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On Sunday, September 28th at 7:00pm, Dreamlight Theatre Company will present the next installment of 'Bright Lights,' a concert series dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging composers and lyricists in musical theatre. The concert will be hosted at The Triad (158 West 72nd Street) on Sunday, September 28th at 7pm. Tickets are $15 with a two-drink minimum. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit Dreamlight's website, www.DreamlightTheatre.org.

On October 14, 'The Anniversary,' written by Bill MacIlwraith and directed by Joseph C. Walsh, will open at the Greewich Playhouse (Greenwich Station Forecourt, London SE10 8JA). The show will run until November 9, with performances at 7:30 PM Tuesday to Saturday and at 4 PM on Sundays. Tickets will be £12; £10 (concs.) and can be obtained by contacting the box office at 020 8858 9256 or e-mailing boxoffice@galleontheatre.co.uk.

Jake Robards (son of theatre legend Jason Robards) and Prentiss Benjamin (daughter of stage & screen stars Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss) are soon to be starring in the Bickford Theatre's NJ Premiere production of Maureen Hunter's 'Transit Of Venus,' running September 25 to October 19. Main Stage Series performances are Thursdays thru Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $28 for Morris Museum and Bickford Theatre Guild members, $35 for general public, $30 for senior citizens, $15 for students 18 and under or those with a valid school ID, and $27 for groups of 10 or more. An additional Saturday Matinee has been added on October 4 at 2 p.m. Lunch packages at Cinque Figlie are available.

A sold-out audience of over 550 people attended the annual benefit, 'Footlights and Film: A Celebration of the Great Musicals from Stage and Screen,' hosted by Julia Roberts and featuring a special tribute to Angela Lansbury presented by Bernadette Peters, at Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, CT (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) on Monday evening, September 15. The fundraiser grossed $1,407,610, including revenue from tickets, donations and silent auctions.

The Village Voice, the nation's first and largest alternative weekly newspaper, announced the judges for the 54th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards. The Voice's chief theater critic, Michael Feingold, will again chair the Obie Awards committee. Joining him will be Voice critic Alexis Soloski and six guest judges: Eric Grode, New York Sun; Andy Probst, AmericanTheaterWeb.com (also a frequent Voice contributor); Eisa Davis, actress-playwright, Obie Award winner for her performance last year in 'Passing Strange'; Ty Jones, actor-playwright, 2003 Obie Award winner for his performance in 'The Blacks' (Classical Theatre of Harlem); Moises Kaufman, playwright-director, 2004 Obie Award winner for his direction of 'I Am My Own Wife'; Chay Yew, playwright-director, 2007 Obie Award winner for his direction of 'Durango' (Public Theater). Mr. Propst will also serve as secretary to the committee.

The world premiere of 'Becky's New Car,' written by Steven Dietz and directed by Kurt Beattie opens October 23, 2008 at the ACT Theatre, 700 Union Street, Seattle WA 98101. Tickets are $10/$15 (for students/people 25 and under) to $55, with a Pay-What-You-Will showing on October 19 at 7:30 p.m. and October 30 at 2:00 p.m. Call (206) 292-7676 or (253) 839-4204 (for group sales) or visit www.acttheatre.org for tickets and information.

ultureBus will provide easy, economical and eco-friendly service from downtown San Francisco to Golden Gate Park and stop near various cultural institutions along the way, including the Asian Art Museum, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, the de Young Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Yerba Buena Neighborhood and the California Academy of Sciences. For a flat fare of $7 for adults and $5 for seniors, youths [5-17 years old] and people with disabilities, passengers will not only enjoy unlimited travel in any direction on the date of issue. They will also receive discounted admission to certain cultural destinations.

The Rosetta LeNoire Musical Theatre Academy is seeking talented young people (ages 14-20) for Saturday performance program and Off-Off-Broadway musical production for the May 2008 Academy Production of 'Street Dreams.' Auditions will be held Friday, October 3 from 4:30-7:00, and Saturday, October 4 from 11:00-3:00 at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal Street). To make an appointment, call 212.563.2565 or visit www.amasmusical.org. Classes begin Saturday, October 18.

