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CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BOY written and performed by Steven Fales plays 28 July to 30 August at New End Theatre.

13, A New Musical, with music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, will begin previews on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 and officially open at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 W. 45th Street) on Sunday, October 5, 2008.

The cast of Jersey Boys Las Vegas is led by Erich Bergen (Bob Gaudio), Rick Faugno (Frankie Valli), Jeremy Kushnier (Tommy DeVito) and Jeff Leibow (Nick Massi) as The Four Seasons, with John Salvatore and Ken Krugman.

Les Misérables in Concert makes its Hollywood Bowl debut in a production featuring Melora Hardin as Fantine, Maddie Levy as Young Cosette, Tom Lowe as Enjolras, Michele Maika as Cosette, Michael McCormick as Thénardier, J. Mark McVey as Valjean, Lea Michele as Éponine, Brian Stokes Mitchell as Javert, Sage Ryan as Gavroche and John Lloyd Young as Marius. Rosie O'Donnell, who was to play the role of Madame Thenardier, has withdrawn from the performances in order to care for her eldest son, who broke his wrist. She will be replaced by veteran actress Ruth Williamson.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party are proud to announce celebrated and honored songwriting and performing team of Marcy Heisler (bookwriter/lyricist) and Zina Goldrich (composer), in The Marcy & Zina Show, Monday, July 28, 2008 at 7:00pm, as part of the long-running, Nightlife Award-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland.

Dubbed 'The World's Most Popular Musical', the current touring production of Mamma Mia still proves to be raking in the 'Money, Money, Money'.

THE LADY IN PENTHOUSE B opened on July 25th, 2008 with book & lyrics by Peter Napolitano and music by Matthew Ward. The cast features Nancy Dussault (Into the Woods, Side by Side by Sondheim, Do Re Mi (Tony Nomination, Theatre World Award) and Bajour (Tony nomination), TV's 'Too Close for Comfort') as Lady Susan with Stephen Bienskie (Chess and Cats), Michael Cone (La Boheme, Rags and Brigadoon) Gordon Stanley (Cabaret, Ragtime and Beauty and the Beast), JD Webster (Wonderful Town, Ragtime and Showboat) and Sally Wilfert (Assassins). The show ran until July 27th.

Harvey Returns! Welcome to The Return of special new series on BroadwayWorld.com - four time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein's personal MySpace blog about the journey of his new musical A Catered Affair and more. We'll be exclusively picking up Harvey Fierstein's blog as he shares his first hand reports from rehearsals to the upcoming closing night on July 27th and beyond.

The Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts presents Brent Barrett and Perry Ojeda following in the crooked footsteps of John Lithgow, Jonathan Pryce, and Tony Award-winner Norbert Leo Butz. The good news? They're rotten!

New Theatre kicks off the season with one of the Bard's most accessible romantic comedies, As You Like It (August 14 - September 14, 2008,) which follows Shakespeare's gorgeous heroine, Rosalind, into a forest of possibilities. The nature of true love versus romantic love are put to the test amidst misunderstandings, gender confusions, and mistaken identities. The season moves from this adaptation of Shakespeare's classic comedy to New Theatre's first World Premiere of the season, The Rant by Andrew Case (September 25 - October 26, 2008.) In this contemporary drama, an investigator is assigned to the murder case of a 16 year old African American boy, killed by an NYPD police officer

The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told is by Paul Rudnick who gave us Jeffrey, I Hate Hamlet and The New Century. The play originated with Rudnick pondering the anti-gay slogan, 'God Made Adam and Eve… not Adam and Steve.' So he wrote a play supposing that God made Adam and Steve and their lesbian counterparts, Jane and Mabel. Join the foursome as they go through the Garden of Eden, The Flood, and journey with them to present day where they meet Santa Claus and Rabbi Sharon.

Actresses Julianne Moore and Cynthia Nixon will join Ralph Fiennes, Barry McGovern and Liam Neeson onstage this Saturday and Sunday (July 26 and 27) at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College for hour-long poetry and prose readings by Samuel Beckett, as Gate|Beckett ends its acclaimed run at the Lincoln Center Festival.

The fifth annual San Francisco Children's Theater Festival, a one-day free event with 20 shows for children will be held Sunday, July 27th, 11:00 am-4:30 pm at Yerba Buena Gardens and the Zeum Theater.

On Sunday, July 27, 2008, the O'Neill Theater Center will host the McCourt Cup, founded by renowned Irish-American author Frank McCourt and his brother Malachy McCourt.

TheatreWorks, the nationally-acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, proudly presents the first post-Broadway production of the Tony Award-winning and scandalously delicious musical GREY GARDENS.

Private Lives, one of Noël Coward's most famous and successful comedies, takes the stage at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey beginning August 6 and continuing through August 31. Performances are Tuesdays through Sundays at The Shakespeare Theatre's Main Stage, the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, 36 Madison Avenue in Madison. Tickets range from $29 to $33 for Previews and $38 to $53 for regular performances, depending on performance day and time and seat location. For tickets or more information, call 973-408-5600 or visit www.ShakespeareNJ.org. Patrons may also purchase Ticket Packages for additional discounts. Groups of 10 or more are eligible for group discounts.

Two people who meet by chance discover they were meant to be together in Terence McNally's bittersweet comedy, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company concludes its 32nd season with the world premiere Superior Donuts by ensemble member and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts, directed by ensemble member Tina Landau. The production, featuring ensemble members Jon Michael Hill, Yasen Peyankov and James Vincent Meredith, with Jane Alderman, Kate Buddeke, Cliff Chamberlain, Michael Garvey, Robert Maffia and Michael McKean, runs June 19 - August 24, 2008 in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St.