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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.

Award-winning singer/composer/lyricist Tim Di Pasqua brings his thrilling new musical theater revue to New York's Metropolitan Room, every Monday in October.

The winner of the 2007 New Works of MeritPlaywriting Contest sees its world premiere at the 13th Street Repertory Theatre,under the direction of Robert Marra.

CAMP BROADWAY, the award-winning theater arts education company, has been chosen to perform the closing musical number for the 82nd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade entitled 'I Believe in Santa Claus,' with music by Wesley Whatley and lyrics by Bill Schermerhorn. Camp Broadway Artistic Director, Tony Parise, will choreograph the production number which will feature 300 young performers, ages 10-14, and be performed live in front of NBC-TV's national audience on November 27, 2008.

Looking for Singers/Actors in their 20's, 30's and 40's. Both Equity and Non-Equity performers are elligible.

Fellowship for the Performing Arts presents the Chicago premiere of the acclaimed hit drama THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS by C.S. Lewis at The Mercury Theater, 3745 N. Southport Avenue. The production, which recently had sold-out runs in New York and Washington, D.C., begins performances on October 2 for a limited engagement. THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS offers a funny and provocative look into C.S. Lewis' brilliant novel that explores the theme of spiritual warfare from a demon's point of view.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) celebrates its fifth year with 24 full productions, a dance series, a developmental series, concerts and special events. NYMF is an annual three-week event that has premiered over 130 musicals in its first four years - many of which have gone on to award-winning productions in New York, in regional theaters and on tour in 38 states, and nine countries worldwide.

Cabaret Lunatique, an edgy late night Saturday series of saucy burlesque, music and mischief will be presented in the Teatro ZinZanni tent on October 11 & 25, and November 8 from 11:30 p.m. - 2 a.m.

Absurdist singer/guitarist Aldo Perez and company will host an evening of clown cabaret. The Renaldo Ensemble is a musical exercise in human ridiculousness and musically flits between bizarre episodes and silly antics.

At the dawn of the atomic age, before Boeing Boeing and Doris Day rom-coms, there was THE TENDER TRAP, a light sex comedy about a New York bachelor and the various women seeking to marry him. This will be the first New York production of THE TENDER TRAP since its 1954 Broadway premiere.

Magic Theatre launches its 2008-09 Season of New Plays, artistic director Loretta Greco's first with the company, with The K of D, an urban legend, a new play by Laura Schellhardt and directed by local favorite Rebecca Novick. One young girl embodies the entire population of her small town to spin the story of young Charlotte McGrew and the summer that inexplicably changed her life. From one of the brightest emerging voices in American Theatre, this quirky and touching play offers the unexpected perspective of a child on the big questions of life and death. The K of D performs September 20 - October 19, 2008 at Magic's Northside Theatre