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Los Angeles theatre veteran and three-time Tony nominated Broadway producer Susan Dietz joins Reprise! Broadway's Best as its producing director. She will work alongside artistic director Jason Alexander and succeeds Jim Gardia, who moves to the Northern California, having served Reprise! for the past six years. Danny Feldman continues as Managing Director.

Trevor Nunn's Award Winning Musical Must End January 20.

Lea Michele, Daniel Reichard, Melissa Errico and Adam Pascal headline performances to benefit a 9/11 charity.

Wendy Wasserstein's final play is a treasure trove of rich characters and intelligent writing, mixed with humor, warmth, politics, and poignance

BroadwayWorld.com's New and Updated Who's Who Entries for the Week of 1/15/2008. Updates include: Randy Blair, Ryan Duncan, Stephanie Burkett Gerson, Marissa O'Donnell, Dave Pierce, David Andrews Rogers, Brian Charles Rooney, Kate Swan, Max von Essen, Anthony Wayne.

The National Museum of American History will host a private (closed to public) donation ceremony at which ten legends of stage and screen will donate objects from their careers to the Museum's collections.

Four-time Academy Award nominated actress Marsha Mason announced the launch of the Flying Swan Acting Program.

Seasoned New York producers Frank Gero, Jono Gero and Ray Gaspard are teaming together to present the Chicago Dramatists' critically acclaimed production of Keith Huff's new play, A Steady Rain. A Steady Rain received huge critical acclaim over its sold out six week run last September and October at Chicago Dramatists, earning a nod on almost every Chicago theater critic's 'Top 10 Theatrical Productions of 2007' list including the Chicago Tribune, The Daily Herald, Time Out Chicago, New City, UR and more.

Comedy, drama, history, romance and courtship will play out under the twinkling Spring Green, Wisconsin stars as American Players Theatre (APT) opens their 29th full season. Plays for the 2008 season include Shakespeare's popular romantic comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream and the historical Henry IV, Parts I and II; Eugene O'Neill's nostalgic comedy Ah, Wilderness!; George Bernard Shaw's Widower's Houses and Hannah Cowley's lighthearted comedy of manners, The Belle's Strategem.

Aurora Theatre Company proudly presents the West Coast Premiere of Diana Son's recent Off-Broadway hit Satellites. Kent Nicholson directs. Satellites plays January 25 through March 2 at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley.

SHN and Pacific Arts proudly present The Moody Blues in-concert at the Orpheum Theatre on Tuesday, March 4 at 8PM and Wednesday, March 5 at 8PM

The Fire Dept will present an expanded and updated version of its acclaimed At War: American Playwrights Respond to Iraq, an evening of alternately moving, haunting, and funny material by noted and emerging American playwrights, woven together to present a kaleidoscope of views on the war. Featuring a rotating repertory of celebrity hosts and guest performers including Bebe Neuwirth, Josh Hamilton, Bobby Cannavale, Derek Phillips, Daniel Sunjata and Fire Dept company members David Strathairn, Janeane Garofalo, Gloria Reuben and Tony Award winner Denis O'Hare.

New Repertory Theatre presents New Voices @ New Rep, a staged reading series. Featuring four new works by established and emerging American playwrights, New Voices @ New Rep is open to the public, and admission is free.

Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver is a live musical experience that is breaking box office records from coast-to-coast by reinventing and reinvigorating the music you thought you knew ... like you've never heard before. The tour, directed by Tony Award nominee Randal Myler, will be making stops in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia.

Neil Berg's theatrical rock concert event 'The Twelve' debuted at the China Club January 13 at 7:15PM

Best known for his Tony-awarding winning performance as Tommy DeVito in the hit Broadway musical Jersey Boys, Christian Hoff premiered his sold-out solo concert show at the Metropolitan Room for one night on Monday, January 14 at 9:30PM.

Hey Baltimore! Artistic? Design a costume for the show, and win a $500 gift certificate, tickets to the show, and see your costume created and used in the show!!

ACT's Sixth Annual Young Playwrights Festival returns for another year, March 6-8, 2008. ACT will present staged readings of eight new plays, written by students age 14-18 hailing from Bainbridge, Ballard, Capitol Hill, the Central District, Fremont, Lake Sammamish and Mount Baker.

New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) continues its 20th Anniversary season with Harry, Hoagy & Harold, an evening of song featuring the greatest hits and rarities by three American song-writers: Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael and Harold Arlen, on Tuesday, February 5 and Thursday, February 7 at 8:00 pm, at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and 7th Avenue.

The Barrow Group Theatre Company will present the Off-Broadway Premiere of John Ahlin's GRAY AREA with previews beginning on Wednesday, February 13, 2008. The official opening will be on Monday, February 18, 2007. Seth Barrish directs.