On Wednesday night, stage and television star Vanessa Williams hosted a listening party for her new CD, The Real Thing, at the downtown club Greenhouse to benefit LIFEBEAT.

The one and only Debbie Reynolds officially opened her new show An Evening of Music and Comedy at the Café Carlyle on Wednesday. Among the celebrities in the audience were Broadway legends (and longtime friends) Harvey Evans and Barbara Cook.

The hilarious Joan Rivers, who will perform a special charity show for Gay Pride Week on June 25 at NYC's Gramercy Theatre, and daughter Melissa Rivers attended Debbie Reynolds' opening at the Café Carlyle.

On Wednesday night, Naked Angels hosted the premiere of Geoffrey Nauffts' moving new play Next Fall at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Emmy Award winner Edie Falco, who returns to series television on June 8 in Showtime's Nurse Jackie, came out to support the author.

Noah Emmerich and David Schwimmer, who worked together last year on the Naked Angels' production of the play Fault Lines, attended the Next Fall opening.

The talented Sarah Paulson and gal pal Cherry Jones, who will return to FOX-TV's hit series 24 as President Allison Taylor, were among the stars in the audience for Next Fall's opening night performance.

ABC Daytime stars Jason Tam -- who can be seen on the big screen in the documentary Every Little Step -- Ilene Kristen, and Darnell Williams were among the luminaries who lit up the Next Fall opening.

On Tuesday afternoon, the 2009 Theatre World Awards, honoring stage "newcomers," was held at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush was one of the recipients for his extraordinary performance in Exit the King.

Guys and Dolls star Craig Bierko, a former Theatre World winner, posed with Josh Grisetti, who won this year for his role in Enter Laughing -- and who will appear in the June 15 edition of Project Shaw and will come to Broadway this season in the revival of Neil Simon's Broadway Bound.

Colin Hanks received a 2009 Theatre World Award for his fine work as a caring male nurse in Moises' Kaufman's 33 Variations.

Josefina Scaglione, Marin Ireland, and Wesley Taylor took home Theatre World Awards for their respective performances in West SIde Story, reasons to be pretty, and Rock of Ages.

Chad Coleman won a 2009 Theatre World Award for his remarkable work as Herald Loomis in Lincoln Center Theatre's acclaimed revival of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone.

Susan Louise O'Connor's scene-stealing performance as daffy maid Edith in the hit Broadway revival of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit earned her a Theatre World Award.

Condola Rashad received a Theatre World Award for her stunning portrayal of Congolese survivor Sophie in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined.

The cast of the Broadway revival of The Norman Conquests -- Paul Ritter, Amelia Bullmore, Steven Mangan, Amanda Root, Jessica Hynes, and Ben Miles -- received a special Theatre World Award for their work.