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Arena Stage will once again make history with ARENA RESTAGED, a massive, two-year festival celebrating the rich mosaic of our nation's voices.

Producer/Director Garry Marshall is thrilled to announce the Falcon Theatre's 2008-2009 All-Comedy Season: 'Bringin' the Funny!' The Falcon's 7th subscription series will feature five plays, all comedies, including one World Premiere, one West Coast Premiere, one International Hit and two Troubadour Theater Company shows.

GLO 2008 featuring inspiring new plays written and directed by women July 16th-20th at Theatre 54 at Shetler Studios.

Ian Herman, an award-winning musical director and Broadway veteran, will make his solo debut in 'Alone at Last' on Wednesday, July 30, at 8p.m. at the Zipper Factory.

Followspot Entertainment in association with The Post Theatre Company will present the world premiere of the comedy 'The Grecian Formula', written by Carter Anne McGowan and directed by Mary Jo Lodge.

What's On Stage is reporting that big screen star Josh Hartnett will be making his stage debut in the UK in a new stage adaptation of Rain Man.

Turtle Shell Productions announces the New York premiere of its new Summer Play Festival SUMMER SHORTIES, SUMM-AR NOT.

That roar you heard in Chicago's Loop Monday evening, June 30th, was the enthusiastic opening night audience at the Goodman Theatre, where the volcanic excitement generated by a summertime, homegrown production of the 'Fats' Waller musical 'Ain't Misbehavin' will very nearly blow the roof off the place for the next month or so.

Patti LuPone and Many Patinkin, who co-starred together in 'Evita' will be taking their concert of duets, An Evening of Patti LuPone and Many Patinkin, to various locations across the country next spring. The duo have been performing the show since 2002, which features popular duets from theater classics such as South Pacific, Sunday In The Park With George and Evita.

New York City Opera General Manager-Designate Gerard Mortier is very pleased to announce that Maestro George Manahan has renewed his contract as Music Director of the New York City Opera through 2012.

West Palm Beach's only resident professional theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks will present lectures on the life story and musical career of Florence Foster Jenkins. This wealthy New York society eccentric of the 30's and 40's and the subject of Stephen Temperley's play with music 'Souvenir,'

VOTE! A New Musical about high school election espionage & the pursuit of a real dream that 'counts' received a private, industry-only reading in Manhattan with Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Seussical, Spelling Bee) and Haviland Stillwell (Les Miserables, Fiddler on the Roof) starring.

One of America's greatest plays by one of its greatest playwrights, Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece, Long Day's Journey into Night, opens at The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum on July 26.

The multi-MAC Award-winning singer Lina Koutrakos is bringing back 'Torch,' her darkly modern re-interpretation of the classic torch song, for a two-week engagement at The Metropolitan Room.

Seaside Music Theater reminds us that 'We're All in This Together' with its production of Disney's High School Musical, the successful stage musical based on the Disney Channel original movie.

The sins of the parents leave a lasting impression, as shown in Lisa Dominique's semi-autobiographic solo work A PERFECT SPECIMEN OF FEMININITY.

American Conservatory Theater will bring San Francisco audiences an evening with stage, film, and television actor Roger Rees, in his acclaimed one-man show WHAT YOU WILL.

The Lincoln Center Festival begins Wednesday with 'The Bacchae', a National Theatre of Scotland production.

IMAGINE THIS, the new musical, will have its premiere at the New London Theatre in the West End on Wednesday 19 November, following previews from 4 November.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company launches its 2008-2009 season, an exploration of the imagination, with the world premiere of 'Kafka on the Shore', adapted for the stage and directed by ensemble member Frank Galati, based on the work by Haruki Murakami.

The hilarious Broadway musical The Full Monty previews July 16, opens July 23, and runs through September 21 at The Marriott Theatre.

One of the greatest plays ever written, King Lear, takes the stage of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey beginning July 2 and continuing through July 27th.