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On March 22nd, after the TV Land Awards, Bebe Neuwirth will be featured in a live video chat hosted by Scott Nevins

The Chicago production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has initiated a rush ticket lottery

Altar Boyz' next Matthew will be announced on the Today Show on March 21st

The Roundabout Theatre Company's 2006 spring gala will be a starry one, with The Pajama Game stars Kelli O'Hara and Harry Connick Jr. and The Threepenny Opera star Alan Cumming among those set to perform; the event will take place on Monday, April 3rd at Chelsea Piers at 7pm

On April 20th, Cynthia Nixon and the late Wendy Wasserstein will be honored at the T. Schreiber Studio's luncheon; Julie Halston will host

I Love You Because will offer the talkback 'He Said...She Said' on March 30th; it will feature advice from relationship experts Ian Kerner and Jillian Strauss

Ken Page and Natascia Diaz were among the winners of the first annual Kevin Kline Awards for St. Louis theatre

Nancy Anderson, Jill Paice and Douglas Sills--times eight--will headline the Huntington Theatre's staged reading of Steven Lutvak and Robert Freedman's new musical Kind Hearts and Coronets, which will be presented at the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion in Boston on April 6th

React, Seattle's only Multi-ethnic Theatre Company opens its 2006 season with To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

Fran Drescher has signed on to the starry cast of MCC's upcoming production of Some Girl(s) by Neil LaBute

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A New Two-Theatre Complex in Shirleyton, VA Opens in September, 2006

Plays by Bruce Norris, Tanya Barfield, David Cale, Richard Nelson and A.R. Gurney will be presented as part of Playwrights Horizons' 2006-2007 season

Martin Richards, one of the producers of the Oscar-winning Chicago movie and the head of Producer Circle Co., has hit Miramax Film Corps with a $10 million lawsuit

The acclaimed new Broadway production of SWEENEY TODD, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has recouped its entire $3.5 million investment in just 19 weeks (as of week ending 3/12/06), it was announced Tuesday by the show's producers.

The Mayor's office announced today that The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, the NYC Department of Sanitation, and Waste Management, Inc. in conjunction with Keep America Beautiful have joined with the long-running New York hit, STOMP, to create a series of compelling and percussive public service announcements, as well as subway, bus and other outdoor print ads under the banner STOMP OUT LITTER.

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial will begin previews on Friday, April 14 at The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street). The show will open on Sunday, May 7th at 7 PM.