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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Sean Leonard have been added to the star-filled cast of Symphony Space's Shakespeare birthday celebration marathon on April 23rd

Seats in the front two rows of the orchestra will be made available for $22.50 for every performance of Rent, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical, at the Cadillac Palace Theatre from April 5th through 15th

A cast recording of the York Theatre Company's musical Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story is now available online

Broadway legends Stephen Sondheim and Bernadette Peters--who worked together on Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods--will appear in a May 4th benefit for Sondheim's organization Young Playwrights Inc

On April 1st, the American Theatre Critics Association presented ACTA Awards to Lee Blessing, Adam Rapp and the late August Wilson at the renowned Humana Festival in Louisville, KY

'All Aboard!: Rosie's Family Cruise,' HBO's documentary about the historic cruise for gay people and their families that Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell launched in summer of 2004, will have its premiere on April 6th

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 4/2/2006

Petula Clark's recent performance at Mohegan Sun Cabaret was a show by the numbers. The numbers include a 90-minute performance, 5 sustained, standing ovations, and 3 encores.

Phylicia Rashad will be among the honorees of the National Corporate Theatre Fund's April 10th gala and benefit

Jason Antoon, Nancy Anderson, James Badge Dale, John Lavelle and Ashley Williams will join previousy-announced 'Just Shoot Me' star Wendie Malick in the New York premiere of Roger Kirby's Burleigh Grime$, opening Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at New World Stages

John Lithgow will pair up with fellow theatre star Jeffrey Tambor for a new NBC comedy pilot called 'Twenty Good Years'

David Hare's acclaimed political drama Stuff Happens has been extended at the Public Theater through May 28th

The cast and creators of the Off-Broadway meta-musical [title of show]--Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen, Susan Blackwell and Heidi Blickenstaff--will be featured at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox on April 6th

Flyer, The Musical is one of four shows selected for Oklahoma City University's 'Stripped' New Musicals Project on April 23rd

The musical The Girl in the Frame will be among the works presented as part of MTC's 6@7 readings series on April 10th

The Actors' Fund of America will celebrate Shakespeare's 442nd birthday at noon on Monday, April 17, with a birthday party and groundbreaking ceremony at The Lillian Booth Actors' Home, the New Jersey residence for retired entertainment professionals; James Earl Jones and Brian Stokes Mitchell will take part in the festivities

Emmett Foster, Rich Merritt , Sean Kennedy and Robert Kahn will join Steven Fales, author and star of the hit Off-Broadway solo play Confessions of a Mormon Boy, on April 10th, April 17th, April 24th, and May 1st, respectively, for post-show talkbacks

The Broadway Musicals of 1956, the latest edition of the Broadway by the Year series and directed by Tony-nominee Emily Skinner, will take place at Town Hall on Monday, April 3rd

Kelli O'Hara, Harry Connick Jr. and Alan Cumming will be among the many stars performing at the Roundabout Theatre Company's 2006 spring gala on April 3rd

The Flying Fig Theater offers up a new twist to American history

Honoring the legacy of its founder, the late Frederic B. Vogel, The Commercial Theater Institute will once again offer its annual three-day intensive training program, 'Producing for the Commercial Theater,' from April 28th through 30th.