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Gary Wilmot will continue in his starring role of ?Billy Flynn' in the UK National tour of the smash-hit musical 'CHICAGO' from Monday 23 November until Saturday 19 December 2009, with further dates and casting to be announced.

Splash Bar is proud to present a very special edition of 'Scott Nevins' Curtain Call' with the return of one of our favorite guest stars - Danny Calvert!

The New School for Drama has announced that the award-winning playwright Jon Robin Baitz will be the distinguished artist-in-residence for the 2009-2010 academic year. Baitz is a Pulitzer finalist, a Guggenheim and NEA fellow, and winner of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. A founding member and former artistic director of New York's Naked Angels theater company, Baitz has written a number of acclaimed plays, including The Film Society, The Substance of Fire, Three Hotels, A Fair Country, Ten Unknowns, Mizlansky/Zilinsky, a new version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (produced on Broadway in 2001), and The Paris Letter. Playwrights Horizons, the Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater, and the Second Stage Theatre have produced Baitz's work in New York. His new play, Love and Mercy, will be produced next season on Broadway.

In less than one year, Arena Stage will take up occupancy in its extraordinary new theater campus, The Mead Center for American Theater, currently under construction in Southwest D.C. At the heart of The Mead Center will be a groundbreaking new initiative created by Arena Stage for the advancement of new play development within American Theater-The American Voices New Play Institute. This program-integral to Arena's mission as a leading center for the production, presentation, development and study of American theater-is made possible through the keystone gift of $1.1 million in support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Institute is designed as a center for research and development of effective practices, programs and processes for new play development in the American Theater.

Albert Schultz, Founding Artistic Director of Soulpepper Theatre Company, today announced that the company's production of The Guardsman will run August 31 to October 24, 2009, at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.

Children's Theatre of Charlotte will hold open call auditions for The Ice Cream Man on Monday, August 31, from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Adult actors are needed for this alcohol/substance abuse play that will tour local middle schools.

FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST will begin performances at the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) on Saturday, August 15th at 2:15pm. Additional performances will be held Wednesday, August 19th at 10pm, Friday, August 21st at 5pm, Monday, August 24th at 3pm, Friday, August 28th at 7pm. The musical's book, music, and lyrics are by Ben Knox with additional book by Heather Collins and Karen Weatherwax and additional lyrics and arrangements by Brian J. Nash. For tickets, visit www.fringenyc.com.

Wind Up Productions' first full length play, The McCarthy Account, will be performed later this month at The Producers Club.

Kimleigh Smith proudly announces together with Director Paula Killen their production of Smith's one-woman show, 'T-O-T-A-L-L-Y!' playing Teatro La Tea (107 Suffolk Street) in New York City for a limited run - currently scheduled to play August 4-16.

The PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement & Education Department presents its seventh annual Dance Showcase on Friday, September 11 at 7 p.m. in the Ohio Theatre. Featuring eight of Northeast Ohio's finest professional dance companies, the performance highlights a wide array of dance styles from contemporary to ballet.

Married ALIVE! Actors' Playhouse hit summer musical has been extended by popular demand through August 23rd.

ABC's Dancing with the Stars has announced a new twist for the upcoming season. The new season of the ABC hit television show will premiere with 16 celebrities, and pare them down with one particularly 'brutal' elimination schedule.

In preparation of the world premiere of their Edgar Allan Poe-based production Haunted Poe (October 1 - November 1, 2009), Brat Productions will host a walking tour through Laurel Hill Cemetery (3822 Ridge Avenue) on August 20 at dusk. The 'candle lit' tour (bring your own flashlight) of the grounds will explore Poe literature, anecdotes and his life in Philadelphia. The event is free but space is limited. To attend, RSVPs must be sent to rsvp@bratproductions.org, or call (215) 627-2577. A rain date is set for August 27.

CPCC Theatre will hold auditions for Man of la Mancha on Monday, August 10th and Tuesday August 11th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm in the Halton Theater on the CPCC Central Campus.

Join us we host a launch and series of readings celebrating Beyond Bollywood and Broadway: Plays from the South Asian Diaspora, a collection of South Asian diasporic plays. Edited by Neilesh Bose, this book includes eleven plays from the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Canada, the four main English-speaking regions of the diaspora.

2009 WorldStage! concert series - an outdoor musical & cultural experience for the whole family, all summer long.

South Coast Repertory's Artistic Directors David Emmes and Martin Benson have announced that Doctor Cerberus, a new play by HBO's 'Big Love' and Marvel Comics' 'Spiderman' writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, will receive its World Premiere during the 2009-10 Season

The Trevor Project, the non-profit organization that operates the only nationwide, around-the-clock crisis and suicide prevention helpline for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, today announced that it has received a major donation from Daniel Radcliffe, the critically-acclaimed star of the 'Harry Potter' film series and Broadway's 'Equus.' The 20-year-old actor joined The Trevor Project's Circle of Hope, a community of major donors which plays an essential role in providing the financial leadership that makes the organization's lifesaving work possible.

Fox television series GLEE has received three 2009 Teen Choice Awards nominations.

60 solo singers and vocal duos have been chosen to compete in the second annual 'MetroStar Talent Challenge,' an eight-week, jury and audience-voted elimination-round competition that begins on Monday July 13 at 7pm.