Reuters - The Edinburgh International Festival unveiled its 2006 program on Wednesday including a topical Shakespearean play on political corruption along with theater, music and dance offerings from around the world.

Playbill - Tony-winner Jennifer Ehle (The Real Thing) will play Lady to Liev Schreiber's Macbeth at the Delacorte Theater this June, the New York Times reported.

Playbill - The Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Mint Theater Company will continue its season dedicated to neglected plays by American women by presenting a rare staged reading of Margaret Ayer Barnes' 1928 dramatization, The Age of Innocence, based on the novel by Edith Wharton.

Reuters - Three years after she was killed by an Israeli bulldozer, Palestinian rights activist Rachel Corrie is sparking controversy in New York, where a theater has been accused of censorship for postponing a play about her.

Reuters - Three years after she was killed by an Israeli bulldozer, Palestinian rights activist Rachel Corrie is sparking controversy in New York where a theater has been accused of censorship for postponing a play about her.

Playbill - You can't snag a ticket to The Atlantic Theater Company's limited run of Martin McDonagh's new play, The Lieutenant of Inishmore Off-Broadway. It's sold out.

Playbill - Urinetown, the Tony-Award winning musical comedy created by Chicago's Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis, will begin its first resident commercial Chicago run March 15 toward an opening of March 26 at The Mercury Theater.

Reuters - Choreographer-director Matthew Bourne's breathtaking and sexy version of "Swan Lake" was first performed in 1995 in London, where it won the Olivier Award for best new dance production. At the Ahmanson, more than a decade after its groundbreaking opening, the show is still one of the most original, entertaining and imaginative evenings of theater imaginable. A revised/updated ballet for the general audience.

Playbill - The Lark Play Development Center, in partnership with the Hip-Hop Theater Festival (HHTF) and Queens Theatre in the Park, will present a BareBones Production of Breathe, a new play by Javon Johnson.

Playbill - The Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia is postponing Einstein's Dreams, a world premiere musical based on the best-selling novel by Alan Lightman. The production was scheduled to run at the Prince March 4-26.

Reuters - Former Miramax Films chiefs Bob and Harvey Weinstein are bringing martial arts to the stage and screen, nabbing the five novels behind "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and bringing the Oscar-winning film to theater.

Reuters - As Hedda Gabler, that Ibsen heroine who is both cold as ice and full of untapped passions, blond, sinewy Cate Blanchett paces the stage like an anguished animal imprisoned in a cage. In her U.S. stage debut with Australia's Sydney Theater Company, the Oscar-winning film star ("The Aviator") gives a dynamic, complex performance to prove that she is as riveting in the theater as she is onscreen.