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PUPPETRY OF THE TORCH SONG: SPETACULAR VOICES OF BROADWAY AND OPERA has announced an accomplished roster of performers. The benefit takes place on Saturday, September 21 at Don't Tell Mama at 9:00pm. The concert will benefit the newly established Metropolis Opera Project, which endeavors to produce new commissions, and rarely produced works that fall outside the general opera canon.

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, THE MUSICAL, with Melissa Gilbert as 'Ma,' the new touring musical based on the beloved Laura Ingalls Wilder series of classic American books, is proud to announce a new partnership with THE SEEING EYE, a national organization celebrating its 80th year bringing dog guide services to blind people across the U.S. and Canada.

Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of After Miss Julie begins previews tomorrow, Friday, September 18th at 8:00PM.

Broadway celebrities Matthew Broderick, Carol Channing, Brian Stokes Mitchell, de'Adre Aziza, and Derick K.Grant are confirmed to record Dan Zane's new Dan Zanes and Friends' children's album 76 Trombones. The album will be released released on November 17 and will feature new versions of classic Broadway songs including 'Hello, Dolly,' 'I Like Everybody,' 'I Don't Need Anything Bit You,' 'I Can Do That,' 'Before the Parade Passes By,' and 'Tomorrow.'

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) and LAByrinth Theater Company will present a FREE discussion series tied to its current production of OTHELLO running through Sunday, October 4 the NYU Skirball Center. Prior to the Sunday matinee performances, Director Peter Sellars and The Public Theater will gather prominent artists, academics, activists, and community leaders to introduce, discuss and contextualize this production. Admission is FREE and the series is open to the general public.

Queens Theatre in the Park (QTP) announces its 2009/2010 season of dance, theatre, classical music, film, and family programming - more than 40 events, including the world premiere of Against the Rising Sea, featuring Tony Award-winning actress Elizabeth Franz; the development of a new musical, Opa! The Musical; and the return of international superstar Eva Ayllón.

THE ORPHANS' HOME CYCLE, the world premiere of a three part theatrical event by the late Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Horton Foote, has been extended by popular demand for an additional three weeks through Sunday, March 28. The production is currently running at Hartford Stage, co-produced by the Signature. Signature opening is March 9.

For the first time since 2004, the 61st PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS will feature a live band as part of the telecast, being broadcast live from the NOKIA Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, Sept. 20 (8:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The 17-piece band includes guitarists Dean Parks (America, Steely Dan), Ray Parker, Jr. (Raydio, 'Ghostbusters'), keyboardist Michael Bearden (Michael Jackson's last music director), Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Tom Scott, bassist Darryl Jones (The Rolling Stones) and percussionist Lenny Castro (Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton). The all-star ensemble will be on-stage throughout the show.

Today, Bravo announced the start of production for season three of its hit series 'The Real Housewives of New York City.' The series returns with more jaw-dropping drama in 2010 with Housewives Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, Bethenny Frankel, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Alex McCord, Ramona Singer and Jill Zarin. The series follows the busy lives of a group of driven and ambitious Manhattan women as they juggle their demanding careers, motherhood and jam-packed social calendars.

Former 'America's Funniest Home Videos' host Bob Saget is returning to the show as a guest co-host for an episode to film in October. Saget will guest co-host with current host Tom Bergeron. The episode, to air in November on the network, will look back at the show's funniest moments in its two decades on the air.

The famed comedy troupe, Fireside Theatre, will host a special '40th birthday' celebration honoring the creation of their well-known character 'Nick Danger.' Entitled FORWARD, INTO THE PAST, the celebration will consist of four performances to be held October 14 - October 17 at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Hollywood.

President Obama announced today that veteran film and television producer and playwright George Stevens, Jr. and Broadway Producer Margo Lion will serve as Co-chairs to the Committee of the Humanities and the Arts. Mary Schmidt Campbell, Dean at Tisch School of the Arts, will serve as Vice-Chair.

Last week, the Broadway community mourned the loss of multiple Tony Award-winning librettist, screenwriter and author Larry Gelbart, who died at his home in Beverly Hills on September 11 at the age of 81. This week, Mike Sacks of Vanity Fair released an except from one of the last interviews ever conducted with the legend for Sacks' book: 'And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Humor Writers on Their Craft' (Writers Digest Books).

Whatsonstage.com reports on the genesis and progress of REVOLUTIONS, the sweeping investigation by the Royal Shakespeare Company of life in countries under the former Soviet Union, three years in the making.

DWTS contestants Tom DeLay and Kathy Ireland suffer the first of the season's injuries. Fortunately, neither are serious and, in Ireland's case, not even suffered on the dance floor!

Yale Repertory Theater (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) will present a reading of the 2009 winner of the Yale Drama Series, LIDLESS by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, directed by Hal Brooks, on Monday, September 21 at 7:30PM at the Iseman Theater.

The San Diego Performing Arts League's 18th Star Awards celebration will take place at the Balboa Theater on Monday, September 21st at 8:00pm.

It is being reported that Chazz Palminteri will costar in his upcoming film 'Wall Street Mafia' following the conclusion of his one-man show, A BRONX TALE, this week at the Venetian Showroom in Las Vegas.

Mary Travers, best known as one third of the legendary musical trio Peter, Paul & Mary, died yesterday of complications from chemotherapy, which she had been receiving to treat leukemia. She was 72.

Actor and comedian Henry Gibson, who charmed audiences as the poet on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and as a cranky judge on Boston Legal, died in his home on Monday after a short battle with cancer. He was 73.