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BroadwayWorld.Baltimore's first contest was a huge success!

Grendel--a new opera directed and co-written by Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor based on the fantastical epic poem Beowulf--will have its Los Angeles Opera premiere at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on June 1st rather than the previously-announced May 27th

Jayne Houdyshell, Jim Dale, Felicia P. Fields and Jason Ritter have been selected as this year's recipients of Actors' Equity Award

Tony Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave will star in the Broadway-bound stage adaptation of The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion's bestselling memoir of loss, grief and healing

Griffin Theatre Company's first world premiere musical is an adaptation of Jane Yolen's book Sleeping Ugly playing at the Theatre Building in Chicago.

Metropolis Performing Arts Center presents a very disappointing version of Larry Shue's Midwestern farce

CanStage's Dream in High Park production this summer is...THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

HELP BUILD THE WORLD'S FIRST SPAM ERECTION...

The legendary Debbie Reynolds will perform in concert at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx on Sunday, June 4th

Agnes of God playwright John Pielmeier's The Classics Professor will receive a fully staged developmental production at CAP21's The Shop from June 1st through 17th

The lead roles of Johnny Castle and Frances 'Baby' Houseman have been cast for the upcoming West End musical Dirty Dancing, which will open in October

Two of the most distinguished men working in theatre--director Trevor Nunn and actor Ian McKellen--will collaborate on a new Royal Shakespeare Company production of Chekhov's The Seagull, which will play in repertory with King Lear at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in September and set off on a world tour in 2007

Euan Morton gave a free performance at Tower Records on Wednesday, May 24th as part of the weekly 'Any Wednesday at Tower' series

Details about 2 local programs for kids with an interest in theatre at Everyman Theatre, and Spotlighters Theatre.

For the month of June, Makor has lined up theatre, cabaret, comedy, burlesque and performance art, including performances by Naked Angels, Marc Salem and Vicki Phillips

Push Productions, Inc. will present Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade from June 1st to July 1st at the Access Theatre Gallery Space

Tails will wag Off-Broadway when a new musical featuring a quintet of canine characters begins previews June 7th and opens June 18th at the 45th Street Theatre

On June 15th, Natasha Katz and Justine Lambert will be honored by the League of Professional Theatre Women