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Theatre Award Season Drama Desk Awards —Winners of the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards, hosted by Laura Benanti, were announced and feted on Sunday night.As they should have, Twelfth Night and Hedwig and the Angry Inch won their respective revival categories. Neil Patrick Harris ( Hedwig ), Jessie Mueller ( Beautiful ), Reed Birney ( Casa Valentina ), Celia Keenan-Bolger ( The Glass Menagerie ), James Monroe Iglehart ( Aladdin ) and Anika Larsen ( Beautiful ) all took home performance awards. And because the Drama Desk splits the score into two awards, one for Outstanding Music and one for Outstanding Lyrics, Jason Robert Brown won for Outstanding Music for The Bridges of Madison County , while Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak won for Outstanding Lyrics for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder . (This is ridiculous—obviously JRB should have won both; he did win for Outstanding Orchestrations, though.) Visit Theater Mania for the full list of winners and visit ...

Foo Fighters Head to the Studio! Over the weekend, Chris Shiflett , who has been the Foo Fighters' lead guitarist for years, told Rolling Stone  that the band is heading back to the studio to start work on the band's next album, a follow up to the incredible Wasting Light . You may recall that in October, Foo frontman Dave Grohl announced the band would be on hiatus for an indeterminate amount of time. Apparently, they couldn't stay away from each other for too long. At a concert for his other band, Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants ( good tunes; check them out! ), Shiflett said, "We actually just started making a new Foo Fighters record within the last few weeks...We've started rehearsing." No further details are available at the time, but read the full write up on Rolling Stone  to learn more about Shiftlett's other creative outlet. The Newsroom : Season Two So much happened this week in "One Step Too Many"! The Don-Mackenzie ch...

Breaking Bad  at Lincoln Center Whether you're not yet caught up on Breaking Bad  or you just want to re-watch the series before the final season begins on August 11, Lincoln Center has you covered. Beginning July 26 and running through July 30, you'll have an opportunity to watch - for free - every episode. The marathon screening leads up to "The Perfect Batch: Breaking Bad  Cast Favorites," which is exactly what it sounds like. Creator Vince Gilligan and stars Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte and Bob Odenkirk will be on hand to present their favorite episodes to partake in a question and answer session. Visit The Wrap for a schedule and ticket details. Broadway Barks The line up for this year's  Broadway Barks  has been announced. (Broadway Barks is hosted by  Bernadette Peters  and  Mary Tyler Moore , and is a dog and cat adoption event attended (and therefore promoted) by stage veterans. This year's event will take pl...

Tony Prep The 2013 Tony Awards will be presented this Sunday night! Here are some tidbits to help you prepare: Read the full list of nominees . Throughout the week, the starry list of presenters grew. Presenters include:  Jake Gyllenhaal (who made his NY stage debut off-Broadway in Roundabout's If There is I Haven't Found it Yet );  Sigourney Weaver ( Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike );   Anna Kendrick (the 50/50 star was a Tony nominee several years ago for High Society ) Alan Cumming ( Macbeth ) Audra McDonald (a winner last year for Porgy and Bes s );   Jesse Tyler Ferguson (the Modern Family star is a stage vet currently appearing in Shakespeare in the Park's Comedy of Errors );  Tony winner Laura Benanti ( Women on the Verge... );  Megan Hilty (a Broadway vet now known for TV's Smash );  Zachary Quinto (who'll make his Broadway debut next season in The Glass Menagerie ); and  a nominee this year for Kinky Boots...