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The First National Tour of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels recently played Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre

A weekly column on Baltimore/Washington Theater and Broadway.

The Dallas Summer Musicals presents Dirty Rotten Scoundrels starring the fabulous Norbert Leo Butz in the role that earned him the Tony Award.

Four-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury makes a return to the Broadway stage heading the cast of This is on Me, An Evening of Dorothy Parker, a staged reading adapted by Tom Fontana to benefit The Acting Company on Sunday, November 5, 7pm at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 West 45th Street. Boyd Gaines, Harriet Harris, Lisa Banes and Lynn Collins complete the cast.

GREAT BIG STUFF SERVED UP AT THE PANTAGES THEATRE'S PREMIERE OF 'DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS' -- Tony-Award winner Norbert Leo Butz reprises his role as 'Fredy Benson' in the Southern California Engagement.

Norbert Leo Butz--who is reprising his Tony Award-winning performance as brash swindler Freddy Benson in the national tour of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels--has been signed to his first major big screen role

Cynthia Nixon will host a benefit performance of the Off-Broadway hit Trouble in Paradise July 20th

Hourglass Group in association with True Faux Productions will move its critically acclaimed new stage adaptation of Trouble in Paradise to an Off-Broadway contract for an extension through July 22nd at the Hudson Guild Theatre

Tom Hewitt and Laura Marie Duncan will headline the national tour of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, while Norbert Leo Butz will be with the tour through October 24th

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Zhivago, the new musical at La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, has extended its run by two weeks through July 9th

Matt Bogart has replaced Jason Danieley in the La Jolla Playhouse's production of the new musical Zhivago, opening on May 25th

Ivan Hernandez, Jason Danieley, Tom Hewitt and Jessica Burrows will star in the La Jolla Playhouse's production of the musical Zhivago, running from May 9th through June 24th

Donna English, Jenny Fellner and Tom Hewitt will be featured in a March 9th private industry reading of Matthew Wilder and David Zippel's Princesses

Isabel Keating will host the Paradise Follies, honoring Ziegfeld Girl Dorothy Wegman Raphaelson and featuring a screening of Trouble in Paradise, on March 25th

Tom Hewitt has joined the cast of the upcoming benefit reading of When Ladies Meet, which will be performed on February 27th