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Jude Law, currently starring in the acclaimed Donmar Warehouse production of HAMLET on Broadway, will be a guest on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' tonight, Tuesday, September 29. 'Late Night' airs in the New York area on WNBC-TV Channel 4 at 12:35 AM.

Taking time out of her busy schedule judging the new season of Dancing with the Stars, Carrie Ann Inaba flew to New York last Friday to see a performance of Broadway's Burn The Floor along with fellow producer Harley Medcalf and visit with the cast.

The producers of A STEADY RAIN announced today that the show has shattered the record for highest weekly gross for any non-musical production ever on Broadway. For the week ending 9/20/09 the production posted an impressive weekly gross of $1,167,954, also a house record at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The highest gross for a non-musical was previously Billy Crystal's 700 SUNDAYS with $1,061,688 for the week ending 5/22/05.

The musical The Fantasticks will sponsor a benefit concert, 'Night of 1,000 Luisas' on Wednesday, November 4, at 7pm in support of Bideawee, an animal welfare organization.

Artistic director Jackie Maxwell and producer of the Shaw Festival announced the Shaw Festival's 2010 program this weekend. Hosted by Niagara-on-the-Lake, the festival, which operates in four venues in Ontario Canada features plays by Shaw and his contemporaries, as well as plays about the period in which he lived.

Hugh Dancy and actress Clare Danes wed in a quiet ceremony in France a couple of weeks ago, MSNBC reports. The couple met while filming 'Evening' in Newport, R.I., and announced their engagement last February.

Bernadette Peters, Gregory Jbara, Cheyenne Jackson, Matt Cavenaugh, Constantine Maroulis, Linda Eder, Montego Glover, Jules Feiffer, and Roscoe Orman will participate in the third annual New York Times 'Great Children's Read.' The day-long event is a free celebration of reading featuring live entertainment for children and families, presented by Target. A list of New York's top-20 'Favorite Stories to Read-Aloud' was specially selected this year by children's librarians from the three public library systems of New York City: Brooklyn Public Library, The New York Public Library and Queens Library. Celebrities from film, TV and Broadway will read the 20 books on the list.

According to a report on the Hartford Courant, New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre has revealed a $1.2 million deficit due, of course, to the economic downturn that began last fall.

There is no doubt that Next To Normal fared well at this past year's Tony Awards. Now, Variety is reporting that the show was the recipient of a rather different prize, namely the Online Media, Marketing and Advertising Award (OMMA) recognizing its Twitter campaign. Used as a promotional effort to sell tickets to the show, the campaign has generated considerable buzz due to its exceptionally high number of followers for a Broadway show.

Though often overshadowed by it's mother-ship two hours to the north, Philadelphia is undeniably a bustling arts hub in its own right. The new $275 million Kimmel Center, recently renovated Academy of Music and shiny new Philadelphia Theater Company building are only a sampling of evidence, the rest of which can be found all the way from the Avenue of the Arts to South Street. All the while, however, it seemed one noticeable landmark, the Merriam Theater, was being left for dead.

Broadway performer Martin Moran will perform his Obie Award-winning show, The Tricky Part: A Boy's Story of Sexual Trespass, A Man's Journey to Forgiveness, at The Writers Center on October 19 at 7:30pm. A discussion of the piece and his memoir on which the show is based will follow the performance.

The producers of the upcoming national tour of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE: THE MUSICAL, with Melissa Gilbert as Ma, recently announced a national partnership with Habitat for Humanity, the non-profit international organization dedicated to providing affordable housing to the poor and needy. Cast and crew members from "Little House on the Prairie: The Musical," will help build a Habitat for Humanity house as part of a national partnership with Habitat for Humanity International. Steve Blanchard, who plays Pa, as well as other cast and crew members will pitch in at the build site tomorrow, 9/30. Mayor Cory Booker has confirmed that he will also attend the event to show his support for affordable housing.

Multiple Tony-winning actress Jane Krakowski will perform a cabaret-style show at the Kennedy Center this Saturday, October 3rd. The wildly popular actress' show sold out so quickly, a second show was added. Krakowski spoke with the Washington Post about her upcoming show, '30 Rock,' and getting in shape for the big day.

Patti LuPone is confirmed to kick off Purchase College Performing Arts Center's 32nd season with a special concert on October 3rd entitled, 'Matters Of The Heart.' And no, she will not be singing her now signature 'Rose's Turn' as Mama Rose, her multiple award-winning role in the most recent Broadway revival of Gypsy.

SAMMY, a new musical about the life of Sammy David Jr. currently in previews at The Old Globe, is gearing up for it's much anticipated opening on October 2nd and the buzz has begun. After all, what $2.5-million production about an icon with a 13-piece orchestra and list of award-winning actors wouldn't generate excitement?

The verdict is in and, as previously reported, 'Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas,' now playing at the Geffen Playhouse is officially a bomb.

It is the first subject to be struck from curriculum when budget cuts set in. Compared to it's athletic counterpart, the arts more so than any other subject 'get the shaft' when it comes to allocating resources in schools across the nation.

La Jolla Playhouse presents the world premiere of Creditors, adapted and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife) from the play by August Strindberg. A La Jolla Playhouse commission, Creditors opens tonight, September 29, and will run through October 25 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre.

Francesca Zambello, off her recent success with Little House on the Prairie now playing at the Papermill Playhouse, is confirmed to direct a rare staging of Tchaikovsky's THE TSARINA'S SLIPPER'S for Britain's Royal Opera House, according to reports. The production will run November 20 - December 8 at Covent Garden.

Weekend Movie Box Office Update: September 25 - September 27, 2009