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The New York Yankees today announced that Yankee Stadium will host the 'Bombers Boomer Broadway Softball Classic' on Monday, July 19, 2010.

Carey Perloff, artistic director of San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater, will direct Los Angeles's Getty Villa's new production of Sophocles's ELEKTRA, the venue's offical website has announced. The production will run in an outdoor theater from September 9 through October 2 (Thursdays through Saturdays only) and will feature a new translation by English playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker. Previews, for which tickets will cost $20, will be held September 2 through 4. Tickets, which cost $42 ($38 for students), for the production are now on sale.

On Saturday, November 13 at 8pm, actress Liz Callaway will perform 'In Good Company- Liz Callaway Sings Sondheim' at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, the center's website announces. In the event, which The Eugene and Elinor Friend Center for the Arts will present, Callaway will tell stories and perform Stephen Sondheim songs, including selections from COMPANY, SWEENEY TODD, INTO THE WOODS, and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

Jonathan Groff will appear at 'A Very Musical Evening,' a benefit in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, stilesanddrew.posterous.com reports. Elliot Davis and Anthony Drewe, in association with Ellie Colyer-Bristow and Samuel Joseph, will present the evening.

Actress Jennifer Ellison is in 'talks and talks' to take on the role of Elle Woods in the West End production of LEGALLY BLONDE, The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye reports. Ellison would replace Sheridan Smith, who is currently playing the role and is to leave in September or October.

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman and U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan today issued an invitation to the arts and creative sector to participate in a joint webinar on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. EDT to learn about two new, innovative community development funding opportunities.

The Williamstown Theater Festival has announced details of its Fridays @ 3 readings series. The Fridays @ 3 series showcases the work of emerging playwrights and runs Friday afternoons at 3:00 during the summer. Admission is $5.

Cause Celebre and Tina's Wish will present RECIPE FOR LIFE/PART TWO at New York's Acorn Theatre from July 12 to 18, Ticket Central announces. The series, which will benefit Tina's Wish, an ovarian cancer research organization, will consist of three separate productions.

Ireland's Abbey Theatre has announced its October 2010 to March 2011 season.

'Marvin Hamlisch Presents: The '70s, the Way We Were' will air on PBS this month, rmpbs.com reports. Airing dates will vary regionally. The program will also show in high definition and anamorphic widescreen.

The Asian edition of the LOVE NEVER DIES album reached number one in China this week, Andrew Lloyd Webber announced on andrewlloydwebber.com. The album includes Chinese soprano Liping Zhang's Mandarin version of the title song.

Philadelphia's Prince Music Theater has launched Summer Cinema at the Prince, a series of first-run features, movies with music, independent premieres, new documentaries, and special film events that will continue all summer long. Disney Pixar's 'Toy Story 3' kicked off the program on Friday, June 18, bringing Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and all the gang to Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts. 'Toy Story 3' show times will be Monday to Friday at 12:30, 3:00, 6:30 and 9:00 p.m. and Saturday to Sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 and 10:30 p.m.

Playwright Lynn Nottage, author of RUINED, hosted a fund-raising party for the New Black Fest, an upcoming festival which will 'showcase innovative work by and about black people,' The New York Times reports. The first New Black Fest will be held this fall and will feature readings and panel discussions; the festival's organizers and supporters are currently raising funds and seeking advisers.

The 'American Idol Live!' tour begins today in Auburn Hills, Michigan, the official 'American Idol' website announces. The tour will feature Season Nine winner Lee DeWyze, as well as fellow Top Ten members Aaron Kelly, Andrew Garcia, Didi Benami, Katie Stevens, Michael Lynche, Tim Urban, Siobhan Magnus, Casey James, and Crystal Bowersox.

Aaron Mark's film 'Random Unrelated Projects,' which features New York theatre veterans including Anne L. Nathan and Kristine Zbornik, will screen at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival on July 26 at 10pm, the festival's official website announces.

The Mabel Mercer Foundation has announced the performers for The 21st New York Cabaret Convention. Among the performers for this celebration of cabaret will be Elaine Stritch and Christine Ebersole.

Actress sisters Liz and Ann Hampton Callaway will tour with their show BOOM!, Ann Hampton Callaway announced on her official website. This tribute to the boomers music of the 1960s and 1970s celebrates the soundtrack of the sisters' childhood. The duo also shares heartwarming and humorous stories of their years growing up in Chicago and New York. BOOM! includes songs such as 'Both Sides Now,' 'Up, Up and Away,' 'That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be,' 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters,' 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow?' and 'Downtown,' and many more.

Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Clinton, and Elizabeth Hurley will attend this year's Life Ball in Vienna as guests of honor, Yahoo! News reports. The ball, which will benefit AIDS research, will be held on July 17 at Vienna's City Hall. Approximately 40,000 people are expected to attend.

The Los Angeles Times has announced the nominees for their annual Gold Derby TV Awards. Posters in the Times's GoldDerby forums made the nominations.

Director, actor, playwright, and professor Jack Sydow has died, Variety reports. Sydow died on May 28 in Los Angeles, at the age of eighty-eight.