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The West Bank Café announces our January 2008 line-up of live entertainment, to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Deathbed by Mark Schultz will make its Off-Broadway world premiere at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre. Wendy C. Goldberg directs the limited six week engagement January 21 - March 1 with opening night set for Thursday, January 31.

Yale Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere of The Evildoers by David Adjmi, directed by Rebecca Bayla Taichman. The Evildoers begins performances on January 18 and will play through February 9 at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street, at York Street, New Haven). Opening Night is Thursday, January 24.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey continues its new adult education program entitled Midday with Masters on Thursday, January 17 at 11:00 a.m. with Bonnets, Bows, & Beehives at The Shakespeare Theatre's Main Stage - the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, 36 Madison Avenue (at Lancaster Road) in Madison.

The World Premiere of Paul Cohen's Cherubina, a new drama based on a true story, and directed by Alexis Poledouris, begins performances begin February 1 at The Sanford Meisner Theater. Opening night is slated for February 4.

The world premiere of the new family musical The Butterfly - adapted from Patricia Polacco's book of the same name by Charles Greenberg (Music) and Barbara Zinn Krieger (Book & Lyrics) and directed by David Schechter - will be presented by Making Books Sing, the New York-based company dedicated to turning culturally and historically significant books for young readers into musical works for the stage, with performances throughout New York.

A new London-based recording company, Stage Door Records, celebrates its new label by launching four new remastered vintage albums: Wish You Were Here original Broadway cast recording, Pal Joey & On Your Toes original cast recordings (double-set), New Faces Of 1956 and Mrs. Patterson (two Broadway shows produced by Leonard Sillman in the 1950s), and Shirley Bassey - The Early Years.

The Broadway smash hit Jersey Boys, winner of four 2006 Tony Awards including Best Musical, ended 2007 by setting new house records all over the country last week.

John Gallagher Jr, fresh off his Tony Award-winning turn as Mortiz in Spring Awakening, will appear with his band Old Springs Pike at Joe's Pub January 2 - 4 at 7:30PM and January 6 at 7:30PM & 9:30PM.

he world premiere of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's poignant 'Good Boys and True' offers an audience an enticing look at children, their parents and how the choices both make can affect the rest of their lives.

WhatsOnStage.com reports Tony Award-winning Broadway actress, Kristin Chenoweth, will make her 'English National Opera debut in a new co-production, with Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and La Scala in Milan, of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. Chenoweth will play the part of Cunegonde in the production which opens at the London Coliseum for a limited season of 13 performances from June 23.'

Broadway legend Chita Rivera will perform from February 8 - 10, 2008 at the Shaw Theatre in Euston Road as part of a new West End concert series season 'Feinstein's at the Shaw Theatre,' according to WhatsOnStage.com

The no-holds-barred production of the classic stage musical Cabaret, which has been running at the No Exit Café in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, deserves many kudos for bringing this show to life. And what a life!

The hit of 2007 Cabaret Cares returns to the Laurie Beechman Theatre on January 20th at 9:30 p.m. After a successful run in 2007 with several sold out show it's back with more Broadway shows and the best of cabaret.

BroadwayWorld.com's New and Updated Who's Who Entries for the Week of 1/1/2008. Updates include: Jonathan Castillo, Joseph Connor, Douglas Denoff, Kurt Domoney, Halley Wegryn Gross, Benjamin Howes, Harold Lewter, Scott Miller, Michael Rupert, ROZ RYAN, Geraint Wyn Davies.

Everyman Theatre's Deborah Hazlett

Toby's Dinner Theatres' David Bosley-Reynolds

This week's new presentation, Seth chats with Kerry Butler, currently starring in 'Xanadu.'

Linda Eder returns to performing in New York, by ringing in the New Year at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency with 2 shows on New Year's Eve.