George Michael News

Award-winning showbiz entertainers, Corky Hale and Charlotte Rae, will perform in a show emceed by Carl Reiner, with Jeff Lass serving as Music Director. The show, 'A Festive Evening For Westside Center for Independent Living,' is a benefit for WCIL.

SNL alum Nora Dunn (who also appears in the upcoming Seth Rogen/James Franco film 'Pineapple Express') completes the cast for previously announced L.A. Theatre Works production of Stephen Karam's hot new play, 'Speech & Debate'. She joins previously announced cast members Andrea Bowen ('Desperate Housewives', 'Les Miserables'), Gideon Glick (Broadway's 'Spring Awakening', Off Broadway's 'Speech & Debate') and Bobby Steggert (Outer Critics Circle nominee for Broadway's '110 in the Shade').

Sex, secrets and performance-art video blogs with a George Michael beat - just another typical day when you're a teenager in Salem, Oregon. L.A. Theatre Works has acquired the rights to record Speech & Debate, the fiercely funny and timely new play by Stephen Karam that just completed an extended, sold-out run at New York's Roundabout Underground.

PS CLASSICS, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, will commence recording of Jason Danieley and The Frontier Heroes on Thursday, April 10 in a New York studio. The group's critically acclaimed concert, 'Love: A Work in Progress' was most recently performed at New York's famed Birdland Jazz Club in February 2008, and will now make its way to disc.

Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon, the nation's longest running musical revue, presents a sign language interpreted performance on Sunday, April 20 at 5 p.m. at Club Fugazi in the heart of San Francisco's North Beach district.

Comedian Billy Connolly brings his hilarious, oxygen-depriving show Billy Connolly Live! to San Francisco's Post Street Theatre (450 Post St., 2nd floor) for 10 performances only (April 1 - 12, 2008). Opening night is set for Wednesday, April 2, 2008.

Uptown Express is kicking off the holiday season with two performances of 'Red, Hot & Xmas' on Sunday, December 16 at 7PM and Thursday, December 20 at 7:30PM at the Metropolitan Room

The West Bank Café announces our October, 2007 line-up of live entertainment, to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

WHO: Towson University WHAT: The Who's Tommy WHEN: Through August 4; Fri-Sat at 8PM. HOW MUCH: $10 General/ $5 Students. All proceeds go to the Theatre Department Scholarship Fund INFORMATION: www.towson.edu

Idina Menzel will be heard duetting with the late Ray Charles on a CD of duets called Genius and Friends, which will be released on September 20th