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August: Osage County, which, on Friday, May 22nd, surpassed The Heidi Chronicles in the list of Broadway's longest running plays, welcomes Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad to the cast tonight, Tuesday, May 26th. Ms. Rashad will star as Violet Weston.

Rock Of Ages Tony-nominated star Constantine Maroulis, Tony Award-winner (for Gypsy) Laura Benanti and her husband Steven Pasquale (Reasons To Be Pretty) and Tony-nominated Judy Kuhn (Les Miz, Chess, Rags, She Loves Me) are among the Broadway honorees and performers at the Thursday June 25 Inside Broadway Broadway Beacon Awards at 5:30 PM at The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY.

Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle has made it through semi-finals of Britain's Got Talent where she battled it out with 39 other acts including a 11-year-old street dancer, a woman with her dancing dog and fellow 'Lez Miz' singing performer Jamie Pugh. The semi-finals began tonight Sunday, May 24, 2009 on UK's ITV with Susan Boyle singing Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Memory' from CATS.

Playhouse South will present The Lion in Winter, a comedic drama by James Goldman. Performances will be June 19-21 and June 26-28, 2009 in the Clark Haines Theater, 3700 Far Hills Avenue in Kettering. Friday and Saturday performances are at 8:00 pm and Sunday at 2:00 pm.

Variety is reporting that Michael Haneke's 'The White Ribbon,' the black-and-white drama set in a rural German village on the eve of WWI, received the Palme d'Or from the jury of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on Sunday. The trade paper also reports that Sony Pictures Classics nabbed the North American rights to the film before the festival.

Strawdog Theatre Company of Chicago announces their 22nd anniversary season of presenting 'the whole wide world in a little black box,' with the three mainstage plays focusing on the theme of 'why we fight': the Midwest premiere of Matt Pepper's 'St. Crispin's Day,' David Harrower's translation of Bertolt Brecht's 'Good Soul of Szechuan,' and Curt Columbus' translation of Anton Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya.' The shows run Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sundays at 7 p.m.

Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle has made the semi-finals of Britain's Got Talent where she will battle it out with 39 other acts including a 11-year-old street dancer, a woman and her dancing dog and fellow 'Lez Miz' singing performer Jamie Pugh.

Susan Boyle gets a second chance tonight, Sunday, May 24th to wow the world after her first appearance made her an Internet sensation. Boyle stunned and charmed tens of millions of viewers last month, when judges skeptical about her dowdy image were won over by her soaring voice and confident performance.

The critically acclaimed Broadway production of DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS by Eugene O'Neill will close today, May 24, 2009 after 16 previews and 32 performances.

After the 'American Idol' finale, Adam Lambert answered questions from reporters in a mass media conference and his message was all the music about his successful goal of creating togetherness. The questions and answers came fast and furious as the singing sensation met the press, here are some highlights below!

Tomorrow night, May 24th, Britain's Got Talent's celebrity judges Piers Morgan, Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden are set to choose 40 semi-finalists to compete for a spot on next Saturday's finale.

Nominated for 4 Tony Awards and a record 15 Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical, Broadway's side-splitting, take-charge triumph, 9 To 5: The Musical stars four-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Tony Award nominee Allison Janney,Stephanie J. Block, Megan Hilty, and three-time Tony Award nominee Marc Kudisch, and opened Thursday, April 30, 2009, at the Marriott Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway).

In a broadcast first, GLEE, the new one-hour musical comedy series from Ryan Murphy ('Nip/Tuck'), had a special preview following AMERICAN IDOL on Tuesday night, May 19th on FOX.

Bloomberg News reports that KPMG LLP has won the tabulation duties for Broadway's Tony Awards this year, edging out Lutz & Carr, a midtown-Manhattan accounting firm.

BroadwayWorld has learned the happy news that stage favorite Christopher J. Hanke's CBS series 'Three Rivers' was picked up for airing on the newtork. CBS announced it at the 2009 UPFRONTS here in New York City this week.

'Gossip Girl' Star Ed Westwick chats with Interview magazine on a variety of subjects, including his dislike of Broadway musicals, his excitement over the upcoming stage adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' 'American Psycho' and a hope for future dramatic stage work.

Comedy legend Mel Brooks has brought his hit musical 'The Producers' to Berlin with the goal of mining the Third Reich for laughs in the German capital.

Singer-Impressionist Danny Gans, a staple on the Las Vegas Strip, passed away at age 52 on May 1st.

The Las Vegas premiere of Disney's award-winning Broadway phenomenon THE LION KING, the first-ever Disney theatrical production to launch in Vegas, opened last week at the Mandalay Bay Theatre and has been enthusiastically embraced by local theatrical reviewers.

Idina Menzel's official website is announcing that the upcoming Chess in Concert cd is now available in a limited edition for pre-order on-line.