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Katie Finneran is about to get evil — playing Miss Hannigan in the new production of "Annie" on Broadway.

President Barack Obama heads to Broadway next month as part of a double bill with former President Bill Clinton — and the stars will be out to welcome them.

It is late on a Wednesday night, after the final bows have been delivered on Broadway. The applause has died down and the last audience members have sauntered out into the street.

Today is Friday, May 25, the 146th day of 2012. There are 220 days left in the year.

The Tony-nominated musical "Million Dollar Quartet" will soon no longer be rocking New York.

Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones and Bernadette Peters will be on hand to help present the Drama Desk Awards next month.

With summer coming, festivals include music, dance and the arts with Bonnaroo, Montreal Jazz Fest and Jacobs Pillow's 80th anniversary. Awards are presented to Brodway's best and MTV's favorite movies and trade expos include E3 and Comic-Con.

Broadway producers scrambled Wednesday to fill Michael McKean's part in a revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" as the actor recovers from a broken leg after being struck by a car.

The one-man musical Herringbone, starring Tony winner BD Wong and directed by stage and screen star and 2012 Tony nominee Roger Rees, plays Dixon Place May 21-22 at 7 PM.

James Lecesne will step into the role of Dick Jensen, the role regularly played by Michael McKean, in the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man.

PS Classics, the record label devoted to the American Songbook and the heritage of musical theatre, releases a studio cast album of George Gershwin and B.G. DeSylva's 1924 musical Sweet Little Devil on May 22.

New York City Center's Encores! concert series will return to its roots in 2013 — its 20th season — with a presentation of Fiorello!, the title that launched the popular organization in 1994. Concert revivals of It's a Bird…It's a Plane…It's Superman and Rodgers & Hart's On Your Toes are also planned.

Will Eno's Title and Deed, a new solo play about a mysterious traveler, opens in its American premiere May 20 following previews from May 8 as part of Signature Theatre Company's season at the new Pershing Square Signature Center. Conor Lovett stars, repeating his turn seen in Ireland. Performances play to June 17.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Broadway producers scrambled Wednesday to fill Michael McKean's part in a revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" as the actor recovers from a broken leg after being struck by a car.

David Schwimmer is coming back to the New York stage — by way of "Detroit."

Little Orphan Annie has found a home finally — the Palace Theatre.

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, New York City Center's Encores! series is going back to the beginning.

Tony Award nominee Arian Moayed of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo is among cast members of New York Theatre Workshop/Noor Theatre's Middle East-set play Food and Fadwa, about cooking and politics, beginning May 18.

Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Pretty, May 25-June 24, will feature Daniel Abeles as Greg, a boyfriend tortured by his girlfriend after he makes a careless comment about her looks.

The Playwrights Horizons world premiere of Rapture, Blister, Burn, a play by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Gina Gionfriddo (Becky Shaw), begins Off-Broadway performances May 18. Amy Brenneman, Beth Dixon, Virginia Kull, Kellie Overbey and Lee Tergesen star.

Tony Award nominee Kathleen Chalfant will star in the New York Theatre Workshop's 2012-13 season-launching production of Red Dog Howls, Alexander Dinelaris' drama about family secrets shaken loose, to begin performances Sept. 4.

American Theater Company, the Chicago troupe that found success with a staging of the original, gritty version of Grease in 2011, will unearth the original Off-Broadway script of Hair in 2013.

The Old Globe's world-premiere production of the pop-flavored Nobody Loves You — a musical comedy set in the world of reality television, with music and lyrics by Gaby Alter and book and lyrics by Itamar Moses — opens live and in color May 17 following previews from May 9. Its cast includes Jenni Barber, Alex Brightman, …