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Howie Michael Smith has been announced as the next performer to play purpose-seeking Princeton and fellow puppet Rod in the Broadway production of Avenue Q; he will replace Barrett Foa, who leaves the day before, on July 3rd.

Stephanie J. Block performed a sold-out concert at Birdland on June 27th, and BroadwayWorld caught all the festivities!

Ghostlight Records will release the original cast recording of the hit Off-Broadway meta-musical [title of show] on July 25th.

Broadway L.A. launches its 2006-07 season with the Los Angeles premiere of the Tony Award winning musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels for a two week run this summer (August 15-27) at the Pantages Theatre. Headlining the engagement is Norbert Leo Butz who recreates his Tony Award winning role as Freddy Benson.

The cast & crew of Indian Blood, opening Off-Broadway on August 9th, took part in a meet & greet on June 27th

Following last summer's success with The Last Five Years, the 2005 inaugural show for Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy in Raleigh, NC, the professional summer-series theatre company will present Songs for a New World

The Who's Tommy will be presented by the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, Long Island from June 13th through July 9th.

The current national tour of Annie will play the Theater at Madison Square Garden for a limited holiday run from December 6th through December 30th

The Clean House, the much-produced Sarah Ruhl play about the messiness of life, is now set to have its previously announced New York premiere at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, where it will begin previews on October 5th, open on October 30th and run through December 17th

Tony Award-winning Grey Gardens star Christine Ebersole will treat fans to a September 18th concert to benefit the Actors' Fund of America

'Broadway Under the Stars,' a tribute to Harold Prince featuring a galaxy of Broadway's brightest, took place on Monday, June 26th at Central Park's Great Lawn at 8 PM, and BroadwayWorld was there!

The American Theatre Wing's Acting: Working in the Theatre (Continuum International Publishing Group/The K.S. Giniger Company Inc.; $14.95; paperback), a collection of advice and anecdotes from a chorus line of the stage's biggest stars, will be available in bookstores on June 30, 2006

Producers Kevin Wallace and Saul Zaentz, in association with David & Ed Mirvish and Michael Cohl, announced today that The Lord of the Rings will complete its Toronto engagement on Sunday, September 3, 2006 at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre.

On Sundays, July 9 and 16th at 7pm, The Storefront will salute one of Broadway and the recording world's greatest and most treasured voices, the late Laurie Beechman, with Memories of Laurie: The Storefront Sings Beechman

For Martha Clarke's upcoming production of Pirandello Project, the inaugural Tony Randall Grant was presented to the New York Theatre Workshop on June 21st at Sardi's

To glowing reviews, the London revival of Evita opened at the Adelphi Theatre on June 21 after beginning previews on June 2.

Sallie Bingham's historical play 'Treason' delights audiences as the Perry Street Theatre's final performance

'Don't Quit Your Night Job' featured an evening of improv, music, original sketch comedy and backstage anecdotes which benefited Wendy Wasserstein's Open Doors program.

Married couple and frequent co-stars Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley are set to perform a one-night-only concert in Los Angeles as part of the Reprise! Broadway's Best series on August 13th at the Ford Amphitheatre at 7:30 PM

The Williamstown Theatre Festival is about to launch Anything Goes, its first Main Stage production of the season; erformances are Wednesday, July 5 through Sunday, July 16

Nilaja Sun's hit solo play No Child...will begin performances at the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street at 7th Ave.) on July 8th for a July 16th opening and an open-ended run