Broadway's sexiest night of the year, Broadway Bares 18: Wonderland, is set for June 22 at the famed Roseland Ballroom. Two shows will be presented that evening at 9:30 PM and midnight.

Michael P. Hammond, the recently sworn-in chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, was found dead in his Washington, DC, home the morning of Jan. 29, only one week after he took his post at the government agency that promotes — and awards grants for — arts education, projects and artists, the NEA announced.

BETTY BUCKLEY
The multi-talented Betty Buckley will open the fourth season of Lincoln Center’s popular American Songbook series -- dedicated to the American song -- on Sept. 19 and 20 at 8 PM. Buckley will perform songs from her new CD, "Stars and the Moon," which was taped live at London’s Donmar Warehouse and is scheduled for release on Concord Records next month. (The video and DVD will be released concurrently from Image Entertainment.) You can expect to hear Buckley wrap her golden vocals around tunes by Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim as well as works by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Lisa Loeb, Jason Robert Brown and Ricky Ian Gordon. Tickets are priced at $50 and $65 and are now available at the box office, by calling (212) 721-6500 or by visiting www.lincolncenter.org . . . Buckley is also one of the many performers who have been confirmed to perform in the second season of “Food for Thought- Lunch Hour Theatre,” a unique series that offers one-act plays by the world’s most renowned playwrights performed by top actors from the worlds of stage and screen. Others who will participate in this season’s one-acts include Mary Alice, Blair Brown, Kate Burton, Barbara Feldon, Cynthia Harris, Earle Hyman, Judith Ivey, Anne Jackson, Simon Jones, Judith Light, Robert LuPone, Anne Meara, Rita Moreno, Brian Murray, Patricia Neal, Campbell Scott, Marian Seldes, Eli Wallach and many others. The series will play Sept. 24 through Dec. 13 at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South). Tickets priced at $27 and $29 can be purchased by calling (212) 362-2560; for more information, go to www.foodforthoughtproductions.com.

BETTY BUCKLEY
The multi-talented Betty Buckley will open the fourth season of Lincoln Center’s popular American Songbook series -- dedicated to the American song -- on Sept. 19 and 20 at 8 PM. Buckley will perform songs from her new CD, "Stars and the Moon," which was taped live at London’s Donmar Warehouse and is scheduled for release on Concord Records next month. (The video and DVD will be released concurrently from Image Entertainment.) You can expect to hear Buckley wrap her golden vocals around tunes by Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim as well as works by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Lisa Loeb, Jason Robert Brown and Ricky Ian Gordon. Tickets are priced at $50 and $65 and are now available at the box office, by calling (212) 721-6500 or by visiting www.lincolncenter.org . . . Buckley is also one of the many performers who have been confirmed to perform in the second season of “Food for Thought- Lunch Hour Theatre,” a unique series that offers one-act plays by the world’s most renowned playwrights performed by top actors from the worlds of stage and screen. Others who will participate in this season’s one-acts include Mary Alice, Blair Brown, Kate Burton, Barbara Feldon, Cynthia Harris, Earle Hyman, Judith Ivey, Anne Jackson, Simon Jones, Judith Light, Robert LuPone, Anne Meara, Rita Moreno, Brian Murray, Patricia Neal, Campbell Scott, Marian Seldes, Eli Wallach and many others. The series will play Sept. 24 through Dec. 13 at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South). Tickets priced at $27 and $29 can be purchased by calling (212) 362-2560; for more information, go to www.foodforthoughtproductions.com.

Actress Betty Buckley will be featured in a March 8 reading of Arthur Miller's seldom-seen work, I Can't Remember Anything. The event, held at the National Arts Club off Gramercy Park in Manhattan at 1 PM, is part of "Food for Thought," the lunchtime play reading series which began last fall with the new Tony Kushner play, East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis.

Actors Judith Light and Len Cariou will be featured in a Feb. 20 reading of Arthur Miller's seldom-seen work, Danger: Memory!. The event, held at the National Arts Club off Gramercy Park in Manhattan at 1 PM, is part of "Food for Thought," the lunchtime play reading series which began last fall with the new Tony Kushner play, East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis.

"Food for Thought," the lunch-time play reading series which began last fall with the new Tony Kushner play, East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis, will continue this winter with seldom heard works by Arthur Miller, Richard Wesley and John Guare; monologues drawn from the work of short story writer Grace Paley and poet Williams Carlos Williams; and new works by Tom Topor, Cliff Robertson and Susan Charlotte.

"Food for Thought," the lunch-time play reading series which began last fall with the new Tony Kushner play, East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis, will continue this winter with seldom heard works by Arthur Miller, Richard Wesley and John Guare; monologues drawn from the work of short story writer Grace Paley and poet Williams Carlos Williams; and new works by Tom Topor, Cliff Robertson and Susan Charlotte.

In 1976, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Pacific Overtures opens on Broadway.

Cast members from the musical perform the Berry Gordy, Hal Davis, Bob West, and Willie Hutch tune while offering words of wisdom and inspiration.

The standout achievements of NBC’s live television musical event, starring John Legend, Sara Bareilles, and more.

Hannah Waddingham and Jenna Russell, respectively seen on Broadway in Monty Python's Spamalot and Sunday in the Park with George, will star in the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park production of Into the Woods.

Jeff DeMunn, Portia, Ron Cephas Jones, Lauren Velez and David Zayas are among the performers announced for the upcoming LAByrinth Theater Company's sixth annual Barn Series Festival lineup.

The LAByrinth Theater Company's sixth annual Barn Series Festival lineup — which features Stephen Belber's A Small Melodramatic Story, Eric Bogosian's One Plus One and Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Little Flower of East Orange — has been announced.

Mark Wing-Davey has signed on to direct the forthcoming world premiere of Jose Rivera's School of the Americas starring John Ortiz as Che Guevara.

Not-so-neighborly New Hampshire neighbors band together to murder a man in José Rivera's Massacre (Sing To Your Children), starting its developmental production Oct. 5 Off-Broadway.

Massacre (Sing To Your Children), the first of two José Rivera works to be seen in this LAByrinth Theater Company season, has announced the cast for its upcoming developmental production.

LAByrinth co-artistic director and actor John Ortiz will star as Che Guevara in Jose Rivera's School of the Americas in the company's new season also highlighted with developing works by Stephen Belber, Eric Bogosian and Stephen Adly Guirgis.