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Academy? Award-winners Geoffrey Rush (Shine) as King Berenger and Susan Sarandon (Dead Men Walking) as Queen Marguerite will star in Eugene Ionesco's EXIT THE KING on Broadway. This production marks Rush's Broadway debut. Translated by Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush and directed by Neil Armfield, EXIT THE KING will begin performances Saturday, March 7, 2009 at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) and open on Thursday, March 26, 2009. This limited engagement will run for 14 weeks only, through Sunday, June 14, 2009.

Roundabout Theatre Company presents the New York premiere of Distracted, by Lisa Loomer, directed by Mark Brokaw. Distracted opens officially on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street).

That's ludicrous! Losers such as hypocrite, Amitabh, have blinders on. Let people like him open their wallets and start helping these slum-dwellers instead of screwing around with semantics. If he is so concerned, he and his ilk should stop traveling ...

Profiles Theatre concludes its 2008-2009 season with the World Premiere of Graceland, directed by Matt Miller. The production runs May 22-June 28, 2009, at Profiles Theatre, 4147 N. Broadway. The press opening is Thursday, May 28, 2009, at 8:00 p.m.In the world premiere of this comedy/drama by Chicago playwright Ellen Fairey, everybody is self- destructing in this Chicago tale of loss, longing and high-speed fighter jets.

Mixed Blood Theatre's eleventh bilingual production is a crazed comedy about a quincea?era: the definitive event in the life of a young Latina. Sweet 15 (Quincea?era ) opens March 13th and runs through March 22 at the History Theatre in downtown St. Paul.

The new London Evening Standard editor, Geordie Greig, has marked his first day in charge by penning a piece to readers outlining how the paper's aspiration under new its owner Alexander Lebedev was to take a 'fundamentally optimistic view of life' and become the 'voice of London'.Lebedev, the Russian billionaire and former KGB agent, officially took control of the paper on Friday, 27 February, after buying 75.1% of the loss-making title, for a reported £1, from former owner Daily Mail & General Trust.Accompanying a picture of the new owner addressing staff for the first time last week, today's page 2 article from Greig set out the stall of the new regime, saying the paper had a glorious future, owned by a company that would be 'independent, open-minded and free-spirited'.'Independent is the key word. Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev come to London as owners of Novaya Gazeta, the pro-democracy newspaper that has built a reputation in Russia for journalistic objectivity, decency and bravery

New Rep is pleased to close its third season of Downstage @ New Rep with Sam Shepard's Fool for Love. Downstage @ New Rep-Up Close, On The Edge-presents programming that is new, edgy, and controversial to audiences eager for a thought-provoking theatrical experience. Fool for Love opens to the press on Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 3:00pm and plays through April 05, 2009 at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in the Black Box Theater.

Set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room...

Film News: Festival to kick off on April 22 -- The eighth Tribeca Film Festival will open April 22 with Woody Allen's 'Whatever Works.'