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The Miami Herald has reported the sudden closing of the historic Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, Florida; a board of directors meeting will discuss the theatre's fate tomorrow

The Roundabout Theatre Company's 40th Anniversary season continues with NPR's 'Morning Edition' on Saturday, April 15 on WNYC-FM (93.9); the program will include interviews with Todd Haimes, Harry Connick Jr., Alan Cumming, Scott Elliott, Ana Gasteyer and Wallace Shawn

Actors James Earl Jones and Actors' Fund President Brian Stokes Mitchell Stokes will be on hand at 12 noon on Monday, April 17, for the official groundbreaking of The Actors' Fund of America expansion and renovation project at The Lillian Booth Actors' Home in Englewood, New Jersey.

The producers of Martin McDonagh's Olivier Award-winning play, THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE, are offering special Student Rush Tickets to the critically acclaimed new comedy that moves to Broadway's Lyceum Theatre.

On April 26th, Tony-nominee Robert Cuccioli, Tyler Maynard and Kate Wetherhead will headline Stuck in the Zipper, a benefit concert at the Zipper Theatre featuring new songs by composers Joe Drymala and Eric Svejca

Ethan Frome: An American Romance - a new musical based on the classic 1911 novella by Edith Wharton - will receive its first staged reading at The York Theatre on Tuesday, May 9th at 3 PM and 7:30 PM

The MCC Theater Youth Company will present Uncensored, their 5th annual spring presentation of original performances by New York City Youth; the event will take place on April 27, April 28 and April 29 at 7pm (three performances only) at the Clurman Theatre - Theatre Row

F. Murray Abraham, Penny Arcade, Joe Franklin and others will take part in the 11th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts from May 26th through 28th

Stephanie Klapper, the New York City casting director, will be the the next 'Shop Talk' guest on Monday, April 17th at the Drama Book Shop

Claudia Dey's award-winning Canadian play Trout Stanley will have its American premiere off-Broadway from May 19th through June 11th

John Kander recently paid a visit to Karen Akers at the Oak Room, where she is performing her new cabaret First You Dream: The Songs of Kander and Ebb

Marc Kudisch and Judy Kaye have signed on to headline the Reprise! Broadway's Best staged concert production of the Kander and Ebb musical Zorba from May 2nd through 14th at the UCLA Freud Playhouse

When the show makes its Las Vegas debut, it will be the only production of the hit Broadway musical west of the Mississippi.

WHO: Maureen McGovern and the First National Touring Company WHAT: Little Women: The Musical WHEN: Now through April 23rd HOW MUCH: $24 - $69 + $2 restoration fee

Fasten your seatbelts for a bumpy cross-country ride

Jennifer Holliday will serve as co-host of the Black 2 Broadway event--honoring Tony Award winners of color--on June 11th

Rebecca Pitcher will succeed Sandra Joseph as angelic-voiced Christine Daae in the Broadway company of The Phantom of the Opera on April 17th

The 2006 Brits Off Broadway festival will welcome the NY premiere of the critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Sebastian Haffner's memoir Defying Hitler, which will begin previews at 59E59 Theaters on Tuesday, May 2nd through a limited engagement through Sunday, May 21st; the show will open on May 7th at 6 PM