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The summer-stock theater in Matunuck, RI is holding auditions for its 2008 season

Curt Columbus will direct the Noel Coward comedy 'Blithe Spirit' from March 28 through April 27 at Trinity Rep

NME.com reports that 'Pete Doherty and - formerly bandmates in The Libertines - will begin writing a musical together next week (March 10), for a new show scheduled to begin in early 2009.' Doherty and Barat have been commissioned by London's Donmar Warehouse Theatre to work on the project.

Broadway composer Stephen Flaherty taught a Master Class in the black box theatre at Paper Mill Playhouse (Millburn, NJ) on Saturday, March 1.

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 3/2/2008

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2007-2008 Season with Carter's Way, written and directed by Oscar-winning ensemble member Eric Simonson, with original jazz music by Darrell Leonard.

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), the U.S. performing right organization representing over 375,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music, proudly presents 'Nashville Night,' an intimate, unplugged showcase of songwriters sharing their songs at the New York Songwriters Circle on Monday, March 3 at 8PM at Bitter End

Signature Theatre kicks off its four-month Kander & Ebb Celebration on March 11 with the Tony Award-winning musical Kiss of the Spider Woman.

The Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan, Inc presents Umbrella by L. Pontius, Off Broadway at The Kirk Theatre (Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street). It is directed by LAByrinth Theatre Company's Padraic Lillis and stars Christa Kimlicko Jones and Judson Jones. Previews begin April 11 and opens Tuesday, April 15 at 8PM.

Stage and screen stars Lainie Kazan and Bruce Vilanch will co-host An Evening of Legendary Bingo as a fund-raising event for Media City Ballet on Wednesday April 2.

The fourth annual 'ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' benefit was held Sunday, March 2 (7:30PM, ET) at Town Hall in New York City. The reception was held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel. The event raised $300,000!

Frustrated with the dating scene 'Courtney' decides to simplify the process by creating a questionnaire and interviewing suitors as she searches for the one elusive thing everyone seeks.

SAB Records proudly presents the Los Angeles Debut of 'DeLyn-IN CONCERT' at the Historic El Portal Theatre for a limited engagement, April 3-5, 2008.

The National Park Service has released its Draft General Management Plan for Governors Island - and despite overwhelming public support for the inclusion of the New Globe Theater proposal in the national monument, the NPS alternatives unveiled do not include this project.

The Broadway Dreams Foundation (BDF) will return to Atlanta, Georgia this summer to host the third annual Broadway Boot Camp. With special instruction from stars Shoshana Bean, Gavin Creel, Blake Daniel, Norm Lewis, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Amanda Watkins.

Reprise! Broadway's Best presents Broadway, TV and film-star Carol Burnett in Conversation with Philip Himberg, Artistic Director of the Sundance Theatre Program and director of Flora, the Red Menace for one-night-only on Monday, May 12, 2008 at UCLA's intimate Freud Playhouse

Howard McGillin will star in 'The Broadway Musicals of 1947,' which kicks off the 8th season of The Town Hall's critically acclaimed Broadway by the Year series. Joined by a powerhouse cast that includes two-time Tony nominee Marc Kudisch on Monday, March 3 at 8PM, for a full evening of song and dance from Brigadoon, Finian's Rainbow, High Button Shoes, Street Scene, Allegro and more from The Great White Way of 1947

West End Sound of Music star Connie Fisher swapped her nun's wimple for an adjudicator's hat at the Grand Theatre, Swansea on Saturday March 1st as a member of the adjudicating panel for the 2008 Welsh Young Musical Theatre Singer of the Year contest. During the evening Connie also made a welcome return to the stage where she was herself the 2006 winner of the contest before going on to earn stardom as the winner of the BBC's How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria talent show. After being greeted by rapturous applause from the audience in her native Wales, she treated the crowd to a rendition of Cole Porter's classic tongue twister, 'The Physician' (first sung by Gertrude Lawrence in Nymph Errant in 1933). Then she returned to the score of The Sound of Music to sing 'Edelweiss', accompanied by the Dunvant Male Choir, before completing her short programme with a virtuoso rendition of Charles Strouse and Richard Maltby's 'Everybody Wants To Do A Musical' - a song from the musical Nick and Nora she had performed on the same stage the night she became the Welsh Young Musical Theatre Singer of the year two years ago.

Bette Midler's $10 million spectacular, The Showgirl Must Go On, opens at Caesars Palace

Kerry Butler, star of Broadway's Xanadu, recorded the first several tracks of her upcoming solo debut CD entitled, 'Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust' due out on PS Classics on May 13th. BroadwayWorld was there to capture the excitement for our readers!

The full cast has been announced for the West Coast premiere of 33 Variations at La Jolla Playhouse.

A new comedy, In The Wings, written by Jerry Sroka and directed by Don Eitner will premiere at the Whitefire Theatre on March 28; officially opening Friday April 4 with performances every Friday night through May 11.