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Great Lakes Theater Festival (GLTF) alumnus, and two-time Oscar award-winner, Tom Hanks will return to Cleveland for a one night only event, entitled Tom Hanks at the Hanna, to support GLTF's Re-Imagine a Classic campaign on Monday, October 12, 2009 (6:00 p.m.) at the Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare. Hanks has served as the Honorary Chair of the Festival's fundraising efforts to ?re-imagine' the Hanna as a new permanent home and to establish an endowment for the classic theater company since August of 2008.

Kathleen Marshall will direct CALVIN BERGER, a new musical by Barry Wyner, for the George Street Playhouse. The production will run February 9 through March 14, 2010. Opening night is set for February 19.

In a brief ceremony at the closing night party for the New York international Fringe Festival at The Gramercy Theater, winners of the 2009 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards were announced. The awards are selected by an independent panel of over 50 theater professionals.

DRG Records will release a six-disc 'The Essential Barbara Cook Collection' set on October 14. The set will mark the 17-year collaboration between Cook and DRG.

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' star Tom Lenk will join five-time Tony nominated hit musical, ROCK OF AGES on Sept. 14. Lenk will star as 'Franz,' the son of a German developer who wants to demolish the Sunset Strip (including LA's favorite rock club). The actor originated the supporting role in the Los Angeles and Las Vegas productions.

Meadow Brook Theatre is pleased to announce the appointment of Travis W. Walter to the position of Interim Artistic Director. Walter has been the Artistic Administrator of the theatre since July of 2008.

Charles Busch and Julie Halston will host this year's Primary Stages 25th Anniversary Gala Benefit to be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel (109 East 42nd Street) on Monday, November 9, 2009. This year's 'Leading Ladies' Penny Fuller and Isabel Keating are set to perform and will be joined by Elysabeth Kleinhans, and celebrity guests Allison Janney, Marian Seldes and Elizabeth Wilson in helping Primary Stages celebrate their 25th Anniversary Season.

The cast of the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Hair will take to the intimate stage of Joe's Pub for a Sept. 14 benefit entitled With a Little Help From My Friends.

Manu Narayan (Bombay Dreams on Broadway, subUrbia at Second Stage, The Love Guru starring Mike Myers) will star in the rock and roll vampire musical The Cure, running September 29th-October 11th at the American Theatre of Actors in the upcoming 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Written by Mark Weiser, The Cure will feature direction from Elizabeth Lucas (Wild About Harry, The Last Starfighter, and The View From Here at NYMF), and is produced by The New York Musical Theatre Festival and Samantha Saltzman.

Odyssey Theatre's production of Adam Bock's The Receptionist, starring Emmy-winning actress and singer Megan Mullally, has announced an extension of its run. The production, which began previews August 5 and officially opened August 15, was originally scheduled to close September 20. The show will now close November 21.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will present the world premiere of ECLIPSED by Danai Gurira (Co-creator of In the Continuum) August 31 - September 27. Opening night is set for September 6. The production is directed by Liesl Tommy (The Good Negro, Public Theatre) and featuries Company Members Jessica Frances Dukes and Dawn Ursula.

STOMP, the international sensation, is making its triumphant return to Boston in a 3-week engagement at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. The return of the percussive hit also brings some new surprises, with some sections of the show now updated and restructured and the addition of two new full-scale routines, utilizing props like tractor tire inner tubes and paint cans. STOMP plays October 1 through 18, with a press opening set for Tuesday, October 6.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) begins its 2009-2010 Mainstage series with Peter Shaffer's towering story of betrayal, guilt, genius and heavenly music, Amadeus.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) begins its 2009-2010 Mainstage series with Peter Shaffer's towering story of betrayal, guilt, genius and heavenly music, Amadeus.

Alfred Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS, Broadway's longest running comedy, is pleased to announce the guests for September's 'Hitchcock Meets Hilarious' Talkback Tuesday series.

Stage and Screen favorite Kate Mulgrew has joined the cast of NBC's new Fall show, 'Mercy,' according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre is excited to announce the all-star cast of Academy, part of the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF)'s Next Link Project. Originally part of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's inaugural Emerging Artist Series in Musical Theater Playwriting, Academy will perform for six performances in New York from October 6 - 17, 2009 at NYMF.

The healing power of music and the helping power of musicians will come together on September 9th when acclaimed four-time Grammy®Award winning musician Michael Feinstein headlines the 9th Annual Music Has PowerTM Awards benefit, with two-time Tony-Award® winning actress and singer Christine Ebersole, at Feinstein's at Loews Regency - The Nightclub of New York.

The 2009 FringeNYC Encores Series has announced its lineup. The series will feature the hit shows from the 2009 FringeNYC Festival. The productions willl run in repertory from September 10 through 26 at the SoHo Playhouse and the Actors' Playhouse.

The Surflight Theater Main Stage will come alive with music and memories in STEPS IN TIME: The Story Of Surflight. This very special show, conceived, staged, performed and produced entirely by Surflight's finest, will tell the remarkable story of one of the longest-running theatres in the country. From that first season in a tent by the beach to the year-round offerings of today, the story of Surflight is the stuff of dreams come true, and an evening not to be missed.