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According to showbizspy.com, Jude Law, who most recently starred on Broadway in Shakespeare's HAMLET, will play a blogger in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming thriller, Contagion

British singer and actor John Barrowman has announced dates for a fall UK concert tour to accompany the release of his newest solo album.

The upcoming GLEE US Tour has added more performances to its Los Angeles and New York stops. In addition to the previously announced performances, GLEE Live! In Concert! will now play Los Angeles May 20th through the 22nd with an added matinee performance on the 22nd at the Gibson Amphitheater. The tour's New York City engagement will now run May 28th through the 30th with an additional matinee performance on the 28th and an added evening show on May 30th.

PROMISES PROMISES stars Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes were recently on hand for the Best Happy Hour Bars issue of Time Out New York. When they're not boozing it up for photo shoots, Kristin admits she has a problem ('I do love Twitter. But I get into trouble because I Ambien tweet.'), while Sean warns her to stay away from gay bars ('You wouldn't have any hair left! Everybody would want to get a lock.'

According to the Hollywood Reporter, GOD OF CARNAGE alum Jimmy Smits is set to star and co-executive produce a new untitled NBC legal drama pilot by John Eisendrath.

The LA Times is reporting that American Ballet Theatre's 'The Sleeping Beauty' will begin performances in Los Angeles July 15th and run through July 18th at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

The Amina Figarova Sextet is set to appear at the Jazz Standard this Wednesday, March 10th in New York City at 7:30pm and 9:30pm.

BAM and Donmar Warehouse present the U.S. premiere of August Strindberg's Creditors, directed by Alan Rickman in a new version by David Greig from April 16th until May 16th.

Entertainment legends Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland are 're-united' through award-winning portrayals by Suzanne Goulet as Liza and Denise Rose as Judy in 'Judy & Liza...Together Again' at the Suncoast Showroom April 17th and 18th.

For the second week in a row, the Fort Myers, FL engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical JERSEY BOYS broke the box office record at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall. For the week ending March 7, the show grossed $1,325,299, breaking the previous record set by the show the week of February 28. JERSEY BOYS opened to rave reviews in Ft. Myers on February 19 (performances began February 17) and played through March 7. JERSEY BOYS will next play West Palm Beach's Kravis Center March 10 through March 28.

Rogue Machine's RANT & RAVE presents a group of local writers and gives them a topic and a time limit. It's an evening of cathartic thinking by some of the most dangerous minds in the city.

Former Seinfeld writer and Tonight Show regular, Pat Hazell has found a unique way to communicate to the ever-growing Baby Boomer theatergoer. In a salute to Pop Culture Americana, Boomer Humorist Pat Hazell highlights the touchstones of the American family upbringing in his play THE WONDER BREAD YEARS coming to the Civic Center's Temple Theater beginning Wednesday, March 10, 2010 for a limited two-week engagement as a presentation of the 2009-2010 Prairie Meadows Temple Theater Series.

Kings of the swing music revival, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, will bring their rocking mix of jazz, swing, big band and original dance tunes to McLean's Alden Theatre for a single performance, celebrating the music of Cab Calloway, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 27. Tickets are $38, $33 for McLean tax district residents. The theatre is located at 1234 Ingleside Avenue.

Tony Award Winner Mary Louise Wilson is set to star alongside Jayne Atkinson, Richard Easton and Michael Gill in THE GUARDSMAN from July 13th through the 31st. The Berkshire Theatre Festival production will be directed by John Rando.

Judith Blazer and Heidi Blickenstaff are set to star in the previously announced INNER VOICES: SOLO MUSICALS at 59E59 Theaters from April 2nd through the 24th.

Shay Youngblood's SHAKIN' THE MESS OUTTA MISERY will hit the Horizon Theatre stage once again from July 2nd through August 22nd. SHAKIN' THE MESS OUTTA MISERY was Horizon's first ever world premiere and this production will mark the show's return to the Horizon stage.

HAIRSPRAY is set to hit Atlanta from July 23rd until August 8th at the Lyric Theatre. Winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Direction and Best Male and Female Lead to name a few, it's 'Hairspray!' The year is 1962 and Baltimore's Tracy Turnblad is going to do whatever it takes to dance her way onto TV's most popular show. Can a big girl with big dreams-and even bigger hair-turn the whole town around and still have time to win the boy she loves? Don't miss this dancing, romancing musical-comedy treat based on John Waters' 1988 film classic, with a book by Mark O'Donnell and two-time Tony Award-winner Thomas Meehan and a brand-new score by five-time Oscar-nominee Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

The national premiere of TRUE LOVE LIES will take the stage beginning May 21st at Atlanta's Horizon Theatre. The production will run through June 20th.

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM is set to open at Atanta's Lyric Theatre on June 11th and run through June 27th.

BLACK PEARL SINGS, a musical journey by Frank Higgins, is set to play at Atlanta's Horizon Theatre from March 26th to April 25th.