NEW YORK, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- SHREK THE MUSICAL®, the Tony Award®-winning production, will play its final performance on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway) on Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. following 441 performances and 37 previews.

Brian D'Arcy James, currently portraying the titular ogre in Broadway's Shrek The Musical, has signed on to star in the play Time Stands Still next year. The Manhattan Theatre Club said James will co-star alongside Laura Linney and Alicia Silverstone in the New York premiere of Donald Margulies' stage drama. The play is to begin previews of its limited-engagement run at MTC's Samuel J.

Bret Michaels' publicist says the actors who play Shrek and Donkey on Broadway helped the rocker when he was injured at Sunday's Tony Awards show. The Poison frontman and reality television star performed with his band at the prize presentation in New York, then reportedly was hit with a sign as he was exiting the stage, splitting his lip and fracturing his nose. He told me, 'All I remember is Shrek and the donkey helping me up, and Liza (Minnelli) giving me a towel,' his representative, Joann Mignano, told People.com.

Billy Elliot the Musical won the Outer Critics Circle Award for outstanding new Broadway musical Monday. The show about a young boy from a working-class community who pursues a dance career against all odds also won the prizes for outstanding new score, choreography, lighting design, director of a musical

Shrek The Musical, starring Brian d'Arcy James as the titular ogre and Sutton Foster as Princess Fiona, opened on Broadway Sunday night. Previews of the show began at The Broadway Theatre Nov. 8, following a pre-Broadway engagement at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre Aug. 14-Sept.