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Due to an abbreviated rehearsal period with the show's full company, Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will move the opening night of Richard Nelson's Some Americans Abroad to Thursday, July 24, to allow for a longer preview period.

Written and performed by Harnest, SACRED IS THE NEW PROFANE is told stylistically: mixing stand-up, story-telling and character driven scenes, Harnest portrays a breakdown that transformed into a break-through. Directed by Jeremy Bloom, the show begins performances on Friday, July 25th at Stage Left Studio, located at 438 W. 37th Street as part of the Ninth Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival.

The multi-MAC Award-winning singer Lina Koutrakos is bringing back 'Torch,' her darkly modern re-interpretation of the classic torch song, for a two-week engagement at The Metropolitan Room.

Broadway in Bryant Park tomorrow has been postponed due to the pending inclement weather. They are rescheduling tomorrow's performance for the rain date of August 15th. The performance was to include the casts of The Lion King, Vanities, Hairspray, Forbidden Broadway and Godspel.

Variety reports that New Line Cinema has just made a deal with John Waters, Hairspray's creator to pen a treatment for a sequel to the hit film. Also set to return are director/choreographer Adam Shankman, the song-writing team of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, and producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.

Camp Broadway®, Broadway's Original Summer Camp, hosts legendary composer Charles Strouse, Anthony Rapp and Tony Award Winner Lin Manuel Miranda in a Camp Broadway Family Finale.

Urinetown plays at CCBC-Essex through August 3.

JOHNNY BOY PRODUCTIONS is pleased to announce the world premiere production of JOHNNY LAW, Courtroom Crusader, the newest solo show from Tim Ryan Meinelschmidt whose last solo show ALL THE HELP YOU NEED, The Adventures of a Hollywood Handyman was honored with the Overall Excellence Award in the 2004 NY Fringe Festival. JOHNNY LAW, directed by Christopher Fessenden, will play a limited engagement as part of the 11th annual New York International Fringe Festival-FringeNYC at The Schaeberle Studio Theatre (Venue #2, 41 Park Row at William Street). Performances begin August 9th and continue through August 22nd.

Manhattan Theatre Club announced casting for two of its upcoming productions: ROMANTIC POETRY, the world premiere musical by John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger, and RUINED, a world premiere play by Lynn Nottage.

The New Players Theatre, located underneath the arches at London's Charing Cross Station, is reinventing itself as a major Off-West End venue offering an eclectic year-round programme of work.

Pittsburgh CLO proudly presented the ninth-annual Julia Deberson Award to CLO Ensemble member Ward Billeisen.

This summer there is no place like Royal Festival Hall as it transforms into the mystical Emerald City for 'The Wizard of Oz.'

On Sunday, November 9, the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, and 75 years since Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, in association with Canada's Royal Conservatory of Music, will launch 'Music in Exile-Emigre Composers of the 1930s,' a five-day series of concerts, talks, and a music-theater piece celebrating the music of Jewish composers forced to flee the Third Reich and German composers who resisted the Nazi regime.

Patrick Makuakāne and his award-winning dance troupe, Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu, returns to the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre for six performances only with The Hula Show 2008.

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.

Colm Wilkinson, the world's original Jean Valjean, returns to the New York stage for one day more on Saturday, October 18th at 8PM in Broadway & Beyond. Presented by New York's famed Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street), This one-night only event is one of three weekend concerts created, written and hosted for The Town Hall by Scott Siegel.

New York Musical Theater Festival (Isaac Robert Hurwitz, Executive Director & Producer) in association with Manhattan Movement & Arts Center (MMAC) to present NYMF's 2008 Dance Series as part of this year's festival of new musicals, which runs September 15 - October 5.

The stage version of Tracy Chevalier's best-selling novel 'The Girl With a Pearl Earring' will receive its world premiere this autumn at the Cambridge Arts Theatre where it will run from 11 to 20 September 2008, ahead of a planned West End transfer.

Town Hall Presents the Third Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival.

A world premiere, Virginia Woof's only play, a Hothouse production, and a site-specific theatrical event top Women's Project 31st season of providing a stage for women who create theater.

The American family is just as wonderfully dysfunctional as it was back in the 'good old days.' Watch the Birdie with a jazzy and tuneful score by Charles Gilbert (Assassins, Gemini, the Musical) tackles the truths and trials of American family life with heart, humor and sincerity.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® will return to the Bay Area with the 138th edition of The Greatest Show On Earth™.

JUMP, the high flying martial arts comedy, played its final performance on Sunday, July 20.