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Casa Mañana's Children's Playhouse presents a new, bolder, funnier retelling of the fairy tale classic Sleeping Beauty, September 26 - October 12, 2008 at Casa Mañana Theatre.

CASTRONAUTS, or How I Killed Fidel, a revolutionary new musical by Bobby Houston, Patricio Bisso and Randy Courts, will receive its world premiere as part of this year's 5th annual New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). Directed and choreographed by Will Pomerantz, Castronauts runs September 16 through 28 at the Zipper Factory.

Lend Me A Tenor is a door-slamming, dress-dropping farce with mistaken identities, mischievous misunderstandings, compromising positions and hilarious situations. It is set in 1934 at the Cleveland Opera Company, where everyone is going wild over the impending visit of world-famous tenor Tito Merelli. But the tenor takes too many tranquilizers, leaving the promoter and his assistant to assess that Merelli is dead. The assistant decides to impersonate Merelli, but the star awakens and stumbles out of his hotel room, leaving too many tenors afoot. LOTS OF FUN!!!

Japan Society kicks off its 2008-09 Performing Arts Season with the U.S. debut of ARICA Performance Company's one-woman show with live music, KIOSK. This production marks the first installment in Japan Society's season theme, Beyond Boundaries: Genre-Bending Mavericks, which expands the borders of conventional performing arts whether melding new technologies with age-old performance techniques, marrying the classical with the ultra-modern, weaving text into dance and the fabric of space itself, or lacing stunning visual effects of light, video and innovative design into live performance. KIOSK plays at Japan Society (333 East 47th Street) Thursday September 18, Saturday September 20 @ 7:30 PM.

Due to popular demand the series will kick off its second season with the family classic, THE WIZARD OF OZ. Follow Dorothy and her friends on a magical trip down the yellow brick road while avoiding flying monkeys and the Wicked Witch of the West! Bring your ruby slippers, your heart, your brain, and your courage, and sit back for another wonderful season of Commerce Bank Children's Theater.

Babel Theatre Project's (Geordie Broadwater, Artistic Director, Jeremy Blocker, Producing Director) World Premiere of A Great Place to Be From, by Norman Lasca, directed by Geordie Broadwater. A Great Place to Be From will begin performances on Thursday, September 4; opening on Monday, September 8 and will run through September 27 at The Kraine Theatre (85 East 4th Street).

A woman murdered. Her husband, an artist, is the only suspect. In this tightly woven cat and mouse game, the line between reality and fiction becomes increasingly blurred. The Painter chronicles the struggles of three people to make sense in the aftermath of a bizarre and chillingly tragic event. Set in a modern day American police interrogation room, these three face off in an arena that amplifies both the urgent need to unearth truth and at times the need to bury it deep. Against this backdrop we explore the tenuous link, a sheerest of threads, that connects the world as it is to the world as it is perceived.

Scott Blakeman is 'The top political comedian working in New York today'(NBC). Scott performed 'Breaking Convention with Scott Blakeman: A Liberal Dose of Political Humor', in Denver and St. Paul during the Democratic and Republican conventions. He recently was featured at the Nantucket Comedy Festival in a political humor show hosted by MSNBC's Chris Matthews. Scott has been heard on NPR and Air America, and has made more than 30 national television appearances.

Media City Ballet will present the World Premiere of 'THE FOUR MUSICIANS,' A New Ballet, With Words and Music by Tom Pease, at the Seventh Annual West Hollywood Book Fair, to be held in West Hollywood Park on September 28, 2008. The new ballet is based on the classic Grimm's fairy tale, 'The Four Musicians of Bremen.' 'THE FOUR MUSICIANS' tells the story of four animals whose owners are upset with them; it is narrated by actress Elmarie Wendel.

On Sunday, September 21st at 6pm, The Actor's Fund will be presenting the new production Frankie D., written and directed by Rosemary Edelman. The show follows the story of an upscale African-American carpenter who gets ripped off by two African-American ghetto kids, and instead of throwing them in jail, when he realizes how horrific their life is, he takes them as his, because he was these kids. Running time is 95 minutes.

Wilmington Drama League Stages Sondheim's Thrilling Assassins As Season Opener

The Mirage today announced details of a dynamic redesign to its signature Volcano. Known the world over for its iconic Strip-front feature, The Mirage has joined forces with legendary Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, Indian tabla sensation Zakir Hussain and Fountains of Bellagio design firm WET, to create an all-new audio/visual spectacle. The top-to-bottom overhaul is the final step in the property's ongoing transformation and is scheduled for completion late 2008.

In David Yazbek's new animated film, the cycle of human life is explored and examined as a young child grows and eventually becomes a parent himself.

Cabaret Iconoclast Karen Kohler blurs the line between sex and death in two companion shows

THREE CHANGES a new play by Nicky Silver, will open at Playwrights Horizons on September 16th, 2008. Directed by Tony Award nominee Wilson Milam (The Lieutenant of Inishmore) in his Playwrights Horizons debut, the production began previews on Friday August 22nd.

Ars Nova decides that new shows, 'Uncharted' and 'Tragedy Tomorrow' are exactly what its audiences are looking for.

'The Seafarer' aims to please in Chicago.

'Music that Makes us Dance' soon opens at the Lyrica Chamber Orchestra.

Pittsburgh CLO is proud to announce the cast and creative team for the Pittsburgh premiere of the acclaimed Off-Broadway musical I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, which runs Oct. 9, 2008, through Feb. 1, 2009, at the CLO Cabaret. This group comprised of almost entirely Pittsburghers is ready to provide its hip, funny and sexy interpretation of the second longest-running musical in Off-Broadway history.

'Crossroads of the World' will come alive with music and dancing on Sunday, September 14, 2008, as the annual 'Broadway on Broadway' event takes the stage under the expert security protection of Cambridge Security Services, one of the nation's leading boutique security firms.