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Hugh Jackman recently sat down the The Tonight Show's Jay Leno to talk about his decision to get into theater. Click below to hear what Jackman had to say!

Negin Farsad, Amy Albert and Beth McGregor present the weekly standup show, Comedy School Dropout. In the grand tradition of East Village alternative rooms, Comedy School Dropout brings top-notch standup comics, the occasional comedy musical act, subversive duo, or extremely talented threesome, to the stage for the cut-rate price of zero dollars!

The new musical, Facing East will hold a developmental concert performance on October 3, 2011. The performance will serve as a benefit for The Trevor Project, in advance of a full production next year.

Created and performed by Ben Spatz, Rite of the Butcher is a visceral fable about the power of fantasy, as told by the Butcher -- refugee, criminal, shaman -- through poetry, martial dance, and folk songs in an invented language. This unique work opens new doors for solo theatre by combining rigorous physical and vocal craft with an investigation of pressing contemporary themes. The 45-minute piece deals with loss, trauma, and the fantasy of revenge while shifting back and forth between the style of a traditional monologue and that of European-style experimental performance. Rite of the Butcher will have its world premiere on Saturday, November 5th at 7:30pm at the United Solo Festival at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street, New York City). Tickets are available at the box office or via Telecharge.

Lucio Fernandez, 2008 MAC Award nominee and winner of the ITRA Award, Star Award, and Premio ARTE Award, will be performing his new show 'Lucio...Less Cuban Than Ever' opening October 15, 2011 at The Laurie Beechman Theatre in the heart of New York City on 42nd Street.

On Sunday, September 18, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn Literary Council and Brooklyn Tourism hosted the sixth annual Brooklyn Book Festival. Each year, the Brooklyn Book Festival 'BoBi' Award is given to an author whose body of work exemplifies or speaks to the spirit of Brooklyn and has had a broad impact on the field of literature. This year's recipient is Jhumpa Lahiri, who was celebrated at the Brooklyn Book Festival Gala Mingle on Saturday, September 17, at the Green Building in Carroll Gardens. Lahiri also participated in this year's Festival program, in a conversation with book critic Liesl Schillinger at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights.

BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC opens 2011-12 season with two free preview concerts:

On Tues. 9/13, stars came together at the Carrie Hamilton Theatre in Pasadena to present CONCERT FOR VICTOR: A BENEFIT. All proceeds from the concert go to 23-year-old Victor Rodriguez and his family. In June 2011, Sacramento newlyweds Victor and Crystal Rodriguez went parasailing on the last day of their honeymoon in the Bahamas. At a height of approximately 200 feet their harness snapped, and they fell into the ocean. Crystal was killed, and Victor suffered severe injuries. Neither of them had health or life insurance. They had only been married 12 days.

'8,' a new play chronicling the historic trial in the federal legal challenge to California's Proposition 8, will have its World Premiere on Broadway in a one night-only staged reading to benefit the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on Monday, September 19, 2011. That morning (tomorrow), two of the reading's stars will appear on MSNBC news programs to discuss their roles in '8.'

The Project Rushmore Theatre company will present Bob Ader's one man show FIFTY YEARS IN THE BUSINESS (the musical memoirs of an overgrown, 50+ year old child actor) on Monday 9/26 at the Pearl Studios, 500 8th Ave., Studio 1209.

Great Lakes Theater (GLT) is seeking child actors of all cultures and backgrounds, ages seven to thirteen, for their annual production of A Christmas Carol. Rehearsals will begin on November 11th, with performance dates scheduled from November 29th through December 23rd. Children auditioning for A Christmas Carol may not be fourteen years of age until December 24, 2011 or later.

PARLOUR SONG by Jez Butterworth will play Oct 1 ?through Oct 29, 2011 on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 7:30pm. Call 303.300.2210 or Buy Online Now! Two-for-One Tickets On Thursdays!

Tony nominated actor Josh Gad has joined the ensemble cast of Stuart Blumberg's sex addiction dramedy 'Thanks for Sharing' at Class 5 Films and Olympus Pictures, according to Variety.

Rumor has it that the upcoming LES MISERABLES film is likely to be released in 3D.

The Walt Disney Co. pulled off its most successful re-release this past weekend as its 3D version of 1994?s The Lion King earned an estimated $29.3 million in its return to theaters.

This Sept 22nd, 23rd and 25th a Festival of Improvised Music will happen sponsored by C.O.M.A. @ ABC No-Rio. As the time for a complete building construction approaches (it will be torn down and another built in the same spot) A 3 day festival seemed appropriate. Stop by if your in town...there will be an open session each night.

The Seeing Place Theater, known for intensely intimate ensemble work, revives Marber's penetrating parable of learning how to love in the modern world.

Paul A. Schaefer, Kyle Barisich and Elizabeth Welch, members of the Broadway cast of 'Phantom of the Opera,' will be the opening act at The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine's 2011 What A Wonderful World Award to be held at Beth Israel Medical Center on Monday, September 19, 2011. Honorees include music legend and actor Levon Helm, Dr. Marvin McMillen, and classical guitarist and Beth Israel patient and volunteer Andrew Schulman.

BroadwayWorld brings you photo coverage from the Sept. 17, 2011 London Fashion Week catwalk show of the Spring/Summer 2012 collection by fhasion label Ashish.

Sept. 17, 2011 was the Jaeger London show on the British Fashion Council catwalk at London Fashion Week at the Somerset house.