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Rufus Wainwright will perform with The San Francisco Symphony in the world premiere of 'Five Shakespeare Sonnets,' www.rufuswainwright.com has announced.

From September 23rd to October 3rd, the Builders Association will present the revival of its 1999-2000 Obie-winning JET LAG, a 1998 collaboration between the Builders and the award-winning architecture team Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Based on two real-life stories in which technology made the impossible possible, JET LAG uses the time-defying magic of multimedia to explore the uses and abuses of technology. The first story tells of an English sailor who tricked the world into believing that he sailed round the globe, and the second of a grandmother who died of jet lag by taking daily flights back and forth from New York to Amsterdam over the course of six months to prevent her grandson's capture by his father. While originally seen in New York during a limited engagement at The Kitchen in 2000, the show has been performed in 13 cities across the globe. The revival was commissioned by Peak Performances.

Maureen McGovern will perform at the 'Curtain Up' Gala at New Jersey's Lackland Performing Arts Center, The Centenary Stage Company has announced. The gala, to be held on September 24, will celebrate the opening of the center.

Singer Katharine McPhee would like to appear on Broadway if she can find the right role, AceShowBiz reports.

Opera singer Anthony Rolfe Johnson died on July 21 at the age of sixty-nine, The New York Times reports. Johnson, who had suffered from Alzheimer's Disease, died in London; his death was announcement by Askonas Holt, the company that managed him.

The Ballet Girls of Broadway's BILLY ELLIOT will host a free dance warm-up on July 31 to celebrate National Dance Day, the show's official website announces. The warm-up will be held at 12:45pm outside Broadway's Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45th Street (between Broadway and 8th Avenue).

The Toronto International Film Festival has announced fifteen galas and thirty-five special presentations (twenty-five of them world premieres) for this year's festival. Performers in the films include Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Aamir Khan, Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem, Marion Cotillard, Clive Owen, Colin Firth, Juliette Lewis, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Helen Mirren, Edward Norton, Christopher Plummer, Natalie Portman, Om Puri, Ryan Reynolds, Sam Rockwell, Amy Ryan and Hilary Swank, while filmmakers include Robert Redford, Michael Winterbottom, Guillaume Canet, John Cameron Mitchell, Kiran Rao, Mike Mills, Andrucha Waddington, Woody Allen, Sylvain Chomet, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Tran Anh Hung, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mike Leigh, Julian Schnabel and Im Sang-Soo.

The New York Times' Times Talks series will feature two Summer Nights on Broadway events, The Times Center has announced.

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre (Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris and Simon Jones, Co-Artistic Directors) has announced its 2010/2011 Season. The critically-acclaimed company dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit will offer Mainstage productions of The Memorandum by Vaclav Havel, and Three Men on a Horse by George Abbott and John Cecil Holm at The Beckett Theatre (410 West 42nd Street) on Theatre Row.

Maureen McGovern will star in the autobiographical show CARRY IT ON at Rochester, New York's Geva Theatre Center, the theatre has announced on its official website. The production will run from October 12 to November 14.

Tony Award winner Idina Menzel will open the National Symphony Orchestra Pops season from October 28 to October 30, the Kennedy Center has announced. Marvin Hamlisch, the main Pops conductor, will conduct the concerts, entitled 'A Date with Idina Menzel,' and will perform himself following the opening concert. Menzel will sing classic pop songs, musical theatre numbers (including songs from WICKED and RENT), and some of her own compositions.

PS Classics has announced at updated song listing for the original cast recording of SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM. The album is available for pre-order now; pre-ordered albums will be shipped August 10, while the album will not be generally released until August 31. The track listing is as follows:

Linda Eder will perform in 'Linda Eder's Christmas Show' at New Jersey's State Theatre, the theatre has announced on its official website. The concert will take place on December 10 at 8pm and will feature popular standards and holiday favorites.

Actress Sheridan Smith will depart the West End's LEGALLY BLONDE on October 23, whatsonstage.com reports. Smith, who plays Elle Woods, made the announcement via her twitter account. As previously reported on BroadwayWorld, Jennifer Ellison is being considered to replaced Smith; however, no official announcement has been made.

Composer Scott Alan will perform at the Harvest Rain Theatre Company's Powerhouse Theatre on September 3 at 7:30pm, the company has announced on its official website. In addition to Alan himself, the concert will feature musical theatre performers from Brisbane, who will perform Alan's songs.

Wendy C. Goldberg has renewed her contract as artistic director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, Variety reports. Goldberg will now remain as artistic director through 2013. This year's conference is currently in progress and will run through July 31.

Boston's Company One is presenting GRIMM, a series of short plays based on Grimm fairy tales, through August 14, The New York Times reports. Each play is by a different playwright.

Actor Carl Gordon died on July 20 at the age of 78, The New York Times reports. Gordon died in Jetersville, Virginia of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, his family told the Times.

Actor Scott Porter is to join the cast of CBS's 'The Good Wife,' Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello reports. Porter will play Blake, a detective who works for the firm that merges with Gardner and Lockhart, where main character Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) works.

The film 'Black Swan,' directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, will open the 2010 Venice International Film Festival, CBC News reports. The Festival will run from September 1 to September 11.