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Boy Howdy Productions has announced the cast and performance dates of the new play Madonna and Child and Other Divas, written by Tom Johnson and directed by Julie Hamberg to be presented at the New York International Fringe Festival/ FringeNYC in August.

Ars Nova will present The Wikipedia Plays, a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the Wikipedia wave through seventeen related entries. Written by Ars Nova's 2006-2007 Play Group writers, the production run August 3 to August 6 at 7 PM at Ars Nova

Acclaimed documentarian James Quinn spent several days with the cast and crew of the 2006 NYMF Musical White Noise, watching rehearsals and interviewing the team.

Stephen Lang, playwright and star of Roundabout Theatre Company's Beyond Glory, will present special post-show 'Declaration of Honor' acknowledgements to nominated service men or women on July 20th, July 27th, August 3rd, August 10th and August 17th.

BRUCE CAMPBELL STAR OF EVIL DEAD MOVIES COMES TO TORONTO TO CELEBRATE EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL'S FINAL EXTENSION

The Swedes cast Spamalot, Joseph's stage breaks down on opening night, Drowsy closes in London, The Producers cancels tour and Ruthie returns to West End

Satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys returns to the Tricycle Theatre with the European Premiere of his new show, Evita for President!, running from 30 July to 1 September with press night on August 1, Evita for President!, which is currently playing to capacity audiences at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, professes to be a onslaught against the 'mock' in democracy and the 'con' in reconciliation.

This evening, July 18 Any Wednesday at Barnes and Noble will present Sue Matsuki.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's official website has posted a video of the encore from the first night of the Tony Award-winning composer and producer's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat revival at the Adelphi Theatre.

Alex Goldberg's hilarious new play about marital infidelity is given a wonderfully side-splitting production as part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival

On July 17th, Amanda Bynes, Nikki Blonsky, Elijah Kelley, Brittany Snow and Zac Efron of the Hairspray movie helped the raise the curtain on the film's new doll line at Toys 'R' Us in Times Square!

'New York Theatre Barn in the D-Lounge' will be presented at the Daryl Roth D-Lounge (101 East 15 Street) on Monday, July 23, 2007

Acclaimed playwright, poet and actor Sarah Jones stars in her acclaimed Broadway one-woman show Bridge & Tunnel for a limited engagement of 28 performances only at the Brentwood Theatre from September 25 to October 21

The New York International Fringe Festival, The Strollers, and Madeline Walter will present the New York premiere of Madeline Walter's Mary Brigit Poppleton is Writing a Memoir from Friday, August 10th through Sunday, August 26th.

San Francisco's L. Jay Kuo finally stages his original musical 'Insignificant Others' with a note-worthy cast. But despite months of revision, the book is in need of a major over-haul.

The Town Hall's first-ever Summer Broadway Festival presented 'A Night at the Operetta,' on Monday, July 16, at 8pm

After so many previous West End stagings and numerous UK touring productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat', one could be forgiven for being sceptical about yet another presentation at the Adelphi. But somehow this production succeeds in making the piece seem fresh and new. At every turn there is a huge amount of energy and vitality pouring out from the stage. And there is the added bonus of a brand new song for the Pharoah - 'King Of My Heart' - a tuneful pastiche ballad by Rice and Lloyd Webber that you could easily imagine having been sung by the 'King' himself.

The York Theatre Company has announced the cast for The Day Before Spring, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe

Kenny Leon (Radio Golf, Gem of the Oceam, A Raisin in the Sun) will direct a Broadway adaptation of the classic 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

A technical problem temporarily halted Andrew Lloyd Webber's lavish revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,

The Stratford Festival of Canada has announced its 2008 season, with productions directed by Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff and the Adrian Noble among the line-up.