Goodbye to today's closing shows! Manhattan Theatre Club's Ruined Other Events: Burn the Floor officially opens on Broadway Aug. 2 at the Longacre Theatre. Previews for the 12-week limited...titled "A Conversation About the Work of Alan Ayckbourn" following the Aug. 2 matinee performance of Ayckbourn's classic comedy How the Other Half Loves in Westport, CT. Source 1 2 3 4 5

CASTING NEWS: 999 B.C. at the York Theatre Company has announced their cast. It will include: Todd Buonopane , Cole Burden , Kathy Deitch, Rachael Ferrara, Michael Hicks, Alyse Alan Louis...Reunion for High School Musical Star Corbin Bleu. Photo Op:   Marissa Jaret Winokur Has a Whirlwind Talk Show Tour of NYC. Photo EXCLUSIVE: Extreme, Journey and Ratt Visit ROCK OF AGES!

'Maria' actress to co-star in Lonergan's ' Starry ' Catalina Sandino Moreno, nommed for a 2005 Oscar for her role in "Maria Full of Grace," will co-star with Matthew Broderick in the New Group's...in October. Also on the New Group slate are a January production of Sam Shepard's " A Lie of the Mind, " helmed by Ethan Hawke, and new tuner " The Kid," based on the book by Dan Savage. Source

Isabel Keating — co-star of Primary Stages' Off-Broadway play A Lifetime Burning — fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop culture tidbits. Full given...and interior designer (both). I switched when I was 11 to wanting to be a bookbinder. Not a publisher or writer. A bookbinder — the one who puts it all together. So, maybe I would be a bookbinder. Source

The world premiere of the Broadway-aimed musical Catch Me If You Can begins performances at the 5th Avenue Theatre July 28. The engagement will continue through Aug. 16. The Broadway cast recording...present the one-night-only return of Sakina's Restaurant , written and performed by Aasif Mandvi, July 28 at 8 PM at the Soho Playhouse in Manhattan. Source 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Liar, Liar: Jennifer Westfeldt Jennifer Westfeldt’s 2001 movie, Kissing Jessica Stein—which she co-wrote and starred in—made bi-curiousness cool. Since then, she’s been on Broadway (as an ingenue... I would never want that, but we’ll see where it goes. I still haven’t come up with a good answer to “He’s so hot, how did you land him?” or “You’re so lucky to be with him!” Um, thanks? Source

BURN THE FLOOR has announced a Student Rush ticket policy. Student tickets are $26.50 and will be available day-of at the box office only beginning at 10AM Tuesday thru Saturday, and beginning at Noon...AND DOLLS featuring Richard Kind, Christian Hoff, Liz Larsen , and Glory Crampton. STAGE TUBE: BURN THE FLOOR preview trailer. Source 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Fantasia Barrino will bring her performance as Celie in the national tour of The Color Purple to her hometown when the musical plays the War Memorial Auditorium in Greensboro, NC. Barrino will continue...of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf in Atlanta. View production photos here . Source 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: David Cromer David Cromer — star and director of the Off-Broadway revival of Our Town — fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop... So I'm not really dying to play anything. But if I had to pick one I'd say Uncle Vanya because it involves drinking, doing nothing all summer, and bitching about how everyone else is a jerk. Source

When chick-powered play Vanities originally opened off-Broadway some 30 years ago it was an immediate hit, running over five years and becoming one of the most successful off-Broadway productions... Sarah Stiles, Lauren Kennedy, Judith Ivey and Anneliese van der Pol. Annelise van der Pol. Sarah Stiles. Lauren Kennedy. Source 1 2