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The 2009-2010 National Geographic Live Arizona speaker series, sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, begins with America's most acclaimed mountaineer.

The longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webber?s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, is set to reach another unprecedented milestone. With its 8PM evening performance on Thursday, September 17, 2009, the musical will become the first Broadway show ever to reach 9,000 performances. The occasion will be marked the previous afternoon, Wednesday, September 16, with a special presentation during the 2PM matinee?s curtain call. The post-show presentation promises a few on stage surprises for that day?s audience. Now in its phenomenal 22nd Year, the Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Group, Inc. production, directed by Harold Prince, continues to play at The Majestic Theatre (247 West 44th Street), with no end in sight.

The longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webber?s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, is set to reach another unprecedented milestone. With its 8PM evening performance on Thursday, September 17, 2009, the musical will become the first Broadway show ever to reach 9,000 performances. The occasion will be marked the previous afternoon, Wednesday, September 16, with a special presentation during the 2PM matinee?s curtain call. The post-show presentation promises a few on stage surprises for that day?s audience. Now in its phenomenal 22nd Year, the Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Group, Inc. production, directed by Harold Prince, continues to play at The Majestic Theatre (247 West 44th Street), with no end in sight.

California Shakespeare Theater (Cal Shakes) continues its 35th anniversary season with Samuel Beckett's funny, wrenching Happy Days, starring renowned theater actress and four-time Oscar nominee Marsha Mason and Cal Shakes Associate Artist Dan Hiatt, directed by Cal Shakes Artistic Director Jonathan Moscone. The production runs August 12-September 6 at the Bruns Memorial Amphitheater.

California Shakespeare Theater (Cal Shakes) continues its 35th anniversary season with Samuel Beckett's funny, wrenching Happy Days, starring renowned theater actress and four-time Oscar nominee Marsha Mason and Cal Shakes Associate Artist Dan Hiatt, directed by Cal Shakes Artistic Director Jonathan Moscone. The production runs August 12-September 6 at the Bruns Memorial Amphitheater.

The director of the long-running thriller talks to Carrie Dunn about 20 years in the West End...

Seattle Opera has found its host for 'Confessions of a First-Time Operagoer.' The company's reality-style video project will chronicle 19-year-old Cassidy Quinn Brettler's first experience attending Seattle Opera's renowned production of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen this summer.

It's a once in a lifetime opportunity for die hard fans to break bread with rock and roll icon FRANKIE VALLI and cast members from the Chicago Company of JERSEY BOYS! Saturday, April 18 marks the date of 'Lunch with FRANKIE and JERSEY BOYS at Frankie's Scallopine & 5th Floor Pizzeria in The 900 Shops,' located at 900 North Michigan Avenue.

It's a once in a lifetime opportunity for die hard fans to break bread with rock and roll icon FRANKIE VALLI and cast members from the Chicago Company of JERSEY BOYS! Saturday, April 18 marks the date of 'Lunch with FRANKIE and JERSEY BOYS at Frankie's Scallopine & 5th Floor Pizzeria in The 900 Shops,' located at 900 North Michigan Avenue.

Breast Wishes is a new Australian musical about love, loss, life and silicon; a witty and heart-warming journey of courage and determination through laughter to triumph.

Forget your touring Broadway shows. When's the last time the Bay Area has seen a play from Andorra??!! Well, the 18th Annual San Francisco Fringe Festival will have an Andorrese (Andorranite?) show in September. Directly from that tiny principality in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, heretofore known only for its wealth of triangular postage stamps. The San Francisco Fringe breaks new ground with...Andorranean theatre!

Mill Valley actor Ron Severdia was undaunted the first time he presented the premiere of his solo adaptation of A Christmas Carol in 2006 and again in 2007 when he performed his one-man show in Europe.

The world premiere musical of 'Dangerous Beauty' is a blend of passion, poetry and politics with an original score inspired by the best of Renaissance, rock 'n roll and classical music. This is the fifth full production to be developed by Northwestern University's American Music Theatre Project (AMTP).

The world premiere musical of 'Dangerous Beauty' is a blend of passion, poetry and politics with an original score inspired by the best of Renaissance, rock 'n roll and classical music. This is the fifth full production to be developed by Northwestern University's American Music Theatre Project (AMTP).

The world premiere musical of 'Dangerous Beauty' is a blend of passion, poetry and politics with an original score inspired by the best of Renaissance, rock 'n roll and classical music. This is the fifth full production to be developed by Northwestern University's American Music Theatre Project (AMTP).

Additional events and participants were also announced today for Culture Project's ambitious 'A Question of Impeachment series,' which will gather the world's foremost thinkers, scholars and activists to explore the real case for impeaching Bush and Cheney.

The Chamber Dance Project announced that its 2007 repertory season will include two world premiere ballets by Diane Coburn Bruning and Matthew Prescott, a commissioned score by Giovanni Spinelli, and two contemporary ballets by Victor Quijada and Adam Hougland. The season, which runs December 6 - 9, opens with a Benefit Performance and party hosted by Bebe Neuwirth. All performances will take place at the Ailey Citigroup Theater.

In November, Kristin Huffman made her Broadway debut as Sarah (flute, piccolo and sax) in John Doyle's production of Company. The actress, with a new series of tales that go inside the making of Company from an actor's perspective, starting at the Cincinnati Playhouse and on to New York, continues her stories about a 15-year career that has led her to the door of the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Radio Golf and Jujamcyn Theaters producer Jack Viertel chats with BroadwayWorld in our Tony Award nominee interview series