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Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest has announced an out of town tryout in Chicago for the show prior to a now Spring 2006 opening.

Prompted by the wildly enthusiastic response of audiences and theatre critics, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is producing their cast recording of Illyria, a new musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel.

On February 7 the cast of the daytime drama, appeared in a one night show to support Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS.

Kim Cea's Kim Cea LIVE has two remaining performances at the world famous Studio 54 (Upstairs - located at 254 West 54th Street Between 8th and Broadway) February 19th @ 10:30 PM, and Saturday, March 19th @ 10:30 PM. The first performance was January 15th. The performance on the 19th has also added comedian Courtney Knowles as an opening act.

V-Day NYC, in association with Double Helix Theatre Company, is proud to present three benefit performances of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues as part of V-Day 2005's Worldwide Campaign.

SilvaRoad Productions presents a revival of the 1964 hit Broadway comedy THE OWL & THE PUSSYCAT by Bill Manhoff. Zina Jasper, acclaimed actress, director & playwright, directs this showcase, featuring Patrick Christiano & Chantal Georges, at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, February 9-20, 2005, produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Paging Dr. Carter: You're wanted in the emergency room, STAT

Tony-nominee Laura Benanti premiered a new solo show to a packed house.

The Boomerang Theatre Company celebrates St. Valentine's Day with a one-night-only benefit reading of Jay D. Hanagan's FIRST KISSES, which introduces one couple's very special love story. The reading will take place on Sunday, February 13th, at 7pm at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, located at 121 Christopher Street, just off of Hudson Street.

Photos from Julia Murney's hot gig at Birdland

As the effort continues in the fight against AIDS, members from the touring cast of “The Phantom of the Opera” are hosting a gala event, “Detroit Concert for a Cure,” at the Gem Theatre on Monday, March 14 (7 p.m.). “The Phantom of the Opera” cast members (who can also be seen March 2-27 at the Masonic Temple Theatre in Detroit) will perform some of their favorite songs as well as Broadway favorites. Special guests and celebrities from Broadway, Detroit’s Cast of “Menopause the Musical(TM)”, The Macombers Show Choir, Oakland University and local high school students will join the Cast of “The Phantom of the Opera.” Tickets are now on sale and all proceeds from the evening’s event (tickets and silent auction) will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA).

Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of André Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) will continue its 20th Anniversary season with THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, a new musical with book by Craig Lucas, music and lyrics by Adam Guettel and direction by Bartlett Sher.

Kicking off in November in Ft. Lauderdale, Patty Duke will play Golda Meir in the show's national tour.

On Saturday, March 19, at 6:00 p.m., West Coast Singers (WCS) presents The Beauty of Broadway: An Evening With Susan Egan and the West Coast Singers, a benefit concert for the chorus which includes a silent auction.

'Paris Hilton', god help us, is still here, but will be looking a little different come February 21st. Most recently played by a 50 year old magician named Ago, Paris will now be portrayed by 23 year-old (the same age as Paris) actor/ dancer Aaron Haskell.

Roundabout Theatre Company's Twelve Angry Men 'Law & Audience' series continues tomorrow with the following special guest panelists: Tyco trial juror Mark Glatzer, Court TV's Chief Anchor and Managing Editor Fred Graham, Court TV's Daytime Trial Anchor Vinnie Politan, Joshua L. Dratel & Colleen Quinn Brady from the NYC Bar Association's Committee on Capital Punishment and cast members James Rebhorn, Tom Aldredge and Mark Blum.

The Play Company proudly announces its 2005 winter benefit, Cabaret Gourmet, to be held on Monday, February 7th at Canal Room (285 West Broadway @ Canal Street). After a successful debut last year, Cabaret Gourmet returns as a celebration of the shared spirit of the culinary and theatre arts. Both offer delightful 'food' for the soul…but dinner theater, this is not!

Winners of the 2005 Richard Rodgers Awards competition for musical theatre were announced by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT, the lunch-time play reading series, under the Artistic Direction of its founder, Susan Charlotte, will celebrate its Fifth Anniversary when it opens its Spring 2005 season on Wednesday, February 23 with the New York premiere of a new Tennessee Williams' work Me, Vashya.

The Frankenstein Summer' concerns five lovers exploring the heights of passion and the depths of evil. It is the meeting of literary giants George Gordon Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in the summer of 1816 at Byron's magnificent Swiss villa.

SING ME A HAPPY SONG, an original musical revue by composer-lyricists Georgia Stitt and David Kirshenbaum, is a collection of funny, moving, theatrical songs about discovery and surprise at the twists and turns one faces in life.

Tomei is to star is Neil LaBute's 'This is How it Goes.' Previews begin March 8.

John Rubinstein stars in The Peccadillo Theater's outstanding production of Elmer Rice's 1931 drama

Ken goes behind the scenes of Forbidden Broadway and more!