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59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) is thrilled to welcome MADE IN POLAND: A Festival of New Polish Plays, presented by the Polish Cultural Institute.

BBC News is reporting this morning that up to 95 publicly funded theaters in England will offer free tickets to young adults (ages 18-25) as part of a new government funded £2.5m program.

Nick Spangler, currently starring as Matt in the Off Broadway revival of The Fantasticks, will be a contestant on the latest edition of The Amazing Race.

IGNITED STATES PRODUCTION COMPANY is pleased to announce the New York premiere production of TO BARCELONA!, written by Michael Niederman, and directed by Elyzabeth Gorman. TO BARCELONA! will play a limited engagement at The Workshop Theater, NY (312 West 36th Street, 4th Fl.). Performances begin Saturday, October 11 and continue through Sunday, October 26.

Amazon.com is currently having a huge blowout 'Music DVD' sale where you can save on some major musical theater favorites such as Sunday in the Park with George with Mandy Patinkin, Into the Woods with Bernadette Peters, Oklahoma! with Hugh Jackman, Company with Raul Esparza, Sarah Brightman LIVE IN LAS VEGAS, Tony Bennett - Live by Request, Cher - The Farewell Tour, Barry Manilow Live, various ABBA compilations and more.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company launches its 2008-2009 season, an exploration of the imagination, with the world premiere of Kafka on the Shore, based on the book by Haruki Murakami, adapted for the stage and directed by ensemble member Frank Galati.

Theatre for a New Audience's Artistic Director, Jeffrey Horowitz and New York Theatre Workshop's Artistic Director James C. Nicola announced that both theatres will co-present the New York premiere of The Grand Inquisitor as part of their 2008-2009 seasons. Single tickets go on sale Sunday (9/21).

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

I always fall in love with the boys. Just when I am about to hit the climax of my creative output, 'enter hot skater dude, stage left.' I think God uses men to block my ability to realize my vision. He sits up on his throne and says, 'Matt Gould? He's a talented guy. Here's a pretty black boy who sings like Usher. Tee hee.'

Emmy Award Winner Alec Baldwin will make is New York Philharmonic Debut when he narrates 'Inside The Music' on Friday October 10th, 2008. Baldwin will be narrating Dvorák's Symphony Number 9, 'From the New World' at 8PM at Avery Fischer Hall.

EQUUS is currently in preview performances at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 W 44th Street). The show will open on September 25. EQUUS will play a strictly limited engagement through February 8, 2009.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will kick off its 30th Anniversary Season with a new production of Howard Korder's comedy, BOYS' LIFE, directed by Michael Greif. This 20th Anniversary production of BOYS' LIFE will feature JASON BIGGS, RHYS COIRO, and PETER SCANAVINO as 'the boys' as well as DAN COLMAN, MICHELLE FEDERER, BETTY GILPIN, PALOMA GUZMÁN, LAURA-LEIGH, and STEPHANIE MARCH.

On Monday September 22, 2008, the IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, and host Lisa Kron, announced the 2008 recipients at the Fourth Annual IT Awards Ceremony at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

UCLA Live's Seventh International Theatre Festival, sponsored by Yahoo!, will be held October 1 through December 21, 2008, and will showcase an unparalleled range of eclectic and classic work, with several exclusives, debuts and premieres.

The Jerusalem Syndrome, an official selection of the New York Musical Theatre Festival's 2008 Next Link Project, will open on Tuesday, September 23 at 8pm.

Top Broadway performers to sing the music of Larson Award winners Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk in NYMF concert - Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 at 10 PM at the Zipper Factory, 336 W. 37th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues).

Celebrating 40 years of using theater to help New York's most vulnerable children and adults, Creative Alternatives of New York (225 West 99th Street) has named Broadway veteran and Tony Award-winner Dick Latessa as their new Board Chairman. Latessa heads an illustrious panel of theater artists, including long time board member Academy Award-winner Susan Sarandon and CANY Honorary Board members Olympia Dukakis, Arthur French and Elizabeth Wilson.

IN THE HEIGHTS will receive Actors' Equity Association Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs (ACCA) Second Annual ACCA Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus. This award honors the distinctive talents and contributions made by the chorus of a Broadway musical.

The Broadway company of CHICAGO is pleased to announce 'Talkback Tuesdays,' a new monthly series offering a post-show discussion and audience Q&A session with members of the Broadway company of the record-breaking hit musical. Designed to provide theatergoers with an exclusive, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of CHICAGO, the 'Talkback Tuesdays' series will launch on Tuesday, September 23, 2008,with a post-show conversation with Tony Award-winning director Walter Bobbie.

The Civilians (Steven Cosson, Artistic Director), the award-winning New York-based innovative theater troupe, today announced their newest project: Brooklyn at Eye Level, a long-term investigation of development in Brooklyn and its effect on neighborhood and community. For this work the company will connect artists, community members and local youth using their signature creative process grounded in documentary art. Brooklyn at Eye Level will examine the surge of development in Brooklyn, with a specific focus on the controversial Atlantic Yards project and its effect on the surrounding communities of Fort Greene, Boreum Hill, Downtown Brooklyn, Crown Heights, Park Slope and Prospect Heights.