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Award-winning host Scott Nevins returned to Caroline's on Broadway with The Scott Nevins Variety Hour on September 21st with Susan Lucci, Melba Moore and more...

The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre is joining forces with the unlikeliest of bedfellows - The NY Musical Theatre Festival. In an effort to prove that musical theatre can be both funny and hip at the same time, the NYMF and UCBT have created The Musical Comedy Series.

Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director of Amas Musical Theatre, announced the company will produce its third 'BLAST FROM THE PAST' Benefit on Monday, November 14th featuring a 90 minute concert presentation of the hit Broadway musical 'DAMN YANKEES', set for the first time in the Negro Baseball Leagues.

The Manhattan Theatre Club production of the Alan Ayckbourn comedy ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR begins performances tonight in preparation for a Tuesday, October 18 opening at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street).

Rob Evan, Ron Bohmer, Terri Ivens, Leven Rambin are just a few stars set for a benefit for The Jane Elissa/Charlotte Meyers Endowment Fund for Leukemia/Lymphoma Research and Other Charitable Causes.

This fall, cries ofrevolt rock the Roman Capitol - and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey- in Shakespeare's brilliant political thriller, Julius Caesar. Loyalty,honor and betrayal collide in this searing tale of revolution, in which omensof doom and deadly conspiracies erupt into civil war, and leaders rise and falllike the tides.

Justin Bohon and Tyler Maynard will make appearances in Tori Ross' cabaret show Rejected Showgirl on October 16th and 17th

Kelli O'Donnell (formerly Carpenter) will discuss Rosie's and her Project Katrina relief efforts as well as Rosie's All Kids Foundation

Rob Evan has been cast as King Solomon in the musical Sheba, which will receive staged readings by the Amas Six O'Clock Musical Theatre Lab as part of the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival

Brent Barrett, Jeff Blumenkrantz and Johnny Rodgers turned out to Jim Caruso's Cast Party on September 19th

Raymond Alvin's nostalgic solo show Stealing Home will run off-off-Broadway through October 8th

Suzanne Bradbeer's play The Roof runs off-Broadway through October 1st in its New York premiere

Amas Musical Theatre will host Conversations, a series of panel discussions about a career in musical theatre, throughout the month of October

The Broadway Kisses: How Much Do You Love NY Theatre Sweepstakes, which offers fans the chance to win theatre-related prizes, launches today, September 22nd, with winners to be announced on October 21st

people like Us, a new musical by Todd Almond and Gus Kaikkonen, will be featured this month during the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Matt Bogart, recently seen on Broadway as Radames in AIDA and in Smokey Joe's Café, will star in the production opposite fellow University of Cincinnati - College Conservatory of Music graduate Pamela Bob.

Jason Robert Brown offers his latest musings about his current goings on.

John Rubinstein, Michael York and opera star Suzanna Guzman will join Anne Heche, Christian Slater and other stars in the October 2nd LA Actors' Fund benefit reading of Casablanca

Joel Hirschhorn, whose collaborations with Al Kasha netted two Oscars and two Tony nominations and who was a Variety theatre critic and author, has passed away at the age of 67

A number of Wicked packages are being auctioned off to benefit Hurricane Katrina victims

An extra performance on September 30th has been added to the sold-out run of the NYMF hit Richard Cory