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The principal casting for the upcoming Broadway transfer of the Four Seasons musical Jersey Boys has been announced, as well as its dates; it will open on November 6th at the Virginia Theatre

The Best Plays Theatre Yearbook, 2003-2004 will honor both male and female playwrights with more of an emphasis on the women this year

The 2004-2005 Broadway theatre season boasted thriving grosses and a terrific number of Tony-eligible plays and musicals

Due to an overwhelming response, 2004 Tony Award nominee John Tartaglia has added an additional 5 week Master Class intensive in Theatre and Children's Television style puppetry.

New York City Center Encores! Artistic Director Jack Viertel and Music Director Rob Fisher have announced that Tony® Award nominee Malcolm Gets and Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris will join the previously announced Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth in The Apple Tree, the final Encores! presentation of the 2004-5 Season.

Filling the final slot of their 2004/05 season, Keen Company will revive Sutton Vane's 1924 Broadway hit OUTWARD BOUND.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director, John G. Schultz, Executive Director), is proud to announce its third production of the 2004-2005 season: WHAT OF THE NIGHT, an American premiere based on the writings of Djuna Barnes, created for the stage by Jane Alexander, Noreen Tomassi, Birgitta Trommler, directed and choreographed by Ms. Trommler, and starring Ms. Alexander (The Great White Hope; Kramer vs. Kramer; Testament; The Sisters Rosenzweig). The production marks Trommler's New York directorial debut.

The 2004/05 season continues in the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield with LEAR which runs from Wednesday 9 March - Saturday 2 April 2005. Bond's epic masterpiece, brought to vivid life in a new Crucible production that reunites Ian McDiarmid and Jonathan Kent for the first time since leaving the Almeida Theatre in London.

Guild Hall of East Hampton, the premier cultural institution of its kind in the area, has announced the honorees for its 20th Annual Lifetime Achievement Awards Gala to be held on Monday, March 14, 2005 at the Rainbow Room, New York City. The distinguished honorees for the year 2004, selected by the 200 member Guild Hall Academy of the Arts, are composer/lyricist Sheldon Harnick for Performing Arts, novelist Louis Begley for Literary Arts, photographer/artist Cindy Sherman for Visual Arts and real estate developer and philanthropist Marshall Rose for Lifelong Patron of the Arts.

Chester Gregory currently stars as Seaweed J. Stubbs in the Broadway hit HAIRSPRAY, and will be performing Monday, December 20, 2004 in a FREE show at K-Lounge.

The Jeanne Rimsky Theater at Landmark on Main Street is proud to present Klea Blackhurst's acclaimed tribute to Ethel Merman, 'Everything the Traffic Will Allow' on Saturday, January 29, 2004 at 8 PM.

Broadway singer Glenn Rainey of Disney's Beauty and the Beast will perform classic R&B hits on December 13th, 2004 in an original show called 'Blue-Eyed Soul' at the Triad theatre on West 72nd Street at 9:15pm. This special one night only event will be a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Tony Award winning actress ELAINE STRITCH is the latest theatre woman of achievement profiled by the Oral History Program of the League of Professional Theatre Women, on Thursday, December 2, 2004, at 6pm at the Bruno Walter Auditorium in the Library of Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

The third of the new Fall season of the American Theatre Wing 'Working In The Theatre' Seminars continues on Thursday, November 4th. Playwrights, puppets and not for profit theatre companies are all major components of an exciting theatre season on Broadway and Off. This season, on a new set and in a new larger facility, the popular 'Working in the Theatre' Seminars have been expanded. The American Theatre Wing continues to provide a unique, enlightening, behind-the-scenes theatrical experience with these star-studded panels comprised of Broadway and Off-Broadway's major theatre personalities. Once again the ATW Seminars will provide some of the most entertaining and informative discussions on theatre today.

NEIL Berg's much lauded tribute to the Great White Way, 100 YEARS OF BROADWAY, returns with a new show to the recently renovated 800-seat Tarrytown Music Hall on Saturday, October 9, 2004, at 8PM. If you yearn for an evening of all the great Broadway musical numbers, sung by all the great Broadway stars without the distraction of dialogue, this is it!

Neil Berg's much lauded tribute to the Great White Way, 100 YEARS OF BROADWAY, returns with a new show to the recently renovated 800-seat Tarrytown Music Hall on Saturday, October 9, 2004, at 8PM.

The lavish, new production of Rodger's & Hammerstein's The King & I, starring Sandy Duncan and directed by Baayork Lee, will grace the stage of Boston's Wang Theatre for one week only, when it opens on Tuesday, October 12 and plays through Sunday, October 17, 2004. Press night is scheduled for Wednesday, October 13 at 7:00 PM.

Susan Egan's New York concert debut at Joe's Pub on November 7th.

BroadwayWorld.com, the premier theater site on the internet, announced today the start of voting for the Second Annual Theater Fans' Choice Awards. Celebrating the site's one year anniversary on the Internet, new site features are available as well, providing visitors the most complete theater resource on the web.

On Sunday May 2, 2004 @ 7:30pm, Tony & Emmy Award winning actress Debra Monk ('NYPD Blue', Steel Pier, Picnic, 'The Devil's Advocate', Redwood Curtain) will star in a reading of a new play by Jeff Whitty (co-author of Avenue Q), Suicide Weather.

Setting sail on July 11, 2004 from New York City on the Norwegian Dawn will be the first ever gay & lesbian family cruise. The boat also contains an 1,100 seat 'Broadway-style' theater which will feature some familiar names performing throughout the inaugral trip.

See what you can expect to see on-stage in the coming year in Los Angeles and throughout Southern California!

In this years' final UK column Jake looks at the year ahead in London's West End, including Billy Elliot the Musical, Mary Poppins and the casting game for The Producers