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BroadwayWorld.com has an exclusive look into the making of the movie musical HAIRSPRAY with this special Director's Diary written by Adam Shankman. Check back daily for new entries!

In November, 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.

Presented as part of The Town Hall's first-ever Summer Broadway Festival, 'Broadway's Rising Stars,' will be performed on Monday, July 23, at 8pm.

The Caramoor International Music Festival presents 'the queen of cabaret,' Andrea Marcovicci, returning for a special Cabaret at Caramoor

Yale Summer Cabaret closes its 2007 season with The Vote: Bacchae, adapted and directed by Mike Donahue.

The Bad Plays Festival will return this fall at the Players Theatre from September 10th through 30th.

Comedian Margaret Cho will headline The Sensuous Woman, a new Off-Broadway burlesque variety show that will run for four weeks at the Zipper Theater this fall,

City Attic Theatre, an emerging off-off-Broadway company, proudly closes their second season with a production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield.

Atlas Theater will present Illuminating Veronica by Rogelio Martinez, with Michael Sexton directing.

The New York Theatre Collective presents Alfred Kinsey: A Love Story by Mike Folie, running Off-Broadway at the Michael Weller Theatre, 311 West 43rd Street

Dozens of theatre stars are among the nominees of the 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which will be broacast live from L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, September 16th at 8 PM on FOX.

Actress and comedian Carol Burnett will return to the stage in the world premiere of What's Been Bothering You Lately?, a new play by Charles Grodin that will open on October 26th at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank, CA and run through November 18th as part of the theatre's sixth subscription series. Producer/Director Garry Marshall has formally announced the sixth subscription series, 'Comedy Tonight! (and matinees, too)' to be presented at his FALCON THEATRE in Burbank, California. The series will feature five plays, all comedies, including two World Premieres.

TheatreWorks presents the West Coast Premiere of 'Theophilus North' by Matthew Burnett at the Lucie Stern Theatre, opening July 21 through August 12.

The show comes across as a somewhat less-funny follow up to The Only Thing Straight..., and might be somewhat of a letdown for those looking forward to seeing what else this very talented team can create

I'm Mad About the Boy, but If Love Were All I needn't worry There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner - I'll Sail Away -Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?

Jujamcyn Theaters has announced the featured cast of this season's Broadway production of A Catered Affair, the new musical with book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, score by John Bucchino and directed by Tony Award-winner John Doyle

Tony Award winning actress/singer Betty Buckley joins world renowned pianist and long time collaborator Kenny Werner on Tuesday, July 17th through Sunday, July 22nd for a week of lively cabaret at NYC's Blue Note Jazz Club

On Thursday, July 26, 2007, prominent Manhattan psychiatrist Richard Brockman, M.D. will host a special audience talk-back immediately following the 8 p.m. performance of the Off-Broadway musical Sessions.

The 2007 Super Summer Theatre begins performances of Jesus Christ Superstar on Wednesday, August 8.

The 11th annual New York International Fringe Festival and Dreck Productions are proud to present the U.S. Premiere of Dirt, the acclaimed European award-winning one-man show written by Robert Schneider, directed by David Robinson and performed by Christopher Domig.

Part two of Tony Kushner's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America runs at Spotlighters from July 20 - August 12.