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While a guest on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Tom Cruise revealed he'd 'like to do a Broadway musical.'

The New York Post's Michael Riedel is reporting that Oscar winners, Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon will be making their Broadway debuts in Eugene Ionesco's 'Exit the King.'

Recording Artist and Broadway star, Deborah Gibson, will appear as the Special Guest Artist ( in a series of several )at JAMES BARBOUR'S HOLIDAY CONCERT on Saturday, December 27th, at Sardi?s (234 West 44th Street between Broadway & Eighth Avenue).

DC's Signature Theatre has announced casting for their production of the Tony Award-nominated comedy The Little Dog Laughed, Douglas Carter Beane's satire of Hollywood ambition, truth, and illusion. The Little Dog Laughed is scheduled to play Jan. 13-March 8, 2009.

Angels, the new Broadway-bound musical about an Angel who discovers her place and purpose, will receive two staged readings (3:30 & 7PM) on Tuesday, December 16th at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street). Written by the new Australian team of Ken Lai (book, music and lyrics) and Marcus Cheong (book and lyrics), the readings will feature Robert Cuccioli, Jessica Grov? and Nicholas Rodriguez in the leading roles. Direction is by Rich Fowler.

Recession-proof drag star JACKIE BEAT, everyone's favorite Grinch, returns to NYC for her 11th annual holiday show. Beginning December 12th, the self-professed bastard child of 'Weird' Al Yankovic and Bette Midler will premiere JACKIE BEAT: DRAG NOG at The Cutting Room (19 West 24th Street -- accessible from the N,R,F,V & 6 trains at 23rd Street).

Jonathan Larson's ground-breaking Tony and Pulitzer Prize Award winning musical Rent played its final performance on Broadway this September, completing a run that spanned over a decade. But audiences can enjoy a local production of the musical at Yorktown Stage this December, in one of the first youth incarnations of the show.

MAC and Bistro Award winner Brandon Cutrell's Feelin' Frosty (which just had its premiere at Feinstein's on December 1) will have an encore at the Laurie Beechman Theater on Friday, December 19 at 6pm. Tickets are $15 with a $15 food/drink minimum

Julie Wilson, the legendary theatre and cabaret star, will make a guest appearance at Steven Brinberg's A Simply Barbra Holiday Spectacular.She joins the previously announced Tituss Burgess and The Broadway Boys. The event will benefit The Ali Forney Center, New York's primary emergency housing resource for homeless LGBT youth. A Simply Barbra Holiday Spectacular will play at Symphony Space (2357 Broadway at 95th Street) on Saturday, December 20 at 8 pm.

The Flea Theater will present the World Premiere of Itamar Moses' LOVE/STORIES (OR BUT YOU WILL GET USED TO IT), a collection of five short new plays. Moses is the author of The Four of Us, Bach at Leipzig, Back Back Back and Celebrity Row, a playwright whose sensibility is the perfect match for The Bats, The Flea's resident company of emerging artists. Performances begin previews on January 29 with opening night slated for Monday, February 16.

Waltraud Meier will sing the role of Isolde in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde on December 12, replacing Katarina Dalayman, who is ill. Ms. Meier is a renowned Isolde who has frequently sung the role with Daniel Barenboim, the conductor for the Met performances. This will be her first performance of Isolde at the Met. She is arriving this evening from Munich.

Village Theatre announces its single ticket on sale dates for the fanciful comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest. Single tickets for the Issaquah run go on sale December 17, 2008 and January 28, 2009 for the Everett run.

Broadway In Chicago is proud to present the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2005, Monty Python's SPAMALOT, at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University. Starring Richard Chamberlain as King Arthur, Monty Python's SPAMALOT will run for a limited engagement January 20 to February 1, 2009.

The family classic Rumpelstiltskin will be playing at Foothills Theatre from December 30- January 3, 2009. Rumpelstiltskin tells the story of a devilish little man with the ability to spin ordinary straw into gold thread. He uses his magical powers to manipulate a sweet young girl and changes her life forever. Come find out if love can overpower the trickery of Rumpelstiltskin.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre is ending the year the way it started: delighting audiences and impressing critics on both coasts with two hits here in Berkeley and another show taking New York by storm. Today even as Joe Turner's Come and Gone nears the end of its local run and Artistic Director Tony Taccone is Taking Over Manhattan with Danny Hoch the company announced another extension for its production of The Arabian Nights.

Target Margin Theater (David Herskovits, Artistic Director), Off-Broadway's extraordinary, Obie Award-winning theater company, has announced the cast for the New York premiere of the never-before-seen production of Ten Blocks on the Camino Real by Tennessee Williams. Under the direction of David Herskovits, the six-member cast features Purva Bedi, Satya Bhabha, Curt Hostetter, McKenna Kerrigan, Dara Seitzman and Raphael Nash Thompson. This production will offer an extremely rare view of the theatrical process of playwright Tennessee Williams.

A hit in London and one of the most highly anticipated shows of the season, Billy Elliot officially opened at Broadway's Imperial Theatre last night, Thursday, November 13th. The show will play a special Actor's Fund performance on Sunday, January 25th at 8pm. For tickets call 212-221-7300 ext. 133, email at 'tickets@actorsfund.com.

According to various news reports, music superstar and Dreamgirls lead Beyonce has been signed to star in the long planned remake of A Star Is Born. The film has been remade many times, including by Barbra Streisand in the 1970s, Judy Garland in the 1950s and Janet Gaynor in the 1930s.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Marc Platt, presents Stockard Channing (Vera Simpson), Matthew Risch (Joey Evans) and Martha Plimpton (Gladys Bumps) in a new Broadway production of Pal Joey with Robert Clohessy (Mike), Jenny Fellner (Linda English), Daniel Marcus (Ludlow Lowell), Steven Skybell (Ernest), Timothy J. Alex, Brian Barry, Kurt Froman, Bahiyah Sayyed Gaines, Lisa Gajda, Anthony Holds, Nadine Isenegger, Mark Morettini, Kathryn Mowat Murphy, Abbey O'Brien, Hayley Podschun, Krista Saab and Eric Sciotto.

Intiman Theatre announces that, due to audience demand for tickets to see its gospel songfest Black Nativity, a performance has been added to the schedule and the production will now close on Sunday, December 28 at 2 pm.