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is proud to announce the launch of its national tour, which will begin its first engagement at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco from August 11 - September 6th, 2009. Subsequent engagements will be announced shortly.

Polly Stenham's That Face will complete its run in the West End on at the Duke of York's Theatre on 5 July as previously announced.

Pop Idol Finalist & Dancing on Ice Star Gareth Gates Makes His West End Debut in Spoonful Charity Gala.

DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions Ltd. are pleased to announce that tickets for the Pre-Broadway engagement of SHREK THE MUSICAL at The 5th Avenue Theatre will go on sale this Friday, June 13 at 9:30 a.m.

McPherson's plays include Rum & Vodka, The Good Thief, This Lime Tree Bower, St. Nicholas, The Weir (Olivier Award, Best Play,) Dublin Carol, Port Authority, and The Seafarer (Tony Award nomination, Best Play.) Shining City received critical acclaim in London and New York and was awarded a Tony Nomination for Best Play.

Jamie deRoy concludes a monthly cabaret series of her variety show, Jamie de Roy & friends on Wednesday, June 11th (7:30PM) at the Metropolitan Room with a an evening of songs from Tony Award®-winning Musicals.

Las Vegas - The Cher Foundation is holding its 5th fund raising event for the Children's Craniofacial Association with all proceeds going to improve the lives of children who suffer from facial deformities.

Jo Schuman Silver, producer of Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon announced last night the three Bay Area high school winners of The Steve Silver Foundation and Beach Blanket Babylon 'Scholarship for the Arts.' The event featured an opening performance from the cast of Beach Blanket Babylon as well as a welcome speech from Mayor Gavin Newsom and former Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr.

Broadway In Chicago, in partnership with the City of Chicago, is pleased to present the BROADWAY IN CHICAGO CONCERT IN THE PARK, a fantastic, free event featuring Broadway's hottest shows during the city's legendary Taste of Chicago festival.

Epic Theatre Ensemble has announced the schedule for its new post-show talk-back series, 'Epic Forum Discussions.'

Susan Barton, a twenty year veteran of the Los Angeles theater community will assume the role of managing director at the Geffen Playhouse until a nationwide search can be completed.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey Announces June Shows.

Adam Rapp's new play THE METAL CHILDREN, about censorship in small-town American, begins performances June 20 at the Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street), it has been announced today by Vineyard Artistic Director Douglas Aibel.

Due to popular demand, the Marin Theatre Company (Mill Valley, CA) production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Living in Paris' has been extended through June 22, 2008.

On Wednesday, June 11, Richard Todd Adams will slip behind the mask as the elusive Phantom who lurks beneath the stage of the Paris Opera House, exercising a reign of terror over all its occupants in the U.S. National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, the international award-winning musical directed by Harold Prince, now at the Community Center Theatre in Sacramento through June 14.

GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS, a division of Sh-K-Boom Records, is proud to announce the release of the new CD from KLEA BLACKHURST and BILLY STRITCH - Dreaming Of A Song: The Music of Hoagy Carmichael. Blackhurst took New York by storm with her acclaimed tribute to Ethel Merman, Everything the Traffic Will Allow; Stritch is an award-winning composer, arranger, vocalist and jazz pianist. Their first artistic collaboration mines the catalogue of one of America's most treasured songwriters, who wrote such standards as 'Skylark,' 'Georgia On My Mind' and 'Star Dust.' The recording is produced by Grammy Award winner Joel Moss and will be available in stores and online June 17, 2008. Klea and Billy will celebrate the CD with a special concert at Birdland Jazz Club (315 West 44th Street) at 7:00 PM on Monday, June 16. Please call (212) 581-3080 for reservations.

Studio Dante, founded in 2003 by Michael & Victoria Imperioli, proudly presents Ron Fitzgerald's 'Safe', directed by Zetna Fuentes in a limited Off-Broadway engagement running Tuesday, June 10 - Saturday, June 28.

Monday, June 23rd, 11:30pm there will be a special Back By Popular Demand 'Scott Nevins' Curtain Call' with DANNY CALVERT at Splash.

Sean Holmes' production of Ron Hutchinson's Moonlight & Magnolias returns to the Tricycle Theatre for a strictly limited four week run from 2 July - 2 August with original cast members Andy Nyman (Selznick) and Steven Pacey (Fleming) who are joined by new cast members Nicholas Woodeson (Hecht) and Rebecca Calder (Miss Poppenghul).

Expanding on its history of developing new plays and cultivating new voices for the American theater, The Public Theater is now accepting applications for the second year of The Emerging Writers Group, an initiative that seeks to target playwrights at the earliest stages in their careers and nurture their artistic growth by providing necessary resources and support.

Signature Theatre Company announced today that their world premiere production of EDWARD ALBEE'S OCCUPANT starring Tony® and Academy Award®-winning actress Mercedes Ruehl and two-time Emmy® winner and Tony® nominee Larry Bryggman has been extended again by popular demand through Sunday, July 13th.

Tonight, 2,200 high school students, teachers and parents from across Washington state packed Benaroya Hall for the sixth annual 5th Avenue High School Musical Theatre Awards

The Potomac Theatre Project (PTP) proudly presents its 22nd repertory season (and its second consecutive in NY) that includes Howard Barker's Scenes From An Execution (featuring Broadway star Jan Maxwell in her 3rd collaboration with PTP), Sarah Kane's Crave, and the NY Premiere of Neal Bell's Somewhere in the Pacific.

The world premiere musical revue 'Tonight at Eight: Saluting Sheldon Harnick' will launch Northwestern University's Summer Music Theatre Festival 2008.

The Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko San Francisco today announced plans to present four nationally acclaimed artists beginning mid-June.