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This season, Porchlight will take audiences around the world on a musical journey. Artistic Director L. Walter Stearns announces a season of musicals with exotic settings and diverse themes: Candide, Pacific Overtures, and Once on This Island.

Proving the axiom that friendship is always a work in progress, Murray Nossel and Paul Browde leave nothing unsaid or unexplored in Two Men Talking, their frank, improvised account of their friendship. Two Men Talking performs twice a week on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30PM in an exclusive engagement through Saturday May 3 at The Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow Street.

FRIGID New York Presents A Rising Sun Performance Company Production, Sporknotes, conceived and directed by Jason Tyne, with five performances only! February 28 - March 7.

Kevin Brown, AKA Uptown Kevin Brown, of NBC's 30 'Rock' signed with Diversity Players of Harlem to star in the stage play Die Laughing by Marq Overton. Scheduled for previews on April 15 & 16 and opening on April 17 at the world famous Laugh Factory Times Square

Amas Musical Theatre will celebrate its 39th year with a Gala evening on Monday, March 31 featuring a special 'Blast from the Past' concert performance of Mama, I Want to Sing, a star-studded concert of the gospel, pop, and rhythm and blues hit musical that began at Amas in the early nineteen eighties. The Amas Gala will also honor award winning actress Phylicia Rashad and PricewaterhouseCoopers with 'The Rosie Award', named for Amas Founder Rosetta LeNoire.

The first UK tour of the Olivier award-winning Our House will open at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre for four weeks on Tuesday 3 June, following previews from 29 May. The production will run there until 21 June. The West End production of Our House, which opened in autumn 2002, received rave reviews and public acclaim, winning the 2003 Olivier Award for 'Best New Musical'. Steve Brookstein will star as 'Dad'. Further casting will be announced shortly.

Directed by Indhu Rubasingham and performed by Holly Aird, Cavan Clerkin, Brendan Coyle, Amanda Drew, John Marquez and Javone Prince, Chain Play II will be performed for one night only on 29 February 2008 at 7.30pm.

Polly Stenham's multi award-winning play That Face, which was produced at the Royal Court Theatre to great critical acclaim last year, is to transfer to the Duke of York's Theatre with Lindsay Duncan and Matt Smith who originated the roles of mother and son, Martha and Henry, as well as Catherine Steadman and Julian Wadham.

Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers will stop by LA Theatre Works March 12 - 16, 2008 for five performances. Written by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons and directed by John Rubinstein.

The Zipper Factory presents a wide-range of variety shows for in the theatre in March 2008, including The Wau Wau Sisters, Megan Mullally, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Joy Behar, 'Don't Quit Your Night Job' and 'Happy Sunshine Kung Fu Flower.'

Dianne Reeves and Jane Monheit are among the headliners at the 2008 Tanglewood Jazz Festival, which runs from August 29 - 31

Chicago Shakespeare Theater has mounted a truly state-of-the-art production of one of the Bard's greatest tragedies, Othello, in its mainstage Courtyard Theater on Navy Pier. Everything, from the acting to the designs to the elocution to the pacing, is top-notch and exemplary. Now if they could just find a script worthy of all that theatrical expertise!

Howling Moon Cab Company presents a world-premiere play, shapeshifter, written by Jonathan Wallace and directed by Glory Sims Bowen, at the Barrow Group Studio Theatre. Performances begin March 9 through March 29.

Legendary Broadway director Hal Prince suffered a minor stroke 3 weeks ago. It was a complete shock to all who know the still active Tony-winning director/producer, but his recuperation has been swift and amazing. Only 3 weeks after the incident, he's already made a complete and total recovery!

In tribute to a dear friend who passed away on February 13th, we're rebroadcasting a podcast interview with Lou DeGrado conducted in February of 2006 as he was about to receive his star on the Palm Springs Walk Of Fame.

South Coast Repertory presents The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde and directed by Warner Shook running February 8 - March 9, 2008; officially opening February 15 at 8PM.

The Daily Mail reports that renowned UK singer and performer John Barrowman aims to star as P.T. Barnum in a late-2009 West End revival of the musical Barnum.

The Public Theater's former Artistic Producer Rosemarie Tichler will host a discussion with acclaimed director Gerald Freedman and Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare entitled 'Looking At The Early Years of the Public Theater.' The discussion will look back at a time of explosive creativity and artistic development in the early years of The Public Theater and Joe Papp's dedication to supporting the work of new playwrights. The discussion will immediately follow the Friday, February 22, 8PM. performance of Adrienne Kennedy's new play Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles?, the inaugural production of the PUBLIC LAB series.