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Two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks will make his Broadway debut in the world premiere of three-time Academy Award-nominee Nora Ephron's play Lucky Guy, to be directed by two-time Tony Award-winner George C. Wolfe.

WaterTower Theatre Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin today announced the appointment of Tracy Long to the position of Business Manager. As Business Manager, Tracy will oversee the administrative operations of WaterTower Theatre including finance, payroll, budgeting, human resources and box office.

Fancy Nancy is a 2005 children's picture book written by Jane O'Connor and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. The book spent nearly 100 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, launching a series that now numbers 50 books, selling 20 million volumes. Fancy Nancy has been on Publishers Weekly's bestseller list for picture books, was a Children's Book-of-the-Month Club selection and a Junior Library Guild Selection. It also won a 'Borders 2006 Original Voices' award and has been translated into 18 languages, including Hungarian and Hebrew. In April 2012, Nancy was featured in her first chapter book, Nancy Clancy: Super Sleuth. Books in the Fancy Nancy series have now spent almost 300 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and in the fall of 2012, Fancy Nancy became a musical, produced by the Vital Theatre in New York City.

Caroline V. McGraw has been awarded the 2013 P73 Playwriting Fellowship, it has been announced by Page 73's Executive Directors Liz Jones and Asher Richelli.

William Woltz, music director for WCPE, TheClassicalStation.org, announces today that in recognition of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Birthday, WCPE celebrates the wunderkind from Salzburg for three days, January 25 through his birthday on January 27, 2013.

Belly up to the bar with New York's 'Best Story Hour' (The Village Voice Best of NY), as Naked Girls Reading NYC ties one on for NAKED GIRLS DRINKING. The hit nude literary salon presents a very special evening of readings dedicated to ethanol and all its many uses and abuses: featuring historical musings on The Demon Drink, toasts both witty and wicked, and incoherent booze-fueled ramblings by some of literature's most famous drunks. For February only Naked Girls Reading will move to the spacious Kraine Theater (with a full-service bar conveniently located just steps away) - where, just a week before Valentines' Day, you can prepare to toast a new love or drown your sorrows with the Naked Girls.

Anna Deavere Smith, the award winning actress and playwright, will be giving a theatrical reading of Janet Langhart Cohen's critically acclaimed one act play, ANNE & EMMETT, an imaginary conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till.

NBC's new comedy 1600 PENN came to the White House on January 9 as President Obama hosted the cast and crew at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for a screening and reception for the series. Hear what star Josh Gad had to say about the screening, the show and more below!

Two obsessive linguists and a nine-year-old zealot meet head-on with the magnetic leader of an est-like group training seminar in Complete, a new, fast-paced comedy by Andrea Kuchlewska opening February 23 at the Matrix Theatre in West Hollywood.

Noted Entertainment attorney, Eric S. Goldman, will present two industry readings of Billy Butler's GAY BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, on Monday, February 4th at 6pm & Tuesday, February 5th at 11am at the 45th Street Theatre, in preparation for a future Off-Broadway run. The readings are produced in association with aka Studio Productions, Louis Hobson and Seattle's Balagan Theatre. The production is directed by award winning director Rachel Klein "the Mistress of the Macabre" (FlavorPill Magazine). Aaron Grant serves as Executive Producer with Kelvin Productions as General Manager.

Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company is pleased to introduce their winter weekend production opening on March 2, 2013 with the regional premiere of Compulsion or the House Behind.

On January 24th, 2013 audiences are invited to attend a free reading of A.R. Gurney's 'The Dining Room' at Playhouse On Park, courtesy of the Duncaster Retirement Community.

Zack Zadek is hosting a debut solo concert at Joe's Pub on January 28th. The 9:30 PM show will feature songs from Zack's hit musical "6" (NYMF), an intimate telling of six New Yorkers who, by six degrees of separation, unexpectedly alter each other's lives, and a sneak preview of his current project "The Crazy Ones," detailing the biography of Steve Jobs and the formation of Apple, Inc. through the rock and acoustic revolutions of the seventies.

Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today announced the members of the Sloan Jury at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, who will also participate in the Science in Film Forum Panel at the Festival. The members of the 2013 Sloan Jury are: Paula Apsell (Senior Executive Producer, Nova and Nova ScienceNow, Director, WGBH Science Unit), Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Fountain, Pi), Scott Burns (writer, Contagion, Pu-239, The Informant and producer, An Inconvenient Truth), Dr. André Fenton (Professor of Neural Science at the Center for Neural Science at New York University), Dr. Lisa Randall (Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science, Harvard University, author of Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World).

The Community Theatre of Little Rock will present its Winter Comedy 'The Pursuit of Happiness". Show dates are February 15th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd, March 1st and 2nd at 7:30 pm and February 17th, 24th, and March 3rd at 2pm, to be held at the PUBLIC Theatre, located at 616 Center Street, next to Horn's Men's Store in downtown Little Rock.

The Boiler Room Theatre, Williamson County's original and longest-running professional theatre company, will kick off its 13th season with the side-splitting farce, Noises Off. The production will run from February 15th through March 9th at the theatre's iconic namesake venue in the historic Factory at Franklin, 230 Franklin Rd., Building Six, in Franklin, Tennessee.

It was announced today that Grammy Award-winning superstar Barry Manilow's hometown concert event, MANILOW ON BROADWAY, has implemented a $20 rush ticket policy. A limited number of rush tickets will be reserved for every performance for same-day sales. These rush tickets will be available only at the St. James Theatre Box Office (246 West 44th Street) beginning at 10:00 a.m. on the day of the performance. Rush tickets will provided on a first come, first served basis and are limited to two tickets per customer.

On Sunday, February 3, 2013, Girls Only - The Secret Comedy of Women will conclude its record-breaking five-month engagement of 99 performances at Houston's Main Street Theater - Chelsea Market.

You're invited! What has been called 'The Birthday Celebration of the Year' is back! Co-founder and Executive Director, Tracy Flater, and co-founder and Artistic Director, Darlene Zoller, both have birthdays in February and combined they are turning 101 years old! After the success of their 99th Birthday last year, the creative duo has decided to celebrate again by throwing a 101st Birthday Bash on Friday, February 15th, 2013. The celebration is open to the general public, but there is one catch -- attendees must bring a birthday gift from the Playhouse on Park 'wish list'! 'Wishes' range anywhere from toilet paper and office supplies to a portable sound system and office space so don't be afraid to join the fun!

Touchstone Theatre presents Fresh Voices: ReEvolution, two evenings of original theatre performed, directed, and devised by the 2012-2013 Apprentice Class, on February 22 and 23, 2013 at 8pm. Fresh Voices is an annual showcase created by Touchstone Apprentices featuring original solo and ensemble works. This year, Kathryn Krull, Kyle Lewis, Kayla Prestel, and Gary Warren share their unique artistic visions, push boundaries, and break the rules of what it means to 'make theater.'