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Kids? Night on Broadway, a program allowing children ages 6 to 18 to see a participating Broadway show for free with a full-paying adult, is going year-round. It?s an effort...

Based on the novel by Ian Fleming, author/creator of the James Bond franchise, the production features the music and lyrics by the Sherman brothers, composers of Mary Poppins. The national tour also features an original script and fresh adaptation directed by Ray Roderick.

"Producer Elizabeth I. McCann, who guided the Tony Awards through some choppy times, had a lot to do with the success of this year's telecast, a program that won an Emmy and good reviews from the press." But McCann was relieved of her duties this week, reportedly at the hands of "Charlotte St. Martin, who heads the Broadway League, and Howard Sherman, who looks after the nonprofit American theater Wing."...

The Broadway show "Vanities, A New Musical," which chronicles the lives of three friends from the 1960s to the 1980s, has announced its theater and opening dates.

The theater's heavy reliance on revivals sometimes feels like a steady diet of disillusionment. Not so with the revival of "Streamers."

For John Lithgow and Patrick Wilson, "All My Sons" echoes back to their acting-school days.

Tony Award Productions have not renewed Liz McCann and Joey Parnes' contract. Alan Wasser and Allan Williams of Alan Wasser Associates will act as the general managers of the 2009 Tony Awards.

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre launches their 32nd season with SHOGUN MACBETH, an adaptation by John R. Briggs from the play by William Shakespeare. Directed by Ernest Abuba (Pacific Overtures, Yellow Fever) with Japanese movement by Sachiyo Ito (2008 Japan Foreign Minister's Commendation) and fight choreography by Michael G. Chin (Rashomon), SHOGUN MACBETH begins performances at the Julia Miles Theatre (424 W. 55th Street between 9th & 10th Aves) on November 4th with opening night set for November 12th at 7:00 p.m. For more information, please visit www.PanAsianRep.org.

Brava! For Women in the Arts, in collaboration with New Generation Health Center and the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health present GIRLTROPOLIS on November 22nd , 2008 at the Brava theater Center.

The Queens Company, an all-female acting troupe, presents a rollicking slapstick version of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night".