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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.

Pittsburgh CLO is bringing back The Gong Show for one night only, in homage to the television classic that recently returned on Comedy Central. Hosted by CLO's own Jason Coll, the performance starts at 10:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 15, at the Cabaret Theater. Tickets cost just $5 at the door.

Tony Award nominee Emily Skinner, last seen on Signature's stage in the critically acclaimed production of The Witches of Eastwick, is featured in the new musical adventure Ace. On Thursday, September 4th, 2008 she will participate in Signature Theater's free event 'Thursday Brown Bag Lunch'. The first Thursday of the month patron can sit down for a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Signature productions. 'Enjoy your lunch while you engage in an informal discussion with some of the artists our their 2008-2009 season,' says the theater's website.

David Bell's brand new adaptation of the classic Richard Rodgers (The King & I, South Pacific, The Sound of Music) and Laurence Hart hit The Boys from Syracuse, will make its Chicago Premiere August 7, open August 14 and run through September 28 at Drury Lane Theatre Oakbrook Terrace, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, IL.

SHREK THE MUSICAL will begin a pre-Broadway run at Seattle's The 5th Avenue Theatre, August 14 to September 21.

Continuing its free lunchtime series this week, '106.7 Lite fm Presents Broadway in Bryant Park 2008' welcomes the casts of Young Frankenstein, 13, Grease, Legally Blonde The Musical & Rent on Thursday, August 14th. The following day, Friday August 15th the casts of The Lion King, Enter Laughing, Hairspray, Godspell & Forbidden Broadway will be performing.

The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport is proud to announce its next production of OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS by Joe DiPietro, a perfect compliment to any Sunday dinner, running August 14 - September 14, 2008.

Anything can happen and will in ACT - A Contemporary Theatre's production of the brilliantly constructed social comedy Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn, August 15-September 14.

You've seen their fast-tapping, high-kicking antics at the Benedum Center this summer. Now, join the 2008 Pittsburgh CLO Ensemble as its members step into the spotlight at 10:30 p.m. August 14, at the CLO Cabaret at Theater Square for a one-night-only engagement. Tickets cost just $5 and are available at the door.

The Prince Music Theater will open their season with The World Goes Round starting September 20 - October 12, 2008.