into the role of Mortimer in the new production of The Fantasticks for six-weeks, as MacIntyre Dixon recuperates from a torn achilles tendon

Ruby Dee, Amiri Baraka and more will take part in the Rebel Theater Company's anniversary benefit 'A Night of Artistic Inspiration'

The eight young actors playing the titular boys in Alan Bennett's Tony Award winning The History Boys on Broadway will be featured in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine

Tony Award-winner Bill Irwin's new work The Happiness Lecture will be developed by the Philadelphia Theatre Company, which has been awarded a $160,000 grant that will go towards honing the piece

The Houston Shakespeare Festival will open its 32nd season July 29 with The Tempest, starring septuagenarian actor Ken Ruta

Applications for the first year composer/lyricist class of the 2006-2007 BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop are being accepted through August 1st

Carolee Carmello, Ron Bohmer, Beth Fowler, Brian Noonan, Mary Stout and Tina Johnson will star in The Night of the Hunter at the New York Musical Theatre Festival from September 26th through October 1st

On Tuesday, August 1st at 7 PM, musical theatre authority--and creator of Musicals101.com--John Kenrick will discuss the career of Angela Lansbury as the final talk in his 'Musical Conversations' series with 'The Leading Ladies.'

The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio will present an interview with three-time Tony Award-nominee Harry Groener on their weekly theatrical interview show, 'Downstage Center,' on XM's On Broadway on July 28th

The Summer Play Festival has announced the performance schedule for its final weekend

William Mastrosimone's A Stone Carver, starring Dan Lauria, opened Off-Broadway on July 27th

PS Classics, the label dedicated to celebrating the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, has announced plans to release Charlotte Rae's much-loved 1955 solo album, 'Songs I Taught My Mother,' for the first time on CD

Kieran Culkin will return to the stage in Eric Bogosian's SubUrbia, which will be presented by Second Stage Theatre beginning in September

The hit Donmar Warehouse production of John Mortimer's A Voyage Around My Father, starring Olivier Award- and Tony Award-winner Derek Jacobi, will transfer to the West End

Oscar-nominee Kristin Scott Thomas will return to the London stage in the Royal Court Theatre's revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull

Reviews of three original cast recordings