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Bailey Hanks, who dazzled audiences as Elle Woods in 'Legally Blonde, The Musical' on Broadway will repeat the lead role in Diablo Theatre Company's production of the show in February. Hanks won the role in 'Legally Blonde, The Musical' after a nationwide search and audition process aired on MTV. She performed the show at Broadway's Palace Theatre until it closed in October of 2008.

Bailey Hanks, who dazzled audiences as Elle Woods in 'Legally Blonde, The Musical' on Broadway will repeat the lead role in Diablo Theatre Company's production of the show in February. 'This is a major coup for us and we couldn't be more excited to have a Broadway headliner like Bailey in our East Bay premiere of the high energy show,' said Daren A.C. Carollo, Diablo Theatre Company's Artistic Director. 'A grant from the Diablo Regional Arts Association helped make this a reality.' Check out production shots below!

Next week on the winter finale of GLEE, things heat up as the New Directions go head to head with the Dalton Academy Warblers at Regionals. Check out full tracks from the upcoming episode, titled 'On My Way' including: 'Fly/I Believe I Can Fly,' 'Cough Syrup,' and 'Glad You Came' below!

TONY Award winning composer, Jason Robert Brown, returns to London for a very special concert, for one night only, in aid of the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT). To mark the previous night's final performance of the NYMT production of his musical, 13, Jason will be performing solo, with his band, members of NYMT and some very special guests. All proceeds from the concert will go towards the NYMT Bursary Scheme helping to support the best young musical theatre talent throughout the country to develop their skills.

The award-winning York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) has announced casting for the next three offerings in its acclaimed Developmental Reading Series: A Doctor in Spite of Himself (February 20), Lunch at the Picadilly (February 22) and The Gig (February 24), featuring Cady Huffman, Beth Leavel, Jose Llana, Jeff McCcarthy, Brad Oscar, Fleur Phillips, Barbara Walsh, and more. All readings are free to the public and will take place at The York Theatre at Saint Peter's on 54th St, just east of Lexington Avenue. For additional information on the Series and to make reservations for any of the upcoming free presentations, visit the readings page at www.yorktheatre.org.

producers Victor Syrmis, Carl Rumbaugh and Susan Batson, along with Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director) have announced the World Premiere of In Masks Outrageous and Austere, the final full length play from one of America's most significant dramatists, Tennessee Williams (1911-1983). Directed by David Schweizer, it will begin performances on Thursday, April 5, 2012 with an Opening Night set for Monday, April 16, 2012 at Culture Project at 45 Bleecker (at Lafayette Street). The production is scheduled to play through May 26, 2012.

Joining Lindsay Duncan (Judith Bliss), Jeremy Northam (Richard Greatham), Kevin R McNally (David Bliss) and Olivia Colman (Myra Arundel) in Howard Davies' production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever are Sam Callis (Sandy Tyrell), Freddie Fox (Simon Bliss), Jenny Galloway (Clara), Amy Morgan (Jackie Coryton) and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Sorel Bliss). Running at the Noël Coward Theatre from 10 February - 2 June 2012, Coward's sublime comedy of bad manners has designs by Bunny Christie, lighting by Mark Henderson and sound by Mike Walker. Hay Fever press preview performances are Thursday 23 February at 7pm, Friday 24 February at 7.30pm and Saturday 25 February at 2.30pm and 7.30pm, with reviews embargoed until Monday 27 February 2012. Hay Fever is produced in the West End by Richard Willis, Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions and Sonia Friedman Productions.

The Theater Company of Hoboken (TTC) invites the community to join us as we raise funds and awareness to end violence against women and girls with our production of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" on February 25, 2012 at 3pm and 8pm.

Olivier?Award-winning OperaUpClose's new version of Georges Bizet's?Carmen, in a new English libretto by Ben Cooper, accompanied by piano and Spanish guitar, will be directed by Rodula Gaitanou, a recent Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artist.

Theatre FMPAT will celebrate its' 20th Anniversary with an all-star cast musical fairy tale of past Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre productions. Theatre FMPAT Gala's 'Once Upon a Time - A Musical Fairy Tale Comes True' joins favorite theatre songs in a two act original production benefiting Theatre FMPAT and will open the 20th season for Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre (Theatre FMPAT), this FRIDAY & SATURDAY, February 17th and 18th in their new space at the MCL Grand Black Box Theater, 100 North Charles Street, Lewisville.

By the author of LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!, MASTER CLASS and RAGTIME, Terrence McNally, Circle Theatre's production of THE RITZ opened on February 15th.When straight businessman Gaetano Proclo discovers he's being pursued by the mob, he unwittingly takes cover in a gay bathhouse with an increasingly bizarre and endearing cast of characters. He takes on the guise of a Broadway producer to further hide his identity and farcical merriment ensues. Check out photos from opening night below!

The kids in Ms. Frizzle's class are putting on a play about global warming, and they need some cold, hard facts. So, the Friz and her reptilian sidekick, Liz, take them on a climate challenge field trip, in musical form, that reaches from the Arctic to the Equator, in two matinees, Sunday, March 11, at 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.

SecondStory Repertory presents The Matt Baker Comedy Variety Show on Friday March 2nd and Saturday March 3rd , 2012 at 8:00pm. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at http://www.secondstoryrep.org or by calling the box office at 425.881-6777 Tuesday through Saturday 1-5pm.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) concludes its 2011-2012 Studio Theatre series with The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar. This timely and intriguing production will be performed in the Emerson Studio Theatre at the Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts, 130 Edgar Road (on the campus of Webster University), Webster Groves, March 7-25, 2012.

Electronic pop singer/songwriter Howard Jones has today announced that he will host a new 4-part radio series entitled Electronic 80s with Howard Jones for the UK's premiere 80s music radio station Absolute 80s. The hour-long show starts Sunday 4th March at 8pm, with subsequent shows airing on 11th March, 18th March and 25th March.

The newest play by Rob Ackerman, CALL ME WALDO takes a comic and insightful look at the workplace, upending stereotypes about the working class when an ordinary electrician begins channeling the spirit of Ralph Waldo Emerson

New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, which last year brought us such productions as the Broadway-bound Newsies, Boeing-Boeing, Damn Yankees, and more has just realease a visual tease for their upcoming season. Can you guess what's up next based on the picture below?

The producers of Peter and the Starcatcher, a new play by Tony® Award-nominee Rick Elice (Jersey Boys), just announced that the cast of the acclaimed Off-Broadway production will reunite for the show's Broadway Premiere. Christian Borle, a Lucille Lortel winner last year for his performance (and star of NBC's "Smash"), will return as 'Black Stache'; Adam Chanler-Berat (Next to Normal), who recently departed the Off Broadway production of Rent, returns as 'Boy'; and Drama Desk Award-winner Celia Keenan-Bolger (25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) will reprise her role as 'Molly,' the titular Starcatcher. Returning cast members also include Teddy Bergman (Seven Minutes in Heaven), Arnie Burton (The 39 Steps), Matt D'Amico (Fizz), Kevin Del Aguila (Jacques Brel...), Carson Elrod (Reckless), Greg Hildreth (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) and David Rossmer (Don't Quit Your Night Job).

Last month, ITV1 and Andrew Lloyd Webber announced 'Superstar,' described as 'a brand new show that will give the British public the chance to choose the country's next major rock star.' The show seeks the new lead in an arena tour of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, to kick of at the O2 Arena in London.

Tony Award-winner Leslie Uggams has joined the cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream, to be presented by New York City Center Encores! series, March 28 - April 1. Ms. Uggams will play Fauna, the proprietress of the Bear Flag Cafe, the local brothel.