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They'd like you "to turn off your cell phone, log off Facebook and stop tweeting to attend a unique 21st century event featuring a diverse group of live people in one room physically interacting with one another. For two extraordinary hours, we will resist the compulsion to check our text messages, status updates and twitter feeds knowing that this special group of people will never come back together as one audience again - physically, philosophically or politically."

Chris Hardwick and Mike Birbiglia have both dropped their Just for Laughs shows. 

New additions to the June comedy festival include Nick Offerman, a second show for Patton Oswald, TJ Miller, Brian Posehn and Kelly Carlin. 

Phylicia Rashad (The Cosby Show, A Raisin in the Sun) will be directing a new play by Paul Oakley Stovall called Immediate Family, produced by the Goodman and About Face.

1. The Vic & Paul Show has finally arrived, and Paul Barrosse and Victoria Zielinski did a lovely interview with the Reader, during which they explain why they were inspired to come back to the stage together after 20 years away."