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Single Tickets for the 2009 STAGES Season on sale begining Monday March 30th at 10am.

West Side Story opened at the Palace Theatre (1564 Broadway) on Thursday, March 19, 2009. The original Jerome Robbins choreography is restaged by Tony Award nominee Joey McKneely (The Boy from Oz, The Life).

Now in its eleventh season, New Edgecliff Theatre (NET) is about to produce its first bona fide musical ever, and it's doing it with a bang, bringing to Cincinnati the regional premiere of A.M. Collins' and Chad Henry's 'Angry Housewives'.

The New York Time is revealing in an article today that the real estate crash has struck an unexpected casualty. The New York State Summer School of the Arts, a 40-year-old, state-subsidized program that offers training in theater, dance, music and visual arts, may have to cut its budget by as much as half this year because of the state's budget crisis and, in particular, the drop-off in real estate transactions reports the paper.

The Chicago Sun Times had a very special video BWW TV wanted to share with you here on Stage Tube, reporter Stefano Esposito brought the emotional story to the public's attention that the Chicago company of 'Jersey Boys' did a truly wonderful thing on a recent morning, making a 'house call' for a local woman who is very, very ill.

6th Street Playhouse presents, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, By Joe DePietro and Jimmy Roberts. Performances begin April 17 to May 10, 2009 Opening performance at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 17.

The final presentation of DouglasPlus, Center Theatre Group's new programming at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, is 'Venice' by Matt Sax and Eric Rosen, the team who brought the West Coast premiere of 'Clay' to the Douglas in the 2007-2008 season.

The Sheldon Gala 2009 welcomes singer and actress Bebe Neuwirth 'Stories with Piano,' Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. in the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall. This very special evening, co-chaired by Sharon and Dale Fiehler and Jerrilyn and David Hoffmann, benefits The Sheldon's 2008-2009 season of concerts, exhibits and educational programs.

HAIR began preview performances on Friday, March 6th, and has its Opening Night set for Tuesday, March 31, 2009. After a smash-hit run at Central Park's Delacorte Theater last summer, HAIR returns to Broadway for the first time in over 30 years.

Eric Schaeffer, Artistic Director of Signature Theatre, today announced casting for the world premiere production of the musical Giant by composer Michael John LaChiusa and playwright Sybille Pearson.

The production has delayed its first preview originally planned for tonight, Friday 27th, the show will now begin on Saturday, March 28th to allow the company an extra amount of rehearsal time, stated a Transport Group spokesperson.

Ken Davenport and Robyn Goodman proudly announce that Lee Markham will take over the role of LUKE beginning April 3rd. Neil Haskell, who was featured on 'So You Think You Can Dance,' will play his last performance as Luke on Sunday, March 29th, when he joins the company of 9 to 5. Austin Lesch will play the role until Lee begins.

Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' Broadway smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! was honored with a Tony's DiNapoli 'Broadway Wall of Fame' portrait on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at the Times Square restaurant (147 West 43rd Street at Broadway).

The new Broadway musical NEXT TO NORMAL will begin preview performances on Friday, March 27 at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street). There will be a limited number of $25.00 rush tickets available in the front row and in the boxes for each performance. These rush tickets, which are available to all patrons, can be purchased at the box office only, beginning at 10:00am the day of the performance (12:00pm on Sundays). There is a limit of 2 tickets per person.

Leftfield Productions, Inc. along with Bud Negley, WHY and The Hard Rock Café announce that on Thursday, April 30th 'Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway' will perform a fundraising concert in Times Square at the Hard Rock Café featuring Broadway's Rob Evan (Jekyll and Hyde), Rita Harvey (Phantom of the Opera), Steve Blanchard (Beauty and the Beast), Carter Calvert (Ain't Nothin' But the Blues), Danny Zolli (Jesus Christ Superstar), Andrea Rivette (Miss Saigon), Tad Wilson (Rock of Ages), Capathia Jenkins (Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me), Eryn Murman (Spring Awakening) and Gerard Canonico (Spring Awakening). The show will be introduced by Charles Grodin and Vincent Pastore with more special guests to be announced.

Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning waltz musical A Little Night Music returns to Michigan Opera Theatre for the first time in over 25 years, and the fall 2009 production will represent the first time since 1992 that Michigan Opera Theatre has presented a musical as part of the main stage opera season. Tony Award winner Leslie Uggams and Broadway and television star Ron Raines have been announced to star as Desiree Armfeldt and Frederik Egerman in the production, set to run November 14-21. No other casting has been announced at this time.

The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their lives and will be held in New York on March 28, 2009 at the Marriott Marquis.

Two Obie Award-winning theater companies -- The Play Company and Ma-Yi Theater -- will collaborate this spring to present the New York premiere of Lloyd Suh's new play AMERICAN HWANGAP, with previews to begin May 9, prior to an official press opening May 17 Off-Broadway at The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street) in Manhattan. Trip Cullman directs an ensemble cast featuring some of the country's most accomplished Asian American actors, including James Saito (TV's 'Eli Stone' and Obie winner for DURANGO), Michi Barall (Charles Mee's QUEENS BOULEVARD), Mia Katigbak (DOGEATERS), Peter Kim (THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE), and Hoon Lee (YELLOWFACE).

ZOMBIE has announced it will be extending through April 26th, 2009. ZOMBIE is an award-winning new solo play by Bill Connington, adapted from the novella by Joyce Carol Oates. ZOMBIE, not for the faint of heart, takes you inside the mind of a sexual psychopath and Jeffrey Dahmer-esque serial killer.

Emmy and Tony Award winner Tyne Daly, most recently on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole, will preview her cabaret show on Sunday, April 26, 2009, to benefit Abingdon Theatre Company. Her one-time performance in the June Havoc Theatre will be followed by Miss Daly's debut May 12-16 at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.