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Men Are Real…Women R2, the spicy, savagely-funny monologue show featuring an all-Latino cast at their raunchiest, raciest & sexiest, returns to Off-Broadway with a special preview performance/gala on June 27th.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will conclude its current mainstage season with Richard Nelson's comedy, SOME AMERICANS ABROAD, directed by Gordon Edelstein.

'Broadway at the Seaport' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' will highlight Dog Run Rep's 2008 Seaport Theatre Festival.

Tony Award winning choreographer and director Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde, La Cage aux Folles, Hairspray) will discuss his new book 'Broadway Bares: Backstage Pass' on Friday June 27th at the Barnes and Noble Lincoln Triangle (Broadway at 66th Street).

Matt Cavenaugh and Daphne Rubin-Vega will perform at Upright Citizens Brigade on Monday the 30th as part of Gravid Water.

THE MAGIC MEATHANDS COMMUNITY COMEDY ENSEMBLE will join forces with the group JUMPSTART to bring to the stage an evening of 'family-friendly' comedy in Hermosa Beach.

After a critically acclaimed, sold-out run earlier this year, Life In A Marital Institution (20 years of monogamy in one terrifying hour) is moving Off-Broadway.

TKO Entertainment is pleased to present noted Japanese actress Seiko Tano in the New York premiere of the one-woman play HANA ICHIMOMME.

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

Following a sold-out run in June, The Brick Theater is extending the ipod noir Suspicious Package due to critical success and popular demand.

The Zipper Factory Theater, which offers an eclectic lineup of theatrical events, music, cabaret, comedy, dance, variety and burlesque, proudly presents the following attractions in July.

The Festival of New American Musicals which officially launched throughout Southern California on May 1 will officially end on July 10-13th with a staged reading of the new musical, DANCE WITH ME, based on the lives and romance of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The Festival has included 158 performances of 43 musical theater events in 36 theaters stretching from Santa Barbara to San Diego, reaching an estimated 122,000 theatergoers.

Northamptonshire composer and lyricist, Gareth Peter Dicks has created a new musical for the stage. Bluebird, a WW2 love story, premiers at The Castle Theatre, Wellingborough on 29th July 2008 for four performances, before embarking on a small UK tour in the autumn.

The phrase 'real life is stranger than fiction' gained extra meaning in recent days when the headlines about an alleged 'pregnancy pact' between teenage girls in a high school in Gloucester, Massachusetts hewed closely to the plot of Adam Rapp's new play THE METAL CHILDREN, being given a lab production now through Sunday, June 29 at the Tony Award-winning Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15 St.) in New York.

The musical White Christmas, directed by Walter Bobbie, has been a sensation in major cities nationwide and is now possibly aiming for a Broadway run this winter.

heAtrainplays are a celebration of New York, created by six teams while traveling the entire route of the A train, from 207th Street & Broadway to Far Rockaway and back. On Tuesday evening, June 24th, four librettists will hop on the A train at 207th Street and begin writing the books for four 15-minute musicals, all set on the A train. Before each of the teams begins their journey, they pick a number between 3 and 5 to set the number of characters, then they choose headshots from a blind draw to determine who is in each piece. When the librettists reach the Far Rockaway stop, they randomly select, through another blind draw, their collaborative lyricists, composers, directors and choreographers, who have been awaiting their arrival at a nearby McDonald's with two playwrights joining them and just beginning their journey. Two directors will meet the creators of the now finished plays at 207th Street and they all proceed to Columbus Circle where they meet the pre-selected pool of actors, decipher their scribbles, copy the scripts and begin rehearsals. They have until show time THE NEXT DAY, Wednesday night, June 25th at 8:00PM to develop these works into six exciting new musical experiences to be shared with the audience at New World Stages on the set of the hit musical Altar Boyz.

Flicker House Productions announced today a one-week extension of their new production of The Who's Tommy. The production will now run through July 6, when it must close, at the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre in Hollywood.

Northwestern University's world premiere workshop production of David H. Bell's musical 'The Bowery Boys' is a lyrical tale of homeless youth in the Bowery section of 19th century New York in search of the American dream. The show is loosely based on the 'rags-to-riches' works of American author Horatio Alger Jr. and the songs of George M. Cohan.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Mara Manus) will begin previews for Sam Shepard's new play KICKING A DEAD HORSE on Wednesday, June 25. Directed by Shepard, KICKING A DEAD HORSE will run through Sunday, August 10 with an official press opening on Monday, July 14 at 7 PM.

The Zipper Factory presents Pattie Canova's SOULED OUT on Wednesday, June 26 at 8:00 p.m.

Elizabeth Block of Terracotta Films is proud to present Elizabeth Bove's Crazy For Love.

The New Repertory Theatre in Watertown, Mass., is staging the world premiere of 'According to Tip,' a one-man play featuring stage and screen star Ken Howard as the inimitable, sometimes irascible, but always indefatigable Speaker of the House of Representatives, Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill. Written by long-time Boston political pundit Dick Flavin, 'According to Tip' marks the 50-year career, and the world history it spanned, of one of the most colorful and effective political figures of the 20th century.

The Laurie Beechman Theatre is very pleased to welcome Broadway veteran RIC RYDER for a one night only concert event. The seasoned performer (Blood Brothers, The Music Man, Starmites, Grease, A New Brain), is joined by composer/musician Steve Marzullo (I Hid My Love, Somedays, Musical Director of Once on This Island, etc.) and musicians Mary Ann McSweeney (Avenue Q Swings) and Everett Bradley (Broadway's Swing!, tours with Darryl Hall, John Bon Jovi, Chris Botti, Cyndi Lauper), as well as vocalists Michelle Blakely (Broadway's Senator Joe, Grease and Annie Get Your Gun) and Holly Hylton (Hello, Dolly with Mimi Hinds).