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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.

Razors Edge Productions presents the World Premiere of Zombie as part of the 12th annual New York International Fringe Festival.

Angels The Musical, which was recently announced for the current 2008-2009 Broadway season, has cancelled its engagement in Shreveport, LA, it was announced today by the show's producers.

J.J. Kandel and John McCormack will present SUMMER SHORTS 2, their second annual festival of new American short plays, at 59E59 Theaters.

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.

Dangerous Ground Productions proudly presents LAST TANGO IN PARIS, a world premiere all-new multi-media adaptation of the iconic 1973 Bernardo Bertolucci film, adapted, conceived and directed by Doris Mirescu.

Signature Theatre Company is proud to announce that Ron OJ Parson will direct HOME, by Samm-Art Williams.

The swinging '60's meet Broadway when Robin and the 7 Hoods, a brand new musical comedy, opens in New York during the 2009-10 season, it was announced today by the show's producers (Bruce Charet, Dennis Mastro, Dennis Farina, Billy Campbell; Barry Brown, executive producer)

The Willows Theatre Company opens its Fall 2008 season with the award-winning comic musical Little Shop of Horrors.

Cape Rep will stage Ragtime, the musical by Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens in its Indoor Theater on 3299 Rte. 6A in East Brewster.

The '106.7 Lite fm Presents Broadway in Bryant Park 2008' series continues with the casts of The Lion King, Vanities, Hairspray, Forbidden Broadway, Godspell performing on Thursday July 24th, 12:30 pm at Bryant Park Lawn.

David Gurland and Brian Farley sing the Music and Lyrics of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Hot off sold-out runs in Washington D.C., Chicago and New York, 'Political Idol,' a hilarious spoof of the upcoming presidential elections returns to Off-Broadway's Triad Theatre opening on Wednesday, July 23 (7PM) for a four week run.

The sins of the parents leave a lasting impression, as shown in Lisa Dominique's semi-autobiographic solo work A PERFECT SPECIMEN OF FEMININITY.

Estelle Getty of TV's 'The Golden Girls,' has died.

Despite a few stumbles, North Shore Music Theatre's trip back to the '50s shakes, rattles and rolls in nostalgic good humor

On Monday July 21st, Town Hall continued to present it's series of acclaimed summer concerts with the performance of BROADWAY'S RISING STARS. BROADWAY'S RISING STARS was co-directed by Tony Nominee Emily Skinner and Nightlife Award winning vocalist Scott Coulter. Designed to launch the careers of the next generation of Broadway stars, the show featured 20 of the most outstanding young talents from performing arts schools in New York and across the country. The future stars of the Great White Way were chosen during auditions throughout the spring and come from theatrical institutions including as AMDA, CAP21, Julliard, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Marymount and the New School.

'Broadway Stands Up for Freedom', a concert to benefit the Youth Programs of the NYCLU, took place on Monday, July 21 at 7:30pm at the NYU Skirball Center. Hosted by Seth Rudetsky, the event featured opening remarks by playwright Tony Kushner, both of whom also participated in last years event.

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The 20th Anniversary revival of DAVID MAMET's Speed-The-Plow announces its final cast member.

Francesca Annis, Lisa Dillon, Chris O'Dowd, Dominic Rowan and Catherine Tate are to star in the West End premiere of David Eldridge's Under The Blue Sky which will open at the Duke of York's Theatre on 25 July, with previews from 15 July, and is currently booking until 20 September 2008. Directed by Anna Mackmin, Under The Blue Sky is designed by Lez Brotherston with lighting by Mark Henderson and sound by Paul Arditti, and is produced in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions and Robert G. Bartner. Final casting will be announced shortly.