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From September 8-16, BAMcinématek, the repertory film program at BAM Rose Cinemas, presents Robert Redford: Artist & Activist, a 16-film tribute to Redford's 50-year career in film. Robert Redford will be at BAM in-person to discuss his work as one of the 20th century's most celebrated actors and as an Academy-award winning director, as well as a leading environmental and social change activist, and champion of independent cinema as founder of The Sundance Institute.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, will open its star-studded Fall 2009 season with the first joint engagement of the club's founder Michael Feinstein and two time Tony Award winning Broadway and TV star Christine Ebersole from September 8 - 12. Their new duet show 'Good Friends' will feature classic standards and Broadway hits by Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Rodgers & Hart and Jerry Herman, in addition to never-before-heard rarities from the Great American Songbook. Feinstein's longtime Musical Director John Oddo will lead the all-star band. All shows take place at the Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street).

Join host Martin Gould Cummings and piano master Rob Baumgartner August 24th at 11:00pm as they jam out for equal rights with Haven Burton (SHREK), Anthony Hollock (HAIR), and David Singletary.

The Off-Broadway League, the official trade organization for Off-Broadway theatres, producers and productions, is proud to highlight its member shows for the upcoming Fall 2009 season in the vibrant diverse landscape of Off-Broadway theatre.

Conductor Steven Reineke begins his tenure as Music Director of The New York Pops when the orchestra starts its 27th season at Carnegie Hall this coming fall. The New York Pops five-concert subscription series opens on Friday, October 9, 2009 at 8:00PM in Stern Auditorium.

New musical VANITIES will receive an original cast album. The three-woman cast of the show, which recently performed its New York premiere Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre, is in the studio today recording the album for Sh-K-Boom Records.

Dancap Productions Inc., producers of the award-winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, celebrated the production's one year anniversary last night at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. In honour of the anniversary, Dancap Productions is extending the current run of JERSEY BOYS through to November 29, 2009.

DANCING WITH ABANDON, a Rock 'n' Opera Musical Comedy, receives its world premiere at the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival.

Theatre in the Valley's next production is Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon, directed by Theron LaFountain. Biloxi Blues opened August 16th at Sun City MacDonald Ranch's Desert Willow Clubhouse, and continues at the Henderson Convention Center tonight, Friday, August 21 and Saturday, August 22 (200 S. Water Street, Henderson, NV 89015). Tickets cost $10 for adults and $8 for children under 12.

Purchase College theater and design tech students will present MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM at the Sage Theatre in New York City, beginning Friday, August 21.

Emmy Winner Lance Horne brings his night of songs direct from Oz and the West End back to roost at Joe's Pub, where it all began. Scheduled to appear are Alan Cumming, Michael Urie, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Nathan Lee Graham, and Cheyenne Jackson. The evening is set for Friday, September 18 at 9:30pm.

PeakPerformances at Montclair State University will present the East Coast Premiere of UNCIVIL WARS: MOVING W/BRECHT & EISLER November 5 through 8.

The website for THE NEIL SIMON PLAYS, the Broadway revivals of BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS and BROADWAY BOUND, is now live at www.TheNeilSimonPlays.com.

WICKED, the smash-hit musical, returned to SAN DIEGO CIVIC THEATRE on July 29 as a Broadway/San Diego - A Nederlander Presentation, once again breaking box office records and receiving rave reviews. San Marcos native CHANDRA LEE SCHWARTZ will step into the role of Glinda on Friday, August 21; as Broadway's biggest blockbuster continues at San Diego Civic Theatre through Sunday, August 30.

After charity shows in Los Angeles and New York and an appearance at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, Steve Martin will be hitting the road in support of The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo, which currently sits at the top of the Billboard Bluegrass Album Chart. Martin will perform with the Steep Canyon Rangers at New York City's Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, October 6 at 8pm.

Actress Susannah York will appear in a triple bill of Tennessee Williams plays at the New End Theatre in north London, according to UK magazine The Stage.

WhatsOnStage.com is reporting that Open Air Theatre's revival of Hello, Dolly!, directed by Timothy Sheader, is looking at a West End transfer at the beginning of next year.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU), Audience Extras and Back Stage kicks off a new season of industry panels with WHY AM I IN LOVE WITH THIS PLAY? AND SHOULD I REALLY GET INVOLVED? on Tuesday, September 22 at 7:30pm at The Players Theatre Mainstage, 115 MacDougal Street (below W. 3rd Street), NYC.

Hot on the heels of Blackbird, Victory Gardens Theater's biggest box office hit in 36 years, Chicago's #1 producer of new plays will host two Season Preview events - Wednesday, September 9 at 6 pm, and Saturday, September 12 at 11 am - to give prospective new subscribers a chance to sample Victory Gardens' 2009-2010 season line-up.

'Gotta Dance,' the new documentary from award-winning director, producer and writer Dori Berinstein is sweeping the country! The film will have its Los Angeles premiere tomorrow, August 21st!