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A rare opportunity to see the prize-winning author of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, A DELICATE BALANCE and many other acclaimed plays.

HAIR no longer shocks or titillates, and given the uninspired staging on view here, offers little true entertainment value. * 1/2 (Out of 5)

North Shore Music Theatre's adaptation of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross' all American musical comedy may give Boston fans something to cheer about, but switching the hapless Senators into the hapless Red Sox oddly robs the show of a lot of its heart

Patrick Wetzel was chosen as The Drowsy Chaperone's recipient of the Gypsy Robe at the Marquis Theatre on May 1st

Wendell Pierce and J. Kyle Manzay will headline the Classical Theatre of Harlem's Waiting for Godot, running from May 18th through June 25th

Manoel Felciano--who plays Toby in the smash Sweeney Todd revival-will perform an additional concert at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St.) on June 4th.

The 21st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Oustanding Achievement Off-Broawday were presented on Monday, May 1st at New World Stages (formerly Dodger Stages, 340 West 50th Street) at 7 PM.

Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman join The Civilian’s line-up of musical guests for PATRIOT ACTS: AN AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE a one-night-only benefit concert on Monday, May 8th.

After The Broadway Musicals of 1968, cast members such as Annie Golden, Jack Noseworthy and director Brad Oscar gathered for a celebration at Tony's, and BroadwayWorld was there!

Adam Feldman, president of the New York Drama Critics' Circle (NYDCC), announced today that the Circle will meet at the offices of Time Out New York magazine on Thursday, May 11, to select the winners of the 70th annual New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, which will be announced at approximately 7pm, immediately following the meeting.

Darius de Haas, Jason Graae, Mary Cleere Haran, Mary Testa, and Karen Ziemba performed the songs of Cole Porter in the New York Festival of Song's benefit concert Let's Do It!, which was presented on Monday, May 1st at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall

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Tony Award-winner Norbert Leo Butz has told the New York Daily News that after his contract with Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ends in July, he is most likely going to hit the road as brash con artist Freddy Benson

Malcolm Gets and Jesse Tyler Ferguson will be featured in Out on Stage, a benefit for the New York City Gay Men's Chorus on May 8th

Tyne Daly will host the Manhattan Theatre Club's Annual Spring Gala on May 15th

'Stars in the Alley' will be presented on June 7th, while 'Broadway on Broadway' is set for September 10th

A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Night of the Iguana, Baby Doll and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone--six films featuring the poetic writing of Tennessee Williams--will be included in a new DVD set that will be released on May 2nd by Warner Home Video