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WEST SIDE STORY, the landmark American musical, will return to Broadway in a new production directed by two-time Tony Award winning librettist Arthur Laurents.

Canadian Stage Company initiative offers chance to helm 2009 CanStage TD Dream in High Park

A play in dance and fragmented businesspeak. A day in the life of 11 people working in an advertising agency as they toil on a major new automobile account, interspersed with backbiting, backstabbing, coffee breaks, office romances, motivational lectures, afternoon slumps, and a Mephistophelian boss who has his eye on a beautiful female Faust of an intern.

WE WILL ROCK YOU READY TO ROCK THE STATE-OF-THE-ART PANASONIC THEATRE PERFORMANCES BEGIN JULY 16, 2008

Roger Michell will direct a cast led by Eileen Atkins in Joanna Murray-Smith's latest play, 'The Female of the Species', opening at the Vaudeville Theatre on 16 July.

On Monday 7/21 and Tuesday 7/22, a new rock musical with book by Obie Award winner Kyle Jarrow (Scientology Pageant, Hostage Song) and songs by Kyle Jarrow and Nathan Leigh will receive a workshop at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

JASON GRAAE performs GRAAE'S ANATOMY on July 30 and 31 @ CARAMOOR MUSIC FESTIVAL at 8:30 Pm with Music Director, ALEX RYBECK. He just won his 4th New York Bistro Award for his solo show, 'Graae's Anatomy Broadway performer and nightclub star Jason Graae, whose acclaimed cabaret performances have delighted audiences in New York and Los Angeles, returns to CARAMOOR with his latest show, GRAAE'S ANATOMY, for two evenings of delightful and wildly mischievous performances of Broadway standards, pop hits, and specialty numbers.

Matt Bogart's official website is reporting that the actor will be part of the Arena Stage cast of Legacy of Light from May 8th to June 14th. Matt is slated to play the roles of Saint Lambert/Lance in this world premiere drama by Karen Zacarías, directed by Molly Smith at Arena Stage in Crystal City, VA.

Simply put, Elvis Presley changed music forever. With one swivel of his hips, he brought down all previous structure of American music and performance and ushered in a new era and a sound that is still influencing artists and their music today.

bare is a contemporary new musical that tells the story of a group of students at a Catholic boarding school struggling to find their own voices in a modern world that both embraces and isolates them.

Controversial former Blue boyband member Lee Ryan will make his stage debut in 'The Pretender Agenda', a new play which will run at the New Players Theatre for five weeks from 28 August to 27 September 2008.

Peter Howard and Alvin Colt, two friends of mine, have now walked through that great stage door in the sky.

'Come Dancing', the new musical written by former Kinks singer-songwriter Ray Davies, will have its world premiere this fall at east London's Theatre Royal Stratford East, for a limited run from 13 September to 25 October 2008, before a possible West End transfer.

David Bell's brand new adaptation of the classic Richard Rodgers (The King & I, South Pacific, The Sound of Music) and Laurence Hart hit The Boys from Syracuse, will make its Chicago Premiere August 7, open August 14 and run through September 28 at Drury Lane Theatre Oakbrook Terrace, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL.

The Off-Broadway hit show The GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW will appear at Barnes and Noble (Broadway & 66th Street) on Tuesday, July 22 at 4:30 (Third Floor).

LECTURE, WITH CELLO, by ROBERT MOULTHROP, is a one-person drama with absurdist echoes; a skewed version of music history becomes the platform for an exploration of the conjunction of madness, violence & art. KENT PAUL directs this AEA Approved Showcase Production, featuring TIMOTHY BABCOCK as 'The Professor.'

John MacDonald & Maggie Maes will present LIGHTS & MUSIC, written by PATRICK CERVANTES LETTERII & directed by JEREMY QUINN.

Stanley Bahorek, Jared Gertner and Leah Horowitz cast in the world premiere production of Adam Gwon's new musical.

Lively Productions and Métropole Ink are proud to present the world premiere of PAPER DOLLS as part of the 11th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC.

Shakespeare's Globe presents the second new play of its 2008 theatre season, Liberty by poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell, between 31 August and 4 October 2008.

Second Stage Theatre's production of Richard Nelson's comedy, SOME AMERICANS ABROAD, directed by Gordon Edelstein, held its opening on Tuesday, July 15 at Second Stage Theatre.

Second Stage Theatre's production of Richard Nelson's comedy, SOME AMERICANS ABROAD, directed by Gordon Edelstein, held its opening on Tuesday, July 15 at Second Stage Theatre.

Barrington Stage Company - under the artistic direction of Julianne Boyd - has announced casting for its Mainstage production of Richard Greenberg's 'The Violet Hour' and the Musical Theatre Lab workshop production of 'My Scary Girl.'

Steppenwolf Theatre Company launches its 2008-2009 season, an exploration of the imagination, with the world premiere of 'Kafka on the Shore', adapted for the stage and directed by ensemble member Frank Galati, based on the work by Haruki Murakami.