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John Stamos, star of the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of BYE BYE BIRDIE, is featured in this week's People Magazine. John Stamos talks to writer Mark Dagostino about his career and his return to Broadway in this classic musical. The magazine is on stands now.

A recent report out from NPR sheds light on an interesting movement happening in China: the reinvention of the Western musical for Chinese audiences. At the forefront of this effort is director Meng Jinghui, China's premiere avant-garde director, with his latest work and first musical, Murder in the Hanging Garden. The piece is about the 'relentless grabbing for material goods and people's spiritual loss,' Chinese style.

Mary Jane Houdina, a member of the original 1971 cast of the Tony Award-winning Stephen Sondheim / James Goldman masterpiece 'Follies' will speak during the intermission of the performance on Saturday, October 24 at 8 p.m. at the Prince Music Theater. She will be interviewed by David Anthony Fox, a member of the Brind School faculty who writes theater criticism for the Philadelphia City Paper.

YoungArts, the core program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA), is set to honor two internationally-acclaimed artists, dancer and choreographer Desmond Richardson and actress and director Liv Ullmann. Richardson will accept the YoungArts Alumni Award and Ullmann will accept the Arison Award at YoungArts' An Affair of the Arts Performance and Gala, January 16 at the Gusman Center and the Alfred I. DuPont Building. SunTrust Bank is Title Presenting Sponsor.

Theater Talk, a weekly expose of American theater that airs on PBS Friday nights (PBS/Thirteen) and 5 times weekly on CUNY TV will feature Broadway heavyweights Michael Korie, Arthur Perlman, Neil Simon and more in it's upcoming broadcasts this fall.

DAMAGED CARE, The Musical Comedy About Health Care in America will makes its debut at Don't Tell Mama on Saturday, November 21 at 7:30pm.

Lucy Shropshire presents a new show 'All Sides Of Love' for her special performance at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, on Tuesday, November 3rd at 8:30 p.m. David Shenton is the musical director / pianist for the program that features bass player David Finck. It is produced and directed by Jim Semmelman.

Eighty is Not Enough, the first memoir by former Eight Is Enough star Dick Van Patten, is more than the autobiography of one actor - it is a look at 80 years of American entertainment history through the eyes of an actor who has experienced it all. Phoenix Books publishes in November.

The Triad has announce the CD Listening Party for Melba Moore's 'The Gift of Love' on Thursday night, November 12th at 9pm featuring a live performance by Ms. Moore and veteran R&B star Phil Perry. An exclusive artist meet & greet/ autograph session will immediately follow.

Fans of MAMMA MIA! can become a Super Trouper for the night at one in the West End, while raising money for BBC Children in Need with BBC London 94.9FM's special gala performance of the hit musical at the Prince of Wales Theatre on Wednesday November 18.

The Cleveland Shakespeare festival is bringing to the stage the Ohio and regional premiere of William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead: A true and accurate account of the 1599 zombie plague, a new play by John Heimbuch.

Tony Award-winning actress Viola Davis will be joining the casts of Focus Features' 'It's Kind of a Funny Story' opposite Zach Galifianakis, and David Schwimmer's 'Trust' for Millennium Films, according to a report in Variety.

BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatrical industry site on the net, is welcoming applications from those residents of Orlando and the surrounding areas interested in being a contributing editor for the Orlando region.

BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatrical industry site on the net, is welcoming applications from those residents of Tampa and the surrounding areas interested in being a contributing editor for the Tampa region.

The company of Cats in Stockholm is certainly having difficulty keeping the drama confined to the stage, according to a report in Stockholm's The Local yesterday. Backstage, scandal has rocked the company, as one cast member has been targeted for sexual harassment against several of the female performers.

TV's hottest and most talked-about new series when 'Glee' Season 1: Road To Sectionals debuts on DVD December 29 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Filled with beloved characters and sensational musical numbers, 'Glee' Season 1: Road To Sectionals is a pitch-perfect winner. William McKinley High School once had a champion glee club, but now they are floundering. That is when an idealistic Spanish teacher (Matthew Morrison, Music & Lyrics) takes up their cause, vowing to transform the rag-tag group of singers and dancers into champions.

National Endowment for the Arts chairman Rocco Landesman was in Brooklyn today, where he delivered the keynote address at the 2009 national 'Grantmakers in the Arts Conference: Navigating the Art of Change.'

This week, Nederlander Sales and Patron Services and Camp Broadway hosted the first 'Partners in Education Expo' for educators throughout the New York City and the surrounding areas at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre. The event was designed to provide attending educators with strategies and techniques for using performing arts to enrich learning.

It was an early morning for fans of Olivier nominated stage star John Barrowman today in the U.K. Beginning at 7.45am, fans braved the cold to start the queue at Dress Circle to have their copies of Barrowman's new autobiography 'I Am What I Am' signed by the star. By 11.00am the queue was over 200 and snaking around the block. Despite the grey day, reportedly a good time was had by all.

The Tony-nominated musical Grey Gardens, will make it's debut across the Pacific in Japan at Tokyo's Theatre Creation from November 7 - December 6. The production is being directed by Tony-nominated Amon Miyamoto (Pacific Overtures).