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The Zipper Factory is proud to present Stars in the Margin: An Evening of Special Guests . . . brought to you by Martha Plimpton, Lucy Wainwright Roche and Dan Lipton on Monday, August 11 at 9:30 p.m.

Just in time for the fall election, Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company opens its 17th season with Gore Vidal's fascinating political nail-biter THE BEST MAN.

Anna Netrebko, who is expecting her first child in September, has withdrawn from her scheduled Met performances as Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème on December 29, 2008 and January 3 matinee, 6, and 10, 2009. She has decided that she will need a few more weeks than originally planned to be ready for her return to the stage.

In addition to its 24 full productions, dance series, developmental series and concerts, The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) celebrates its fifth year by partnering with Ailey Citigroup Theater, Nuyorican Poets Café, The Philip Coltoff Greenwich Village Center, The Loft at Professor Thom's, The Cutting Room, and Paley Center (formally The Museum of Television & Radio) to bring more diverse special events to this years Festival, running September 15th to October 5th.

On Friday, August 8, STOMP OUT LOUD will celebrate 500 exhilarating performances at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

42nd Street Moon, the company that celebrates and preserves the art and spirit of the American Musical Theatre, opens its 2008-09 Season in with one of the big hits of the 1960-61 season, the saucy Irma La Douce, the hit Parisian musical which was a sensation in London before its Tony-winning New York run.

Tom Mazzolini, founder and producer of the San Francisco Blues Festival, has announced the line-up for this September's annual blues extravaganza at the magnificent Great Meadow at Fort Mason.

Magic Theatre, San Francisco's premiere home for new plays, announced that Mark Routhier will step down as the Director of Artistic Development in September 2008 to focus on his growing national directing career.

Village Theatre's highly anticipated annual Festival of New Musicals returns for an eighth year, featuring staged readings of six new musicals- Chasing Nicolette, Killala Bay, Dennis The Menace, The Alchemists, The Gypsy King, and The Yellow Wood. These are fully sung presentations, performed with script-in-hand, of six brand new musicals.

Eclipse Theatre Company of Chicago announces that their 2009 season, including four full productions, will be the second and final year of celebrating their past ten years focusing on one playwright per season.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Mara Manus) announced that KICKING A DEAD HORSE, a new play written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard and featuring Tony Award nominee Stephen Rea, has extended its run by two weeks. Following a sold-out run at Ireland's Abbey Theatre, it will preview at The Public on Wednesday, June 25 and run through Sunday, August 10 with an official press opening on Monday, July 14 at 7 PM.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party is proud to announce SOUL DEEP: AN ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK MUSIC, a Broadway Inspirational Voices benefit concert aiding in the preservation of African American music, Monday August, 18 2008 at 7:00 p.m.

On Sunday, August 17th popular NYC Comedy Troupe FUCT will be performing at the Broadway Comedy Club with special opening act Booth and Pat.

Taylor Negron's real-life comedic stories about living as a D-list celebrity in Hollywood combine to create Satellites, a night of hilarious and inspirational spoken-word fusion, set to original music by former Minnesota-based singer/songwriter Logan Heftel. Before heading to New York 's Barrow Street Theater in October to begin an open ended run, Satellites returns to Heftel's roots, bringing two intimate performances to Bryant Lake Bowl.

Long Wharf Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and Managing Director Joan Channick, is pleased to announce the addition of the Athol Fugard one-act play Valley Song to the 2008-09 season.

Variety is reporting that the Guthrie's production of Little House on the Prairie could be Broadway Bound. The production broke box office records as soon as tickets went on sale and has had to extend their performances two weeks to accommodate ticket demand.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company launches its Steppenwolf for Young Adults 2008-2009 Season with The Glass Menagerie byTennessee Williams, directed by ensemble member Yasen Peyankov.

Due to extraordinary popular demand, the U.S. premiere of Stitching by Anthony Neilson, directed by Timothy Haskell and starring Meital Dohan (Showtime's 'Weeds') and John Ventimiglia (HBO's 'The Sopranos') has extended its run for a second time, now through Saturday, August 9 at The Wild Project.

On Wednesday, August 20 at 7pm, 'Wannabe Wicked,' the competitive performance series, will showcase the 15 finalists who have made it to the last round of the competition.

It was announced today that the upcoming previously announced revival of West Side Story will begin previews on February 23, 2009 with an official opening slated for March 19, 2009.