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Val Kilmer is the latest movie star to take to the London stage in a stage adaptation of 'The Postman Always Rings Twice'

On Monday night, April 11, 2005 stars came out as the Roundabout honored Stephen Sondheim.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey announced that single tickets to its 2005 Main Stage and Outdoor Stage season will go on sale Friday, April 22 - the eve of the Bard's 441st birthday.

The Broadway vet will present an evening of Broadway standards and popular songs entitled 'Just Chillin' on May 9 at 7pm and 9:30pm.

The Irish Repertory Theater (132 West 22nd St.) will present Oliver Goldsmith's comedy SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER with previews beginning on Thursday May 5, 2005. Opening May 12th and running through June 26, 2005, Charlotte Moore will direct.

Evidently, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa loves pulp.

R&B diva Beyonce Knowles is in negotiations to co-star in the upcoming film version of the music world saga Dreamgirls

Reefer Madness will premiere on Showtime on Saturday, April 16 at 8pm ET/PT. BroadwayWorld was there for the film's NY premiere on April 10.

James Morgan, The York Theatre Company's Producing Artistic Director, today announced that Matt Bauer and Heath Calvert have been cast as the two infamous teen killers in the theatre's upcoming production of Stephen Dolginoff's Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story, directed by Michael Rupert.

Audra McDonald will star in a special two performance concert of the First Lady Suite by Michael John LaChiusa.

Derby Playhouse present Stephen Sondheim's insight into the complexities of modern relationships, Company, directed by Karen Louise Hebden.

This week on THAT'S KENTERTAINMENT! Ken brings you Karen Mason, Baby Jane Dexter and a special guest appearance by Julie Wilson!

Greg Jbara is currently starring as Andre in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and we sat down recently in his dressing room to speak about the show, his career, his love of New York and lots more…

Pittsburgh CLO is proud to announce that Summer Season 2005 will feature a talented array of the entertainment industry's most respected and sought after performers.

Some of Broadway's finest take over Sarofim Hall stage on Thursday, April 28 to salute one of Broadway's most prolific writing teams, John Kander and Fred Ebb, during Theatre Under The Stars' 2005 American Musical Theatre Awards. The longest-running music-and-lyrics partnership in Broadway musical history, Kander and Ebb have created such revered musicals as Chicago, Cabaret, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Steel Pier, among others.

Genet's absurdist classic gets a Queens revival that is a little too realistic for its own good.

The New York Festival of Song, with Artistic Director Steven Blier and Associate Artistic Director Michael Barrett, closes its 17th season on Wednesday, May 11th with LOST TRIBES OF VAUDEVILLE, at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, 129 West 67th St., beginning at 8 p.m.

Broadway great George S. Irving is featured in Musical Tonight!'s staged reading of this 1909 Straus operetta

Noted British actress/director/writer Maria Aitkin directs Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) in Terence Rattigan's Man & Boy, which takes place on the eve of a giant merger. Gregor Antonesco, the world's greatest financier, manipulates his estranged son, an obscure jazz composer, into unwittingly playing a part in the old man's latest ethically-questionable business venture.

Sharon pulls out of Vagina due to daughter's breast cancer scare, Brooke paints the town red and Anthony Andrews replaces Michael Ball. Plus lots of transfer news!

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Drama Desk Awards this year, the Drama Desk will play host to seven past Drama Desk Award winners (each a multiple winner and/or nominee) at the Awards' 50th anniversary luncheon at Sardi's Restaurant, 234 West 44th Street, on Friday, April 15, at 12 noon. The guest honorees, all of whom are currently represented on the Broadway stage, include: Tom Aldredge (Twelve Angry Men), Cleavant Derricks (Brooklyn), Cherry Jones (Doubt), John Lithgow (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), William Ivey Long (costumes, Sweet Charity, La Cage aux Folles,) David Rabe (playwright, Hurlyburly) and Frances Sternhagen (Steel Magnolias).

A talkback series entitled AFTERWORDS begins at the Off-Broadway hit Orson's Shadow on Wednesday, April 13th and continues each Wednesday night thereafter, with Q&A sessions immediately following 8:00 PM performances.

Forty $40 tickets will go on sale on Monday, April 11 at 6pm, two hours before show time.