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A Man of No Importance: The Uptown Players Mount a Superior Production of a Well-Crafted Musical With Global Theme

Benefit concert for Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS to take place on April 17 at Joe's Pub.

The winners of this year's Laurence Olivier Awards were announced in London on Sunday, February 20th.

Backstage and after-pary coverage from the embrace! benefit concert for the Matthew Shepard Foundation.

Atolas Theatre Company presents the revival of Tales of the Lost Formicans by Constance Congdon directed by Sharon Fogarty. Performances run March 3-13th at the Greenwich Street Theatre (547 Greenwich Street between Charlton and Vandam; the 1/9 to Houston). Opening night is Thursday, March 3 at 8pm. The play runs Wednesdays - Saturdays at 8 PM, Sundays at 2 PM. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444 or www.Smarttix.com.

The 2003 Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit play 12TH PREMISE, by Los Angeles playwright Brian Crano, will have its U.S. Premiere at The Lillian Theatre (1076 Lillian Way in Hollywood). Kristin Hanggi, who won both the LA Weekly and the LADCC Awards for Best Direction for the Ovation Award-winning musical bare, is set to stage this dramatic play about twenty-something college students emerging into the real world. Presented by Chaotic Entertainment, the limited engagement begins performances on March 3, 2005 with an official press opening on March 10, 2005.

The Ostara Group and Carpe Momentum Productions are proud to present the World Premiere of The Home For Lost Boys by Craig J. Weiner, directed by Renee Blinkwolt, a domestic play with global ramifications. Performances at the John Houseman Studio Theater (located at 450 W. 42nd St. btw 9th &10th) begin Friday, March 4th and end Sunday March 20th.

The New York-based award-winning songwriting team of composer, Zina Goldrich and lyricist, Marcy Heisler are bringing The Marcy & Zina Show to BIRDLAND (315 West 44th Street) for a one-night only performace Monday, March 7, 2005. They will be joined by John Tartaglia (Avenue Q), Julia Murney (Lennon and The Wild Party), Ana Gasteyer ('Saturday Night Live'), composer/performers Amanda Green & Tom Kitt and many more. This evening is part of The Winter Season, presented by Jim Caruso in association with TheaterMania.com, which features top Broadway and cabaret performers at the world-class music room. There is a $25 cover and $10 food/drink minimum.

Please join Matt and Ryan as they play originals and covers and blow the buckle off The Belt!

Performers include Judith Blazer (TITANIC), Stephen Bogardus (FALSETTOS), Maureen Brennan (CANDIDE revival), Lovette George (MARIE CHRISTINE), Ricky Ian Gordon (BRIGHT EYED JOY), Sean Martin Hingston (CONTACT), Tom Jones (THE FANTASTICS), Gerry McIntyre (ONCE ON THIS ISLAND), Dana Moore (FOSSE), Rozz Morehead (URBAN COWBOY), Sara Rice (SWEENEY TODD), Marian Seldes (A DELICATE BALANCE), Diane Sutherland (SHE LOVES ME revival) and Mary Testa (42nd STREET revival). Featuring the work of Ricky Ian Gordon, Richard Greenberg (TAKE ME OUT) and Joseph Thalken (HAROLD AND MAUDE), who will also serve as the evening’s musical director.

Michael Cerveris has written music for Nick Philipou (The Art Party) and Michael Tisdale's adaptation of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. The new play with music receives its premiere at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in the Burrows Theater.

Henry Goodman invites us to his Birthday Party whilst everything extends - including Michael Ball's waistline!

And you thought she was out spoken on that damn Little House on the Prairie? Vanity Fair declared her 'TV history's #1 one bitch' and now after her successful run in New York, she's taking her title and show on the road starting in Los Angeles. Based on her one woman nightclub act, join Alison Arngrim (formerly Nellie Oleson from the hit series Little House on the Prairie) as she gives audiences a reality check on 'the facts of life' like no one else has ever done before, but sure as hell should have in CONFESSIONS OF A PRAIRIE BITCH.

Brian Dykstra's disturbing and fascinating new play arrives at 29th Street Rep. after earning headlines in Cincinnati.

Soundcheck coverage from Thursday's benefit for the Matthew Shepard Foundation

'Giant killer plant conquers Broadway!' said Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal. And now, Broadway In Philadelphia announces that LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is coming to conquer Philadelphia, March 15th through 20th at the Merriam Theater. This all-new production is directed by Jerry Zaks and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall.

The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton and Barbra Streisand (Honorary Chairs), with Young Playwrights Inc. and producers Richard Maltby, Jr., Kevin Stites and Sheri M. Goldhirsch are proud to present 'CHILDREN AND ART,' a spectacular musical gala evening in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 75th birthday, for one performance only at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street) on Monday, March 21, 2005 (7:30 p.m. curtain), the eve of Sondheim's birthday.

Mahogany, the legendary character conceived, written, and performed by Michael Benjamin Washington, returns to Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street) on Monday, February, 28 (9:30 p.m.).

Stage and Screen legend John Raitt, who made his Broadway debut playing Billy Bigelow in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, passed away today at age 88.

This week THAT'S KENTERTAINMENT! marks the return visit from everybody's favorite 'cuchi-cuchi' gal- CHARO! After conducting an interview with Charo almost three years ago, THAT'S KENTERTAINMENT! switched from a surreal sitcom-style program to more of a surreal interview-style program, and things have never been the same for the show that Liz Smith declares is 'Hysterical!'.

Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy is a new comedy that lovingly, liberally and loosely satirizes the well-known thriller film from 1987. A big-time corporate lawyer has a one-night stand with a no-nonsense business woman while his wife is away. When the corporate hag forgets her place, all heck breaks loose! The park, the opera, the bunny, and the tub ensue.