Playbill - The Old Globe in San Diego will produce the new hip-hop/rock musical Kingdom, with book and lyrics by Aaron Jafferis and music by Ian Williams, directed by Ron Daniels, for 14 performances, Feb. 12-22, 2009.

Playbill - Complete casting has been announced for Transport Group's Off-Broadway revival of Irwin Shaw's 1936 anti-war play, Bury the Dead, to feature the previously announced Donna Lynne Champlin.

Playbill - Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company announced Oct. 6 that Jeffory Lawson - current director of development of Roundabout Theatre Company - has been appointed the new managing director of ATC. He starts Dec. 1.

Playbill - Broadway's Veanne Cox and Christopher Innvar are scheming lovers Millamant and Mirabell in The Shakespeare Theatre Company's new production of William Congreve's 1700 comedy, The Way of the World, opening Oct. 6 in Washington, DC.

Playbill - Nightwood Theatre in association with The Canadian Stage Company presents the world premiere of Wild Dogs, from the novel by Helen Humphreys, Oct. 4-Nov. 8 in Toronto.

Playbill - Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman's play Scratch, charting her relationship with her sick mother, makes its world premiere at Toronto's Factory Theatre Mainspace starting Oct. 4 toward an Oct. 9 opening.

Playbill - Off-Broadway's The Actors Company Theatre launches its 2008-09 season Oct. 5 with Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce, featuring Cynthia Harris, Larry Keith, Eve Bianco, Margaret Nichols, Scott Schafer, Ashley West, Mark Alhadeff and Sean Dougherty.

Playbill - Tickets for the East Coast U.S. premiere of the international stage hit Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage go on sale 10 AM (ET) Oct. 5. The pre-Broadway run is scheduled at the Boston Opera House Feb. 7-March 15, 2009.

Playbill - Steven Levenson's new play, The Language of Trees, about the homefront during a modern war, begins Oct. 4 as the second production of the Roundabout Underground program, which cultivates emerging writers in a 62-seat space in the midtown Manhattan theatre district.

Playbill - Signature Theatre, respected for its interpretations of Stephen Sondheim musicals, takes on the Sondheim-Arthur Laurents cult favorite from 1964, Anyone Can Whistle, in a special 8 PM Oct. 6 concert at the Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center in Alexandria, VA.