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“Pop singer Nick Lachey has signed on to host the upcoming ABC reality competition series “High School Musical: Summer Session.”

“The Provincetown Playhouse, the Greenwich Village theatre built in 1918, may be subjected to a wrecking ball.

“Tony Award winners Richard Maltby, Jr. and Jeff Whitty will head to summer camp as part of Stagedoor Manor’s playwriting DramaFest.

“Linda Eder, the powerhouse singer seen on Broadway in Jekyll & Hyde, will perform the songs made famous by Judy Garland during three upcoming concerts at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

“Tony Award-winning actress Betty Buckley, who recently played an acclaimed engagement at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, will bring her eclectic repertoire to the Bay Street Theatre in May.

“It looks like Tony and Academy Award winner Al Pacino, who was most recently on Broadway in the 2003 revival of Salome, will return to the Great White Way in 2009 in the Broadway bow of Lyle Kessler’s taut three-hander, Orphans.

“This site last week made the not-too-risky prediction that author Tracy Letts‘ August: Osage County would win the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the first title with a colon to win since 1993’s Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. The playwright, as well as his producers, were not willing to comment on the play’s chances of winning prior to the announcement, but you can bet they’ll be yakking up the news from now on!

The Tony Awards Administration Committee assembled for the third time this season to discuss the eligibility of seven Broadway productions for the 2008 Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.

“Jane Krakowski, who won a 2003 Tony Award for her work as Carla in the Tony-winning revival of Nine, will play another stage siren in the upcoming City Center Encores! Summer Stars production of Damn Yankees.

“Producers Randall L. Wreghitt, Chris Presley and Ellen Rusconi are bringing a new country-flavored musical, Pure County, based on the 1992 George Strait movie of the same name, to Broadway in 2008-09.