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Two and a half years after the premiere at off-Broadway's Atlantic Theatre and winning the Tony Award for Best Musical (along with 7 other Tony Awards), SPRING AWAKENING proudly celebrates its 750th performance on Thursday, October 16, 2008.

For the first time, Pittsburgh CLO will present Broadway phenomenon Les Misérables as part of a spectacular 2009 Summer Season lineup that also includes the previously announced Pittsburgh premiere of Legally Blonde The Musical.

LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Co-Artistic Director; John Gould Rubin, Co-Artistic & Executive Director) announces a $100 'Easy Action' ticket for their 6th Annual Gala Benefit 'Celebrity Charades 2008: We Will Rock You' on Monday, October 20, 2008 at event venue Terminal 5 (610 West 56th Street, at 11th Avenue).

Theatre Development Fund (TDF)'s new TKTS Discount Booth, located 'under the red steps' in Father Duffy Square (Broadway and 47th Street, Manhattan), will open on Thursday, October 16th at 3pm, preceded by a 12:30pm ribbon cutting ceremony* in honor of the revitalization of Duffy Square.

Philadelphia rock band Milton and the Devils Party (www.miltondevilsparty.com) will perform 5 nights in front of The Wilma Theater on Broad Street to celebrate the Wilma's Philadelphia Premiere of Tom Stoppard's 2008 Tony® nominee for Best Play, Rock 'n' Roll.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party, in association with TheaterMania.com, will present orchestrator, musical director and composer JONATHAN TUNICK in concert, as part of the Nightlife Award-winning series Broadway at Birdland. The event will take place on Monday, November 24 at 7pm.

Michael Cristofer, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and award-winning actor, and Marsha Mason, Golden Globe Award winner and Academy Award nominee, will read the new comedy, 'The Whore and Mr. Moore' by Michael Cristofer, on Monday, October 20, 7 p.m. at Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, and Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director).

Cape Rep will present The Member of the Wedding as the final production of it's critically acclaimed 2008 Season. The Member of the Wedding will open November 6, 2008 at Cape Rep's Indoor Theatre. Performances will continue through December 7, 2008.

Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH) is pleased to announce their 10th Anniversary Season, beginning with a free outdoor version of their acclaimed production of Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death. The season continues with Anton Chekhov's classic Three Sisters, Supreme Jealous Divine, an adaptation of Molière's classic Tartuffe, and Paul Carter Harrison's 1974 play The Great MacDaddy.

La Jolla Playhouse is offering Pay What You Can rates for three performances of the currently running comedy, The Third Story. Patrons may purchase tickets for any amount they can afford, starting at a minimum of one dollar for the matinees on Saturday, October 18 and Sunday, October 19 and for the evening of Sunday, October 19.

The trustees of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have awarded Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company a three-year, $600,000 grant as part of a new initiative to expand the commissioning for the development of new plays for the American stage - while providing audiences greater transparency into the artistic process

Broadway's Boy George Euan Morton will host the 2008 Theatre Museum Awards for Excellence on Tuesday October 21, 2009 at New York City's famed Players Club located at 16 Gramercy Park. Cocktails and Silent Auction at 6 p.m. Dinner at 7 p.m. Awards Ceremony at 8 p.m.

Josephson Entertainment, Erich Jungwirth/VoiceChair Productions and Richard Jordan Productions Ltd announced today the Off-Broadway premiere of BASIC TRAINING (www.BasicTrainingNYC.com), a new comedy created by and starring Kahlil Ashanti. BASIC TRAINING is a hilarious story based on one soldier's outrageous experience in the U.S. Air Force and will play the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow St. at 7th Avenue, 1 block south of Christopher Street) beginning Friday, Sept. 26th with an official opening on Monday, Oct. 13th.

Ethan McSweeny will be directing Center Stage's production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in Baltimore.

Wicked's Sean McCourt and Mary Poppins' Anthony Glade will headline the debut of 'Planet Broadway' on October 19th, 2008 at Planet Hollywood.

The previously announced Alice Ripley and J. Robert Spencer will be joined by Adam Chanler-Berat, Jennifer Damiano, Louis Hobson and Aaron Tveit for the upcoming hit musical Next to Normal.

The Brick Theater and Third Lows Productions continue their innovative theater series Penny Dreadful on Saturday, October 18 at 11:00 PM and Sunday, October 19 at 2:00 PM, with the premiere of Penny Dreadful Episode 7 - The Peril of Penny, a Damsel Lost in Time! The newest chapter in the serialized story marks the beginning of Season Two that will consist of six new plays through March 2009.

The Sun is reporting that actor actor Zac Efron may be considering the role of Alan Strang in EQUUS. At the London premiere of High School Musical 3 Efron was quoted as saying, 'You know that Daniel Radcliffe role on Broadway? Well it's been mentioned.'

Opera Pacific's 2008-2009 main stage season at Segerstrom Hall of the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, opens with Rossini's The Barber of Seville, which performs October 22 - November 1, 2008. This is Opera Pacific's first main stage offering of The Barber of Seville since 1996.

Keen Company (Artistic Director Carl Forsman, Producer Wayne Kelton) is thrilled to announce a special promotion for its run of Jan de Hartog's The Fourposter: 15 seats available for $15 at every Tuesday night performance.