Off-Broadway Cult Favorites BETTY Return Sept. 24 to Highline Ballroom

Most widely known for its appearances on the Showtime series The L Word and their long-running 2002 Off-Broadway hit BETTY Rules!, cult favorite band BETTY returns to New York in support of their new CD "Bright and Dark." After babies, breast cancer, and the boob tube, the band plays The Highline Ballroom (431 W. 16th Street) on Thursday, September 24, at 8 PM. Tickets are $20 advance/$25 day of show, and may be purchased by phone at 866-468-7619, or online at www.highlineballroom.com.

The first studio album released by the legendary cult band in four years, "Bright & Dark" is BETTY's most accessible pop project to date. Through the process of writing and recording this album, lifelong friends and collaborators Amy Ziff, Elizabeth Ziff and Alyson Palmer cemented their bond by undertaking the creative journey from the darkness of Elizabeth's struggle through breast cancer to cathartic new heights of love and brightness. Like BETTY itself, the result is a fun, sexy, sad, happy, hard-hitting, dramatic, fierce, playful, tongue-in-cheek pop contradiction you can dance to. Produced by David Maurice (Garbage, Kerli), with Kate Pierson (the B-52's) as standout guest vocalist, and artwork by Dan Shaffer (UK's Dogwitch comix) songs from "Bright & Dark" have been placed already on Showtime TV's The L Word and ABC TV's hit Ugly Betty. The album is available on iTunes or online at www.hellobetty.com.

In 2000, BETTY began collaborating with Michael Greif, director of Rent, on a theatrical piece with music. That show became BETTY Rules!, which ran for seven months Off-Broadway at New York's Zipper Theater before heading out on tour. The show ran at Chicago's Lakeshore Theater in 2004 and sold out at Washington D.C.'s Theater J in 2005.

This will be BETTY's first full-length concert since Elizabeth's recovery from breast cancer. Gail Ann Dorsey opens for the band.