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Quentin Earl Darrington, who recently starred as Coalhouse Walker Jr. in the Broadway revival of RAGTIME, will take to the stage in the same role at the Drury Lane Oakbrook Theater beginning March 18 and running through March 23.

On March 25 the new musical THE CHOCOLATE SHOW! featuring Broadway actors Julie Halson, Mary Testa, Erin Davie, Will Erat, and Spencer Moses will get a staged reading in Manhattan.

Arts and Artists at St. Paul's will continue their Songbook Series on Monday, March 29, 2010 at 6 PM, this time featuring composer/lyricist Nick Blaemire.

Today, artistic director of the Writers' Theatre, Michael Halberstam, and executive director Kathryn M. Lipuma, announced the theatre's 2010-2011 season.

Stage and screen star Hugh Jackman recently became a spokesperson for Lipton Ice Tea. Now broadcast in Europe by ad agency DDB Paris, BroadwayWorld brings you a look at the new commercial, in which Jackman shows off his well known dance moves here.

Producing company New Make Do would like to announce the full cast for their industry presentation of WALKER IN BABYLON, a musical immersion experience. Recent additions to the cast include Jared Gertner (...SPELLING BEE, ORDINARY DAYS) and Blake Whyte (WICKED) as Walker Isaac Chariot, along with Caissie Levy (HAIR, WICKED), David Larsen (BILLY ELLIOT, GOOD VIBRATIONS), Asmeret Ghebremichael (LEGALLY BLONDE, SPAMALOT), Jimmy Ray Bennett (DAMN YANKEES), Donell James Foreman, and recording artist Celisse Henderson.

Transcendence Theatre Company will embark on two- month, cross- country research tour to assess the health of artists and institutions.

The Edinburgh International Festival 2010 will begin Friday, August 13 and last until Sunday, September 5. Jonathan Mills, the festival director, today announced the program for the festival.

M.R. Hunter's A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER, directed by Albert Alarr will extend again, adding performances on March 26 and 27 at 8 PM at the Crown City Theatre.

Beck Center for the Arts presents the Tony Award-winning hit musical, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, on the Mackey Main Stage, March 26 through April 25, 2010. Show times are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays. There is no performance on Sunday, April 4. A special adult version of the show will be performed Saturday, April 24 at 11 p.m.

The Iridium Jazz Club, located at 1650 Broadway (corner of 51st), will present special March Double Bills featuring two bands on each set at 8 PM and 10 PM.

In announcing the Denver Center Theatre Company's 2010/11 Season, Artistic Director Kent Thompson expands the company's reputation with American playwrights and theatre professionals as a center for new work by selecting three new plays read at the 2010 Colorado New Play Summit for full production - two of them Denver Center world premieres. In addition he has selected a remarkably current list of critically-acclaimed works, including the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner, to complement a horror classic, an exciting French Canadian import and a favorite Shakespeare comedy.

Am Mittwoch, den 31. März, feiert mit VOLPONE, dem 1606 geschriebenen, bekanntesten Stück des englischen Dramatikers Ben Jonson, eine Inszenierung von Werner Düggelin im Pfauen Premiere. Die Rolle des Volpone spielt André Jung, der in dieser Spielzeit bereits als Krapp in „Das letzte Band' auf der Pfauenbühne zu sehen war.

Learning about the amazing undersea world is fun for the whole family at the Wildlife Conservation Society's New York Aquarium in Coney Island. We are pleased to announce the March 20 season reopening of an exciting attraction that will add a whole new dimension to our guests' Aquarium visit: Planet Earth: Shallow SeasTM 4-D Experience.

DOUG ELKINS AND FRIENDS' present 'FRÄULEIN MARIA' from March 25-28. Performances will be on March 25 and 26 at 7:30pm, March 27 at 8pm, and March 28 at 3pm.

The McLean Community Center will present a number of events and performances this upcoming week.

Target Margin Theater (David Herskovits, Artistic Director; John Del Gaudio, Managing Director), Off-Broadway's extraordinary, Obie Award-winning theater company will present the world premiere of The Really Big Once, a new play, created by the company, that tells the story of two theatrical giants, Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams, and how they changed American culture. Under the direction of David Herskovits, the five-member cast features Purva Bedi, McKenna Kerrigan, John Kurzynowski, Hubert Point-Du Jour, and Steven Rattazzi.

The Rising Sun Performance Company will present a one night only interactive theatrical event allowing patrons to enter the world of Charlie's speakeasy & casino, where booze flows freely, card players are fast, the girls are floozy, and the Jazz is Red Hot.

Three Cat Productions celebrates the birthday of the legendary Barbra Streisand with the third annual 'Bab Fab: The Barbra Streisand Birthday Celebration'. It kicks off on April 23rd with a Streisand connoisseur Matt Howe, and then continues with two great performances of Streisand's work on April 24th and 25th. All performances can be found at the Skokie Theatre Music Foundation.

Limelight Theatre and VA based theatre company 1st Stage both in their second seasons are co-producing Tony Award-winning composer (for Parade) Jason Robert Brown's THE LAST FIVE YEARS.