Playbill - The untitled new musical by folk-rock songwriter Patty Griffin and librettist Keith Bunin will surface at Atlantic Theater Company in 2006-07.

Playbill - Theatre Calgary's first season of shows picked by new artistic director Dennis Garnhum will kick off with John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Sept. 12-Oct. 7.

Playbill - Michael Hollinger's new play, Opus, a revival of Dreamgirls and a new musical inspired by a Mark Twain story are among the 2006 Barrymore Award nominees in Philadelphia.

Playbill - Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson - the ladies who fertilized the Broadway-bound musical, Grey Gardens, with their potent spring 2006 performances - will appear at a CD signing celebrating the release of the world premiere recording of the score by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie.

Playbill - Lawrence J. Sacharow, director of the theatre program at Fordham University, and the Lortel Award-winning director of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, died Aug. 14 at New York Hospital.

Playbill - The Paris Opera House of Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera will lose its Wardrobe Mistress - the character, not the crew member - Aug. 19, when original cast member Mary Leigh Stahl retires.

Playbill - With Middle East in pieces at the moment, two Manhattan theatre companies are teaming to present free readings of six short works by six playwrights under the umbrella of The Middle East, in Pieces, Aug. 17-18.

Reuters - Attention Elvis impersonators: you may soon have a new way to make a living.

Reuters - Broadway L.A.'s summer season at the Pantages concludes with yet another hit Broadway musical. Led by Norbert Leo Butz's madcap romp as aspiring but tres gauche American scam man Freddy Benson (the most awarded performance in Broadway history), "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" knocks the audience back on its heels with its brilliant production numbers and powerful solo escapades.

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Reuters - Animal rights activists have described as "sick" a live art performance involving a naked woman cradling a dead pig for four hours.

Reuters - NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) -The quality of Martin Short's musical revue is well encapsulated by what has become his trademark pose. Hands on hips, staring off into the distance, he embraces the adulation of his audience while at the same time slyly mocking his need for it.

Reuters - The quality of Martin Short's musical revue is well encapsulated by what has become his trademark pose. Hands on hips, staring off into the distance, he embraces the adulation of his audience while at the same time slyly mocking his need for it.

Reuters - Most of the city's newspaper critics didn't give "Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me" high marks after its opening Thursday at the Bernard Jacobs.

Reuters - For 50 years, the Royal Court Theater in London's Sloane Square has acted as a crucible of young writing talent, launching many careers.

Reuters - With his slight physique and lack of conventional good looks, David Hyde Pierce might not be a likely leading man or dramatic linchpin. But once he makes his first appearance in "Curtains," one of the last collaborations of John Kander and the late Fred Ebb (the folks who brought you a raft of musicals including "Cabaret" and "Chicago"), he pretty much carries the show.

Reuters - Playwrights and comedians at the world's largest arts festival have boldly marched into the minefield of religious extremism this year to explode myths and destroy taboos.

Reuters - The T-Birds and the Pink Ladies of "Grease" are coming back to Broadway, where producers are turning to a reality television show to cast the lead roles.

Reuters - Some sperm donation clinics invite men to leave a message behind for their unborn child to hear when they are 18.

Reuters - Actor Charles Ross first went to a galaxy far, far away on a remote farm in Canada.