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There are only 5 weeks left - that's 38 performances - to see Disney's Beauty and the Beast

The Stephen Sondheim / George Furth musical Company, directed by 2006 Tony Award winner John Doyle and starring Raúl Esparza, will play its final performance on Sunday, July 1, 2007 after 34 preview performances and 247 regular performances.

The Joseph Stein/Kander & Ebb musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's 'The Skin of Our Teeth' lacks the sharp bite of the ground-breaking Pulitzer Prize-winning original

On Wednesday, April 18th, Disney's Beauty and the Beast will celebrate its 13th Anniversary with Broadway's biggest cast photo and party.

Catch this exclusive backstage On The Spot interview with Disney's Beauty and the Beast's final Belle, Anneliese van der Pol as she talks about her career including her inspirations, starring in Evita, 'That's So Raven,' and making her Broadway debut in a show set to close on July 29th, 2007. Plus - all new highlights from Beauty and the Beast featuring this vocal powerhouse!

Raúl Esparza and cast members from the Stephen Sondheim / George Furth musical Company, directed by John Doyle, will perform on FOX's new national morning program, 'The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet' on Thursday, April 5th.

Anneliese van der Pol, star of the Disney Channel hit 'That's So Raven,' will be making her Broadway debut as the Belle of Broadway in Disney's Beauty and the Beast

Theatre directors Mary Zimmerman, Adrian Noble, Richard Jones and John Doyle will be among those staging operas at the Met during the opera company's 2007-2008 season.

On Friday, February 23rd at 5:30 pm at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle, Raúl Esparza and the entire cast of Company will perform three musical numbers from the classic Stephen Sondheim score in conjunction with the release of the new cast recording of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival.

Westport Country Playhouse has announced that Grammy, Emmy and three-time Tony Award nominee Eartha Kitt, and Tony Award winners Shuler Hensley and Cady Huffman will appear in the new Kander and Ebb musical, All About Us, which opens the Playhouse 2007 season, April 10 through April 28.

The LA Opera presented Kurt Weill's and Bertolt Brecht's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Saturday under the direction of Tony Award-winner John Doyle and starring Broadway divas Audra McDonald and Patti LuPone...

On Friday, February 23rd at 5:30 pm at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle, Raul Esparza and the entire cast of Company will perform three musical numbers from the classic Stephen Sondheim score in conjunction with the release of the new cast recording of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival.

'That's So Raven' star Anneliese van der Pol will be Broadway's final Belle in Beauty and the Beast, which is set to close at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on July 29th.

BroadwayWorld presents the fifth in an eight-part preview series leading up to the 10th Annual Broadway Bears auction, presented by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

The cast recording of John Doyle's Broadway revival of Company will be released by Nonesuch and PS Classics on February 13th.

After enchanting audiences for more than 13 years, Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the inaugural Broadway musical from Disney Theatrical Productions, will take its final bow at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street) on Sunday, July 29th. The Broadway production will have played 46 previews and 5,464 regular performances.

Complete casting has been announced for the starry upcoming Los Angeles Opera production of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, starring the previously announced Tony Award-winners Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald

A star-studded after-party celebrated the Broadway revival of Company, which opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 29th

The new revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's classic musical Company opened on Broadway on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 W. 47th Street), and BroadwayWorld was there!

Annie Golden and Eartha Kitt lead a solid cast of musical theatre performers in a tepid musical that would aspire to be bland