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Earlier this month West End veteran Ramin Karimloo played a series of shows at New York City's SubCulture, showcasing his many talents beyond the Phantom, and the journey he has taken from the West End stage to the recording studio. While he was here he had jam sessions with Phantom veterans Peter Joback and Sierra Boggess, who sang 'Music of the Night' and 'Once Upon Another Time' with him respectively. Check out both videos below!

The producers of the Tony Award winning new Broadway production of PIPPIN have just announced that two-time Tony Award nominee Christopher Sieber (La Cage aux Folles, Shrek The Musical) will play the role of 'Charles' on Sunday, September 1 through Wednesday, September 4 and Sunday, September 15 through Wednesday, September 25 while three-time Tony Award nominee Terrence Mann is on vacation. Mr. Mann returns to the role full-time on Thursday, September 26. PIPPIN is now playing at the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street).

VITALIST THEATRE presents the World Premiere of Anung's First American Christmas, directed by Elizabeth Carlin-Metz and adapted for the stage by Robin Metz from the novella by Carl Nordgren (as told to him by former Tribal Council Chief Steve Fobister (Baminowekapo) of the Keewatin Ojibway, Grassy Narrows First Nation, Canada).

A new play by David Hare, GETHSEMANE, opens at the Cottesloe on 11 November, directed by Howard Davies. The cast includes Anthony Calf, Tamsin Greig, Jessica Raine, Daniel Ryan, Stanley Townsend and Nicola Walker

COMEDY CENTRAL and The New York Comedy Festival announced today that they have signed a multi-year partnership.

IMAGINE THIS, the new musical, will have its premiere at the New London Theatre in the West End on Wednesday 19 November, following previews from 4 November.

The producers of the Philadelphia Improv Festival are working through the summer to finalize a stellar line-up for their fourth annual affair.

Steppenwolf Traffic is pleased to present with two hauntingly hilarious performances of A Sandra Bernard Halloween on Monday, October 27, 2008 in the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St.

Peter Hall's latest staging of Shakespeare's Love's Labour Lost will be the first full production to be presented in Kingston's Rose Theatre. The theater opened officially in January after several years of fundraising and development.

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.

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

The Irish Repertory Theatre will open its 2008-2009 season with the world premiere of Tony Award winning playwright Frank McGuinness's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's THE MASTER BUILDER. McGuinness' adaptation was commissioned by the Irish Rep and will be directed by Ciaran O'Reilly.

Philadelphia's Obie Award winning Pig Iron Theatre Company returns to the Ohio Theater with the New York Premiere of CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN, a surreal comedy loosely inspired by Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and the 'Three Brain' theory of Paul D. MacLean.

Sarah Kane's bleak and controversial drama 'Blasted,' which drew outrage from audiences and critics when it had its premiere in 1995 at the Royal Court Theater Upstairs in London, will make its American debut at SoHo Rep as the first show in that theater's 2008-9 season.

Producer Jacobsen Entertainment, in association with Lionsgate and Magic Hour Productions, of the international hit Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage is pleased to announce principal casting for the upcoming pre-Broadway U.S. premiere.

Rupert Goold will direct Michael Gambon, David Bradley, David Walliams and Nick Dunning in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, opening at the Duke of York's Theatre on 27 September 2008, with press night on 7 October 2008.

Jack W. Batman, Executive Producer of the White Plains Performing Arts Center, announced that Robert Cuccioli will be returning to the theatre to play King Arthur in this season's opening production, Camelot. This is a brand new production of the Tony Award-winning musical that will play a limited engagement from September 26 - October 5, 2008.

he New York Musical Theatre Festival, Laura Brandel and Patrice Miller have announced Broadway and R&B star Billy Porter to direct a cast that includes Tony-Award Winner Chuck Cooper (The Life, Caroline or Change), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Avenue Q, The Glorious Ones, TV's Johnny and the Sprites) and Adam Halpin (Glory Days) in the world premiere musical Twilight in Manchego. The show, with music, lyrics and book by Jonathan Larson Award Winner Matt Gould, will play six performances at the ATA Theater (314 W. 54th Street) September 25th - October 4th, 2007.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival, Sharon Carr and Richard Winkler present IDAHO! (www.IdahoMusical.com), a new American comedy musical with book, music and lyrics by Buddy Sheffield and music by Keith Thompson.

Disco diva and Grammy Award winner, Thelma Houston, will once again grace the Teatro ZinZanni fabled spiegeltent as the legendary hostess from September 25 through January 11, 2009.

TONY AWARD nominee SALLY MAYES and TARZAN's JOSH STRICKLAND will star in a new jazz musical 'PLAY IT COOL' at The New York Musical Theatre Festival from September 22 to October 4 at TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th Street.

Women's Project will open its season with Aliens with Extraordinary Skills, a world premiere dark comedy that centers on a clown from the unhappiest country in the world, Moldova, who pins her hopes on a U.S. work visa by creating balloon animals, begins previews September 22.

New York's eternally boundary-pushing theater company Naked Angels (Geoffrey Nauffts, Artistic Director and Brittany O'Neill, Managing Director) has announced that it will present the premiere of The Gospel According to Adam, a new American play by Geoffrey Nauffts and winner of the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation's 2008 Theatre Visions Fund award. Performances begin Sunday, December 7 at The Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Playwrights Horizons (416 West 42nd Street), with Opening Night set for Wednesday, December 17.