Plus: Liesl Tommy and Lea Delaria will head the ACLU and NYCLU's upcoming Sing Out for Freedom.

Playbill looks back at the actors, directors, choreographers, and other theatremakers who died in the past year.

Skylar Astin is Tony in the New York production.

With the news that development of Tina Fey's "Mean Girls" musical is progressing, fans are pondering whether Fey will reprise her film role as Ms. Norbury on stage. Playbill.com took to social media to see in which roles readers would dream cast the multi-talented comedienne.

Broadway for Self Help Africa will bring Broadway stars to New York City's Cutting Room March 9 for a night of song and celebration benefiting Self Help Africa.

Playbill.com's new feature series Booking It asks leading industry members to share professional insights, need-to-know tips and essential tricks of the trade for up-and-coming and established theatre artists. This week we speak with New York Times chief theatre critic Ben Brantley.

The New Victory Theatre's upcoming 2014-15 season of family programming will include the Off-Broadway return of The Old Man and the Old Moon by PigPen Theatre Company. Members of the company staged a pop-up mini-tour on Sept. 18, staging a series of concerts at locations around the city.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the Tony Award-winning classical theatre on Navy Pier, has announced the lineup for its 2014-15 World's Stage Season.

Re-Animator: The Musical, Standing On Ceremony, Small Engine Repair, Bring It On choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler and solo performer Charlayne Woodard's The Night Watcher are among the winners of the 43rd annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards, which were presented March 19 in Pasadena.

Emmy Award winner Rosie O'Donnell and Tony Award winners Christine Ebersole and Beth Leavel will be part of the 15th season of the City Center Encores! series.

The 2002 Helen Hayes Awards, presented May 6, spread the wealth around DC's resident theatres, honoring the Signature and Shakespeare Theatres with three wins each, as well as pairs of citations to the Studio, Rep Stage, Arena Stage and the Round House. The Kennedy Center, presenter of the Dirty Blonde tour as well as Brit imports Mill on the Floss and A Servant of Two Masters garnered a trio of awards.

Tours of Kiss Me, Kate, Dirty Blonde and the pre Broadway visit of King Hedley II are among nominees for the 2002 Helen Hayes Awards, honoring the best resident and visiting theatre artists and productions of the past year in Washington, DC.

Milton Berle, the performer who straddled vaudeville, Broadway, radio, nightclubs and movies before becoming the first star of the post-war industry known as television, died in his sleep at home in Los Angeles March 27.

Tours of Kiss Me, Kate, Dirty Blonde and the pre-Broadway visit of King Hedley II are among nominees for the 2002 Helen Hayes Awards, announced March 11, honoring the best resident and visiting theatre artists and productions of the past year in Washington, DC.

Hello, diva lovers. I'd like to dedicate today's column to one of the most gifted comedic actresses of her time, Madeline Kahn, who lost her battle with ovarian cancer last week. Kahn, who received a Tony Award for her riotous portrayal of Dr. Gorgeous Teitelbaum in Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, was equally at home on the stage or on screen, earning Tony nominations for her work in In the Boom Boom Room, On the Twentieth Century and Born Yesterday while meriting Academy Award nominations for such screen roles as "Blazing Saddles" and "Paper Moon." Though difficult to choose from her eclectic array of characters, I think my favorite Kahn performance was in the aforementioned "Paper Moon" as the good-bone-structured Trixie Delight, opposite the father-and-daughter team of Ryan and Tatum O'Neill. The operatically-trained performer had the ability to make you laugh with a simple inflection of the voice, and she could also move you in both song and the spoken word. This unique, multi-talented actress will be much missed. In lieu of flowers, Kahn's family asks that donations be made to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (One Penn Plaza, Suite 1610, New York, NY 10001).

Hello, diva lovers. I'd like to dedicate today's column to one of the most gifted comedic actresses of her time, Madeline Kahn, who lost her battle with ovarian cancer last week. Kahn, who received a Tony Award for her riotous portrayal of Dr. Gorgeous Teitelbaum in Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, was equally at home on the stage or on screen, earning Tony nominations for her work in In the Boom Boom Room, On the Twentieth Century and Born Yesterday while meriting Academy Award nominations for such screen roles as "Blazing Saddles" and "Paper Moon." Though difficult to choose from her eclectic array of characters, I think my favorite Kahn performance was in the aforementioned "Paper Moon" as the good-bone-structured Trixie Delight, opposite the father-and-daughter team of Ryan and Tatum O'Neill. The operatically-trained performer had the ability to make you laugh with a simple inflection of the voice, and she could also move you in both song and the spoken word. This unique, multi-talented actress will be much missed. In lieu of flowers, Kahn's family asks that donations be made to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (One Penn Plaza, Suite 1610, New York, NY 10001).