Playbill - Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton, FL, will spike its 2008-2009 mainstage season with the world premiere of Florida writer Michael McKeever's Dangerous, inspired by the novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses."

Playbill - Philadelphia Music Theater Works will present a staged reading of Philly composer Charles Gilbert's Watch the Birdie, a musical revue about contemporary family life, Aug. 8-9 at the Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5.

Playbill - Larry Haines, a stage and television actor who gave a Tony Award-nominated performance as the humane Dr. Dreyfuss in Promises, Promises, a 1968 musical version of the Billy Wilder film "The Apartment," died July 17 in Delray Beach, FL. He was 89.

Playbill - Stage and screen veteran Richard Kind has replaced Tony-nominated actor Lou Diamond Phillips in the Casa Ma?ana's upcoming staging of the Tony-winning musical Damn Yankees.

Playbill - The Shaw Festival's remounting of the 2005 world premiere, Belle Moral: A Natural History, by Canadian writer Ann-Marie MacDonald, opens July 19 at the Court House Theatre, one of three venues run by the fest in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

Playbill - Casting has been announced for the Arena Stage's production of Daniel Beaty's Resurrection, a music, dance and poetry-filled new work introducing us to a handful of varied African-American men.

Playbill - Off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre, in association with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, opens a buoyantly theatrical stage version of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days July 20 after previews from July 11.

Playbill - The winner of the MTV reality casting competition, "Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods," will be announced July 21.

Playbill - Popular demand has prompted a two-week extension of the U.S. premiere of Anthony Neilson's Stitching, the new dark play about a couple who play disturbing games. The Off-Broadway run at The Wild Project will now play to Aug. 2.

Playbill - And the nonprofit world gets another one!