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Harold Pinter's The Homecoming began at the Almeida Theatre in London on January 21 and will officially open February 7 with performances booked through March 22.

A reading of Atlanta-based playwright Janece Shafer's new play Brownie Points will be presented as part of Theater J's fourth Incubator Series at the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater in the Washington DCJCC (February 11-12).

Three Graces (Joy Kabanuck, Kelly Levesque and Sara Gettelfinger) will release their self-titled debut album March 4 on Decca Records.

The beneficiaries of the Estate of Michael Bennett and the artists from the original interviews and workshops of A Chorus Line jointly announced today that they have amended the terms of their agreement signed in 1976. The artists will now have a financial interest in the current Broadway production as well as all future First Class productions. The financial arrangement applies to the original interviewees of the taped sessions that Mr. Bennett held in the spring of 1974 and the actors who participated in the workshops prior to the original Off-Broadway production.

Courtney Adler has recently been named Associate Producer at North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT). With extensive national experience in theater management, Adler brings a wealth of talent to the region's second largest non-profit performing arts organization.

There will be a concert to celebrate the life of singing coach Ian Adam at Her Majesty's Theatre on Feb. 24 entitled: 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing!' in aid of Royal Brompton Ian Adam Memorial Fund.

In November 2006, Kristin Huffman made her Broadway debut as Sarah (flute, piccolo and sax) in John Doyle's production of Company. The actress, with a new series of tales that go inside the making of Company from an actor's perspective, starting at the Cincinnati Playhouse and on to New York, continues her stories about a 15-year career that has led her to the door of the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Variety reports Shirley Jones, who starred in the 1962 film version of The Music Man as Marian the Librarian, will return to her roots in a staged concert version of The Music Man at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts.

Greasy Joan & Co. continues its twelfth year of producing innovative productions of classic plays with William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, directed by Artistic Director Julieanne Ehre. Macbeth will play the Athenaeum Theater, 2936 N. Southport in Chicago, for a limited engagement April 15 through May 25, 2008.

Tonight, Friday February 1 at 10:30PM, 'The After Party' is thrilled to welcome Katrina Rose Dideriksen and Luke Grooms, from the recent production of Jerry Springer: The Opera - In Concert, plus 2007 Ed Kleban Award Winner and 2006 Jonathan Larson Award winner Joe Iconis!

Ripe Theatre presents Mimetic, a comedy written and performed by Noah Kelly, Sarah McKereghan, Mark Rachel, Liz Roddy and Deborah Wade, and directed by Peter Q. Parish. The group's 12th show at the EXIT, where it is a company-in-residence, plays Fridays and Saturdays, March 7-29 at Exit Main Stage, 156 Eddy Street

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com are proud to announce the Birdland debut of Beverly Ward and Kirby Ward, performing partners on-stage and happily married for over two decades off-, Monday, March 3, 2008 at 7PM, as part of the long-running, critically-heralded and popular concert series Broadway at Birdland.

Playhouse on the Green, a 228-seat theater located in the heart of downtown Bridgeport, has named Matt Schicker its new producing artistic director. Schicker will oversee all aspects of the Playhouse's operations, including producing a season of plays and musicals and a new summer theater day camp program for kids and teenagers.

Darius Danesh and Jill Paice will lead the cast in Trevor Nunn's production of Margaret Mitchell's classic novel, Gone with the Wind, playing the iconic roles of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. Joining them are Edward Baker-Duly who will play Ashley Wilkes, Madeleine Worrall who plays Melanie, NaTasha Yvette Williams as Mammy and Jina Burrows as Prissy. Gone with the Wind will have its first performance at the New London Theatre on Friday April 4, 2008, officially opening on Tuesday April 22, and is initially booking until September 27, 2008.

Michael Riedel of the New York Post reports that acclaimed Broadway director and producer Hal Prince 'suffered what close friends are calling a 'minor stroke' Sunday afternoon. He was released from the hospital Wednesday - his 80th birthday - and is expected to be on the mend soon.'

At a special ceremony in the historic El Portal Theater in North Hollywood on Tuesday January 29, nine legendary leading ladies of American motion pictures, television and Broadway productions donated objects from their award-winning careers to the National Museum of American History.

On January 26, 'Saturday Night Underground' with Ben Rimalower welcomed an array of New York talent, including: Anthony Rapp, Andrew Singer and Bret Shuford.

The final performance of The Fire Dept Theatre Company's At War: American Playwrights Respond to Iraq is Monday, February 4 at The Bleeker Street Theatre, with special guests, Bebe Neuwirth, Bobby Cannavale, Denis O'Hare and more.

San Francisco's critically acclaimed, cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater continues its 2008 season with Samuel Beckett's Endgame. Rob Melrose, Cutting Ball's co-founding Artistic Director, directs this modern take on one of Beckett's most important works.

The US National tour of Whistle Down The Wind will close February 17, following its final engagement in Norfolk. All previously announced city-engagements, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, are canceled.

For its final Downstage @ New Rep production this season, New Repertory Theatre is excited to present two plays running in rotating repertory, each expressing a unique view of the Middle East situation. Called 'Their Voices Will Be Heard,' the series of events features My Name is Rachel Corrie and Pieces, two solo plays, each about a young woman whose coming of age took place within the context of the Israeli/ Palestinian situation. Pieces opens on Sunday, March 8, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. My Name is Rachel Corrie opens on Sunday, March 8, 2008 at 8:30 p.m. Both shows play through March 30, 2008 at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown.

South Coast Repertory's third NewSCRipts reading of the 2007-08 season will be Zayd Dohrn's Reborning. Reborning is the 104th play to receive a staged reading as part of SCR's venerable play reading program. The NewSCRipts reading of Reborning will take place on February 25 at 7:30 p.m. on the Julianne Argyros Stage. Tickets are $12 each and may be purchased online at www.scr.org or by phone at (714) 708-5555 or in person at the SCR box office.

The full cast and creative team is anounced for the Keegan Theatre's production of The Hostage, by Brendan Behan. Directed by Mark A. Rhea, the production will play the Church Street Theater, February 21-March 9.

Theater Breaking Through Barriers (formerly Theater by the Blind) will begin previews of Romeo and Juliet, traditional, rigidly faithful to Shakespeare's rules and form, yet wonderfully fresh and modern, March 5, 2008 at The Kirk at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd St.. (between 9th and 10th Avenues). The official opening will be on Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 3PM. Ike Schambelan directs.