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Liza Minnelli is interviewed by Liz Smith for the upcoming March 1st issue of PARADE magazine, she will also be on the cover.

The Shakespeare Society (Michael Sexton, Artistic Director) will present Olivier Award winner Simon Russell Beale and Academy Award winner Sam Mendes in an evening dedicated to Shakespeare's late masterpiece, The Winter's Tale, on Monday, March 2 at 7:00pm at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, East 68 Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues.

'LOVE SONGS' will continue to seduce New Yorkers every Saturday in March with an additional Sunday matinee concert on March 15. On Saturday, March 21st, Barbour will be joined by special guest Robert Cuccioli.

The international sensation STOMP makes a surprise cameo appearance on Guy Fieri's popular Food Network show 'Guy's Big Nite' tomorrow Wed. Feb 25 at 10 PM.

Gawker.com is reporting that Liz Smith, the iconic New York gossip columnist has been dropped as a New York Post columnist. The website reveals that it was not unexpected news.

The New York Times is reporting that a new omnibus bill introduced on Monday by the House Appropriations Committee includes a $10 million increase for the National Endowment for the Arts and for the National Endowment for the Humanities, this bill would bring each of their annual budgets to $155 million.

Rehearsals are underway for The Strip's hottest and most anticipated new show, PEEPSHOW, at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. Starring TV personality and chart-topping musical artist Mel B, a member of the world sensation Spice Girls, and General Hospital star and Dancing With the Stars first season champion Kelly Monaco, PEEPSHOW is a highly stylized, full-throttle production show that combines sexy striptease and celebrity with high-level production values and a dash of passion.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced today that The Shakespeare Lab, the theater's professional actor development program, will be tuition-free in 2009. The decision to make the program free this year builds on The Public's long tradition of free Shakespeare in the Park and the theater's ongoing commitment to building a community of classically trained artists. Shakespeare Lab 2009 will run from June 15-July 24.

The Actors Fund will host a Special Performance of SHREK THE MUSICAL on Sunday, March 15th at 8pm.

Frank Ingrasciotta, writer and star of Off-Broadway's Blood Type: RAGU, is set to do a live interview with John 'Cha Cha' Ciarcia on WOR Radio's 'Joey Reynolds Show' tomorrow, February 25th at midnight. Widely known as the 'Unofficial Mayor of Little Italy,' Cha Cha co-hosts the show every Wednesday on WOR, 710AM.

Violin virtuoso's Black Violin will headline New York's oldest and most active theatre in the heart of the Broadway theatre district from March 11- 22, 2009.

Comedian Jackie Hoffman ('Hairspray') and pop singer Nellie McKay (seen on Broadway in 'Threepenny Opera') to be among the performers at the second annual BIG GAY VARIETY SHOW hosted by the New York Civil Liberties Union Young Professionals at the exclusive burlesque club The Box, 189 Chrystie St., on Tuesday, March 3 with doors opening at 7 p.m.

SHREK THE MUSICAL star Brian d'Arcy James will be at Planet Hollywood Times Square on Monday, March 2, 2009at 6:30 p.m. to donate memorabilia from SHREK THE MUSICAL and have his handprints captured in cement. (The mold of his handprints and memorabilia from the show will later be displayed in the restaurant.)

The New York Times is reporting that THE WIZ will 'Ease on Down the Road' to the New York City Center as it has announced that it would stage a revival of 'The Wiz' as its Encores! Summer Stars production.

Defying Inequality: The Broadway Concert, A Celebrity Benefit for Equal Rights, was produced by 4Good Productions, in association with B. Swibel Presents, the same presenters of the 2005 event Broadway's Celebrity Benefit for Hurricane Relief at the Gershwin Theatre. Here is Harvey Fierstein's speech from the Defying Inequality Benefit Concert, BWW brings it to you courtesy of Lezbehonest.tumblr.com.

Writer/Director Roland Tec's (All The Rage) latest film, WE PEDAL UPHILL: Stories From The States 2001-2008, will open its theatrical engagement in New York at the Cinema Village on March 20, 2009. After the 2004 election, and troubled by the climate of fear taking hold of the country, Writer/Director Roland Tec began taking notes. Clipping news stories from the country he saw transforming before him, Tec let his imagination roam where the headlines left off. And so were born the thirteen vignettes that make up this penetrating look at a country mired in one of its darkest periods.

SPIDER-MAN, Turn Off the Dark, will open on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at Broadway's Hilton Theatre, 213 West 42nd Street (preview performances will begin Saturday, January 16, 2010).

BROADWAY SESSIONS W/ BEN D welcomes Tad Wilson and the music of Jeremy Schonfeld tonight, Tuesday February 24th. Tad Wilson will be appearing in March in the Broadway transfer of the Off-Broadway hit Rock of Ages. Mr. Wilsons other credits include include For the Glory (The Civil War) and he is working with composer Frank Wildhorn on 2 upcoming projects.

The new musical version of 'Little House on the Prairie' will launch a National Tour in St. Paul this fall, The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts announced Monday that 'Little House' will kick off its 2009-10 theater season.

BroadwayWorld is excited to bring you this video montage from Mitzi's new stage show as a BWW TV premiere for RAZZLE DAZZLE! MY LIFE BEHIND THE SEQUINS.