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In a recent Newsweek article, the now author, Ramin Setoodeh, posed the question: 'Heterosexual actors play gay all the time. Why doesn't it ever work in reverse?'

With 11 Tony ® Award nominations including Best Musical and Best Director of a Musical & Best Choreography for Bill T. Jones, the producers of Fela! have announced plans for a groundbreaking domestic and international tour of the critically acclaimed production launching in the fall of 2011. Lead producer Stephen Hendel has enlisted CAMI Spectrum's Margaret Selby in association with CAMI Theatricals' Gary McAvay to book the tour in the following US cities: Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Miami, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Tempe, and Washington. International engagements in Amsterdam, Melbourne, Paris, Rotterdam, Sydney and Toronto will also be scheduled.

Weekend Movie Box Office Update: May 7 - May 9, 2010

Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth, along with the cast of PROMISES, PROMISES will be honored later this month at a by-invitation-only private event at Tony's diNapoli Restaurant, 147 West 43rd Street, between 6th Avenue and Broadway. The pair will be the newest addition to Tony's diNapoli's pretigious Broadway Wall of Fame.

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced two additional productions as part of the 2010-2011 theatrical season. Cherry Jones will be starring in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, directed by Doug Hughes. Olympia Dukakis will star in Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, directed by Michael Wilson.

Yesterday, Sunday May 9 Rafael Pi Roman sat down with Broadway's Barbara Cook to reflect on her career and talk about all things SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM. Click below to see the heartfelt segment.

Tomorrow, on Tuesday May 11, FOX will air the 'Laryngitis' episode of GLEE, about overcoming obstacles. Click below to hear Lea Michele suffer through Miley Cyrus' 'The Climb' with a sore throat.

Broadway/L.A. has announced that Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony Award®-winning creator, composer-lyricist and original star of Broadway's 2008's Best Musical IN THE HEIGHTS will reprise the lead role of ‘Usnavi' when the show has its Southern California premiere engagement at the historic Pantages Theater in Los Angeles from June 22nd through July 11th. The gala opening night is Wednesday, June 23rd, following one lower-priced preview on Tuesday, June 22nd.

According to the U.K. Times and other published reports, the1987 film Fatal Attraction, which famously starred Michael Douglas and Glenn Close, is being adapted for the London stage by writer Hames Dearden and is being primed for a West End run as early as the end of 2010. Dearden, who also wrote the original screenplay, will set the romance thriller in the present and there is talk that the Glenn Close character, 'Alex' may live in the end of this latest incarnation. It is expected that the stage version may be all-around less violent. However, the infamous 'rabbit scene' will remain, as Dearden tells the U.K.'s Sunday Times: 'Without it the audience might demand their money back.' The play is being produced by Robert Fox.

Tickets are now on sale through Sunday, November 21, 2010 for MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, the Tony nominated Best Musical, currently playing at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street).

In tribute to its Career Achievement Award winners Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, the Theatre Museum's May 17 awards show will feature renditions of some of their most popular compositions performed by an array of top Broadway talent.

ENRON began previews on Broadway on April 8, 2010 at The Broadhurst Theatre, opened on April 27, 2010 and closed last night, Sunday May 9, 2010. PBS recently profiled the show, and its surprising Broadway closing, featuring comments by the show's writer, Lucy Prebble, the show's stars and U.S. critics.

Stage and screen star, and 'Story Weather' singer Lena Horne died Sunday, May 9, at the age of 92 at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Click below to watch the legend singing her signature song 'Stormy Weather' and another classic 'It's Not Easy Being Green' on Sesame Street below.

Times Square has just been given the 'all clear' by the NYPD after the streets in the surrounding area had been been evacuated due to a suspicious cooler that was left in front of 1535 Broadway at the Marriott Marquee hotel between 45th and 46th Streets and Broadway. Once reported, police immediately evacuated the area to investigate. Ambulence and the FDNY rushed to the scene as a precaution, fearing a bomb was inside. An eye witness described the scene in Times Square as 'quiet' and 'eerie.'

On Monday, April 26 and Tuesday, April 27, BC/EFA hosted the 24th ANNUAL EASTER BONNET COMPETITION. This year, the competition raised an impressive $3,265,700 by the 64 participating Broadway, Off-Broadway, and National Tour companies benefiting Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS. Since it began in 1987, the 23 editions of the EASTER BONNET COMPETITION have raised over $42 million for BC/EFA. BroadwayWorld brings you the official video of the event, including interviews and clips of the most talked-about numbers.

The Emmy-winning soap One Life to Live, will air it's highly anticipated 3 part musical episode next Friday, May 14, and production for it is in full swing. The three-day event, which SoapNet calls 'A sequel of sorts to 2007's 'Prom Night: The Musical,' is entitled 'Starr X'd Lovers' and features numbers from The Black Eyed Peas, among other famous artists. The broadcast will feature One Life to Live regulars, in addition to Broadway's Jason Tamm, who was recently seen as 'Paul' in the revival of A Chorus Line, in two numbers. He has also appeared on Broadway in Les Miserables.

Betty White dropped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night as part of an effort to promote her upcoming hosting gig on Saturday Night Live, and found herself challenged to a rematch of beer pong against Fallon. The two famously engaged in a match of beer pong during her previous visit, in which Fallon beat the beloved television icon. Not one to shy away from competition, White joined Fallon at the table for a second go-round. Click below to watch them in action.

Michael Riedel reports in the New York Post this morning that Broadway Producer Jeffrey Richards will be producing a Broadway transfer of The Public's Merchant of Venice, which will play Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte this summer starring Al Pacino. Richards has suffered a mostly disappointing 2010 so far, being the leading force behind this season's All About Me and Enron, both of which only lasted a mere few weeks on Broadway. Richards and his producing partner, Jerry Frankel are, however, also behind the successful Race, which has already recouped on Broadway.

Julie Taymor tells New York Magazine that regarding SPIDER-MAN Turn Off the Dark opening in the fall: 'We're doing it.'

Today, The New Group announced it's upcoming 2010-2011 season. The works include Blood From a Stone by Tommy Nohilly, a revival of Marie and Bruce by Wallace Shawn, and the New York premiere of One-Arm.