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Tickets will go on Sale this Friday, 9/26 for the premiere of Disney's High School Musical 3 on the offical Disney website HERE.

We write songs and bake cookies. That's about all we're good at and, therefore, all we do. Our mothers say: 'Boys, why don't you do things like corporate lawyering and watching extreme sports?' We say: 'Because no one ever took over the country being a corporate lawyer couch potato.'

The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio proudly present an interview with Actor B.D. Wong, on their weekly theatrical interview show, 'Downstage Center,' on XM's On Broadway (XM Channel 28).

Derek Keeling and Ashley Spencer from Broadway's Grease will be this week's guests on Seth's Broadway Chatterbox where they will be 'dishing about the TV show and singing up a storm.'

Arena Stage welcomes Josh Kornbluth, writer/performer of Red Diaper Baby and Love & Taxes, in his hilarious and provocative one-man show Citizen Josh. A Jonathan Reinis Production, Citizen Josh is written and performed by Kornbluth in collaboration with Arena's Associate Artistic Director David Dower.

While it may take a village to raise a child, an impressive team of award-winning celebrities along with The Juilliard School, New York State Governor David A. Paterson, and other notables have taken the lead to collaborate in support of students of color at Juilliard via a scholarship benefit concert honoring legendary Juilliard alumnus, Luther Henderson, Mr. Henderson, who died in 2003, was a gifted American arranger, composer and orchestrator with an extraordinary talent for creating music for choreographic movement.

The Prince Music Theater celebrates two Broadway masters - John Kander and Fred Ebb - in a newly re-imagined production of THE WORLD GOES 'ROUND, the smash hit Off-Broadway show that explores the entire career of one of Broadway's most extraordinary creative teams.

LIZZ WINSTEAD, founding member of Air America Radio and Co-Creator of Comedy Central's The Daily Show will be a featured guest for HSKFF on Sept. 27, as will JAMIE KILSTEIN as seen on BBC and Comedy Central. Also appearing will be WILLIE GEIST, co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe and a regular commentator on MSNBC's 'Tucker.' He is also a contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann and to NBC's Weekend Today.

A fifteen-piece live orchestra and more than twenty performers from the Las Vegas Strip will donate their time and talent to bring 'Dracula - A New Musical' to the stage at the College of Southern Nevada's Nicholas J. Horn Theatre on Oct. 18 and 19 at 2 p.m. each day.

A man steals a credential, sneaks into the White House, and while there gets a job working as a volunteer, before becoming a homeless heroin addict, going to prison, and getting clean. Yes it is a true story.

Composer and Lyricist Scott Alan is currently back in the recording studio recording his follow up CD to his successful debut, 'Dreaming Wide Awake.'

school with The Parent Teacher Conference Plays. Three of the brightest lights in American drama - Ann Marie Healy (Have You Seen Steve Steven), Clay McLeod Chapman (rest area, Hostage Song) and Zayd Dohrn (Haymarket)-will take audience members inside actual classrooms for a trip down memory lane... to a time when backpacks, hall passes, and spelling tests ruled the world.

Variety is reporting that the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences has tapped Laurence Mark and writer/director Bill Condon to produce and run the 81st Annual Academy Award Ceremony

The Bay Area's ground-breaking Danse Lumiere (formerly Anima Mundi) presents THE FIFTH BOOK OF PEACE, an innovative dance theater program inspired by award-winning California author and activist Maxine Hong Kingston's extraordinary book of the same name.

Celebrated stage and screen actor Colm Feore will return to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2009 to play two leading roles on the Festival stage, Macbeth and Cyrano de Bergerac. 'William Shakespeare's Macbeth involves a journey for the theatre artist that may well be the darkest ride of them all. It leads into a black hole of terror and meaninglessness, and it is not for the faint of heart,' says artistic director Des McAnuff, who will be directing the play.

Today Tony Taccone, artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, announced additional dates for two solo shows that he staged in Berkeley before launching them on tours across the continent. Danny Hoch's Taking Over had its world premiere at Berkeley Rep in January and hit it big in Montreal this July; next week it starts an All City Tour featuring free performances in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx in addition to previously announced dates in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Moreover, after a record-breaking run in Berkeley last winter, Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking careened through Hartford, San Jose, Santa Fe, and Washington, DC this summer; now it adds Seattle to a list of upcoming destinations that also includes Boston.

As a result of ticket demand, Berkley Repertory Theatre has announced an extension for Yellowjackets. Yellowjackets will now play through October 19 on the intimate Thrust Stage. This is only the first sting in a potent theatre season at Berkeley Rep, which continues this fall with an alluring adaptation of The Arabian Nights from Tony Award-winner Mary Zimmerman and Delroy Lindo's powerful staging of Joe Turner's Come and Gone.

In honor of WorkShop Theater Company's 15th Anniversary Season, Tony Award winner Bill Irwin, two-time Tony Award nominee André De Shields, Heather MacRae, members of both the Original and Broadway-Bound casts of HAIR, along with New York's finest new vaudeville and burlesque acts and WorkShop Company artists, will perform live to benefit WorkShop Theater on Monday, October 27, 7:00 PM at the Zipper Factory.

West Los Angeles: 'Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Helen Gahagan Douglas' was written by Wendy Kout and Michele Willens and is based Helen Gahagan Douglas' life. 'Don't Blame Me…' follows Helen from an entitled Republican and successful stage actress to an incorruptible liberal congresswoman who stood for education, internationalism, feminism and integration and finally to the 1950 Senate race where Nixon's anti-Communist/ anti-Semitic smear campaign ended her political career.

Bristol Riverside Theatre is thrilled to kick off its America Rising: Voices of Today reading series with Bridget Carpenter's Up. This first reading in the series will take place Sunday, September 28 at 5 p.m. at St. James Parish Hall, 225 Walnut Street in Bristol. Individual tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students, and subscriptions are $45, $40 for BRT members. Tickets include dinner.