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Tickets for IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING, created and Performed by MIKE DAISEY and directed by JEAN-MICHELE GREGORY at the Public Theater are now on sale.

As the Public Theater's hit summer revival of HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical prepares for a 2009 Broadway transfer, its cast members are keeping the spirit of peace and love alive with two free events this fall.

On Wednesday, September 17th, Broadway Voices, a new singing quartet from the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, made its debut performance at The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues) with I Want It All - A Maltby and Shire Songbook. The legendary songwriting duo, Richard Maltby and David Shire, along with Shire's wife, actress Didi Conn (Grease) were on hand to wish the quartet well on their opening night.

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 sturdy young Canadian thought he was Samson, and went on to prove it by smashing through a wall to escape from Kfar Shaul, the Government psychiatric hospital on Jerusalem's western reaches.

SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) and The Broadway League today announced a new weekly series, SIRIUS Live on Broadway, to air weekly on Broadway's Best SIRIUS channel 77 beginning today, Friday, September 19 starting at 7 pm ET.

What's on Stage is reporting that actor Jonathan Pryce will be starring in a revival of Athol Fugard's Dimetos this upcoming Spring. The show will run as part of Donmar Warehouse's season from March 25h, 2008 to May 9th, 2009. The production will be directed by Donmar Associate Director Douglas Hodge.

SPRING AWAKENING, the smash hit rock musical and winner of eight 2007 Tony Awards including Best Musical is now playing San Francisco's Curran Theatre through Sunday, Oct. 12. $40 RUSH tickets will be available for all performances except Saturday evening. These special RUSH tickets can be purchased on the day of performance only and are available when the box office opens at either the Curran Theatre Box Office (445 Geary Street) or the Orpheum Theatre Box Office (1192 Market Street at 8th). The rush tickets are available to anyone, with a limit of two tickets per person. Tickets will be sold on a first come, first serve basis. Some restrictions may apply and tickets are subject to availability. This offer is not valid on previously purchased tickets.

New Repertory Theatre is pleased to be kicking off its third season of Downstage @ New Rep, Up Close, On The Edge, in the Black Box Theater with Scott Brown and Anthony King's zany production of Gutenberg! The Musical.

COLUMBIA STAGES, the award-winning producing arm of Columbia University's Graduate Theatre Program, announces its 2008-2009 season. The highly political season will include Baal and The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht; Euripides' Medea; Big Love by Charles L. Mee; The Woman by Edward Bond; a co-production with Origin Theatre Company; a new adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and the 5th annual New Voices New Play Festival. The 2008-2009 season begins October 22nd at The Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Avenue between 120th and 122nd Streets.

A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts Program presents celebrated young playwright and OBIE Award winner Robert O'Hara's Good Breeding, directed by acclaimed director Timothy Douglas, and featuring the A.C.T. M.F.A. Program class of 2009. Sex, murder, revenge-it's all fair game in this extravagant new adaptation of the Greek Oresteia.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, 305 Great Neck Road, Waterford,Connecticut, is now accepting submissions for projects to be includedin its June - August 2009 national new works conferences. Applicantsare invited to submit projects for the O'Neill's National Playwrights Conference and National Music Theater Conference. National Playwrights Conference submissions will accept submissions from September 15, 2008 through October 17, 2008.

Epic Theater Ensemble, in partnership with John Jay College of Criminal Justice, will host a one-night only special event to benefit Epic's innovative, civic-minded in-school and after-school education programs. Some of today's top writers and performers will honor a large group of First Time Voters with an evening of satirical, scandalous, and inspiring short plays, songs, sketches, and toasts

San Francisco's cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater opens its 2008-09 season with VICTIMS OF DUTY from the master of absurdism, Eugène Ionesco. Cutting Ball Artistic Director Rob Melrose helms Ionesco's most surreal and autobiographical play, starring David Sinaiko and Felicia Benefield, and featuring Avery Monsen and Ryan Oden, October 24 through November 23 (Press opening: Thursday, October 30).

The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio proudly present an interview with Casting Director Bernard Telsey, on their weekly theatrical interview show, 'Downstage Center,' on XM's On Broadway (XM Channel 28).

Axis Company will present EAST 10TH STREET: SELF PORTRAIT WITH EMPTY HOUSE, a new play by and about Downtown performance icon Edgar Oliver.

Beginning Friday, October 24 and Saturday, October 25, 2008, Conductor Michael Krajewski and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will open the nsoro SuperPOPS! concert series with 'Andrew Lloyd Webber and Friends' - a musical revue featuring selections from Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and Evita, as well as other Broadway blockbusters such as A Chorus Line, Jekyll and Hyde, Wicked and many others.

Soho Rep - the nine-time OBIE Award-winning, Off-Broadway theatre company - kicks off its 2008-2009 season with the New York premiere of English playwright Sarah Kane's long awaited landmark play BLASTED. Previews begin October 2nd prior to an official press opening of October 9th at Soho Rep (46 Walker Street). Soho Rep Artistic Director Sarah Benson directs.

Acting Up Stage Theatre Company presents the Toronto Premiere of Edges running October 20-November 10, 2008 at Revival Bar in Little Italy. Edges is a fresh and hilarious rock song cycle about the trials and tribulations of moving into adulthood and the search for love, commitment and meaning.

Getting to Broadway just got easier! The Broadway Concierge & Ticket Center is the new service from The Broadway League that will offer audiences the official place to go for five-star Broadway hospitality and customized service for Broadway and Off-Broadway tickets and information. Bebe Neuwirth was on hand for a performance of an original Charles Strouse song to celebrate the new space in Times Square