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Tonight, Friday January 18, 'The After Party' welcomes Arbender Robinson of The Little Mermaid and 2002 Miss Fire Island Ariel Sinclair to the weekly bash at the West Bank Café

This year, San Francisco's EXIT Theatre marks its 25th year of commissioning, developing and producing ground-breaking new work and presenting independent artists from across the U.S. and beyond.

Encore Entertainment presents the Pullizter prize-winning play Driving Miss Daisy at the Toronto Centre for the Arts from Jan.31-Feb.10, 2008

Hart House Theatre's production accentuates the laughs and touches only lightly on the play's social commentary, which is perhaps the best approach for this piece. Credit director Andrea Wasserman for creating a realistic world for these cartoon-like bumblers to inhabit. Though the performances sometimes veer a little too close to farcical territory -sometimes pushing too hard to get laughs- the end result is an enjoyable crowd-pleaser. * * * (OUT OF FIVE)

Yale School of Drama is pleased to announce that Yale University President Richard C. Levin has appointed Paula Vogel as the Eugene O'Neill Professor (Adjunct) and Chair of the Department of Playwriting, effective July 1, 2008, for a five-year term.

The sultry, young big band front-woman Tamela D'Amico, who is based in Los Angeles, brings a 7-piece combo to her hometown New York to celebrate the recent release of her debut recording, 'The Tamela D'Amico Album.' In what will be her New York City debut, D'Amico holds court at the Metropolitan Room, for four exclusive performances, Saturday February 2, and Thursday to Saturday February 7, 8, 9. All shows are at 10pm.

The Town Hall's critically acclaimed 'Broadway by the Year' series kicks off its eighth smash year with 'The Musicals of 1947' on Monday, March 3rd at 8:00PM. Audiences will take a musical journey 'back in time' for a full evening of songs from Brigadoon, Finian's Rainbow, High Button Shoes, Street Scene, Allegro and more from The Great White Way of 1947.

Don't Quit Your Night Job, the critically acclaimed comedy variety show featuring a revolving cast of Broadway's brightest performing without a net, kicked off the new year at their monthly home The Zipper Factory on Thursday, January 17 at 11:30PM.

Sarah Jessica Parker is rumored to play the sexy stewardess in the Broadway-bound transfer of London's comedy Boeing-Boeing, to open at the Longacre Theatre this April, according to Michael Riedel of the New York Post.

What They Have, a new play by 'Six Feet Under' scribe Kate Robin, will receive its World Premiere at South Coast Repertory during the 11th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival. Hollywood and the L.A. scene are backdrops for this poignant and funny SCR-commissioned play about two entertainment industry couples whose lives-and lifestyles-converge in surprising ways. Directed by Chris Fields, What They Have will run from April 4 through May 4, 2008 on the Segerstrom Stage.

Eight performances of award-winning Latina playwright Caridad Svich's drama 'Thrush' will be presented as part of the Northwestern University Theatre and Interpretation Center's 27th mainstage season.

'Homecoming' is the theme of Barrington Stage Company's 14th Season. The theatre that developed and premiered William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on its Stage II in 2004 welcomes home the award-winning Broadway hit to its Mainstage from June 11 through July 12. Long-time BSC director Rob Ruggiero returns to direct Richard Greenberg's The Violet Hour, which will play July 17 through August 2. Julianne Boyd will direct Noel Coward's delicious battle-of-the-sexes comedy Private Lives starring Christopher Innvar from August 7 through 24. Private Lives marks the fifth stage collaboration between Boyd and Innvar.

On Thursday, January 17, Idina Menzel, the Tony Award-winning Broadway actress from Wicked and Rent, recording-artist and recent star of Disney's Enchanted appeared live with Scott Nevins at Splash Bar's 'Campus Thursdays' party, celebrating the release of her new CD 'I Stand.'

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announces its sixth annual collaboration with The Chicago Chamber Musicians (CCM) on a program for young audiences and their families. Classical Idol!, an interactive concert that features three, instrumentally distinct chamber music ensembles-each competing for audience applause-gives children ages four and up the opportunity to discover up close the excitement of live performance. The hour-long interactive concerts aretoday and Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 10:00 and 11:30 a.m. at Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier

The Little Dog Laughed currently playing the Hoover-Leppen Theatre at the Center on Halsted, and presented by About Face Theatre is a clever dissection of the celebrity haze currently cast over America.

Here's the new one-sheet for 'Mamma Mia The Movie' which opens July 18, 2008. You can also watch the theatrical trailer on the new official movie website: www.MammaMiaMovie.com

Sand, a new play by Trista Baldwin directed by Daniella Topol, about three young American soldiers in a wind-swept, ever-shifting Middle East desert, will have its world premiere at Women's Project, Julie Crosby, Artistic Director, when previews begin Friday, February 1 at 8PM for an opening Sunday, February 10 at 7PM at the Julia Miles Theater

Ted Sperling has joined The Public as Director of The Musical Theater Initiative.

Kwame Kwei-Armah's Let There be Love, withe Joseph Marcell, Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Lydia Leonard, debuts tonight January 17 at Tricycle Theatre through February 16, 2008, with press night on January 21.

Ralph Fiennes, Tamsin Greig, Janet McTeer and Ken Stott will star in God of Carnage, the new play by Yasmina Reza, which will open in London at the Gielgud Theatre on Tuesday 25 March after previews from 7 March. God of Carnage will be designed by Mark Thompson, with lighting by Hugh Vanstone, sound by Simon Baker and music by Gary Yershon. The play, which is translated by Christopher Hampton, will be directed by Matthew Warchus.

Following its sold-out limited run at Theater for the New City, Michael Domitrovich's shockingly topical and seductive new play 'Artf**kers,' directed by Eduardo Machado, will begin previews at the DR2 Theatre (103 East 15th Street) on Friday, February 8, with an Official Opening night set for Tuesday, February 19 @ 7:00pm.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 32nd season with the world premiere of Good Boys and True by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, directed by Pam MacKinnon; runs through February 16, 2008.