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For the first time, SPF will be held at The Public Theater on Lafayette Street in New York City. The festival will run from July 1st - July 27th.

13, A New Musical, with music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, will begin previews on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 and officially open at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 W. 45th Street) on Sunday, October 5, 2008.

Harvey Returns! Welcome to The Return of special new series on BroadwayWorld.com - four time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein's personal MySpace blog about the journey of his new musical A Catered Affair and more. We'll be exclusively picking up Harvey Fierstein's blog as he shares his first hand reports from rehearsals to the upcoming closing night on July 27th and beyond.

TheatreWorks, the nationally-acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, proudly presents the first post-Broadway production of the Tony Award-winning and scandalously delicious musical GREY GARDENS.

Private Lives, one of Noël Coward's most famous and successful comedies, takes the stage at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey beginning August 6 and continuing through August 31. Performances are Tuesdays through Sundays at The Shakespeare Theatre's Main Stage, the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, 36 Madison Avenue in Madison. Tickets range from $29 to $33 for Previews and $38 to $53 for regular performances, depending on performance day and time and seat location. For tickets or more information, call 973-408-5600 or visit www.ShakespeareNJ.org. Patrons may also purchase Ticket Packages for additional discounts. Groups of 10 or more are eligible for group discounts.

Two people who meet by chance discover they were meant to be together in Terence McNally's bittersweet comedy, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.

The Highline Ballroom in NYC has announced their HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH 10th Anniversary Celebration, featuring Jonathan Whitton and Louise Stewart, THEO AND THE SKYSCRAPERS and DJ MICHAEL T with more guests TBA. The show is presented by Scenic Propaganda and doors will open at 8PM

Steppenwolf Theatre Company concludes its 32nd season with the world premiere Superior Donuts by ensemble member and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts, directed by ensemble member Tina Landau. The production, featuring ensemble members Jon Michael Hill, Yasen Peyankov and James Vincent Meredith, with Jane Alderman, Kate Buddeke, Cliff Chamberlain, Michael Garvey, Robert Maffia and Michael McKean, runs June 19 - August 24, 2008 in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St.

Variety is reporting that powerhouse UK actors Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen will be teaming up to help save the struggling Theatre Royal Haymarket. Rumor has it that the two actors will play the clowns Pozzo and Lucky in Beckett's classic Waiting For Godot. All proceeds will go to benefit the Haymarket.

Theatricals will present the world premiere of Tony Glazer's new play STAIN, directed by Scott C. Embler. STAIN will begin performances on Friday, July 11, open on July 23 and run through August 23, 2008 at The Kirk at Theatre Row (410 West 42 Street).

Artistic Director Eric Hafen has announced the appointment of Stephen Kantrowitz as the new Manager-Audience Development for the Bickford Theatre, the professional theater at the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ.

The Fire Island Dance Festival, Dancers Responding to AIDS' (DRA) signature event, celebrated its fourteenth year in Fire Island Pines with an undisputed artistic and financial success.

Fifteen members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union which represents more than 47,000 stage actors and stage managers nationwide, were elected to the National Council, the Union's governing body, it was announced today. These members were elected to serve five year terms and represent Principals, Chorus and Stage Managers in Equity's three regions, Eastern, Central and Western.

OPHIA'S FALL, a musical by Benjamin Birney and Rob Seitelman, will perform at The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) as part of their new Dance Series. Jason Summers (Growing Up 70's) will choreograph and direct.

Bruce Adler died early this morning, July 25th 2008 of cancer he had been battling for several years. He was sixty-three years old.

THE SEAGULL, featuring a new version by Christopher Hampton and directed by Ian Rickson, opens Wednesday, October 1 at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street). Previews will begin Tuesday, September 16. The production will play a strictly limited engagement of 14 weeks through December 21.

As the world premiere production of the new musical Little House on the Prairie continues to break box office records, the Guthrie is pleased to announce that it will extend the production's run by two weeks to meet continued demand from ticket buyers.

Theatre of the Expendable will present their production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters this fall at The Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex. TotE's production, directed by Jesse Edward Rosbrow will use only six actors, instead of the typical fourteen or more, and will be presented true to the original script, with very few cuts and staged in a nontraditional method while still telling the story traditionally.

It is with great pleasure that The West Bank Café announces upcoming performances to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre. The West Bank Café is located at 407 West 42nd. St., at Ninth Avenue.

Dixie's Tupperware Party, the hilarious Off Broadway show starring Dixie Longate-- who recently garnered a 2008 Drama Desk Nomination, will launch a 20-city National Tour September 16th at Tucson's Invisible Theatre. Produced by Down South LLC and written by Kris Andersson, the show brought Tupperware-mania to Off Broadway and prompted NBC's Today Show to proclaim 'Not Your Grandmother's Tupperware Party!'