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Bill W. and Dr. Bob, by Stephen Bergman and Janet Surrey, will begin previews at New World Stages on February 16th and open on March 5th

A free staged reading of a new Mae West musical, It's Not What I Say... will be presented at the York Theatre, Tuesday, February 20th, at 7:30 P.M.

Pablo Schreiber and Rebecca Brooksher will star in Lincoln Center Theater's production of Dying City, a new play by Christopher Shinn that will begin previews on Thursday, February 15, 2007 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

NBC's 'Grease: You're the One That I Want' continues to rank in the top five of the Sunday night ratings.

78th Street Theatre Lab will present The Nibroc Trilogy-- three Off-Broadway plays, set between the start of World War II and early 1950s, chronicling the love story of recurring central characters, May and Raleigh -- with previews set to begin March 17, prior to an official press opening Sunday, April 1 at the 78th Street Theatre Lab in Manhattan

The NEFCA (National Endowment for the Cultural Arts) will present the 3rd Annual Broadway Purim Shpiel on March 4th at the Hudson Theatre

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 2/11/2007

The Las Vegas production of The Producers opened at the Paris Las Vegas on February 9th after beginning previews on January 31st.

Emily Skinner, the Tony-nominated star of Side Show, will be reunited with that show's Hugh Panaro when she directs him (and possibly duet with) him in The Town Hall's 'Broadway by the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1938.'

Jeb Brown will replace Will Chase in the one-night only, newly-adapted concert version of Working, a benefit for the Actor's Fund of America, which will take place next Monday, February 19, 2007 at The Zipper Theatre

A private concert reading of Simeon's Gift, a new family musical by Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton, took place at Bay Street Theatre on February 10. It was the first event of Bay Street's Family Theatre Initiative. The show is being developed for full production next November at Bay Street Theatre followed by a national tour in 2008.

Helen Mirren, Jennifer Hudson, Alan Arkin and Peter Morgan are among the winners of this year's British Academy Film Awards.

Casting is complete for Sealed for Freshness, the new Tupperware comedy, written and directed by Doug Stone. Performances begin at New World Stages on Thursday, February 15, 2007

Every second year, The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. undertakes a new chapter in its longitudinal tracking study of the audiences at nationally touring Broadway productions

The LA Opera presented Kurt Weill's and Bertolt Brecht's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Saturday under the direction of Tony Award-winner John Doyle and starring Broadway divas Audra McDonald and Patti LuPone...

The hit film version of Dreamgirls has remained in the weekend box office top ten, and will soon break the $100 million mark

Quinn Lemley will preview her show 'The Heat Is On,' as part of the Any Wednesday concert series at the West 66th Street Barnes and Noble.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Charles Grodin, Joanna Gleason and Chris Sarandon were among the all-star cast reading classic, contemporary and humorous love poems in 'Come Be My Love….Love Spoken Here,' which took place on Saturday February 10, 8 p.m., at the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, CT.

Kate Buddeke and Vito D'Ambrosio will star in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune at Arena Stage in D.C.

Theater For The New City brings Tamara Cupic's 'Parental Consent' to it's 1st Avenue Theater March 1st- March 18th.

Radio Personality Valerie Smaldone, is lauching a Broadway segment as part of her parsonal page at www.1067litefm.com.