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Billboard's Top Cast Albums chart for week ending 8/1/2009.

Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced today that the 2010 Spirit Awards will be held on Friday, March 5, 2010, and will air live and uncut at 8:00 p.m. PST/11:00 p.m. EST on IFC (Independent Film Channel). The nominations press conference will take place on Tuesday, December 1.

Paula Abdul is in talks with Nigel Lythgoe about becoming a part of Fox's 'So You Think You Can Dance,' according to Variety.

FOX has announced they will have guests judges fill-in for outgoing American Idol judge Paula Abdul, and will have a permanent replacement before live 'Idol' episodes begin next year, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Interim Board President Terry Kurtenbach today regretfully announced the resignation of Skylight Opera Theatre Managing Director Eric Dillner. Dillner said, 'I had to make many difficult decisions to streamline the company and it is now best for me to step aside and let someone else carry it forward.'

Will Oscar Award nominee Will Smith star in Steven Spielberg's recently announced remake of 'Harvey'? Movieline.com is speculating that might just be the case.

TV guide is reporting that Eric McCormack, Jessica Walter and Stephen Rea will guest-star in the new season of Law & Order: SVU. The theatre performers will join Christine Lahti, who was previously announced to be joining the show as a new Assistant District Attourney.

Tony Award-winning actor James Earl Jones will guest star on Fox TV's HOUSE, according to Entertainment Weekly. Jones will star in this season's fourth episode, and will appear as President Antipas Dibala, a dictator from an African country who becomes a patient at Princeton Plainsboro.

Al Pacino is set to star as 'Herod' in the upcoming film 'Mary, Mother of Christ.' The multi-award winning actor will star alongside Camilla Belle, Al Pacino, Peter O'Toole, Julia Ormond and Hollywood newcomer Diogo Morgado, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The Guthrie has announced that its 35th annual production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol will receive a new adaptation by Barbara Field, with Gary Gisselman directing the Twin Cities holiday classic for the ninth consecutive season and legendary stage and screen actorPeter Michael Goetz returning to play Ebenezer Scrooge.

Award-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz is featured in Cindy Adams newest NY POst article. In it, Schwartz talks about his new opera, 'Séance on a Wet Afternoon.'

Legendary performer Barbra Streisand has announced she will auction off performance costumes, paintings, furniture and vintage collectibles to benefit her Streisand Foundation.

It has just been announced that 'SARAH BRIGHTMAN IN CONCERT' will once again be visiting to Mexico, and for the first time ever, to South America! This is a new tour and will feature Sarah performing her best-loved hit songs.

Outgoing American Idol judge Paula Abdul is already set to appear on another television show. The pop star will film a second guest-starring appearance for Lifetime's 'Drop Dead Diva,' the new hit comedic drama series from executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.

In a recent article, The NY Daily News profiles BURN THE FLOOR's 'Shoe Guru,' Catherine Mayne. Mayne gives insight into her hectic day and how she maintains a show with so many shoes and costumes!

Popular entertainer John Barrowman has announced several book-signing appearances to promote his upcoming follow-up autobiography, 'I Am What I Am.' The book is a companion piece for his first autobiography, 'Anything Goes,' which was published in January of 2008.

Two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera will return to Birdland (315 West 44 Street, NYC) to in October of this year.

Celebrated comedienne and actress Lily Tomlin will take part in 'The D Word,' a benefit for the Pilgrim Bark Park of Provincetown, Massachusetts. The event, which will be hosted by Kate Clinton, will be held August 29, 8pm at the MacMillan Wharf.

Ruth Chapman, Co-Founder of popular UK Boutiques 'Matches' has praised Jude Law and the entire Donmar Warehouse production of HAMLET, which plays at the Wyndham Theatre through August 22nd.

Due to the demand for seats, Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced today that it will put tickets for Green Day's American Idiot on sale earlier than previously announced. Tickets to the world premiere of this eagerly anticipated show become available to the general public this Friday, August 7 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time - only at berkeleyrep.org.