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Almeida Theatre Announces Fall/Winter Season.

The Broadway Boys, six of the hottest male voices on Broadway, are returned to Westport Sunday night to perform in an all-new benefit concert to the delight of theatergoers all over Fairfield County.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party announces 'Georgia Stitt and Friends' Monday, May 26, 2008 at 7:00p.m., as part of the long-running, Nightlife Award-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland.

The Public Theater will begin performances of 'Hamlet', the first production of the 2008 Shakespeare in the Park summer season, on Tuesday, May 27.

The 53rd Annual Drama Desk Awards were held Sunday, May 18, 2008, in the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. August: Osage County, Les Liasons, and South Pacific brought home big wins.

Cameron Murray is the current artistic director for Keys Kids, as well as the drama/theatre instructor at Key West High. Daniel Bonnett is the founder of Keys Kids, and is currently teaching and performing in the Ft. Lauderdale area. Between them, they have staged over 50 shows for Keys Kids, including Peter Pan, Annie, Grease, 42nd Street, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The King and I, Bye, Bye Birdie, 101 Dalmatians and The Wizard of Oz.

David Lindsay-Abaire's madcap comedy plays at the Warren, RI theater through June 8th

TheatreWorks, the nationally-acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, opens its 39th season with the dazzling West Coast Premiere of Snapshots, the latest musical from legendary Broadway (Wicked) and Hollywood (Enchanted) composer Stephen Schwartz.

The Cherwell, Oxford University's student newspaper reports that renowned UK singer and performer John Barrowman is mulling the choices to star as either P.T. Barnum in a late-2009 West End revival of the musical Barnum or join the upcoming 'Phantom 2', Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to his mega hit, The Phantom of the Opera.

Christopher Marlowe, an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era, was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William Shakespeare.

The production is directed by the Artistic Director and Co-founder, Jesus Quintero. Mr. Quintero graduated from the prestigious Teatro Libre de Bogota, Colombia and has worked in Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, New York, Pennsylvania, and now in Miami.

New Theatre is dedicated to the development and production of new works in South Florida and has brought the national premieres of more than 30 plays by early and mid-career American playwrights to South Florida, including New Theatre commissioned Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and The Steinberg Award, and Catherine Bush's Just A Kiss, which was both a finalist for The Steinberg and The Osborn Award in 2007, among others.

Yesterday the winners of this years Drama League awards were announced. The awards ceremony was held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel (Broadway and 46th Street) in the Broadway Ballroom.

Adamanto Productions in association with Liebman Entertainment are proud to present a limited Off-Broadway run of the U.S. premiere of Stitching - a twisted, intricate drama that keeps you on the edge of your seat, by British playwright Anthony Neilson - at The Wild Project.

Berkshire Theatre Festival announces the following change in the 2008 schedule. 'Noël Coward in Two Keys' by Sir Noël Coward, directed by Vivian Matalon, will replace the previously announced Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' as the fourth Main Stage production.

A Little Night Music, by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler will be presented by the Armonk Players starting 5/30.

Lauren Kennedy will celebrate her new CD 'Here and Now' at The Zipper Factory on May 18th at 8pm.

Cher has joined the Elton John and Bette Midler rotation at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

59E59 Theaters welcomes New Perspectives (Nottingham) to Brits Off Broadway with THE HIRED MAN, book by Melvyn Bragg, music and lyrics by Howard Goodall and directed by Daniel Buckroyd.

Hudson Warehouse announced today the company's fifth season of Free Classics in Riverside Park.

Boston Conservatory Musical Theater students join the Boston Pops in celebrating Bernstein on Broadway as 123rd season opens at Symphony Hall