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A co-production from the OBIE-winning HERE Arts Center and The Juggernaut Theatre Company, OH WHAT WAR will play Wednesday, September 10 - Saturday, October 4 at HERE Arts Center. Conceived and directed by Mallory Catlett, OH WHAT WAR is presented as part of HERE's 2008-09 mainstage season of new multi-disciplinary productions spanning theatre, dance, puppetry and multimedia works. Official Opening is Saturday, September 13 @ 7:30 PM. A fantasy of flagrant disobedience to authority, OH WHAT WAR, is underground entertainment performed by a band of deserters stuck in No Man's Land.

Iconic writer of stage and screen, Tim Firth, has entrusted the US PREMIERE of his critically-acclaimed play, The Safari Party, in the very capable hands of Nicholas Cotz and Personal Space Theatrics.

NAKED BOYS SINGING!, the fifteen-song celebration of the male form hit yet another milestone: it began its tenth year on Saturday July 26th. The Naked Boys are appearing on New World Stages Stage 4, graciously shared with the other (clothed) Boyz of New World Stages: Altar Boyz! New World Stages is located at 340 West 50th Street, between 8th & 9th Avenues. Naked Boys plays Fridays at 10:30pm and Saturday evenings at 6pm.

Blue Box Productions is pleased to announce its new Sticky season. Since 2003, Blue Box has produced over one hundred new 10-minute plays in this innovative, audience acclaimed series.

DANCES PATRELLE's 'THE YORKVILLE NUTCRACKER' will have its 10th annual production, at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College (68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues) NYC; December 11h - 14th. Once again The Yorkville Nutcracker will have students from: Ballet Academy East, Studio Maestro, The Ailey School and 92nd St Y Harkness Dance Center. The two-act ballet, has been choreographed by Artistic Director, Francis Patrelle. It has set design by Gillian Bradshaw-Smiths, costumes by Rita B. Watson, and lighting by David Grill. The cast will feature special guest artists from the New York City Ballet: Jenifer Ringer and Jared Angle.

Daniel Radcliffe will appear on NBC's 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' (late Monday night) August 25, 12:35 a.m. - 1:35 a.m. to talk about his upcoming Broadway debut next month in the award-winning play EQUUS. Check local listings.

North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) has announced that one of the most critically acclaimed musicals of all time, SHOW BOAT, will perform from September 23 to October 12, 2008. Press Night is scheduled for September 25th at 7:30 pm. This project has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.

13, A New Musical will offer a $13.00 ticket - a price which suits anyone's allowance - to the first 100 people in line at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 W. 45th Street) Box Office Opening on Monday, August 25, 2008 at 10AM.

Bristol Riverside Theatre welcomes Donald Byrd, acclaimed choreographer of Broadway's The Color Purple for its 2008-2009 Season.

The Wilma Theater proudly celebrates its 30th Anniversary with the upcoming 2008-2009 Season

What's On Stage is reporting that prior that 'I'd Do Anything' winner Jodie Pregner is currently in rehearsals to join the West End cast of Les Miserables. She will be taking small parts of the ensemble starting on August 26th prior to taking on the role of Nancy in Drury Lane's Oliver!.

Saeko Ichinohe Dance Company is having a special 39th Anniversary Celebration on Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 8pm and Sunday, November 23 at 3pm at The Ailey Citigroup Theater (The Joan Weill Center for Dance), 405 West 55th Street at 9th Avenue.

Following her sold-out engagement last spring, Anna Bergman returns to the stage of 'the nightclub of New York,' Feinstein's at Loews Regency (540 Park Avenue @ 61st Street) for the opening of its 10th Anniversary season. On September 14th, 15th and 21st (8:30PM) Anna will present her new show, My Heart Stood Still: The Love Songs of Richard Rodgers with special guest, Broadway veteran, Brent Barrett.

Adrian Dunbar will star as 'Vermeer' in 'GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING', a new play by David Joss Buckley, which will open in London at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on Monday 29 September, following previews from 24 September, for a limited season ending on Saturday 1 November.

Alice Ripley,well known Tony Award-nominated actress for Side Show and Arena Stage's Shakespeare in Hollywood, joins the Arena Stage Next to Normal cast as Diana.

A Contemporary Theatre's production of the brilliantly constructed social comedy Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn will run from August 15-September 14.

THE FIRST BREEZE OF SUMMER, the first production of Signature Theatre Company's (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) 2008-2009 season celebrating the historic Negro Ensemble Company (NEC), will begin previews tomorrow, August 5th. THE FIRST BREEZE OF SUMMER, by Leslie Lee and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, officially opens on Thursday, August 21st and continues through September 28th at the Peter Norton Space located at 555 West 42nd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues).

Variety is reporting that Jean Doumanian will be teaming up with playwright David Harrower to bring his work Blackbird to the big screen next year.

'Sleeping Beauty,' one of the most spectacular, stylish, and unique films in the history of Disney animation, has undergone a total digital restoration of its picture and soundtrack in advance of the October 7th release of its 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition on Blu-ray Hi-Def and DVD, and will have an exclusive digital wide-screen engagement at Hollywood's legendary El Capitan Theatre from August 29th through September 18th.

The Ogunquit Playhouse is seeking three children for principal roles for the Broadway musical Les Misérables. All three should be in a height range of 4'5' to 4'9' with a slim build.