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American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) announced the first of its 2008-09 season Koret Visiting Artist Series in association with the West Coast premiere of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll. Artistic Director Carey Perloff moderates 'Velvet Underground to Velvet Revolution: Culture, Politics, and Change in Rock 'n' Roll,' a panel discussion featuring world-renowned Eastern European political expert Timothy Garton Ash (author of History of the Present and The Magic Lantern) and former editor of Rolling Stone Greil Marcus (author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces).

The critically acclaimed Broadway Cabaret Festival continues to add more stars to its weekend lineup of concerts. It was announced today that on Friday, October 17 at 8PM when Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street) presents a concert Tribute to Lerner & Loewe, Jeffry Denman (Irving Berlin's White Christmas) will direct, choreograph and star.

Broadway fans are invited to SIRIUS Live on Broadway with host Seth Rudetsky at the Broadway Concierge & Ticket Center each Wednesday at 12 noon ET to watch interviews and performances with their favorite Broadway stars such as Tony Award®-winning actress Bebe Neuwirth and Xanadu star Cheyenne Jackson and cast members from popular Broadway shows [title of show], Avenue Q, Grease and Spring Awakening. Coming up - Wednesday, September 24th at 12:00PM, Seth welcomes Gerard Canonico (Moritz) and Emma Hunton (Ilse) from Broadway's Spring Awakening.

Last night, September 21st 2008 the 60th Annual Emmy Awards were presented at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. Theater stars Jeremy Piven, Dianne Wiest, Cynthia Nixon, Dame Eileen Atkins, Laura Linney, Alec Baldwin, Glenn Close and Zeljko Ivanek were among the winners.

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words continues its sit-down, open-ended run tonight, Monday, September 22, at the Triad Theater, 158 West 72 Street, at 7:30pm. (Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words will play a Monday night only schedule with performances at 7:30pm.)

Last night, September 21st 2008 the 60th Annual Emmy Awards were presented at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. Theater stars Jeremy Piven, Dianne Wiest, Cynthia Nixon, Dame Eileen Atkins, Laura Linney, Alec Baldwin, Glenn Close and Zeljko Ivanek were among the winners.

Spamalot actor Michael O'Donnell has co-written and directed MOVING MIKE, a film that will make its debut at the 10th annual Williamstown Film Festival on Thursday October 18 at Noon. He co-wrote the script with Chris Rempfer.

Broadway star Jason Danieley, and his band The Frontier Heroes, will be performing songs off her their debut album, JASON DANIELEY AND THE FRONTIER HEROES, as well as signing copies for fans. Tony Nominee Marin Mazzie will be making a special appearance onstage as well as at the signing table.

Today, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company Michael Boyd announced a new vision for the company which includes a new ensemble

The Guthrie today announced two additions to its upcoming holiday season programming. The hilarious and well-loved storyteller Kevin Kling returns to the Wurtele Thrust Stage on Monday, December 8, in his celebrated one-man show: Kevin Kling: Tales from the Charred Underbelly of the Yule Log, while local honky tonk band Trailer Trash brings its annual Trashy Little Xmas Family Show to the Dowling Studio on December 14.

Due to strong tickets sales and critical reception, Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, has extended the run of its new production of William Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST starring Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin through Sunday, October 19.

Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! welcomes Sean Alan Krill as 'Sam Carmichael,' Allison Case as 'Sophie Sheridan' and Chris Peluso as 'Sky' to the Broadway company when they begin performances at the Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway) on Wednesday, September 24th, 2008.

Most of us have a picture that pops into our head when we hear the word 'puppet' and it usually looks like something from Sesame Street. That's the kind of puppetry I started with. People also usually think that puppetry is for kids. I do that too. Then I went to The O'Neill Puppetry Conference in Connecticut. As the Artistic Director, Pam Arciero, says...I found my tribe. I wasn't familiar with the beauty and artistry of theater puppetry and I was blown away by it. Puppets are cool.

I'm a geek. I was obsessed with comic books as a kid, and I still have hundreds of them in a milk crate under my desk. They're not in plastic bags or mint condition, because I read them until they were ragged. I'm sure I became a playwright because I was so used to reading speech bubbles.

'Caesar and Cleopatra' by George Bernard Shaw will be performed Monday, September 22 at 7pm at The Players, located at 16 Gramercy Park South (20th St. east of Park Avenue). 'Caesar and Cleopatra' will be performed Mondays at 7 pm. These performances are open to the public. Tickets are now on sale for $20; call 212.352.3101 or visit Projectshaw.com.

Dancing with the Stars, will return with a three-night premiere event, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET) on ABC. Each week, has announced their new lineup of celebrity dancers. Season seven marks the largest cast assembled to date, the oldest and youngest competitors ever, and includes two Olympic Gold medalists, a Grammy®-winning singer, a television legend, an Oscar® winner, and a Super Bowl champion.

Lisa Kron has been chosen to host the 2008 New York Innovative Theatre Awards (the IT Awards), in a ceremony dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway. There will be entertainment interludes performed by New York's own Blue Man Group.

New York's eternally boundary-pushing theater company Naked Angels (Geoffrey Nauffts, Artistic Director and Brittany O'Neill, Managing Director) has announced that it will present the Off Broadway premiere of Fault Lines, a new play by Stephen Belber, directed by David Schwimmer.

So far at this evening's Emmy Awards, theater stars Jeremy Piven, Dianne Wiest, Laura Linney, Dame Eileen Atkins and Zeljko Ivanek are among the winners.

After 10 years of consulting with internationally lauded performing artists and administrators on their vision of a 'dream venue,' The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage opens with two sold-out concerts. Broadway Legend Barbara Cook inaugurates the performing arts center in a program featuring songs composed by Stephen Sondheim, Rogers and Hammerstein, Rogers and Hart, and Cole Porter.