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From Molly Ringwald to Liam Neeson to Kate Mulgrew, we’ve got the stars right here.

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The unsinkable Molly Ringwald is one of the stars of Enchanted April, a new romantic stage comedy based on Elizabeth von Arnim’s best-selling novel (which was also the basis of a really wonderful 1992 film). The production had a meet-and-greet event yesterday at 890 Broadway rehearsal studios, and that’s where Miss Molly posed for TheaterMania.

Also in the starry cast of Enchanted April: Jayne Atkinson and Elizabeth Ashley…



…Dagmara Dominczyk, Daniel Gerroll, and Patricia Connolly…

…and Michael Hayden.

Audience members at The Play What I Wrote last night had paid only $5 per ticket to see the show as part of a special promotion, so you can imagine their joy when they discovered that the show’s celebrity guest star for the evening was Liam Neeson. Here he is — in drag! — with the play’s full-time stars, Sean Foley and Hamish McColl.

Another shot of Neeson and McCall in The Play What I Wrote at the Lyceum.

“We’re already in love with one another, and we’ve just met!” Thus spake Raúl Esparza of his sympatico with Nancy Anderson, his co-star in a reading of the musical City of Dreams at The Lambs Theatre on Monday, March 10.

Matthew Lombardo’s Tea at Five opened to mixed reviews at the Promenade Theatre on Sunday, March 9, but everyone seems to agree that Kate Mulgrew’s performance as Katharine Hepburn in the play is uncanny. Here is Mulgrew at Ernie’s Restaurant for the show’s opening night party.






Among those present to cheer Mulgrew on: the gorgeous, classy Polly Bergen…










…and Rosie O’Donnell, cutting up as usual.




Celebrating the opening of Our Lady of 121st Street at the Union Square Theatre on Thursday, March 6: the play’s author and director, Stephen Adly Guirgis and Philip Seymour Hoffman…





…David Zayas, one of the show’s terrific ensemble cast members, pictured here with wife Liza Colon-Zayas…





…plus celebrity attendees Anna Paquin….


…and Swoosie Kurtz.










Full circle: Seth Rudetsky (center) had such fabulous women of the musical theater as (l-r) Audra McDonald, Janine LaManna, Christiane Noll, and Julia Murney on hand at Sushi Samba last night to mark the opening of his one-man show Rhapsody in Seth at The Actors’ Playhouse.