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The Fred Ebb Foundation (Mitchell Bernard, Trustee) in association with the Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) are pleased to announce the inauguration of the Fred Ebb Award for aspiring musical theatre songwriters. The award is named in honor of the late award-winning lyricist Fred Ebb.

The ScotArts Party is the first event to celebrate the second annual Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters

- The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director), in association with Jim Kierstead, will present the Off Broadway premiere of Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story, a new musical by Stephen Dolginoff based on the infamous 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, beginning May 16, 2005

All-star cast including original stars Jessica Molaskey, Andrea Burns, Brooks Ashmanskas and many more to sing 'Songs For A New World' backed by a 90-piece Orchestra.

Written and performed by: a credit that suggests the profound artistic commitment of the solo performer to the creation of a project. Yet one-person shows are rarely individual efforts, being instead a collaborative voyage between a writer-performer and a host of people from theatre professionals to creative muses to friendly well-wishers.

New plays often originate from monologues, and the Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis is the creative home for hundreds of playwrights whose work is produced throughout the country. Kristen Gandrow and Polly Carl work with these exciting dramatists each day, and they have collected a broad range of monologues by Center writers for you to perform and enjoy.

Stage and Screen star Susan Egan will perform a few songs and sign copies of her latest CD, 'Coffee House' on April 22.

The New Season, a series of concerts at Birdland featuring top Broadway performers and composers, continues, with Laurence O'Keefe.

Filling the final slot of their 2004/05 season, Keen Company will revive Sutton Vane's 1924 Broadway hit OUTWARD BOUND.

The star-studded Actors' Fund reading of Casablance takes place on Sunday, May 1st in Los Angeles.

The new national touring production is playing a limited 2-week engagement at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood from April 5-17.

The best of cabaret, comedy and jazz will be celebrated when the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) presents the 2005 MAC Awards on Monday, April 25th at The Peter Norton Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th Street, NYC) at 7:30PM.

The Irish Arts Center (Pauline Turley, Executive Director), Georganne Aldrich Heller, Tom Kibbe, and Naked In The Wings present HOWIE THE ROOKIE written by Mark O'Rowe (writer of Intermission, the recently acclaimed film staring Colin Farrell and Colm Meaney,) opening May 12th at The Irish Arts Center (553 West 51st Street - between 10th and 11th Avenues). This production stars John O'Callaghan (We Were the Mulvaneys) and Mark Byrne (Gangs of New York) and is directed by Nancy Malone (Judging Amy, Dawson's Creek). HOWIE THE ROOKIE begins previews on May 5th. .

LOVE/LIFE, A Life in Song, will play on Sunday and Monday nights in the Vivian Beaumont Theater beginning Sunday, May 1.

Hugh Jackman will open his one-man stage spectacular in Sydney, Australia after its Las Vegas engagement

Cheyenne Jackson, Matthew Morrison, Jai Rodriguez, Christopher Sieber and John Tartaglia will be featured in the first ''The Leading Men'' benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS on Monday, May 30, at 7 p.m. at Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre.

EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE, PAUL ADAMS, Artistic Director, and THEATRICAL FARE are pleased to announce 'TONYLUST: THE BROADWAY BLOODBATH OF 2006,' the sequel to BERNADETTE AND THE BUTCHER OF BROADWAY.

Arts Educators From Rochester, New York and Tampa, Florida Are Honored for Bringing Cultural Vibrancy into the Classroom

Tom D'Angora's award winning musical comedy, Divas I've Done, currently playing Upstairs at Studio 54, announces its next line-up of special guest divas.

New York hit play 'The Countess' to open in the West End at the Criterion Theatre

A revival of Chicken Soup with Barley heads Nottingham's April schedule

HERE LIES JENNY, starring Bebe Neuwirth will play San Francisco's Post Street Theatre with previews beginning May 1.