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Tickets for the third season of The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's live transmissions in movie theaters around the world, go on sale to the general public on Friday August 22.

MIAMI LIBRE, a new bilingual stage musical about a musician's search for love and liberty from Miami to Havana, that unites our community's most talented musicians, dancers, and creative artists. Starring Telemundo NBC telenovela star Jencarlos Canela and Cuban-born actress and dancer Everlayn Borges, this sexy new musical

Simone Alaimo will sing the role of Dr. Dulcamara in 'L'Elisir d'Amore' for the Met's 2008-09 season, replacing Bryn Terfel, who has decided to retire the role from his repertoire.

The Drama League (Jano Herbosch, President)announced the recipients of its three annual specialty awards, to be presented along with its five annual production and performance awards at The 74th Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Friday, May 16, 2008 (noon).

The Zipper Factory presents a wide-range of variety shows for in the theatre in March 2008, including The Wau Wau Sisters, Megan Mullally, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Joy Behar, 'Don't Quit Your Night Job' and 'Happy Sunshine Kung Fu Flower.'

Academy Award winning actress Olympia Dukakis will lead an 'Inside The Actors Studio'-style talkback with the cast of Masked after the 4PM matinee performance on December 15. Masked, the off-Broadway hit play is currently running at the DR2 Theatre

In honor of the Met's 30th anniversary on PBS, Thirteen/WNET New York's 'Great Performances at the Met' series presents 'Great Moments at the Met: Viewer's Choice,' a showcase of fans' favorite televised Met moments, chosen through online voting.

Camp Broadway, a leader in the field of experiential arts education, and Panasonic, the market and technology leader in Plasma HDTV, are pleased to announce that they have joined forces to test an innovative multimedia educational program called StageNotes LIVE, which gives educators nationwide access to theatre arts-based content designed to enable them to teach core curriculum in the areas of Social Studies, Language Arts, Behavioral Studies, Life Skills and the Arts.

Soprano Barbara Cook, who began 2006 by being the first female pop singer to be presented by the Metropolitan Opera when she made her solo concert debut at the MET in January, will end the year by being the first pop performer to be named Vocalist of the Year when Musical America, the international directory of the performing arts, presents its annual awards at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse on Wednesday, December 20

Ensemble Studio Theatre bills itself as 'The Major Forum for One-Act Plays in America.' Having not surveyed too many of the minor forums, I can't necessarily second it. But if its 28th Festival of One-Act Plays 'Series C' is any indication, the company can pride itself on presenting intriguing work by artists more than skilled in the craft of one-act playwriting-and even the writing of musicals