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Stage legend Lansbury is profiled in an a wonderful article in the Wall Street Journal, she gives a witty and candid interview on her return to Broadway.

Hollywood news website The Wrap has reported that teen-throb and star of Disney's first three 'High School Musical' films, Zac Efron has dropped out of Paramount's planned remake of 'Footloose,' in what seems an apparent effort to push his career beyond fame as just a cute song-and-dance man.

Blood Type: RAGU is a hilarious and poignant exploration of the Sicilian immigrant experience based on the life of writer/performer Frank Ingrasciotta. This one-man show features more than 20 characters, who live, love and laugh as they struggle to thrive in a new culture, while nurturing the traditions of the old. It's not drama . . . it's just family!

The nominations were announced today for the British Academy Television Awards. Hosted by Graham Norton and broadcast on BBC One, the Awards will be held for the first time at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday April 26, 2009.

SHOUT! will get its West?End premiere at the Arts?Theatre in a 10-week season from Friday April 17 - Sunday June 28. Official press night is Wednesday April 29 at 7.30pm.

Las Vegas Little Theatre announces auditons for the final show of the Fischer Black Box Series 2008 - 2009 Season, Great Western Wanderlust by Eric Eberwein on Monday March 30th and Tuesday March 31st from 7:30 - 9:00pm. Auditions will be held at Las Vegas Little Theatre 3920 Schiff Drive.

The Hollywood Reporter has announced in a news feature that the 15 local chapters of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees ratified the new contract with the studios and networks Friday. The new deal will go into effect Aug. 1 and run for three years.

Opening in the Blackbox Theatre, Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy, runs April 3-April 19, 2009.

Guthrie Director Joe Dowling today announced the 21 plays of the Theater's 2009-2010 season, a blend of classics, fresh takes on timeless themes and exciting presentations - including renewed and continuing partnerships and the return of the Guthrie's prestigious WorldStage program. Ranging from uproarious comedies to a modern retelling of Ibsen's feminist classic to stories centered on Chinese opera and American jazz, the 2009-2010 season showcases Shakespeare, celebrated Irish playwrights and new American voices.

Splash Bar presents a very special edition of Scott Nevins' Curtain Call with the dazzling Diva from the original cast of Broadway's 'Avenue Q', making her Curtain Call debut - Erin Quill!

Broadway Sessions w/ Ben D welcomes Michael Buchanan on March 24th. Buchanan made his Broadway debut last year in the John Waters inspired musical 'Cry-Baby'. Regionally Mr. Buchanan has been seen in Urinetown at Chicago's Mercury Theater (Bobby Strong), Mame at the Kennedy Center, and most recently starred in the Arizona Theater Companies hit staging of Hair

Beloved stage icon Angela Lansbury will be a guest on The View on Thursday March 26th. 'The View' is hosted by Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd. 'The View' airs weekdays at 11:00 AM, ET on ABC.

West Side Story has returned to Broadway in a new production directed by its two-time Tony Award winning librettist Arthur Laurents. Laurents discussed the musical with Mo Rocca for CBS News. He reveals the evolution of the classic musical as it made its journey back to Broadway.

On Sunday March 22nd a sombre group of friends and family gathered in a small Hudson Valley town to bid a final farewell to Richardson. Liam Neeson was among the pallbearers who carried his wife's coffin into St Peter's Episcopal Church, near the home where the two married in 1994. He arrived with the couple's sons; his mother-in-law, actress Vanessa Redgrave, and his sister-in-law, actress Joely Richardson. Also among the mourners were Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman and Laura Linney.

Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden star in GOD OF CARNAGE, the new play by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton, directed by Matthew Warchus, opened on Broadway at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45 Street), Sunday March 22. Previews began on February 28.

Sean Allan Krill is making his Broadway debut as 'Sam Carmichael' in Mamma Mia! after playing the role in the North American tour for two years, as well as starring in the first national tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Variety is reporting that Amanda Bynes is set to star in the new ABC pilot 'Canned.' Bynes plays Sarabeth, a 'naive Midwesterner who's being exploited by her boss - and doesn't realize it'.

Contact Music has revealed that Christina Applegate is eyeing a return to Broadway. The California-born actress admits she has longed to return to theatre since her staring role in the 2005 revival of Sweet Charity, which earned her a Tony Award nomination for best actress in a musical. And while she's currently filming her U.S. TV comedy Samantha Who? in Los Angeles, Applegate announced that returning to the Big Apple is among her many ambitions, because the city feels like a second home.

Variety is reporting that Anne Hathaway will star on both stage and screen as Judy Garland in the Weinstein Co.'s stage and film adaptations of Gerald Clarke's bio 'Get Happy.' The Weinstein Company recently optioned the legit and film rights to the book, first published by Delta in 2001.

The New York Times is reporting that actor and comedian Robin Williams is recovering from heart surgery he underwent Friday, after a health scare that forced the postponement of his 'Weapons of Self-Destruction' tour.