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The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) presents their Tenth Anniversary Season AWARDS CEREMONY, produced by Elisa Abatsis,on Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 7:30pm (doors and bar open at 6:30pm) at New World Stages / Stage 2, 340 W. 50th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues), NYC. Tickets are $25 ($20 if booked before 8/26) and are available now at www.midtownfestival.org or by phone at 866-811-4111.

Directed by Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor with 22-time Grammy Award-winning Bono and The Edge creating new music and lyrics, SPIDER-MAN will be written by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger. Bono reveals to Irish Central how he came up with the title 'Turn off the Dark.'

In what promises to be a once-in-a lifetime thrill for a hundred of her luckiest fans, Barbra Streisand will celebrate the release of Love Is The Answer---her new album of jazz standards and classics--- by singing a selection of these songs at New York's legendary Village Vanguard on Saturday, September 26, where she last performed in 1961 as the opening act for Miles Davis.

BroadwayWorld.com presents it's newest column, Twitter Watch, which will bring you only the best and most interesting reports straight from the mouths of Broadway stars, shows and more on the hot social networking service - Twitter!

'Frank Wildhorn & Friends' will play a very special series of performances at Las Vegas' Judy Bayley Theater to benefit The Nevada Conservatory Theatre at UNLV. The benefit performances will take place on Friday, September 4th at 8pm, Saturday, September 5th at 8pm and Sunday, September 6th at 7pm.

The cast of the new fall comedy GLEE is hitting the road this summer in search of 'Gleeks' at a mall near you! Cast members Cory Monteith, Lea Michele, Amber Riley, Chris Colfer, Jenna Ushkowitz, Kevin McHale, Dianna Agron and Mark Salling will make appearances exclusively at Hot Topic stores in select cities across the country to sign autographs, hold Q&A sessions and give fans a sneak peek at the new season of GLEE.

The New York Post's Page Six reports that Paula Abdul has officially announced, via her 'Twitter' page that she will not be returning to FOX's American Idol.

The ROCK OF AGES Productions video series is written, shot, and edited by ROCK OF AGES stars Lauren Molina and Mitchell Jarvis.

GLEE is an uplifting series with biting humor that features a soundtrack of hit music from past to present. The stars of FOX's new fall comedy are hitting the road this summer to spread the word about their new show, and they're taking ET along! The young stars, who've already visited cities including New York and Philadelphia on their 'Gleek' mall tour, took their Flip Mino cameras and documented everything from screaming fans to a visit to a local newsroom. The tour will take them to Washington, D.C., Chicago, Minneapolis, Houston, Dallas, Denver and Los Angeles.

Broadway's Sean Bradford (The Lion King) and Adam Kantor (RENT), in association with The Present Company, are presenting the world-premiere of A Contemporary American's Guide to a Successful Marriage © 1959 written by Robert Bastron and directed by Adam Fitzgerald at the Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street, as part of the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival.

MTV is promoting the upcoming Video Music Awards with a series of West Side Story-themed ads. In the ads, the hottest young singers share their own special version of the song 'Tonight' from the award-winning musical. The newest video features VMA host Russell Brand!

The new musical THE ADDAMS FAMILY, based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, will open Thursday, April 8, 2010 at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street). Previews begin Thursday, March 4, 2010 following a pre-Broadway engagement at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre in Chicago that begins Friday, November 13, 2009.

To commemorate the Shubert Theatre Box Office opening for the new Broadway musical MEMPHIS there will be special performances by Bon Jovi founding member David Bryan, the Cast of MEMPHIS, and VH1 Save the Music Foundation student keyboard ensemble from Jersey City's MS 41. on Wednesday, August 26th at 12pm.

Meet gossip columnists MR. & MRS. FITCH. When the social circuit no longer provides any scandalous news, they find that great celebrity can appear out of thin air. Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane's wicked new comedy is a scathing look at who is in, who is out and who may not even exist at all.

August is Joan Rivers month! On August 5th, TV Land premiered 'How'd You Get So Rich?' hosted by the legendary comedian. On August 9th, the Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers aired.

Tony Winner Hugh Jackman is featured in the September issue of Vogue magazine. The article is titled 'Hugh Jackman, Broadway's Sexiest Star' and details his return to Broadway in A STEADY RAIN plus news of some of his future projects, including a tidbit about the star wanting to do a Shakespeare play with Trevor Nunn. The issue is on news stands now.

The New York Post's Michael Riedel reported last week in his 'On Broadway' column in the The New York Post that 'SPIDER-MAN' had 'lost the girl' as actress Evan Rachel Wood's agents considered the project 'dead' and that 'she's available for other work.'

Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp will continue to reprise the roles they originated on Broadway in RENT: The Broadway Tour when it extends its run into 2010.

Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! officially becomes the 13th longest-running show in Broadway history on Wednesday evening, August 19, 2009 when it surpasses the record previously held by long running landmark musical Fiddler on the Roof (3,242 performances).

WhatsOnStage.com reports that Douglas Carter Beane's award-winning comedy The Little Dog Laughed has added itself to the long list of Broadway shows seeking a West End venue, and could make the transfer to the UK stage by the end of the year.