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More casting has been announced for the upcoming London limited engagement revival of Show Boat, featuring Elena Shaddow

Grendel--a new opera directed and co-written by by Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor based on the fantastical epic poem--will have its L.A. Opera premiere at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on May 27th

Ken Kleiber of That's Kentertainment brings us one-on-one with the diva herself, Patti LuPone.

On June 4th, Sweeney Todd star Donna Lynne Champlin will perform an encore concert at Ars Nova

The New York Musical Theatre Festival is pleased to announce the 18 new musicals selected for this year's Next Link Project, to be presented as part of the third-annual New York Musical Theatre Festival, September 10 through October 1, 2006.

Studio Theatre's production of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's Caroline, or Change is uneven with its staging, but its performances accent the power and compassion of an almost-great musical

Apple.com and iTunes will launch a brand new behind-the-scenes video featurette on May 22.

The 51st Annual Drama Desk Awards were presented on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 9:00 PM, at the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. The annual awards honor excellence in theater for Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway during the season.

In place of John Hill, who will be shooting a TV pilot for MTV, Scott Nevins and Natalie Joy Johnson will perform at the Duplex on May 22nd

The song list has been announced for the six-day series 'My Broadway Debut,' which will give ten drama students a chance to make their Broadway dream come true on CBS' 'The Early Show.'

Orfeh, Andy Karl and Jeremy Kushnier will star in Paul Scott Goodman's Bright Lights, Big City at the Prince Music Theatre in Philadelphia from June 14th through July 2nd

WHO: Everyman Theatre WHAT: George Bernard Shaw’s Candida WHEN: now through June 25th, Tues. –Thurs. 7:30PM, Fri. & Sat. 8PM, Sat. & Sun. 2:30PM HOW MUCH: $18-$28, depending upon performance time, discounts available to Seniors 62+ on Wed. Eve. And Sat. Mat.

Joan Ryan, Kathy Buckley and Amick Byram are among the performers who will take center stage at Stirling's Upstairs in L.A.

RENT, the critically acclaimed Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway musical written by Jonathan Larson and directed by Michael Greif that inspired a major motion picture (which was filmed recently in the Bay Area), returns to San Francisco. RENT, celebrating its 10th anniversary on Broadway, is presented as a special attraction on the 2005-2006 Best of Broadway season brought to you by Citibank, under the direction of Carole Shorenstein Hays.

Press attending this year's Cannes Film Festival were given an opportunity to see 20 minutes of never-before-seen footage from the film, which opens in the United States this Holiday season.

'The Grand Seducers: Giovanni Meets Xi-men Qing,' a new East-West fusion opera, makes its world premiere at San Francisco's Chinese Culture Center this weekend, May 18th through 20th, starring Tony Award-winner Eugene Brancoveanu.

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming production of John Weidman and Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, presented at Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA from May 30-July 16