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The McCarter Theater Center has announced that they will premiere a new play by Will Power (Flow, The Seven), Fetch Clay, Make Man, about boxing legend Muhammad Ali. The production, starring Ben Vereen and Evan Parke, will be directed by Jersey Boys helmer Des McAnuff and run from Janaury 8 - February 14, 2010.

A rep for the Tony Awards has revealed that The Tony Awards Administration Committee will hold its first meeting of the 2009 - 2010 season on December 10.

New York Stage and Film (SAF) celebrates its 25th anniversary with its annual winter gala on December 13th at 7:00pm at The Plaza Hotel (770 Fifth Avenue). Julianna Margulies and Marc Platt will be honored for their extraordinary achievements in theater, film and television, as well as their ongoing commitment to live performance and support of New York Stage and Film.

Whatsonstage.com is reporting that the latest music icon to receive musical treatment will be Neil Sedaka in the upcoming Laughter in the Rain, titled from his 1975 hit. The musical will be a biopic, showcasing the highs and lows of the pop performer's career.

Producer Jeffrey Finn announced today that the Broadway production of OLEANNA, the provocative drama by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet, will be presenting a special offer to theater patrons at the Friday, November 27 matinee at 2PM. In connection with Nextbook Press, the first 200 ticket holders that day to enter The Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street) will be given a complimentary copy of The Wicked Son, playwright David Mamet's most recent paperback release.

For one festive night only, Sunday, December 13 at 9:30pm, Broadway will come to Urban Stages to ring in the season with special arrangements of your favorite holiday tunes. The starry lineup of performers lending their talents to benefit Urban Stages' Outreach Program include Adam Chanler-Berat (Next to Normal), Jenn Colella (High Fidelity), Lilli Cooper (Spring Awakening), Jerry Dixon (Once on this Island), Matt Doyle (Bye Bye Birdie), Emma Hunton (Spring Awakening), Morgan Karr (Spring Awakening), Kacie Sheik (Hair) and Tony Winner Tom Kitt (Next to Normal).

It is truly the end of a a talk show era. Variety reports that the Emmy-winning The Oprah Winfrey Show will broadcast its final interview in September 9, 2011 when Oprah's syndication deal ends. The show will have run for 25 years. Oprah Winfrey, the show's host, announced the shows end to staffers at her Chicago-based Harpo production company yesterday and will make the news public on her program today, November 20th. The Oprah Winfrey Show airs on ABC at 4pm EST.

Lincoln Center's new civic space and urban arts facility, the David Rubenstein Atrium, officially opened today, Thursday, November 19. In celebration of this much anticipated opening, the organization hosted an all day community event with the help of Broadway legend Bernadette Peters that featured free music and dance performances, leading up to the inaugural Target Free Thursday performance, Sexteto Roderiguez and the Cuban-Jewish All Stars at 8:30pm. Broadwayworld was on hand to capture the experience for you!

Keir Dullea will make his long-awaited return to the stage in Robert Anderson's I Never Sang for My Father, presented by the Keen Company in association with Wiltsie Bridge Productions, at Theatre Row from March 23 - May 1. Directed by Jonathan Silverstein, I Never Sang for My Father marks the second Anderson play presented by Keen, following the success of its 2007 critically acclaimed production of Tea & Sympathy.

Billboard's Top Cast Albums chart for week ending 11/21/2009.

Broadway songbird and small screen star Sara Ramirez will perform a special rendition of the holiday classic 'Silent Night' a capella on tonight's episode of Grey's Anatomy, according a tweet from Grey's head writer and producer, Shonda Rhimes. Grey's airs Thursdays on ABC at 9pm EST.

The New Group has announced casting for it's revival of Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, the second show of their 2009 - 2010 season. Directed by Ethan Hawke, the production will feature Josh Hamilton, Marin Ireland, Deirdre O'Connell, Alessandro Nivoloa, Maggie Siff and Frank Whaley. Additional casting to be announced very soon. The limited Off-Broadway engagement set to begin January 29, in advance of a February opening.

Following enthusiastic reviews, The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) will extend THE BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS, written by Tarell Alvin McCraney and directed by Tina Landau and Robert O'Hara, through Sunday, December 20. THE BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS began previews October 21 and was originally scheduled to close on Sunday, December 13.

The Center for the Asian Arts and Media at Columbia College in Chicago has announced that Baayork Lee will direct and choreograph their new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song next August. The production, which will begin as a concert in Washington D.C. in honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in collaboration with the U.S.-Asia Institute in May of 2010, will run for one month in Chicago. The show will ultimately make a transfer to Shanghai in the late fall of 2010.

Producers Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian and David Mirvish have welcomed Simon Burke to their Toronto production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Burke, a versatile star of stage and screen originally from Australia but with a large body of work in the U.K., will take over the role of Captain von Trapp, having played the role in the West End London production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, opposite the 'Marias' of Connie Fisher and Summer Strallen.

BWW Discounts is offering you the chance to purchase tickets at a very special price to one of the most anticipated productions of the season - Ragtime - hot off its celebrated run at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

Le Petit Theatre will present Irving Berlin's beloved family musical 'White Christmas,' from December 4 - 20. New Orleans' newest holiday experience will include not-to-be-missed decorations and visits from Santa at every matinee. And, just in case New Orleans gets a warm December, there's a guarantee of snow inside the theatre.

Eight cast members of Broadway's Burn the Floor (Damon Sugden, Rebecca Sugden, Patrick Helm, Sharna Burgess, Jeremy Garner, Sarah Hives, Kevin Clifton and Giselle Peacock) will open The Acting Company's Shakespearean Masquerade at The Pierre Hotel on Monday, November 16.

John Hillner, who starred on Broadway as Georges in the Tony Award-winning 2004 revival of La Cages Aux Folles, will join the cast of Perfect Crime, the longest-running play in New York history, on Monday, November 23, 2009. He assumes the role of Harrison Brent and replaces Randy Kovitz, who will play his final performance on Sunday, November 22.

Playwright Nicky Silver - whose plays PTERODACTYLS, RAISED IN CAPTIVITY, THE ALTRUISTS, THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER, EROS TRILOGY and BEAUTIFUL CHILD have all debuted at the Vineyard Theatre - will be joined by actresses Patricia Clarkson, Veanne Cox and Leslie Ayvazian in an evening titled, 'Nicky Silver and his Leading Ladies,' the third in VINEYARD VOICES series of panel discussions with theatre artists, on Monday, December 7 at 7 p.m. at the Vineyard Theatre in Manhattan.