Parallel Exit, New York's highly acclaimed physical theatre company, returns to Joyce SoHo from November 6-9 with 'Time Step,' a brand new work blending tap, rhythm, and physical comedy. Tickets are $15 and are available by phone at 212-352-3101 or www.joyce.org.

The Classic Stage Company production of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest,' starring Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin, opens Thursday, September 18 at Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th Street.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center has acquired the papers of renowned performers and acting teachers Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof. The collection consists of thousands of pages of unpublished correspondence, diaries, scripts and manuscripts, photographs, clippings and other documentation relating to the dynamic theatrical careers of both Hagen and Berghof. This collection of professional and personal papers, spanning nearly 100 years of theater history, is being made public for the first time. To celebrate the bequest, the Library is planning a series of eight free public programs featuring many close friends and colleagues of Ms. Hagen and Mr. Berghof's including such figures as Harold Prince, Edward Albee, David Hyde Pierce and Eli Wallach. Programs take place in the Bruno Walter Auditorium in The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center located at 111 Amsterdam Avenue (between 64th and 65th streets). Admission to all programs is free and first come, first served. For information, please call (212) 642-0142 or visit www.nypl.org/lpaprograms. Programs are curated by Alan Pally, Manager of Public Programs at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Naked Boys Singing!', the fifteen-song celebration of the male form that recently began its tenth year, announced it will offer a one-day sale on tickets for only $8 on Friday, October 3rd, for any Friday at 10:30 PM performance in October. To get $8 tickets, visit 8coupons.com and join their 'Go Green' initiative by texting the $8 Ocho Loco coupon to your cell phone. Then, just show the mobile coupon to the New World Stages box office on October 3rd between 1:30PM -10:30PM and purchase your $8 tickets (cash only, subject to availability).

'Gem of the Ocean' opens on October 11, with performances Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm through November 16. Previews are scheduled October 3 through 10. Tickets are $25.00 on Thursdays and Fridays and $28.00 on Saturdays and Sundays, except opening night (October 11), which is $30.00 and previews which are $15.00. On Thursdays and Fridays only, students with ID are $18.00 and seniors $23.00. The Fountain Theatre is located at 5060 Fountain Avenue (at Normandie) in Los Angeles. For reservations and information, call (323) 663-1525 or go to www.FountainTheatre.com.

Patrick Summers will conduct all performances of Richard Strauss' 'Salome' this season, replacing Mikko Franck, who is ill. 'Salome' opens September 23, and continues September 26 and 30, October 4 (matinee), 7, 11 (matinee), and 16.

Ars Nova will present its inaugural A.N.T. FEST (Ars Nova Theater Festival), dedicated to new work and emerging artists. A.N.T. FEST will run Thursday through Monday evenings, October 16th through November 24th, at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street). Performances begin at 8pm. All tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance at www.smarttix.com or by phone at (212) 868-4444.

On Monday, September 29th, at 11:30pm Scott Nevins' 'Curtain Call' will be performed with the cast of 'The Marvelous Wonderettes' at Splash Bar.

Luba Mason will preview her latest project 'Krazy Love' at the Birdland Jazz Club (315 W 44th St New York, NY 10036) on Tuesday, October 7th at 8:30 PM and 11 PM. Call (212) 581-3080 or visit http://www.birdlandjazz.com/, http://www.lubamason.com/, or http://lubamason.typepad.com/ for more information.

'Caesar and Cleopatra' by George Bernard Shaw will be performed Monday, September 22 at 7pm at The Players, located at 16 Gramercy Park South (20th St. east of Park Avenue). 'Caesar and Cleopatra' will be performed Mondays at 7 pm. These performances are open to the public. Tickets are now on sale for $20; call 212.352.3101 or visit Projectshaw.com.

'The F Trip' travels to be performed at The Zipper Factory Theatre for a series of Tuesday night performances, October 7, 14 & 28 at 7pm.

Theatre Under The Stars regrets to announce that performances of 'The Color Purple' are cancelled for Tuesday September 16th and Wednesday September 17th. Classes at the Humphreys School of Musical Theater are also cancelled for Monday September 15th and Tuesday September 16th.