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The 50th anniversary production of the epochal Beckett play Waiting for Godot will open off-Broadway on November 16th

The national tour of Wicked will play an extra engagement in Seattle from September 20th through October 1st, 2006

Brian Stokes Mitchell will serve as a narrator in Rip Van Winkle and Other Musical Tales on November 20th at the Kennedy Center

On November 3rd, Audra McDonald will perform her concert Mostly Arlen...All Audra on December 3rd at the New York Festival of Song

Patrick Stewart will take his acclaimed solo version of A Christmas Carol to London this holiday season

American Idol finalist Jennifer Hudson will play Effie in the upcoming film version of Dreamgirls

A new version of Rick Crom's Drama Desk nominated topical musical revue Newsical 2006: The Next Edition, is coming to New York City for two weeks only after a nation wide tour and critically acclaimed sit-down productions in Denver and Provincetown. Performances for this limited engagement starring John Tartaglia will be at the Village theatre (located at 158 Bleecker Street between Thompson and Sullivan).

The 3rd Annual Blast from the Past Gala Benefit took place on Monday, November 14th presenting an all-star concert of Damn Yankees set in the Negro Leagues, and more!

A host of talented, hot and hip young stage, film and television actors star in DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD, a new play by Bert V. Royal, beginning previews December 1st and opening December 15th Off-Broadway.

On a break from rehearsals, Secret Garden Concert cast members, Laura Benanti, Will Chase, Max von Essen, Steven Pasquale and Jaclyn Neidenthal spent a day in the park with Director Stafford Arima.

'Don't Cry For' National Tour of Evita

Heart, humor, fun and flesh get a rise out of the women - and some men - at the grand re-opening of the renowned Massachusetts theater-in-the-round

Connie Grappo is the new artistic director of the Working Theater

Voting is now open for the Dance on Broadway contest hosted by Marie Claire; the winner makes his/her Bway debut in Sweet Charity

The Phantom of the Opera will become the longest-running Broadway musical in history on January 9th, 2006

The Color Purple, starring LaChanze, is currently in previews at the Broadway theatre

On Monday night, November 14th the William Morris Agency celebrated the start of the new theatre season, and the Actors' Fund with a star-studded party at nighttime hot spot PROVIDENCE.

BroadwayWorld takes a peek at Irving Berlin's White Christmas, currently running at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre (1192 Market St. at 8th).

The four-member cast of LATINOLOGUES welcomes a fifth when ultra sexy Latin star Jaime Camil joins the company on Friday, November 25th at the Helen Hayes Theatre.

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 11/13/2005

The Dirty Rotten Producers are proud to announce that their Tony Award-winning star, Norbert Leo Butz, has extended his contract, and will continue with the hit show through July, 2006.

Julliard students will be coached by Barbara Cook in a December 1st master class that is free and open to the public