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Dance Theater Workshop, the preeminent U.S. based center for contemporary dance and performance, has announced the 2010 - 2011 season. Spanning ten months and supporting over 40 artists, this season from acclaimed Artistic Director, Carla Peterson, continues Dance Theater Workshop's deep tradition of supporting artists at all stages of their careers, from all over the globe, and across the vast spectrum that is contemporary performance.

Vassar College's Powerhouse Theatre has announced that their upcoming concert production of ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER, scheduled to run from July 29 to August 1, is completely sold out. However, the Theatre advises checking the box office's website in case additional tickets are released.

Theatre for audiences of one, popular in Europe, is beginning to come to the United States, the New York Times reports. Productions of THE BLIND TRIP, APPOINTMENT, and HOTEL SAVOY will premiere in New York City in the next few months.

London's National Theatre will open Mike Bartlett's play EARTHQUAKES IN LONDON on August 4, the Telegraph reports. The show features a cast of seventeen playing over fifty roles and takes place from 1968 to 2525.

The Madame Alexander Doll Company has announced the upcoming release of two new dolls in its WICKED collection, based on the hit Broadway musical. One is a Citizen of Oz doll; the other is a Citizen of the Emerald City.

Actress Jane Lynch will appear at this year's Teen Choice Awards, which will air on Fox August 9 at 8pm, The Wrap reports. As previously reported on BroadwayWorld, Lynch's GLEE co-stars Chris Colfer, Kevin McHale, Cory Monteith, and Mark Salling will co-host the the show with Katy Perry.

Photographer Marilyn Nance is suing the musical FELA! for unauthorized use of one of her photographs, the New York Post reports.

The British cabinet has proposed cutting funding for the arts, the Guardian reports. The proposed cuts would reduce funding by twenty to thirty percent.

Lifeline Theatre Artistic Director Dorothy Milne and former Live Bait Theater Artistic Director Sharon Evans announce a joint revival, the 14th Annual Fillet of Solo Festival, running July 29-August 21 at multiple Chicago venues. Performances run Thursday - Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets are $10 for all performances and may be purchased online at lifelinetheatre.com or by calling the Lifeline Theatre Box Office, 773.761.4477.

The song listing for the July 29 Broadway in Bryant Park Concert, to feature performances from THE LION KING, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, WICKED, and NEXT TO NORMAL, has been announced.

Rufus Wainwright will perform with The San Francisco Symphony in the world premiere of 'Five Shakespeare Sonnets,' www.rufuswainwright.com has announced.

From September 23rd to October 3rd, the Builders Association will present the revival of its 1999-2000 Obie-winning JET LAG, a 1998 collaboration between the Builders and the award-winning architecture team Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Based on two real-life stories in which technology made the impossible possible, JET LAG uses the time-defying magic of multimedia to explore the uses and abuses of technology. The first story tells of an English sailor who tricked the world into believing that he sailed round the globe, and the second of a grandmother who died of jet lag by taking daily flights back and forth from New York to Amsterdam over the course of six months to prevent her grandson's capture by his father. While originally seen in New York during a limited engagement at The Kitchen in 2000, the show has been performed in 13 cities across the globe. The revival was commissioned by Peak Performances.

Maureen McGovern will perform at the 'Curtain Up' Gala at New Jersey's Lackland Performing Arts Center, The Centenary Stage Company has announced. The gala, to be held on September 24, will celebrate the opening of the center.

Singer Katharine McPhee would like to appear on Broadway if she can find the right role, AceShowBiz reports.

Opera singer Anthony Rolfe Johnson died on July 21 at the age of sixty-nine, The New York Times reports. Johnson, who had suffered from Alzheimer's Disease, died in London; his death was announcement by Askonas Holt, the company that managed him.

The Ballet Girls of Broadway's BILLY ELLIOT will host a free dance warm-up on July 31 to celebrate National Dance Day, the show's official website announces. The warm-up will be held at 12:45pm outside Broadway's Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45th Street (between Broadway and 8th Avenue).

The Toronto International Film Festival has announced fifteen galas and thirty-five special presentations (twenty-five of them world premieres) for this year's festival. Performers in the films include Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Aamir Khan, Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem, Marion Cotillard, Clive Owen, Colin Firth, Juliette Lewis, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Helen Mirren, Edward Norton, Christopher Plummer, Natalie Portman, Om Puri, Ryan Reynolds, Sam Rockwell, Amy Ryan and Hilary Swank, while filmmakers include Robert Redford, Michael Winterbottom, Guillaume Canet, John Cameron Mitchell, Kiran Rao, Mike Mills, Andrucha Waddington, Woody Allen, Sylvain Chomet, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Tran Anh Hung, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mike Leigh, Julian Schnabel and Im Sang-Soo.

The New York Times' Times Talks series will feature two Summer Nights on Broadway events, The Times Center has announced.

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre (Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris and Simon Jones, Co-Artistic Directors) has announced its 2010/2011 Season. The critically-acclaimed company dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit will offer Mainstage productions of The Memorandum by Vaclav Havel, and Three Men on a Horse by George Abbott and John Cecil Holm at The Beckett Theatre (410 West 42nd Street) on Theatre Row.

Maureen McGovern will star in the autobiographical show CARRY IT ON at Rochester, New York's Geva Theatre Center, the theatre has announced on its official website. The production will run from October 12 to November 14.