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Kristin Scott Thomas, the Olivier Award-winning star of the Royal Court Theatre's critically acclaimed production of Anton Chekhov's THE SEAGULL, will be interviewed tomorrow, Friday, October 24 on CBS's 'Early Show' and ABC's 'The View'.

Patrick Barlow's adaptation of The 39 Steps, directed by Maria Aitken, will celebrate its second birthday this month as over 140,000 tickets are released for a new booking period, until 6 September 2009. On 13 October 2008 Tessa Churchard will join current cast members Jo Stone-Fewings, Alan Perrin and Nigel Betts at the Criterion Theatre to play the three female roles - Annabella Schmidt, Pamela and Margaret - in this hilarious 100 minute whodunnit.

The Lark Play Development Center has announced the selected playwrights for the 2008-09 Playwrights' Workshop Fellows 2008. This year's writers include Thomas Bradshaw (Southern Promises), Samuel D. Hunter (Lark's 2008 PONY Fellow), Lisa Kron (Well), Deirdre O'Connor (Hero), and Playwright-in-Residence Arthur Kopit (Lark Playwright Advisor).

B.B. King Blues Club & Grill and Scenic NYC Productions present HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH featuring Jonathan Whitton and Louise Stewart on Monday, November 24.

3-Legged Dog (3LD), a leading experimental arts group, has been awarded $400,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and another $200,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation's New York City Cultural Innovation Fund.

Actor, producer and director John Malkovich, who directed a French version of Zach Helm's THE GOOD CANARY in Paris last year, will now direct a new production of the play in Spanish. EL BUEN CANARIO will be open on November 26 at Teatro de Los Insurgentes in Mexico City for a ten-week run.

Angelo Parra's The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith will be performed at the New Brunswick Playhouse, running March 3?29. Miche Braden, who portrayed Bessie Smith in the previous productions of the play, will recreate the title role once more.

Bay Area Theatre Director and Producer John Bisceglie, who is best known for his elaborate and colorful musical productions, will be producing and directing his SF Follies musical revue at the Actors Theatre in San Francisco, opening February 6th, 2009, with auditions on 12/6

HeadCheese Fat Boss Productions presents their ninth annual production of THE HIPMAS CAROL, an intimate and rhythmic retelling of Charles Dickens classic told through rhyming couplets, and illustrated musically by avant-garde improv/jazz electric guitarist Ritch Valadez, which opens Thursday, December 4 at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts.

Starting on November 8, 2008, New York's 106.7 LiteFM invites all theatergoers to save over 40% on tickets to SHREK THE MUSICAL at the Broadway Theatre for a limited time. Plus, a free dowload of 'I Know It's Today' featuring Sutton Foster as Princess Fiona is also available.

The Falcon Theatre and Arthur Murray Dance Studios of Sherman Oaks team up to help theatre patrons dance like the stars. An hour prior to the Thursday performances of Richard Alfieri's Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, the second production in the Falcon Theatre's 2008-2009 'Bringin' the FUNNY' All-Comedy subscription season, Arthur Murray Sherman Oaks will be providing free dance lessons in the Falcon Theatre lobby.

The Laurie Beechman Theatre welcomes ALEXANDER GEMIGNANI for a special, one night only concert on Monday, October 27th at 7pm. Alexander's performance is part of the theatre's celebrated Voices from the Great White Way Series.

Horse Trade Theater Group presents REVEALED, a GiGi La Femme & Doc Wasabassco Production, a burlesque show which will be performed Wednesday, November 19 at 10:00pm at Under St. Marks, 94 St. Marks Place, New York.

The Flea Theater presents the U.S. premiere of DAWN by Thomas Bradshaw, beginning previews November 9th. The production will be directed by Flea Artistic Director, Jim Simpson and feature actors Gerry Bammon, (Obie Award winner and Drama Desk Award nominee for Nixon's Nixon), Laura Esterman (Drama Desk Award winner for Marvin's Room), Irene Walsh, Drew Hildebrand, Kate Benson, and Jenny Seastone Stern.

Famed gossip columnist Liz Smith will sit down with the Tony and Emmy Award-winning singer and actress Elaine Stritch, who will discuss her storied career in film, television and on Broadway. ELAINE STRITCH IN CONVERSATION WITH LIZ SMITH will be presented on November 11 at 7pm by New York's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

The Barrow Group presents SHORT STUFF 5: PLAYS BY WOMEN, which runs from Friday, November 07, 2008 through Monday, November 24, 2008.

NYU's Tisch School of the Arts has announced a new alumni initiative for emerging playwrights. The inaugural year kicks off with reading of Neena Beber's A WORLD BENEATH at the Cherry Lane Theater on November 10 at 7pm.

Carol Hall's new play THE SEX EDUCATION OF MY MOTHER will be read by the author/composer/lyricist for the Prospect Theater's Dark Night/Solo Series on Sunday, October 26, 2008, at 8pm at the Hudson Guild Theatre at 441 West 26th Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues).

Friends in Theater Company has announced the casting of YOU'RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN, a one-night only benefit production for the Make-A-Wish Foundation to be presented Monday, December 15, 2008 at 8:00pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College 899 10th Ave. NY, NY.

Opera Pacific's 2008-2009 main stage season at Segerstrom Hall of the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, opens with Rossini's The Barber of Seville, which performs October 22 - November 1, 2008. This is Opera Pacific's first main stage offering of The Barber of Seville since 1996.