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?Marko the Prince? is an ambitious portrait of a fictional shell-shocked village on the border of Bosnia and Serbia in the summer of 1992.

Tracy Letts' August: Osage County, winner of five Tony Awards including Best Play, as well as the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, Drama Desk, New York Drama Critics Circle, and Outer Critics Circle Awards will visit The NASDAQ Stock Market on Thursday, July 3, 2008 at the NASDAQ MarketSite, 4 Times Square. Cast members from the show will ring the NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell at 9:30 a.m. EDT.

The Tony Award winner Idina Menzel will appear in ?Nero? at Vassar College.

Polly Stenham's That Face will complete its run in the West End on at the Duke of York's Theatre on 5 July as previously announced.

Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

Joe's Pub is Proud to Announce: BE IN: A Night of Music and Love with members of the Public Theater's cast of HAIR A Benefit for Broadway Cares, Equity Fights AIDS on Mondays, July 7th and August 11th, 9:30pm.

When lovers meet on London?s stages this summer, the odds are it?s not violins they?re hearing. It?s alarm bells.

BroadwayWorld's own James Sims joined Shipwrecked! star Gregory Itzin and Director Bart DeLorenzo at the Geffen Playhouse to learn of the voyage Louis de Rougemont took in becoming a 'tabloid sensation' of his Victorian England days with his amazing tales chronicling a voyage full of wild characters and plenty of imagination...

Tracy Letts?s ?August: Osage County? is a full theatrical meal. His new play, ?Superior Donuts,? is a much less ambitious repast.

After two and a half months of talks Actors? Equity Association reached a tentative agreement with the Broadway League, averting a strike.

The Wilmette Theater hopes to come to the rescue of a beleaguered production of ?Ragtime.?

The National Theater of Scotland is bringing Euripides??Bacchae? to New York.

Due to an abbreviated rehearsal period with the show's full company, Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will move the opening night of Richard Nelson's Some Americans Abroad to Thursday, July 24, to allow for a longer preview period.

The theater?s family businesses stretch well beyond those who put on the shows.

Bensonhurst native KERRY BUTLER, the star of Broadway's musical hit XANADU, Brooklyn Borough President MARTY MARKOWITZ and Assemblywoman JOAN MILLMAN (52nd Assembly District, Brooklyn, NY) will lend a hand to help cut the ribbon at the opening for Theatre Development Fund's new TKTS Downtown Brooklyn Discount Ticket Booth on Thursday, July 10 at 10:15am.

Michael Rodgers came from California to New York City last month to defy the odds of making a living as an actor, not to defy death by pedaling a secondhand bicycle through Midtown traffic.

Variety is reporting that board chairman, president, AND the executive director of Stamford Center of the Arts have all resigned this week. SCA is a not-for-profit organization which runs the Palace Theater and smaller Rich Forum in Stamford, CT. The organization has been facing problems all year and started out this new season in red ink already.

A Closer Look @ Broadway

On Broadway: Edward Albee's 'Occupant'
Jim Taylor takes A Closer Look at the production at the Peter Norton Space. (Friday, July 4, 2008)

On Broadway: 'Adding Machine' and Off-Broadway: 'Reasons to be Pretty'
Jim Taylor takes A Closer Look at the productions at the Minetta Lane Theatre and the Lucille Lortel theatre. (Friday, June 27, 2008)

On Broadway: Baranski and Whitford Revive 'Boeing-Boeing'
Jim Taylor takes A Closer Look at the production at the Longacre Theatre. (Friday, June 20, 2008)

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