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In a brief ceremony at the closing night party for the New York international Fringe Festival at The Deluxe at Spiegelworld, winners of the 2008 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Awards were announced.

Broadway In South Africa: The Concert is a star-studded evening that will feature world-premiere songs created by award-winning Broadway composers, like Grammy Award winner Henry Krieger, performed by Broadway stars like Eden Espinosa and Billy Porter. This benefit concert will raise money for the January 2009 South African initiative of a new, not-for-profit organization called Broadway In South Africa (BSA), and will take place on Monday, October 6, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Peter Norton Symphony Space, located at 2537 Broadway at 95th Street.

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.

Barrel of Monkeys announces their new, permanent Artistic Director will be long- time company member Luke Hatton, as of the beginning of the eleventh anniversary, 2008-2009 season on September 1, 2008.

Spamalot's Drew Lachey will host Broadway on Broadway 2008 on Sunday, September 14th at 11:30 a.m., it was announced today by The Broadway League and The Times Square Alliance.

VANITIES, A New Musical by Jack Heifner, with music and lyrics by David Kirshenbaum, directed by two-time Tony Award®-winner Judith Ivey and musical staging by Dan Knechtges, will begin performances on Broadway Monday, February 2, 2009 at a Shubert theatre to be announced.

This August, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh will take the extraordinary step of closing down THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, the longest-running show in Broadway history, for four performances to install a brand-new Digital Sound System to bring the production's sound design technology into the 21st Century. The producers are investing an estimated $750,000 into installing the state-of-the-art system. Now in its phenomenal 21st Year at The Majestic Theatre (247 West 44th Street), the record-breaking production, directed by Harold Prince, continues to play with no end in sight.

In June, Molly Regan replaced Rondi Reed as August: Osage County's new Mattie Fae. It's not an easy feat for an actor to come into an ensemble in the middle of a run. Add into that replacing a lead actress in the year's Pulitzer, Tony AND Drama Desk winning play two days after that actress won a Tony for her performance. BroadwayWorld.com got a chance to catch up with her and chat about all things August.

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.

CIRQUE DREAMS Jungle Fantasy, a theatrical, acrobatic and musical adventure that has toured the country extensively and become an entertainment sensation with audiences of all ages, will conclude its limited engagement of ten weeks on August 24. Directly following the Broadway engagement the show will continue its national and international touring.

There was a bit more to applaud during the curtain call at Spring Awakening after the August 21st performance, audience member James Beneduce, of Eastern Long Island, took to the stage and asked Jennifer Li, a huge Spring Awakening fan to be his wife. The onstage proposal--which had been arranged by a few phone calls to the show's management--was announced by Spring Awakening star Hunter Parrish.

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), the U.S. performing right organization will co-sponsor with The Manhattan Producers Alliance, 'Composing for the Screen: Film Scoring for a New Era,' a five-class workshop that will examine the diversity of film composition. This is an opportunity for six emerging film composers to utilize the professional facilities of the Manhattan Producers Alliance, and collaborate in composing short cues excerpted from a range of film sources. Selected students will record, review, and share work in a friendly and supportive environment, which will lead to a final project where all workshop participants will compose a cue to a well known film.

How I Met Your Mother's Neil Patrick Harris and Scrubs' Sarah Chalke and will host the 2008 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy® Awards on Saturday, September 13 from the NOKIA Theatre it was announced today by Lee Miller and Steve Venezia, Executive Producers of the Creative Arts show.

Variety is reporting that actress Cynthia Nixon will be joining the cast of the British Commercial Web ITV's drama 'An Englishman in New York.' The show will be a follow-up to the 1975 film The Naked Civil Servent. Nixon will reportedly play 'Penny Arcade', an actress and playwright.

Ars Nova will present a FREE reading of BOMBS IN YOUR MOUTH by Corey Patrick, directed by Evan Cabnet, as part of the Out Loud series. The cast will feature Dan Eric Gold, Jennifer Mudge, and Cara Greene.

As Berkeley Repertory Theatre's new season takes off with the world premiere of Yellowjackets, a swarm of free events has theatre-lovers buzzing.

On October 14, 2008 Sony BMG Masterworks will release KRISTIN CHENOWETH's new Christmas CD A LOVELY WAY TO SPEND CHRISTMAS.

The White Horse Theater Company, known for acclaimed productions of plays by Sam Shepard and Tennessee Williams, will present a limited engagement of Small Craft Warnings by Tennessee Williams. The play is directed by White Horse Producing Artistic Director Cyndy A. Marion, recognized for her recent revival of Williams' play In the Bar of A Tokyo Hotel, and innovative productions of plays by Sam Shepard. Performances will run from September 19th -October 5th, 2008 in a limited engagement at The Workshop Theater Company (Main Stage Theater), located at 312 West 36th Street (4th Floor) between 8th & 9th Avenues in NYC.

Can you come out and play? On the first Sunday of every month, Berkeley Repertory Theatre provides free activities for local families. Its Family Series gives everyone an opportunity to play by focusing on a different theme each month.

Theatre Exile announces their 12th Season.