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The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Mara Manus, Executive Director) and New Dramatists (Todd London, Artistic Director; Joel Ruark, Executive Director) will hold a memorial service for the Playwright John Belluso, who died on Friday, February 10, 2006.

February 27 will see the New York Musical Theatre Festival celebrate a birthday of sorts, with its 'Best of Fest Bash' presenting the highlights of their first two big years.

Downtown star Neal Medlyn will perform in Superstar Duets with other performers in Brooklyn throughout the month of March

Complete casting for Romance, starring John Mahoney, has been announced; the play will run at Chicago's David Mamet Festival from April 1st through 23rd at the Goodman Theatre

Leslie Uggams will headline a reading of the classic drama A Raisin in the Sun in Boston on February 27th

Andre Diniz' play Prometheus Passion will run off-Broadway from February 23rd through 25th

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 2/12/2006

Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance! will sweep into Chicago from March 14th through 19th

Solid hits winning acclaim from critics and audiences, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, CHITA RIVERA: THE DANCER'S LIFE, and WICKED will set the stage for the season. A fifth show, still to be announced, will round out the 2006-2007 season.

CHITA RIVERA: THE DANCER'S LIFE, a musical celebrating the life and career of one of America's most beloved stage performers, will play its final performance on Sunday, February 19, 2006, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45 Street).

On March 6th, Lauren Molina and Aaron Lazar will take part in The Composer's Voice: An Evening with Mark Adamo

Operas by composers such as Michael John LaChiusa and Adam Guettel, as well as opera productions helmed by high-profile directors like Mary Zimmerman, are slated to debut at the Met at the end of this decade and the beginning of next

Heather Headley's second album In My Mind has made impressive showings on the Billboard charts

John De Vore's Total Faith in Cosmic Love will run in Brooklyn from March 2nd through April 1st

On February 16th, Dog Sees God playwright Bert V. Royal, as well as performers Ari Graynor and Keith Nobbs, will head to Seth's Broadway Chatterbox

Michael Winther will perform some of the Songs from an Unmade Bed at Joe's Pub on March 17th to celebrate the CD release of the song cycle

Rep Stage presents FULLY COMMITTED Fridays at 8PM ($21), Saturdays at 2:30PM ($15) and 8PM ($24) and Sundays at 2:30PM ($20) and 7:30PM ($17). Student tickets are $12 for any performance (with ID), and group discounts for 6 or more are available. Tickets may be purchased by calling the Box Office at 410-722-4900 or online at www.howardcc.edu/repstage. The theatre is located at Howard Community College, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, MD 21044.