The 20th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition, hosted by stars such as Michael Cerveris and Victoria Clark and benefiting BC/EFA, will be held on April 24th and 25th

On April 24 and April 25, the New Amsterdam Theater will host the 20th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition. What started out in 1987, backstage at the Palace Theater, raising 18 thousand dollars, has grown into an event which has raised over 20 million dollars (in total) for BC/EFA. Here is a special look at Bonnets past featuring such favorites as Joel Grey, Bernadette Peters, Idina Menzel, Laurie Beechman, Nancy LaMott, Jerry Lewis, Jane Krakowski, Gwen Verdon, Tom Hulce, Elaine Stritch, Johnny Mathis, Barbara Cook, and more.

Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Kelli O'Hara, Michael McKean, Felicia P. Fields, Rob Bartlett and the Jersey Boys have been announced as the hosts of the '20th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition,' which will be presented on Monday, April 24th and Tuesday, April 25th

The man behind the baton of two of the biggest Broadway hits will be dishing at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox! Stephen Oremus, the music director etc. for WICKED, AVE.Q, ALL SHOOK UP , TICK TICK BOOM, Andrew Lippa's THE WILD PARTY and the upcoming Rufus Wainwright Judy Garland concert, will be joining Seth at 6PM for his weekly chat fest that benefits BC/EFA.

ActorCrafts, featuring the work of numerous Broadway performers, will take place Saturday, April 29th

Tony and Olivier Award winning actress-singer Patti LuPone, currently starring to critical acclaim in the hit Broadway production of Sweeney Todd, will return to the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 W 65 Street), to perform a special one-night only concert of her critically acclaimed one-woman show The Lady With The Torch on Monday, May 22 at 8 PM to benefit Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS.

Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS will present the 20th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition on Monday, April 24th at 4:30 PM and Tuesday, April 25 at 2 PM at the New Amsterdam Theatre to benefit BC/EFA

With the addition of two new categories--Best Male and Female Stand-Up Comic--the nominations list for the 2006 MAC Awards is now complete

The unique performance of John Caird's Twin Spirits took place at the New Victory Theatre on Monday, March 27, 2006, as a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Come celebrate the greatest city on earth with some of the city's hottest bodies at this year's BROADWAY BARES 16: NEW YORK STRIP, where over 200 of Broadway's sexiest chorus boys and girls take it off to benefit BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS.

New York's only fine art and craft fair featuring the work of theatre professionals ACTORCRAFTS will take place Saturday, April 29th (10AM-6PM) in the gymnasium of the Holy Cross School (332 W. 43rd Street /Between 8th & 9th Avenues).

Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS will present the 20th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition on Monday, April 24th at 4:30 PM and Tuesday, April 25 at 2 PM at the New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street) to benefit BC/EFA

STING AND TRUDIE STYLER WILL PORTRAY ROBERT AND CLARA SCHUMANN IN 'TWIN SPIRITS,' A BENEFIT PERFORMANCE FOR BROADWAY CARES / EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS, MONDAY MARCH 27 AT THE NEW VICTORY THEATER

The 2006 MAC AWARDS will be presented on MONDAY, APRIL 17 AT 7:30 PM at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center at BMCC, 199 Chambers Street. Hosted by Lee Roy Reams, the 20th annual MAC Awards will include appearances by Phoebe Snow, Ben Taylor, Karen Mason, Carol Hall and Rocky Carroll among others.

Doris Eaton Travis, Original Ziegfeld Girl and frequent guest star of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' annual Easter Bonnet Competition, will be celebrating her 102nd birthday today at her home in Oklahoma.

On March 13th, theatre, film and TV stars--as well as the legendary lady herself--came out for a benefit screening of Liza with a 'Z' at the Ziegfeld Theatre

New eBay auctions for BC/EFA feature items signed by John Barrowman, Chita Rivera and Patti LuPone, among others

Nothing Like A Dame 2006, presented by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, has raised a total of $300,000 for the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative of The Actors' Fund of America.

Over two dozen divas, leading ladies and ingenues shared the stage of Nothin' Like a Dame and BroadwayWorld was there!

Make way for the Dames! Coming March 6, 2006 at 8:00 PM at the Imperial Theatre (249 West 45th Street), Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS presents The 11th Annual NOTHING LIKE A DAME benefiting The Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative of The Actors' Fund of America. Sure to be a night to remember, NOTHING LIKE A DAME features performances from the first ladies of Broadway.

Rock star Sting, his actress wife Trudie Styler and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels star Jonathan Pryce will headline Twin Spirits--a benefit reading for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS--on March 27th

On March 16th, the new documentary The Lady in Question is Charles Busch will be shown as part of a benefit screening for New York's LGBT Community Center

The latest batch of items up for auction on eBay to benefit BC/EFA include memorabilia signed by Gwen Verdon, Sandy Duncan and Luke Perry

Broadway Bears IX, which was postponed due to the recent snowstorm in New York, will now be held on May 21st

This week Broadway Beat brings you front and center for Encore's 'Kismet, 'ABC Daytime Salutes BC/EFA,' and The Drama League's 'So In Love Concert'