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Love, Loss, and What I Wore alumnae Anita Gillette ('30 Rock') and Aisha de Haas (Caroline, Or Change) will return to the hit Off Broadway show, completing the cast that begins today (Wednesday, July 6) and runs through Sunday, August 7, 2011 at the Westside Theatre (407 W 43rd Street). They join previously announced cast members Alison Fraser (The Divine Sister), Marla Maples ('The Ex-Wives Club') and Zuzanna Szadkowski ('Gossip Girl').

Joe's Pub announced today that they will be co-hosting a series of salon performances this summer at The Cooper Square Hotel. This April, Joe's Pub, a vital part of New York City's cultural landscape, announced a three month hiatus in programming, beginning July 2, to undertake an interior redesign and renovation. During this temporary closure, Joe's Pub will be continuing its dedication to presenting a wide variety of performing arts at affordable ticket prices to the New York and, specifically East Village community. Serving more than 100,000 audience members and presenting over 800 performances annually, this is the first time in 13 years of operation that Joe's Pub has closed its doors for an extended period of time.

Multiple Emmy Award winner and Broadway veteran James Spader ('Boston Legal,' 'The Practice') will be joining the regular cast of NBC's 'The Office' (Thursdays, 9-9:30 p.m. ET) as CEO Robert California of Sabre, the parent company of Dunder Mifflin.

From July 15 through July 17, The Hamptons Institute will host a 3 day symposium consisting of six sessions over the course of the weekend, interspersed with informal dinners and lunches for participants and sponsors of the program. Conversations feature prominent commentators and thought leaders on a range of topical issues.

John Pinette satiates cravings for laughter in his new one-hour World Premiere Stand-Up Special 'John Pinette: Still Hungry,' debuting on Friday, July 29 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT on COMEDY CENTRAL.

Acclaimed actor and vocalist Kate Pazakis will guest star in the hit musical revue Mama and Her Boys on July 16 at 7pm and 9:30pm. Pazakis recently appeared in the First National Tour of Lincoln Center Theatre's Tony Winning Revival of South Pacific. Her solo album 'Unzipped: Live at the Zipper' was released on PS Classics. Pazakis will be filling in for Wendy Watson.

Midwest New Musicals presents Spring Rains and Labor Pains, the 2011 Mini-Musical Project on Sunday, July 17, 6:30 PM at the McGaw YMCA Children's Center Auditorium at 1420 Maple in Evanston. Tickets for the general public are $10 at the door.

The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.baltplayfest.com) kicks off its Thirtieth Season this Friday, July 8th, with the opening of The Sculptress, by Marilyn Millstone, at the Fells Point Corner Theater (www.fpct.org), 251 South Ann Street, Baltimore, MD 21231.

Westport Country Playhouse has released a video, taped in rehearsal, offering a look at the upcoming summer sizzler, 'Lips Together, Teeth Apart,' Terrence McNally's perceptive and powerful dramatic comedy about two straight couples spending a July weekend on Fire Island, on stage July 12 - 30. The video provides insight on the play from Mark Lamos, Westport Country Playhouse artistic director and director of the production, and cast members Chris Henry Coffey, John Ellison Conlee, Jenn Gambatese and Maggie Lacey.

During tonight's toe tapping reveal episode, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA has spun out a dazzling Top 22 for the second season in a row. After a cross-country audition tour with stops in Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal and Saint John, NB, the judges selected 11 girls and 11 guys to perform for Canada's votes and compete for the coveted title of Canada's Favourite Dancer.

The Judy Show - My Life As A Sitcom, (www.JudyGold.com) a new comedy written by and starring Judy Gold, will play The DR2 Theater, (103 E 15th Street) beginning June 30th with the official opening scheduled for July 6th, it was announced today by producers Daryl Roth and Eva Price.

TRYST is a riveting romantic thriller set in Edwardian London. Part romance, part psychological thriller, TRYST tells the story of handsome con-man George Love, who preys on well-off women, wooing them, marrying them, and leaving them penniless and husbandless the day after the honeymoon...that is, until he meets his match in lonelymilliner Adelaide Pinchin. TRYST is an intense and tantalizing play intended for mature audiences.

The Guthrie Theater will kick off its 50th anniversary season with a three-play celebration of prolific British playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton, whose adaptation of Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning comedy God of Carnage is playing on the Theater's McGuire Proscenium Stage through August 7, 2011. A Guthrie commission of Appomattox, a new play based on his original 2007 opera collaboration with composer Philip Glass, will be presented in the fall of 2012 alongside two of Hampton's other works, the titles of which will be announced at a later date.

By popular demand, Goodman Theatre extends the world premiere of Chinglish, the sexy new comedy by Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang, directed by OBIE Award winner Leigh Silverman. The 'shrewd, timely and razor-sha rp comedy' (Chicago Tribune) continues for seven additional performances, through July 31, with its cast of seven intact.

The Metropolitan Atlanta Theater Awards, founded by Russ Ivey, originated in October of 2004 with the intention of recognizing those hardworking individuals that put their time and effort into Community and Non-Union Professional Theater. There are many aspiring actors that would like to be given recognition for their skills and dedication to the performing arts. Many of those are of the desire to build their resume so that they will be given more audition opportunities. Secondly, many theaters have a hard time marketing themselves so they can draw not only an audience, but a lot of the talent to their shows. This is where the MAT Awards come in. The 'MAT' is one of thirty one different categories that are presented on an annual basis. Each year, an Award Ceremony is held to present those awards to the individuals/theaters that have put the time and effort into making their productions great. Those categories are the following:

Following on from the Menier Chocolate Factory's acclaimed productions of Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music, Stephen Sondheim's latest musical, Road Show premiered at the Chocolate Factory from 24th June. This production is directed and designed by the Tony Award Winning John Doyle and features David Bedella, Michael Jibson, Jon Robyns, Gillian Bevan and Glyn Kerslake.

Dress Circle has just announce that tickets for the celebratory gala are now on sale. The gala as produced by Stuart Matthew Price and James Yeoburn, will be performed on Sunday 7th August 2011 at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, the West End home of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical Phantom of the Opera.

America's favorite celebrity dirt-dishing comedienne, Kathy Griffin, returns to Nashville on Thursday, July 21, for one performance only at TPAC's Jackson Hall.

According to TVGuide.com, stage veteran David Hasselhoff will satr in FX's 'Sons of Anarchy' in October. Hasselhoff will play a sleazy ex-porn star.

Following her singing of the National Anthem at the Capitol Fourth Celebration this past weekend, American Idol alum and Broadway veteran JOrdin Sparks has signed on to sing it again- this time at an MLB All-Satr game.