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Director Billy Porter and Grammy nominee Ledisi mark their debuts with Reprise Theatre Company in the 1990 musical 'Once on This Island,' opening the 2008-2009 season, September 2 to 14 at UCLA's Freud Playhouse. The press opening is September 3.

The hit off-Broadway show Life In A Marital Institution (20 Years Of Monogamy In One Terrifying Hour), written and performed by award-winning monologist James Braly and directed by Hal Brooks (Thom Pain, No Child) will end its scheduled run at the SoHo Playhouse on August 31, 2008.

Molly Pope debuted The Diva-lution of Molly Pope to rave reviews at Don't Tell Mama's last spring. Hailed for her powerful vocals and dynamic dramatic intensity, Molly's performances of such songs as Dietz & Schwartz' 'By Myself' Cole Porter's 'It's Alright With Me' and even The Cardigans' 'Love Fool' provoked widespread comparison to a young Barbra Streisand. Now, under the direction of Ben Rimalower (Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches) and featuring a band led by Sonny Paladino (White Noise), the new version of The Diva-lution of Molly Pope premieres at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street) on Sunday, August 31st at 7:00 PM

The John Anson Ford Amphitheatre and Instrumental Women, La Quetta M. Shamblee, Founder and Executive Director; Phyllis Battle, Artistic Director and Co-Music Director; and Carol Chaikin, Co-Musical Director, present The Ninth Annual Lady Jazz Concert, 'LADY JAZZ IN THE KEY OF GRAND,' on Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. at the Ford Amphitheatre

Stephen Kocis, Carl D. White, Paul Boskind, and Michael Filerman, in association with David J. Gersten, today announced that BASH'd!, the new gay musical and the most acclaimed show of the new theater season, would end its Off-Broadway premiere engagement at The Zipper Factory Theater (336 West 37th Street between 8th & 9th Avenues) on Saturday August 30th. BASH'd! was created by Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow who star as T-BAG and FEMINEM, respectively, and has music by Aaron Macri and is directed by Ron Jenkins.

By popular demand, producers Eric Krebs and Chase Mishkin have announced that their Off-Broadway hit, The Castle, have will be extended through August 30th at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street).

Comic singers Booth Daniels and Patrick Frankfort return with their hilarious duo act on Friday August 29th at 7pm at the Duplex after numerous successful shows over the past year.

Two people who meet by chance discover they were meant to be together in Terence McNally's bittersweet comedy, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.

Direct from an 8-week special limited engagement at Laguna Playhouse (beginning July 8, 2008) and a record-setting 19 month run at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, The Marvelous Wonderettes lands at Off-Broadway's Westside Theatre, with performances beginning on Tuesday, August 29.

City Theatre is thrilled to announce a surprise special engagement, Without You, written and performed by Anthony Rapp.

Gateway Playhouse, Long Island's premiere professional Equity musical theatre, presents the award winning hit musical, 'The Producers' at the Patchogue Theatre, 71 E. Main Street, Patchogue, August 27 - September 13. It is directed by Larry Ravon; choreographed by Matthew Vargo; Jeff Buchsbaum is musical director; lighting design by Paul Miller; with original scenic design by Robin Wagner and original costume design by William Ivey Long. The cast stars Michael Kostroff (Max), Adam Wylie (Leo), Christine Cherry (Ulla), David Edwards (Roger Debris), Stephen Ted Becklar (Franz), Garth Kravits (Carmen Ghia), with Anne Bloemendal, Sarah Burns, Will Cohen, William James Daniels, Erik Floor, Abeku Hayes, Patrick Oliver Jones, Denis Molnar, Kevin Murnane, Linda Neel, John O'Malley, Candice Pennefather, Jessica Sheridan, Elizabeth Sousek, and Lindsay O. Travis.

In 16 days even the most intrepid theatergoer can only sample a small fraction of the over 200 offerings at the New York International Fringe Festival. Now in its third year, the FringeNYC Encore Series gives theatre lovers a second chance at seeing some of the Festival's favorite shows.

The Big Sky Theatre Company is proud to present a special post-show Talk-Back with Martin Denton of nytheatre.com, following the 8:00 pm performance of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke at The Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row.

ZOMBIE JOE'S UNDERGROUND THEATRE GROUP will make it's NYC debut on August 27th with Edgar Allan Poe's 'MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH & THE TELL-TALE HEART & THE BELLS' at St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street (west of 8th Avenue).

AfroSolo Theatre Company proudly joins the San Francisco Theatre Festival in presenting Angela Dean-Baham in Unsung Diva: The Life and Times of Sissieretta Jones, aka Black Patti.

The Laurie Beechman Theatre is very pleased to welcome Broadway's LUBA MASON for a one night only concert, as part of their celebrated Voices from the Great Whit Way Series.