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Contemporary dance company dre.dance (Andrew Palermo and Taye Diggs) and composer Rob Reddy embark on a world premiere, evening-length work. Beginning October 9 at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 'the people' combines Reddy's unique and stirring sound with dre.dance's propulsive and emotional choreography.

The Path Fund / Rockers on Broadway proudly announces The Who's TOMMY: 15th Anniversary Benefit Concert. Directed by Donnie Kehr, this one-night-only milestone event featuring the original cast of the groundbreaking Broadway musical will take place Monday, December 15 at 8:00 PM at the August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street).

The Frog and Peach Theatre Company has announced RICHARD III, starring ANATOL YUSEF, as the kick-off to their upcoming season at the West End Theatre.

New York's eternally boundary-pushing theater company Naked Angels (Geoffrey Nauffts, Artistic Director and Brittany O'Neill, Managing Director) will present the official Off Broadway premiere of Fault Lines, tonight September 30th, 2008. The new play by Stephen Belber is directed by David Schwimmer. Performances began Monday, September 22 at The Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street). Fault Lines replaces the previously scheduled The Talk by Frank Pugliese, which has been cancelled.

ROCK OF AGES cranks up the volume Off-Broadway with performances beginning Wednesday, October 1 at New World Stages. Slated for an open-ended engagement, the show will have its Official Opening Night on Thursday, October 16 at 7:00 PM.

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) is proud to announce casting for HOME, by Samm-Art Williams and directed by Ron OJ Parson. HOME will be the second production of Signature's 2008-09 season celebrating the historic Negro Ensemble Company (NEC).

Preview performances of Romeo and Juliet are Wednesday October 15 at 7:30 pm and Thursday and Friday, October 16 and 17 at 8 p.m. Previews offer the thrill of seeing a work-in-progress before the show officially opens. Preview tickets are $29 and $33.

The glamour, spectacle and fashion of 1930s Broadway comes to North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) as a chorus girl from a small town aspires to find love and success on the Great White Way in the Tony® Award winning 42nd STREET, tapping across the NSMT main stage from October 28 to November 23, 2008. Press night is scheduled for October 30th at 7:30 pm.

The movie Dirty Dancing is a legendary entertainment phenomenon. And now American audiences can enjoy the European record-breaking live experience Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage and the Masterworks Broadway original cast recording, which will be released on Tuesday, September 30, 2008.

'M tryng my hardest 2 sell my soul. But M running low.' says my phone. I hit send and quietly await the response. It's 3 A.M. and par for me at this hour, the only thing breaks my stride is the giant foot that's in my mouth as I text.

Screen and stage actor GLEN BOLES will offer a talk back on Weds. Oct. 1 following the final performance of THE ROAD TO RUIN at The 45th Street Theater.

UFO's have come along way from the B-flicks of the 50's to achieve scientific--and now artistic--credibility. The phenomenon of alien contact is explored in 'Mythology Is Reality,' a multimedia exhibition at Hoboken's Monroe Arts Center from October 10 through November 11.

Cirque du Soleil will bring to New York its latest big top touring production KOOZA, set to open on Wednesday, April 15, 2009. KOOZA will perform at Randall's Island Park under the trademark blue-and-yellow Grand Chapiteau (Big Top) for a limited engagement. Tickets will be available to Cirque Club members for an exclusive period beginning Wednesday, October 1, 2008.

F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company announces Training Wisteria, a dramatic comedy by Molly Smith Metzler. Training Wisteria opens on October 23rd at 8:00pm and plays through October 25th, 2008.

Last week CEO Les Moonves at the Advertising Bureau's Interactive Conference announced CBS's new initiative to create original web content saying 'internet content is a lab for the network.'

As part of its continuing effort to find and develop culturally and ethnically diverse talent and actors with disabilities, the Disney ABC Television Group's Casting Project will hold its latest showcase featuring 13 promising actors. The showcase, the seventh one to be held in New York, will take place at the Acorn Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues, on MONDAY, OCTOBER 6 at 7:30 p.m., ET.

In response to overwhelming demand, INSIDE PRIVATE LIVES, the interactive theatrical experience where audiences go behind the headlines into the private lives of very public personas, has extended its run at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena through December 14. The production was LA Weekly 'Pick of the Week' in 2007 and 'Pick of the Fringe' at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

San Jose Repertory Theatre continues its entertaining season with the West Coast Premiere of Splitting Infinity (Laurie Foundation Theatre Visionary Award), a new play by renowned playwright Jaime Pachino.

Late Harvest: The Songs of Tina Lear will premiere at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on Monday, October 13 featuring music by the multi-award winning singer-songwriter.

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 Off Broadway premiere of Fault Lines, a new play by Stephen Belber, directed by David Schwimmer.