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Anthony Crivello likes Las Vegas. The Tony Award-winner, who alternates the title role in Phantom: The Las Vegas Experience with Brent Barrett, will be in Las Vegas for at least the next six months, when the show celebrates its second anniversary.

Idina Menzel is rumored to star opposite recording-artist Josh Groban in the 21st Anniversary concert of Chess The Musical at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Monday May 12 and Tuesday May 13, 2008.

The tour of Whistle Down The Wind makes a brief stop in Toronto. Despite strong performances by the leads this is another muddled musical from Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. * * (out of 5)

REVIEW: The Pantolites present the first what is hoped to be an annual presentation - British Panto. Thiss year: Puss in Boots.

The 2007-2008 season of Reprise! Broadway's Best continues with Li'l Abner, to perform Tuesday, February 5 through Sunday, February 17 with Cathy Rigby, Fred Willard and Brandi Burkhardt.

Cleavant Derricks, Wayne Knight, Michael Kostroff and Patrick Warburton join Jason Alexander and Martin Short in the staged reading of 'The Odd Couple' at Reprise! Broadway's Best.

The Chicago cast of Altar Boyz celebrated their 100th performance at Drury Lane Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut St.) on Thursday, January 3, 2008. Altar Boyz is now playing in Chicago through March 2, 2008.

Magic Theatre begins the new year with the world premiere production of Betty Shamieh's Territories directed by Jessica Heidt.

D.C. Anderson, currently starring in the Chicago production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash The Phantom of the Opera, has recently released his latest album entitled 'Our Story.'

Writer/Actor/Monologist Josh Lefkowitz on sustaining a career, avoiding the Sophomore Slump, and his newest work, Now What?

REVIEW: Josh Lefkowitz stars in his new one man show at CENTERSTAGE

F.U.D.G.E. Theatre invites you to welcome the Valentine's Day spirit with I Love You Because opening for the press on Friday, February 1, 2008 at 8:00pm and playing through Saturday, February 9, 2008 at The Factory Theatre in Boston, MA.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks-off Black History Month with A Legacy of Jazz and Poetry, February 4, 2008 in the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre, part of the 2008 Traffic Series.

The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts has released tickets for the inaugural Winter/Spring 2008 Season. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, winner of 15 awards including the Tony for Best Musical, will open the season January 11 - 27. Television and Broadway star Richard Kind will perform the starring role of Pseudolus.

SHN announces today that Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman's musical, Whistle Down The Wind will play San Francisco's Curran Theatre April 1-20, 2008.

New Line Cinema is re-releasing its hit musical comedy Hairspray for a special one-week return engagement on January 4-10 exclusively at the Laemmle's Sunset-5 Theater in Los Angeles and at the Landmark's Sunshine Cinema Theater in New York.

Greasy Joan & Co. kicks-off its twelfth year of producing innovative productions of classic plays with Molière's comedy The Misanthrope, directed by Associate Artistic Director Libby Ford and translated by Ranjit Bolt. The Misanthrope will play the Athenaeum Theater, 2936 N. Southport in Chicago, for a limited engagement March 5 through April 5, 2008. The press opening is Friday, March 7, 2008 at 8PM.

Fortunately, no one was hurt when the ceiling in the 100 year-old building came down

The Zipper Factory Theater will present two special 'first look' presentations of Three Lost Chords, a trio of solo operas on January 7 and January 9.