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Opening the 22nd season at Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) is the world premiere of the new play Indian Blood by A.R. Gurney.

Ralph Bryan, President of the Board of Trustees of La Jolla Playhouse, today announced that Artistic Director Des McAnuff has accepted a position as one of three Artistic Directors at Canada's prestigious Stratford Festival, effective 2008.

J. Robert Spencer, currently starring as Nick Massi in JERSEY BOYS, one of the hottest show on Broadway, is sponsoring a mentoring program for an aspiring male actor from the Red Bank Regional High School in Little Falls, New Jersey.

With the roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd and the hope of a multitude stampeding the box office begging for tickets - not to mention numerous standing ovations at every performance - the Midtown International Theatre Festival is back for its seventh incarnation (MITF7).

Malik Yoba will star opposite previously announced Tony Award-nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega (Bernarda Alba, Rent) in the New Group's production of Zvi Rosenfeld's Everything's Turning Into Beautiful, which will run from July 17th through August 26th at the Acorn Theatre in Theatre Row

Amelia Campbell and more have joined the July and August summer-line up of the Berkshire Theatre Festival

The cast and crew of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris celebrated the show's 100th performance on June 25th at Camino Sur Restaurant

Broadway Under the Stars, featuring a galaxy of Broadway's brightest, will take place on Monday, June 26th at Central Park's Great Lawn at 8 PM

'High School Musical's Zac Efron has been cast as dance show prince Link Larkin in the upcoming film version of Hairspray

Brent Barrett, known for his romantic presence and ravishing tenor has played many roles--but never before has he brought down the world's most famous chandelier

Ok PHANTOM 'Phans'... I have found your nirvana...and you can find it at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, where I attended the lavish opening of PHANTOM: The Las Vegas Spectacular last night (Saturday, June 24th at 7pm).

'The H.E.L.P. Fundraiser' was held at Cipriani's on 42nd Street on Thursday, June 22 with Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and distinguished circus performers!

Baltimore's Cockpit in Court Shows Chutzpah in Presenting Yazbek Musical.

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