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Movie star Bruce Willis has expressed an interest in flexing his acting muscles--on the stage

The first season of the cult hit television miniseries 'Slings & Arrows' co-created by THE DROWSY CHAPERONE's Tony Award winning creators Bob Martin and Don McKellar will be released on DVD today by Acorn Media.

With the success of this year's $ELLOUT FESTIVAL, The Brick Theater, Inc. is proud to continue this year's most artistically void summer festival throughout the summer, with the extension of several shows.

Summer Play Festival (SPF) provides 15 emerging playwrights a chance to present their work at Theatre Row throughout July.

Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) Off-Broadway production of PIG FARM opens tonight, June 27th.

DOUBT, the winner of the 2005 Tony Award® and Pulitzer Prize for Best Play, will complete its triumphant Broadway run this Sunday, July 2. DOUBT, which is written by John Patrick Shanley and directed by Doug Hughes, will have played 525 performances, and 25 previews at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street). When it completes its run, DOUBT will be the fifth longest running play of the past 10 years.

Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series, a forum for public discussion between Lincoln Center Theater artists and interested theatergoers, will end its 2005-2006 season on Wednesday, June 28, at 6:30 pm with a pre-performance talk with the Tony Award-winning playwright, Richard Greenberg, whose play The House in Town opens at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on Monday, June 19.

Jerome Walden's BULLY, a play based on the life of Theodore Roosevelt, produced by Double W Productions, will open on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at the Irish Arts Center (553 West 51st St.) Previews begin patriotically, on July 4th.

Michael Munoz announced today that Edges, a work by up and coming musical theatre writers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, will be performed in its entirety at the Duplex on Christopher Street on Thursday and Friday, July 6 and 7 at 7 p.m. This is only the second time it has been performed in its entirety in New York City.

On Sunday 16th July, the King?s Head Theatre Islington will present a very special musical tribute Gala to the theatre?s founder, entrepreneur and producer, Dan Crawford who died last July at the age of 62.

The critically lambasted LORD OF THE RINGS walked off with 7 Dora awards (named for Dora Mavor Moore) handed out Monday June 26 at Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre.

The Petersons, whose mixture of folk rock music and character-based comedy have made them one of downtown's favorite rock and roll families, are back for a one-night-only appearance at Joe's Pub, Monday, July 10 at 9:30pm.

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Kathryn Lipuma, Executive Director) announces complete casting for SEVEN GUITARS, the first play of its 2006-2007 three-play tribute to the works of August Wilson.

Drew Sarich, who played Armand in Broadway's Lestat, will succeed Rodney Hicks in the Off-Broadway revival of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris on July 7th

Anna Manahan, who won a Tony Award for her work as the brutal mother in The Beauty Queen of Leenane, will play both title roles of Declan Hassett's Sisters, which will be seen at 59E59 Theaters from September 12th through October 15th

International star of stage and screen Ian McKellen will present his one-man entertainment A Knight Out in Los Angeles at The Freud Playhouse on UCLA campus on July 22 and July 23 to benefit The Los Angeles Young Actors' Company

The plays and musicals that will be included in the 2006 New York International Fringe Festival have been announced on the organization's website

Jessica Molaskey talks about Broadway, jazz, and the marriage of art and artists.

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 6/25/2006