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La Jolla Playhouse will present Peter and the Starcatchers, a new play, as part of its Page to Stage program in the Winter of 2009, by special arrangement with Disney Theatrical Productions.

At 4:30pm today, Paper Mill Playhouse took the greatest step in their financial turnaround. After more than a year of discussion, meetings, negotiations, hearings and hard work, Paper Mill Playhouse closed with the Township of Millburn on the sale of our property.Paper Mill Playhouse has another chance to succeed, this time with a fresh financial start.

Mario Lopez has been named the new host of the long-running, daily syndicated entertainment magazine program 'Extra,' it was announced today by Hilary Estey McLoughlin, President, Telepictures Productions, and 'Extra' Senior Executive Producer Lisa Gregorisch-Dempsey. Lopez, who has served as a co-host of the hit show's weekend edition as well as a correspondent for the daily program since joining 'Extra' in January 2007, will take over the anchor chair on September 15 as the show begins its 15th season. Concurrently, longtime 'Extra' co-host Dayna Devon will transition into a special correspondent role for the program, focusing on major celebrity interviews and celebrity lifestyle reporting. She will also serve as backup host for Lopez.

Beginning performances Tuesday, July 29, P.J. Benjamin will play The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the Broadway musical WICKED.

Steppenwolf Traffic is pleased to present with two hauntingly hilarious performances of A Sandra Bernard Halloween on Monday, October 27, 2008 in the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St.

Nili Kook and Rebecca Kook, the widow and daughter of Hillel Kook, will attend the 2 pm matinee of The Accomplices on Sunday, August 3 and participate in a talk-back with the audience following the performance at The Fountain Theatre.

The producers of the international Next Stage Theatre Company announced Monday their plans to have an Open Cast Party to celebrate Next Stage's New York City debut. The party will be on Friday, August 1st immediately following a 6:30 performance of Alan Ayckbourn's Intimate Exchanges at the Midtown International Theatre Festival.

Beginning performances Tuesday, July 29, P.J. Benjamin will play The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the Broadway musical WICKED.

The Young Directors Project will be presented again this year in Salzburg. The successful theatre project is now in its seventh year and is becoming even more international. As well as German-language productions, there are now for the first time ones from Japan, Norway and the USA in the context of the Young Directors Project.

he Peccadillo Theater Company is pleased to announce their first production as the resident theater company at Theatre at St. Clement's - Charles MacArthur's classic screwball comedy JOHNNY ON A SPOT.

The man, the myth, the trilogy returns! Solo performer Charles Ross returns to San Francisco's Post Street Theatre for 19 performances only (September 25 - October 12) with his wildly popular hit show One Man Star Wars Trilogy.

The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, GA announced today that they will an award title the Shuler Hensley award for excellence in high school musical theater.

Today Berkeley Repertory Theatre, which in the last 40 years has earned a reputation for developing provocative new plays, received a prestigious grant to fund its 50th world premiere: the Edgerton Foundation presented this Tony Award-winning theatre with its coveted New American Play Award to support the latest work from the team that made Eurydice a national hit. The $54,000 grant will provide extra rehearsal time for In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), an elegant comedy that Berkeley Rep has commissioned from MacArthur fellow Sarah Ruhl.

New York's eternally boundary-pushing theater company Naked Angels (Geoffrey Nauffts, Artistic Director and Brittany O'Neill, Managing Director) has announced that it will present the Off Broadway premiere of The Talk, a new American play by Frank Pugliese, directed by Sheryl Kaller.

The location for the reading of Veronica written and directed by John Patrick Shanley will now be in the Martel Theater, in the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film, at 5:00 pm on Sunday, August 3. The reading is free to the public, however reservations are strongly recommended.

The New School for Drama was well represented in the 33rd Annual Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival, which featured a selection of 40 plays this past month at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre in New York City.

In its second week in theaters Mamma Mia! the movie took in $17,865,000 at the box office. So far the movie has brought in $62,714,000. Its worldwide gross is currently $135,314,000.

Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce the surprise hit Broadway musical XANADU will premiere in Chicago at the Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place beginning January 16, 2009.

Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director) announced today two new shows that will comprise the 2008 fall season - it will next present the New York Premiere of the award-winning play In Conflict (beginning September 18), a compelling portrait of Iraq War veterans speaking out on duty, loss and the fight to stay alive.

The 20th Anniversary revival of DAVID MAMET's Speed-The-Plow is set to begin performances on Friday, October 3, 2008 with an official opening set for Sunday, October 26, 2008 at the Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street).