Playbill - Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel will star as Claude in the upcoming Broadway revival of the tribal love rock musical Hair, which is scheduled to begin performances March 6 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

Playbill - Actress Mary-Louise Parker puts a contemporary spin on Ibsen's tragic heroine, Hedda Gabler, in a new Broadway production.

Playbill - Lights up - on a hit. Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller and Jill Furman, the lead producers of the 2008 Tony Award-winning Best Musical In the Heights, announced on Jan. 8 that they recouped the show's $10 million investment after only 10 months and 337 performances.

Playbill - Brett Neveu's Old Glory, one of a series of plays about how the Iraq War affects six interconnected people, will gets its world premiere production Feb. 3-March 29 from Writers' Theatre in Glencoe, IL.

Playbill - Heidi Schreck is the recipient of the 2009 P73 Playwriting Fellowship from Page 73, the New York City company devoted to developing new works and writers.

Playbill - Award-winning playwright and solo performer Heather Woodbury returns to the Steppenwolf stage for a one-night-only performance of The Last Days of Desmond "Nani" Reese: A Stripper's History of the World 7:30 PM March 3 in the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre in Chicago.

Playbill - Jesse Berger, artistic director of New York City's Red Bull Theater, a troupe not afraid of bloody tragedies, makes his Denver Center Theatre Company directing debut with a new production of Shakespeare's Richard III.

Playbill - Arden Theatre Company's world premiere of My Name Is Asher Lev, directed and adapted by Aaron Posner, drawing on the novel by Chaim Potok, begins Jan. 8 at the Philadelphia theatre's Arcadia Stage.

Reuters - Egyptian archaeologists have found the remains of a mummy thought to be that of Queen Seshestet, the mother of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt in the 24th century BC, the government said on Thursday.

Playbill - Steven Sutcliffe, a 1998 Drama Desk Award nominee and Theatre World Award winner for Ragtime, will return to the Shaw Festival, where he acted in his formative years, to play George in Sunday in the Park With George.