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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.

WIG OUT! at The Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) will open officially tonight, September 30th, 2008 at 7PM after beginning previews on September 11th

Tonight, September 30th the first performance of the national Frost/Nixon tour will begin in Des Moines, IA The 2007 Tony Award® -nominated new play by Peter Morgan, the award-winning author of The Last King of Scotland and The Queen, will run at the Des Moines Civic Center through October 5th.

Dominic Nolfi and Jarrod Spector will step into the roles of Tommy DeVito and Frankie Valli, respectively, in the Broadway cast of JERSEY BOYS, the Tony® and Grammy® Award-winning smash hit musical, on Tuesday, September 30. Tony Award® winner Christian Hoff, who originated the role of Tommy DeVito at La Jolla Playhouse and on Broadway, and Michael Longoria, currently playing Frankie Valli, played their final performances on Sunday, September 28.

Manhattan Theatre Club will present the upcoming world premiere of ROMANTIC POETRY, a new musical by John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger.

'I've written a play about four African American women who changed the face of history,' Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj told me bluntly one day during rehearsal for Bubbling Brown Sugar, a concert revival of the show that put Amas on the map all those moons ago, that he was directing for us a couple years back. 'Who are they?' I asked. 'You never heard of them, I promise', he replied. 'Wanna bet?' I said. 'How much?' he challenged. 'I'll do a reading of it IF I lose', was my offer. 'VERY COOL!' he says … 'Here they are: Eliza Anna Grier, Geraldine Pittman Woods, Jane Cooke Wright, and Evelyn Boyd Granville.'

Variety is reporting that Christine Ebersole will be starring in the upcoming Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit. At the beginning of the month rumors began circulating that Noel Coward's play Blithe Spirit will have life on Broadway this upcoming Spring season. The play will be produced by the same group behind August: Osage County and the upcoming Speed-The-Plow.

Spring Awakening cast members Hunter Parrish, Gerard Canonico, Blake Daniel, Amanda Castanos, Jenna Ushkowitz and Eryn Murman are currently featured on a special 'Rock the Vote' PSA.

On Monday October 20th at 7PM, Project Shaw will present The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet featuring Cheyenne Jackson as Blanco Posnet, and Hannah Cabell, Mary Carver, Nora Chester, Teddy Eck, Stephen Mo Hanan, Lianne Kressin, Brian Scott Lipton, John Martello, Charlotte Moore, Liz Morton, Nathaniel Shaw and Emily Young.

The multi-award-winning NoHo Arts Center Ensemble (NoHoAce) presents an new and updated production of the hilarious and scathing musical, BUSH IS BAD; ALASKAN BEAUTY QUEEN EDITION, concept, music and lyrics by Joshua Rosenblum, and directed by Jay Willick & James J. Mellon.

NYMF'S BROADWAY PROM will take place on Sunday, October 5th 2008 at TOUCH (240 W 53nd Street) from 8PM to 12am.

Tickets are currently on sale for Steppenwolf Traffic's two 'hauntingly hilarious' performances of A Sandra Bernard Halloween on Monday, October 27, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. in the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St.

Tonight, September 29th, 2008 Jeff Daniels and Rachel York and the rest of the cast and crew bring Tommy Tune's new musical, Turn of the Century, to life.

What's on Stage is reporting that Niki Evans, a contestant on iTV's series 'X-Factor' will be playing Mrs. Johnson in West End production of Blood Brothers, running at the Pheoenix Theatre, starting November 3rd, 2008. The show recently extended its contract with the Pheonix where it has been running since 1991. Evans is expected to take on the role for six months.

Coffeehouse Chronicles, a series at La Mama, will present Plays by Terrence McNally on October 4, 2008 at 3:00pm

Tony nominated actor and dance chart sensation Orfeh's new solo pop album, WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME on Sh-K-Boom Records, hits stores everywhere tomorrow, Tuesday, September 30. Orfeh, a multi-octave talent, is currently starring in Legally Blonde on Broadway and was formerly the front woman of the pop/dance super group Or-N-More.

Critically acclaimed Broadway performer Neile Adams ('Kismet,' 'The Pajama Game') returns to The Big Apple with her new cabaret show, 'Something Cool,' an autobiographical musical celebration of her life and early days in New York on Broadway, where she met her late first husband, actor Steve McQueen.

IDAHO! is a tale of love and sex on the prairie baked to bawdy perfection and set during the 'Golden era' of Broadway. From a land where men were men, women were for sale to the highest bidder and the laws of musical comedy were meant to be broken, IDAHO! is an original 'high-steppin' song and dance musical ripped from the earth like a fresh dug spud.

The Hayworth Theatre, in association with Roz Bernstein Productions, will present the world debut of 'Lovelace: A Rock Opera,' on October 18, 2008.

WIG OUT! will officially open at The Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) tomorrow, September 30th, 2008. The show began previews on Thursday, September 11 and will play a limited engagement through October 19th.