Playbill - Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia will present a world premiere and a handful of Philly premieres in its 19th season.

Playbill - The Stratford Festival conjures Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen's classic about the sins of the father visiting the rest of the family, starting July 25 at the Tom Patterson Theatre in Ontario.

Playbill - The new cast recording of Grey Gardens doesn't hit stores until Aug. 22, but those looking to snag it early can do so at the PS Classics website, www.psclassics.com.

Playbill - The charm musical, She Loves Me, will replace an announced world premiere during the holidays at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage, the troupe announced.

Playbill - Pulse Ensemble Theatre begins its annual presentation of free Shakespeare in the open air Riverbank State Park 8 PM Aug. 3 with a multi-racial production of Romeo and Juliet.

Playbill - The members of the new Broadway-bound A Chorus Line try to prove "I Can Do That" as the revival opens its pre-Broadway San Francisco tryout on Aug. 2, following previews from July 23.

Playbill - Manhattan Theatre Club has added Brian Friel's Translations to its 2006-07 Biltmore Theatre Broadway line-up. Garry Hynes will direct.

Playbill - Bob Boyett and Bill Haber, the producers who struck box-office and Tony gold with the Broadway transfer of the London hit The History Boys, hope to bring another National Theatre production to New York in 2007.

Playbill - Philadelphia Theatre Company has received a $160,000 grant to develop a new work by Tony Award winner Bill Irwin, combining movement, music and projected imagery.

Playbill - Are you the next Jeff Marx? The next Robert Lopez? The next Maury Yeston? The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop is now accepting applications for its first year composer/lyricist class.

Playbill - The creative team includes Claibe Richardson (composer), Stephen Cole (lyricist, writer), Philip William McKinley (Director), Matthew Ward (Musical Director), and Ray Clausen (Set Designer). The Night of the Hunter began in 1954 as a noir novel penned by Davis Grubb. A Southern gothic tale, it follows a committed criminal who attempts to manipulate two children into revealing where their father hid money by pretending to be a priest. The lauded 1955 film version, directed by Charles Laughton, featured Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish and Robert Mitchum. ...

Playbill - Signature Theatre Company's new Off-Broadway production of August Wilson's Seven Guitars begins previews July 31, boasting a $15 ticket price.

Playbill - Kimmel Center Inc. and The Shubert Organization, Inc. announced plans to collaborate on theatrical presentations in the Philadelphia market.

Playbill - Shout! The Mod Musical, boasting hip-swiveling hits that made household names of Petula Clark, Lulu and Shirley Bassey in the 1960s, opens July 27 in its New York City debut at Off-Broadway's Julia Miles Theatre.

Playbill - Triad Stage, the resident Equity company on Greensboro, North Carolina, announced that its building located at 232 South Elm Street will be named The Pyrle Theater in honor of Pyrle Gibson.

Playbill - Abingdon Theatre Company in Manhattan will have two world premieres in its fall 2006 season - James Armstrong's Foggy Bottom and John Epperson's My Deah.

Playbill - Steppenwolf Theatre Company's staging of The Sunset Limited, a new play by Cormac McCarthy, the novelist, will follow the route of another train, the Twentieth Century Ltd., and travel from Chicago to New York City.

Reuters - "All Shook Up," the rock 'n' roll musical of Elvis Presley songs that played for 213 performances (and 33 previews) last year at the Palace, will begin its first national tour September 12.

Reuters - Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will strip off for his London stage debut as a psychologically disturbed stable boy in "Equus."

Reuters - With "Grey Gardens" moving in October from off-Broadway to on, with (naturally) Christine Ebersol and Mary Louise Wilson in the roles they played to devastating effect earlier this year, another off-Broadway musical is poised take the same kind of leap.