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- Ray Charles musical set for Broadway
- A musical celebrating American musician Ray Charles will open on Broadway in November.
- Australian Ballet costumes damaged by flooding
- The Australian Ballet is engaged in a salvage operation for its costumes and sets after fierce storms that hit Melbourne last weekend flooded a storage facility.
- Conan comedy tour has 3 Canadian stops
- Conan O'Brien is following up his disappearing act on network TV with a standup tour that will take him to 33 cities, including three in Canada.
- Lepage double bill heads to Toronto
- Toronto will get a double bill of Robert Lepage production this fall, with The Andersen Project and Eonnagata coming to the city for the first time.
- Shaw Festival locks out workers
- The Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., has locked out its maintenance employees in an ongoing labour dispute.
- Performing arts companies brace for HST
- Ottawa's performing arts venues are trying to help patrons save money in anticipation of the harmonized sales tax, which will make theatre and concert tickets more expensive.
- Anna Nicole Smith's life gets operatic treatment
- Britain's Royal Opera will stage the world premiere of an opera about the late Anna Nicole Smith, who died from an accidental drug overdose in 2007.
- Montreal critics pick Blessed Are They
- Blessed Are They, a play examining faith in a downtown Montreal parish, was declared best production at the Montreal English Critics' Circle Awards.
- Love Never Dies sees mixed reviews
- Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-awaited sequel to Phantom of the Opera premiered in London on Tuesday evening to mixed reviews by critics.
- Malkovich to play serial killer on Toronto stage
- American actor John Malkovich will make his Luminato debut playing a notorious Austrian serial killer in a musical performance this June as part of the annual festival of arts and culture.