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For the first time in its six-year history of providing audacious, high-quality theatrical experience to New York's most cutting-edge audiences, Williamsburg's Brick Theater is packaging six major productions under the umbrella of a single Mainstage Season. The Brick is also offering a variety of Season Ticket plans to ensure subscribers a first shot at its most exciting offerings to date.

Continuing its innovative use of electronic media to reach a global audience, the Metropolitan Opera introduces Met Player, a new subscription service that will make its extensive video and audio catalog of full-length performances available to the public for the first time online, and in exceptional, state-of-the-art quality. Beginning on October 22, 120 historic audio recordings and 50 full-length opera videos will be available during the first month of the new service, including over a dozen of the company's acclaimed The Met: Live in HD transmissions, known for their extraordinary sound and picture quality. New content, including HD productions and archival broadcasts, will be added monthly.

The season, under the leadership of Artistic Director Dr. Charles Beale and Executive Director David Edelman, will feature three concert events that will look and sound unlike anything that NYCGMC audiences have experienced before: Celebrate Me Home: A Holiday Spectacular at Carnegie Hall (December 9th, 2008); The Big Gay Sing: A Sing-a-long Extravaganza! (March 2009, specific venue and date T.B.A.); and ¡Bienvenido, New York!: A Celebration of New York's Latin Communities at F.I.T.'s Haft Auditorium (June 3rd & 4th, 2009).

The Royal Court Theatre production of Anton Chekhov's THE SEAGULL, in a new version by Christopher Hampton and directed by Ian Rickson, begins previews tomorrow night, Tuesday, September 16 at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street). Opening night is Thursday, October 2. The production plays a 14-week limited engagement through Sunday, December 21.

Writer of stage and screen, Tim Firth, has entrusted the US PREMIERE of his critically-acclaimed play, The Safari Party, in the very capable hands of Nicholas Cotz and Personal Space Theatrics. Due to the exciting nature of this honor, Personal Space Theatrics has announced a special ticket price offering of $12 for persons 21-30 years of age and $10 ticket Tuesdays.

In this new and gripping adaptation, set in the present day south, we will take a poignant look at the effects of wartime on young men. After seeing war and bloodshed, Franz Woyzeck returns home to his lover and child. Unable to reintegrate into society, perform sexually, or relate to those around, he is thrust into a world of confusion and chaos. Incorporating Andrews Sisters style music throughout, this production is both timely and entertaining.

In this election year, be sure to PUNCH 59 for sketch comedy (that means no improv) featuring some of New York's most talented actors and writers performing intelligent, irreverent sketches like 'I Woke Up Racist', 'Duane Rude', 'XXXTerminators' and 'Interfaith Understandings with Rev. Bill and Betty'.

All the world's a mall in this popular musical adaptation of Shakespeare's As You Like It, Sammy Buck and Daniel S. Acquisto's 1980s-style Like You Like It. A totally awesome mix of Shakespeare and John Hughes, this romantic musical comedy enjoys its second chance at a first full New York production after being an audience favorite at NYMF in 2004.

At dawn, a New York cabbie picks up a teenage girl headed for the bus station. Before long, they're driving to South Carolina, accompanied by a very pregnant, foul-mouthed hitchhiker. The three strangers hit I-95 and find themselves on a journey of unusual coincidences and second chances that straddle past and present while leading them toward an unlikely future.

The Cast of Broadway's Godspell Sings Kerrigan-Lowdermilk Top Broadway performers to sing the music of Larson Award winners Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk in NYMF concert - Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 at 10 PM at the Zipper Factory, 336 W. 37th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues).

The original New York cast of Side Man will celebrate its 10th Anniversary with a one- night reading of Warren Leight's Tony Award winning play to benefit Opening Act, an innovative nonprofit that provides free after-school theater programming to New York City's most under-served public high schools.

Come out and witness this rare appearance of author & showbiz personality Rue McClanahan.

Judith Owen, Euan Morton, Klea Blackhurst & Billy Stritch, Tim DiPasqua, and Jeff Harnar return to the Metropolitan Room in the coming weeks. Neile Adams, Gay Marshall and Jill Whelan are among those making their Metropolitan Room debuts.

Gordon is dead, but his cell phone keeps ringing, and the stranger who answers finds her life turned upside down. That's the set-up for Ruhl's new show, Dead Man's Cell Phone. The show's cast features Andrew Borba (Dwight), Nike Doukas (The Other Woman/Stranger), Shannon Holt (Hermia), Christina Pickles (Mrs. Gottlieb), Lenny Von Dohlen (Gordon) and Margaret Welsh (Jean).

CONFLICT OF INTEREST THEATER COMPANY is pleased to announce their revival of Stephen Belber's play MCREELE, directed by Leah Bonvissuto. MCREELE will play a three-week limited engagement at the Richmond Shepard Theatre (309 East 26th Street). Performances begin Wednesday, October 8 and continue through Saturday, October 25.

Friday, September 19th THE AFTER PARTY welcomes The Little Mermaid's JOHN TREACY EGAN and Broadway's MICHELLE DOWDY Plus a special performance by THE CHALKS! And, it's all for FREE! Just come down to The Laurie Beechman Theatre @ the West Bank Cafe, 407 w42nd St at 11pm.

Sophia's Fall is an intense dance/rock retelling of the creation story... with a twist. Sophia, the feminine divine, drives the action and drama of the story toward an edge-of-your-seat conclusion. A four-piece rock band and fluid modern dance choreography round out a dark, tuneful score.

The Third Story is an uplifting and very funny play that is composed of three interconnected stories: a realistic tale of a mother and son screenwriting team in the 1940's, a B-movie about the uneasy alliance between a mob queen and a frosty lady scientist and a Russian fairy tale in which a painfully shy Princess makes a dark pact with a mercurial old witch.

The cast includes Nancy Carroll (Amy O'Connell), Richard Cordery (Russell Blackborough), Patrick Drury (Justin O'Connell), Peter Eyre (Lord Charles Cantilupe), Will Keen (Henry Trebell), Helen Lindsay (Countess Mortimer/Bertha), Hugh Ross (Cyril Horsham) and Michael Thomas (George Farrant).

The Menier Chocolate Factory's record-breaking, sold out production of La Cage Aux Folles has begun rehearsals for its transfer to the West End for a strictly limited season at the Playhouse Theatre previewing from 20th October, with press night on 30th October.