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Jason Robert Brown's Tony Award-winning 1998 musical, 'Parade' will make its London premiere this September at the Donmar Warehouse.

'Fractured Broadway 2' produced by Ronn Goswick, Executive Producer and Director of the Valley Musical Theatre (which just completed its second year of operation), was a sold-out success on June 11, 2007 at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, CA.

Wayne Brady is amazing. He's funny, gifted, very personable and - most of all - very smart. This intelligence informs everything he does onstage at The Venetian Resort and Casino.

Olivier Award-winner Maria Friedman and Welsh opera star Bryn Terfel will star in the Royal Festival Hall's production of the macabre Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler classic Sweeney Todd

London's theatre The Menier Chocolate Factory, with American producer Bob Boyett, have signed a three-year partnership to present Chocolate Factory productions in the United States.

Stage and screen star Patrick Wilson, who received acclaim for his recent turn in Little Children, will star alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington in the new thriller Lakeview

New York Musical Theatre Festival concludes its first-ever Spring Concert Series with 'Undercover Showtunes' on Monday, June 18 at 7PM at The Zipper Factory. Gloria Reuben is one of the many talented Broadway and screen stars set to perform.

On Thursday, June 14, the cast of 'Curtains' performed and signed CDs at Barnes and Noble, Lincoln Square.

On June 12, 2007, The Snapple Theater Center hosted a benefit for 'Normal in Schools,' a national nonprofit arts-in-education organization to produce, develop and implement programs and curricula that teach students of all ages about the devastating impact of eating disorders and the therapeutic impact of theatre.

On Monday, June 18, 2007, After the Storm - a non-profit film and theatre project that uses the power of art to raise and distribute money, increase awareness and revitalize the lives of children in the New Orleans community - will present two performances of a very special production of the award-winning musical Once On This Island.

The third season of the acclaimed Monday Nights, New Voices series continues June 18 at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre

Tickets for West End revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat are selling very well, and that producers may have to put more blocks of tickets up.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival and Gemini Productions will present Adina Taubman's A Line in the Sand, directed by Padraic Lillis (The Dirty Talk at Center Stage, In Transit at FringeNYC).

The York Theatre Company will present It's a Bird...It's a Plane…It's Superman, the first of the four shows in York's Summer 2007 Musicals in Mufti Series -- the York's acclaimed series of musical theatre gems in staged concert performances

On behalf of the Kleban Foundation, New Dramatists presented the 17th Annual Kleban Award for the most promising musical theater librettist to Jeremy Desmon, and the Award for most promising lyricist to Joe Iconis. The presentation of the awards took place June 13, 2007 at a private ceremony at BMI.

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.

Tony Award-winner Swoosie Kurtz, most recently seen on Broadway in Heartbreak House, recently visited with Tony Award-winning Grey Gardens stars Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson backstage at the hit musical.

10 Million Miles, directed by Michael Mayer, with a score by Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Patty Griffin and a book by Keith Bunin, opened on Thursday, June 14th at the Atlantic Theater Company at The Linda Gross Theater