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Performance Space 122 presents Temporary Distortion's Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road), with performances Wednesday, February 20 - Saturday, February 23.

The Neighborhood Playhouse Artistic Director Brady Schwind announced the first two selections of Theatre Company's premiere season of plays and musicals: 'Amadeus' and 'Parade'

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. The production, featuring ensemble members Robert Breuler, K. Todd Freeman, Ora Jones and James Vincent Meredith, with Anne Adams, Calvin Dutton, Curtis M. Jackson, Keith Kupferer, Danny McCarthy and Michael Pogue, runs February 28 - April 27, 2008 in the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted. The press opening is Saturday, March 8 at 3:00 p.m.

Idina Menzel celebrated the release of 'I Stand,' the long-awaited and highly anticipated Warner Bros. Records debut, at Virgin Megastore in Times Square on January 29 at 6:30PM.

The resilience of the human spirit links the trio of tales with music featured in Tony Award-winning playwright and director George C. Wolfe's stage production Spunk, playing at Northwestern University in February. The show's characters persevere by their wit, willpower, tenacity and love.

The Irish Repertory Theatre will begin previews of Joseph Stein and Robert Russell's unabashedly romantic, Take Me Along, with lush, moving American music and lyrics, written by Tony Award nominated Robert Merrill on Wednesday, February 20, 2008. The production will open on Thursday, February 28, 2008.

Varla Jean Merman will return to Los Angeles with Varla Jean Merman Loves A Foreign Tongue at Ultra Suede, February 28 -March 27. Directed by Michael Schiralli, the show is co-written by Jeffrey Roberson (aka Varla Jean Merman) and Jacques Lamarre and features special guest, Mark Cortale.

Emmy Award-winning actress and veteran stand-up comedienne Judy Gold will bring her one-woman show, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother to San Francisco's Marines Memorial Theatre for a limited two-week engagement beginning Tuesday, March 11.

The Night of the Iguana will play a 6-week limited engagement at the Gloria Maddox Theater at T. Schreiber Studio (151 West 26th Street, 7th Floor). Performances begin Thursday, February 21 and continue through Sunday, March 30.

South Coast Repertory Artistic Directors David Emmes and Martin Benson have been named the recipients of the 2007-08 Margo Jones Medal. The prestigious award honors those who have demonstrated a significant impact, understanding and affirmation of the craft of playwriting, with a lifetime commitment to the encouragement of the living theater everywhere. The venerable duo has guided South Coast Repertory from a small touring company into one of the country's leading professional theaters, now approaching its 45th season and known world-wide for its development of new work for the stage. The Ohio State University Libraries and College of the Arts will present the award to Emmes and Benson on May 1 at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California, kicking off the theater's nationally-renowned Pacific Playwrights Festival.

The smash hit London musical Jerry Springer - The Opera In Concert plays Carnegie Hall (881 7th Avenue) for two nights only: yesterday January 29 and this evening January 30, 2008 at 8PM.

Eastwind Theatre Company is pleased to announce the world premiere of Monkey Trick, written and directed by Brad Saville. Monkey Trick, a terse tale of love, loss, and desperation runs Thursday through Saturday at 8pm, from February 28th through March 29th at the Producer's Club's Sonnet Theater. Tickets are $30.00 and available through Smarttix.com or by Calling 212-868-4444. Check out eastwindtheatrecompany.com for more information.

The final production in Jonathan Kent's Theatre Royal Haymarket Season will be the world premiere of Marguerite, a new musical with music by Michel Legrand, book by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Jonathan Kent, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer from the original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and orchestrations and arrangements by Michel Legrand and Seann Alderking. Marguerite will run at the Haymarket from May 7, with press night on May 20. Ruthie Henshall to star.

Michael Riedel of the New York Post reports crooner Harry Connick Jr. - last seen on Broadway starring in the Tony Award-winning revival of 'The Pajama Game,' directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall - is eyeing to star and restage the obscure 1926 George and Ira Gershwin musical They All Laughed for Broadway audiences.

William Bennett's software product, 'Velvet Singer' has features that classical singers, and those aspiring to join them, will love.

BroadwayWorld.com's New and Updated Who's Who Entries for the Week of 1/29/2008. Updates include: D.C. Anderson, Jen Bender, George Costacos, Kurt Domoney, Igor Goldin, Randy Jones, David Weitzer.

London's Player's Theatre will play host in March to the UK premiere of the recent Off-Broadway show, Make Me a Song - a 'songfest' of numbers from the inspirational pen of Tony Award winning composer/lyricist, William Finn.

The 11th Annual Broadway Bears auction line-up, presented by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS on February 17 at 7PM, is here! Each year, 'Broadway Bears: A Costumed Teddy Bear Auction' is a much-anticipated BC/EFA event. These specially-designed bears (often using actual material from their respective Broadway productions, and autographed by the stars) raised $130,000 last year. BC/EFA hopes to reach even higher this winter!

Paper Mill Playhouse's mainstage production of The Miracle Worker officially opened January 27 at 7:30PM, with performances to continue through February 24, 2008 at the Millburn Theatre. There are three added student matinee performances on February 6, 13 and 14 at 11AM.

The Laurie Beechman Theatre (located inside the West Bank Cafe at 407 West 42nd Street) presents a new series, 'Screening Sondheim,' featuring 4 Sondheim classics on the big screen along with fellow Sondheim fans! Kicked-off on Wednesday Feb 20 at 8PM with the PBS broadcast of the fantastic, recent Broadway revival of Company, and appearances with a few of the cast members live onstage

Metropolitan Playhouse will present the long-awaited New York Premiere of Year One of the Empire by award-winning theater critic Elinor Fuchs and historian Joyce Antler. Directed by Alex Roe, performances begin February 29 at The Metropolitan Playhouse.

The 24th Annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event-S.T.A.G.E-will present 'Blame It On Bacharach!' a celebration of the magic that is composer Burt Bacharach, on Saturday, March 8 and Sunday, March 9 at the Wilshire Theatre Beverly Hills.