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The Public Theater will launch an online auction at 12 PM on Monday, June 22 in support of The Public Theater's annual gala on Thursday, June 25 for the opening of Twelfth Night.

Robert Osborne's eclectic column, which he has been writing since 1982, extends from Hollywood to Broadway.

The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning August: Osage County will end its Broadway run June 28 at the Music Box Theatre, producers announced late June 17.

Elizabeth Waterston, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Campion and Steve Ray Dallimore will join the Theatre for a New Audience production of Othello when it arrives at Seattle's Intiman Theatre in July.

Tribe Sunday, BBC Knowledge, 15:00 This fascinating series, hosted by Bruce Parry, offers a striking contrast to the globalised European society in which communities are being dissolved and drawn into a generic pattern of life and culture that is eroding much of what is unique and distinctive in the world.

As the son of two famous actors, Guy Davis wanted to make a statement independent of his parents.

Tony Award nominee Sanaa Lathan will star as Maggie the Cat in the all-black West End revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Lorraine Hansberry, who won the Drama Critics' Award for her first play A Raisin in the Sun, shown in a 1959 photo.

August: Osage County, which, on Friday, May 22nd, surpassed The Heidi Chronicles in the list of Broadway's longest running plays, welcomed Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad to The Cast on Tuesday, May 26th.

Knowing that chances were slim to get funding through Edgecombe County Public Schools during a time of multiple budget cuts, Roberson Center for Educational Achievement media coordinator Dana Stone took a different route.

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Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad joins the asylum of characters in Broadway's Tony Award-winning August: Osage County on May 26, playing the pill-poppin', bruising matriarch Violet Weston, at the Music Box Theatre.

PHYLICIA RASHAD is a mother who gets around. She killed her own children in a jealous rage as Medea.

James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad are set to star in the West End revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .

A starry lineup is on tap for the American Theatre Winga s annual spring gala, to be held on June 1 at Cipriani 42nd Street.

A trio of Tony Award winners - Kristin Chenoweth , Audra McDonald and Bebe Neuwirth - will headline the 2009 Nothing Like a Dame concert on June 15 at New World Stages.

Audra McDonald will play Olivia. Raul Esparza will play Orsino. Also joining the cast are Michael Cumpsty as Malvolio, Jay O. Sanders , David Pittu and Hamish Linklater .

Michael Cumpsty , Raul Esparza , Hamish Linklater, Audra McDonald , David Pittu and Jay O. Sanders are set to join the previously announced Anne Hathaway in Twelfth Night at Central Park's Delacorte Theatre.

Come on, admit it. When you hear the name Phylicia Rashad, you can't help but get all nostalgic.