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American Conservatory Theater's Young Conservatory director Craig Slaight announced casting today for The Exam, commissioned by London's National Theatre and written by renowned British writer and comedian Andy Hamilton. Directed by Amelia Stewart, the production features actors from A.C.T.'s acclaimed Young Conservatory program. The Exam plays August 15-22 at A.C.T.'s newest performance space, the Garret Room, located on the fifth floor of the American Conservatory Theater. General admission tickets are $10 and are available by calling A.C.T. Ticket services at 415.749.2228 or online at www.act-sf.org.

Nine-time Tony Award-winner and National Medal of the Arts recipient Tommy Tune directs the world premiere of this glorious musical from the writers of the Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) kicks off the 2008/09 Subscription Season with Peter Shaffer's award-winning drama, Amadeus…

Intiman Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Bartlett Sher and Interim Managing Director Kevin Maifeld, continues its 2008 season with the comedy The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane, directed by Fracaswell Hyman.

Media City Ballet, Natasha Middleton, Artistic Director, will present 'An Evening of Khachaturian: The Composer and His Ballets,' featuring Principal Dancers, Arsen Serobian, Gabrielle Palmatier, Amara Baptist, Edgar Nikolyan, Felicia Guzman, Ellen Rosa and Stephen Nelson, along with Soloists and Corps Dancers from Media City Ballet. Jenkyns Pelaez will appear as a Guest Artist.

Spring Awakening and recent Les Miserables in Concert at the Hollywood Bowl star Lea Michele will be performing at Upright Cabaret in Mark's Restaurant (861 N. La Cienega Blvd) on August 15-17, 2008. With the Friday night and Saturday night shows sold out, an additional Sunday night 9pm show has just been added and is already selling fast.

The New York Pops will open its 26th season at Carnegie Hall on Friday, October 17 at 8:00PM.

The New Group has announced their 2008-2009 season

The hit off-Broadway show Life In A Marital Institution (20 Years Of Monogamy In One Terrifying Hour), written and performed by award-winning monologist James Braly and directed by Hal Brooks (Thom Pain, No Child) will end its scheduled run at the SoHo Playhouse on August 31, 2008.

Tickets for I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change at the CLO Cabaret are on sale now at CLOcabaret.com, by calling (412) 456-6666 or at the Box Office at Theater Square. The show opens Oct. 9, 2008, and plays through Feb. 1, 2009.

Theatre for a New Audience's Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz has set an ambitious four-play season that opens with the New York premiere of C.I.C.T./Théâtre des Bouffes Du Nord's production of The Grand Inquisitor directed by Peter Brook October 22 through November 23 (co-presented with New York Theatre Workshop).

Gramercy Theatre and the historic Plaza Theatre opened their summer production of Disney's Aladdin Jr. on Friday August 8. Performances run through August 17 at the Main Stage Theatre of The Plaza, 425 North Bumby Ave, Downtown Orlando.

The Town Hall has announced the return of the October Cabaret Festival

MAIEUTIC THEATRE WORKS' (MTWorks) production of David Stallings' Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell, received horrific news on Sunday, 4 hours prior to the performance. After premiering their latest work on Friday, to a sold-out house, Maggie Benedict, who played Cleopatra, lost her father; she was to fly out to South Africa immediately to be with her family and would not be able to continue with the run.

Strawdog Theatre Company kicks off their 21st season with Karel Čapek's science fiction drama 'R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots),' directed by Strawdog Artistic Associate Shade Murray. Set in the 1920s at the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots, 'R.U.R.' follows a team of scientists who have created the model to factory-produce the world's first robotic workforce.

Twenty Feet Productions, the company that brought you last year's critically acclaimed (New York Times Critic's Pick, March, 2007), sold out revival of Orson Welles' Moby Dick - Rehearsed is now proud to bring Becket, Jean Anouilh's Tony Award-winning masterpiece, back to the New York stage.

Rock/pop artist David Yazbek has confirmed his Spiegelworld Debut for September 15th in NYC.

On Thursday, August 22, Trista Moldovan will take over the role of the beautiful, young soprano, Christine Daaé, 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 Keller Auditorium in Portland, Oregon through September 7.

South Coast Repertory kicks off the 2008-09 Season with the World Premiere of its first commissioned musical: An Italian Straw Hat: A Vaudeville.

A hilarious and moving play - East 14th chronicles Don Reed's escape from an ultrastrict upbringing with his overbearing stepfather -- to the other side of town to live with his charismatic, funny, very supportive real father - who he had no idea - was a pimp. The show was recently nominated for Best Actor & Best Playwright by the NAACP

New Repertory Theatre is pleased to announce that in 2008-2009 it will be celebrating its 25th Season. New Rep will kick-off the celebration with a special ticket offer. For one day only, on August 25th, New Rep will offer $25.00 tickets to any Mainstage Shows on the 2008-2009 season.