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As reported in the Chicago Tribune, the Whoopi Goldberg-produced White Noise will play its pre-Broadway engagement at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago this spring. Performances are scheduled to begin on April 1, with an opening date of April 9. Rehearsals begin in February in New York City.

The cast of Lincoln Center Theater's production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the new musical based on the film by Pedro Almodóvar, with book by Jeffrey Lane, music and lyrics by David Yazbek and direction by Bartlett Sher, reunite today, January 19, to record the original cast recording of the musical, which ended its limited engagement run on Sunday, January 2 at the Belasco Theatre. The CD, to be released by Ghostlight Records in the spring of 2011 will be produced by David Yazbek and Dean Sharenow with Kurt Deutsch serving as Executive Producer.

Nominated for this year's Whatsonstage.com Award for 'Best Takeover in a Role', Lee Mead will give his final performance as Fiyero in WICKED on Saturday 5 February.

As BroadwayWorld reported, yesterday, television icon Regis Philbin, who has been the male anchor of ABC's Live! for 28 years, announced that come the start of fall he would be retiring from his post. He did not specify a specific farewell date. Last night, he received a call from David Letterman on which he clarified that he isn't actually retiring - just simply leaving Live!. Before hanging up, the pair snuck in a few bars of 'There's No Business Like SHow Business.' Click below to watch the clip.

At a star-studded ceremony on January 17, the winners of the 2010 Sydney Theatre Awards were announced. Over 300 members of the Sydney theatre community packed the auditorium at Paddington RSL to celebrate the best of Sydney theatre throughout 2010.

The Theater Hall of Fame has announced its 2010 inductees. They include Michael Blakemore, Paul Gemignani, Caryl Churchill, Linda Lavin, Brian Dennehy, Fritz Weaver, James Lapine and, posthumously, director/writer Joseph Chaikin.

The Drama League is pleased to announce the complete line-up of performers for the 27th annual all-star gala, 'A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF BROADWAY.' This year's black-tie event, to be held in the Grand Ballroom at The Pierre New York (2 East 61st Street at 5th Avenue) on Monday, February 7, 2011, will honor two-time Tony Award winner and celebrated Broadway actress-singer Patti LuPone.

Check out the official trailer for Table Ten Films upcoming feature film, The Green, starring Broadway favorite, Cheyenne Jackson!

The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street) New York's landmark concert venue presents the 11th season of its acclaimed Broadway By The Year® series, created, written and hosted by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall on Valentine's Day, Monday, February 14th at 8PM. Kicking off the 90th Anniversary of The Town Hall, the Broadway By The Year® season will begin with THE BROADWAY MUSICALS of 1921, celebrating the great music that was performed the same year the historic building came to be.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) has announced that STEPHANIE J. BLOCK, DANIEL BREAKER, KIMBERLY HÉBERT GREGORY, KEVIN ISOLA and KAREN OLIVO will star in the world premiere comedy, BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK, the new play by Lynn Nottage, directed by Jo Bonney. BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK is Ms. Nottage's first play to be produced in New York since she won the Pulitzer Prize for Ruined in 2009.

No actor may claim to have worked in New York theatre unless he has worked at La MaMa. I offer the following anecdote, that you may better appreciate my writing about Ellen Stewart in mythic terms.

As BroadwayWorld has previously reported, the life of legendary Broadway composer Jerry Bock will be celebrated Monday January 24th at Roundabout's American Airlines Theater (227 West 42nd Street) at 2:30pm. The celebration is open to the public, on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors will open at 2pm. The latest list of performers scheduled to appear are Kate Baldwin, Brigid Brady, Susan Cella, Barbara Cook, Harvey Fierstein, Boyd Gaines, Roundabout's Todd Haimes, Bock's longtime collaborator Sheldon Harnick, Hal Linden (and his original Rothschilds' 'sons:' David Garfield, Alan Gruet, Paul Hecht, Tim Jerome and Chris Sarandon), Joe Masteroff, Howard McGillin, Brad Oscar, producer Stuart Ostrow, Austin Pendleton, Lonny Price, Harold Prince, Chita Rivera, Bock's longtime friend and attorney Richard M. Ticktin, Rachel Ulanet, Tony Walton, Sherman Yellen and Bock's daughter Portia, among others. Michael Montel will stage the event.

This morning, morning television icon Regis Philbin, who has been the male anchor of ABC's Live! for nearly 25 years, announced that come the start of fall he would be retiring from his post. He did not specify a specific farewell date.

TVLine's Michael Ausiello got the scoop on an exciting duet on an upcoming episode of GLEE. GLEE diva Amber Riley revealed at the Golden Globes last night: 'Sue tells Mercedes that Rachel was talking [smack] about her, so Mercedes says [to Rachel], ‘We're having a diva-off once and for all, and we're going to settle this.' Over song, naturally. The pair will be belting out a rendition of 'Take Me Or Leave Me' from Rent.

Jim Caruso will present DOUGLAS HODGE, star of the Broadway production of La Cage Aux Folles, in concert, Douglas Hodge As A Man, at Birdland on Monday, February 7 at 7pm. Musical Director Sonny Paladino will lead the four-piece band.

GLEE creator Ryan Murphy confirmed at the Golden Globe Awards last night that Anne Hathaway will definitely make a guest appearance on the hit show this season as Kurt's lesbian aunt - a role she helped invent.

The Public Theater and La MaMa present a one-night only encore benefit performance of the Belarus Free Theater's acclaimed production of Being Harold Pinter. The show was a sold out hit at this year's Under The Radar Festival. All proceeds from the evening will benefit the Belarus Free Theater who is facing persecution in their homeland and barely escaped prison to travel to New York to perform this powerful piece of political theater. The event will take place tonight, January 17 and benefit the Belarus Free Theater.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is proud to present a new production of Tennessee Williams's The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, directed by and starring Michael Wilson. Production shots have been released and appear below!

As BroadwayWorld has previously reported, Broadway producer Bob Boyett is endeavoring to revive FUNNY GIRL on Broadway with famed director Bartlet Sher (South Pacific, Awake and Sing, Light in the Piaza) at the helm. The pair are currently planning a six week out-of-town tryout in late 2011 in preparation for a swift Broadway transfer later that season, according to the report. This would be the first revival of the show on Broadway. Boyett currently secures the rights.

The 68th Golden Globe® Awards aired LIVE coast-to-coast Sunday night, January 16, 2011 on NBC from 5:00-8:00 p.m. (PST) /8:00-11:00 p.m. (EST) from the Beverly Hilton Hotel with host Ricky Gervais. The awards were seen in more than 160 countries. BroadwayWorld bruoght you real-time updates and coverage throughout the night!