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Feline aficionado Andrew Lloyd Webber's kitten destroyed a little - but by no means all - of the composer's in-progress score to his The Phantom of the Opera follow-up.

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced 'Roundabout Underground,' which will premiere in the new 65-seat black box theatre space in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre

A Musical Event Starring Kathy St. George With Tim Evans at the piano

After an absence of nearly two decades, Oscar-nominee Annette Bening will return to Broadway next spring.

Bounce, the Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical about American resilience, may have some life in it yet.

London leading man Michael Ball will explore his feminine side as hefty hausfrau Edna Turnblad in the upcoming West End production of Hairspray.

South African Trumpeter Hugh Masekela, who was nominated for a TONY in 1988 for the score of Sarifina!, will headline The Tanglewood Jazz Festival on August 31st

Cheyenne Jackson will take over the role of Sonny in XANADU at the Helen Hayes Theatre, 240 West 44th. St. on Friday, June 22nd. Mr. Jackson is taking over for James Carpinello, who was forced to leave the production due to an injury.

The acclaimed arts institution, The Kitchen presents Target Margin Theater (David Herskovits, Artistic Director) as it continues its acclaimed 2006-2007 season 'On The Greeks' with the world premiere of two newly adapted one-act plays, The Argument, based on Aristotle's Poetics, written and performed by David Greenspan, and Dinner Party, an adaptation of Plato's Symposium

One of Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth's upcoming roles will be of an unearthly variety in Space Chimps

Additional casting has been announced for the upcoming West End revival of Grease

Ground UP Productions will present the New York premiere of The People vs. Mona, a new Southern murder mystery musical from Jim Wann (co-conceiver of the Tony Award nominated musical Pump Boys and Dinettes) and Patricia Miller.

On Thursday, June 7th at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center, 2007 Tony Award-nominee, and three-time Tony Award-winning Broadway Producer Stewart Lane, joined by Tony-winner Leslie Uggams, Tony-nominee Dee Hoty and acclaimed vocalist Julie Budd, took part in a performance, discussion and signing.

'Pirates!' opening night at Paper Mill Playhouse

Town Hall's 'Broadway by the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1964 Part II' on Monday, June 18th has expanded its previously announced cast. Joining Stephanie J. Block, Liz Callaway, Joyce Chittick, Scott Coulter, Beth Leavel and Sean Martin Hingston are Gregg Edelman, Devin Richards, David Pittu, and Sarah Uriarte Berry.

Filming for Tim Burton's upcoming film version of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp in the title role, was completed on May 11th.

The York Theatre Company presented 'NEO3,' a benefit concert celebrating emerging musical theatre writers tonight, on Monday, June 11th at its home in the Theatre at Saint Peter's

Tony Award-winner John Lithgow will make his UK stage debut in Twelfth Night at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Four-time Emmy award-winning Rhea Perlman ('Cheers') and Olivier Award-nominated Evita star Elena Roger are among the new stars of the West End hit comedy, Boeing-Boeing, by Marc Camoletti.

The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, opens the Williamstown Theatre Festival Main Stage on July 4. Set in a Chicago newsroom in the late 1920's, this classic Broadway comedy about the nature of media in society is directed by Ron Daniels.