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East 14th, a new comedy starring, written and directed by Don Reed will play New World Stages, off Broadway (340 W. 50th Street) beginning June 26th with an official opening scheduled for July 10th, it was announced today.

The production is directed by the Artistic Director and Co-founder, Jesus Quintero. Mr. Quintero graduated from the prestigious Teatro Libre de Bogota, Colombia and has worked in Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, New York, Pennsylvania, and now in Miami.

According to the Times Online Sir Cameron Mackintosh wants to revive BARNUM on the West End, and his choice for the part originated by Michael Crawford? Hugh Jackman.

Lake Worth Playhouse and the Florida Ghost Team will conduct another Spend the Night at the Playhouse event, where patrons are invited to conduct a 'hands on' hunt for the supernatural residents of the theatre. The Florida Ghost Team has spent many hours investigating reported phenomena at the Playhouse using infrared cameras, sound recorders, computers and other technological equipment in order to verify 'hot spots' and 'activity' in various areas of the building, and have had confirmed readings and sightings on several occasions

VOX Femina prepare to travel abroad as ambassadors of arts and culture, while representing the voices of women in Los Angeles, as part of a tour that will include a joint concert in Mexico City; a concert at Tepotzotlan and Teatro Angela Peralta in San Miguel De Allende; and in the Sala Higinio Ruvalcaba del Ex-Convento del Carmen in Guadalajara.

Lincoln Center will present Horton Foote's Dividing The Estate this fall in arrangement with Primary Stages, who originally presented the Off-Broadway run. The 2007 cast will reprise there roles on Broadway including Elizabeth Ashley, Hallie Foote, Gerarld McRaney, Penny Fuller and Arthur French. Michael Wilson will continue to direct.

'PAZZAZZ!' at Santa Barbara's Granada Theatre.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company concludes its 32nd season with the world premiere 'Superior Donuts' by ensemble member and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts.

The Theatre de la Jeune Lune in Minneapolis, Minnesota will being going dark starting the weekend of July 1st. The theater reportedly has a 1 million dollar debt and selling the theater off will help pay it off.

Gateway Playhouse, Long Island's premiere professional Equity musical theatre, continues its 59th season with the multiple award winning, Disney's Beauty and the Beast' at the Patchogue Theatre, 71 E. Main Street, Patchogue, on July 9-26. In its premiere professional production on Long Island, it is directed by Dom Ruggiero and choreographey by Michelle Webber with Jeff Hoffman as musical director.

The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC), this year celebrating its 25th Anniversary, presents some of its top up-and-coming talent in NEW FACE SHOWCASE, an evening of comedy and song on Wednesday, June 25th at 7pm at The Duplex.

BROADWAY BARES 18: WONDERLAND was an astounding success raising a record shattering $874,372 to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Golden Globe winner and Emmy Award nominee Dylan McDermott has joined the cast of Playwrights Horizon's first production of the new season, the World Premiere of THREE CHANGES, a new play by Nicky Silver. Directed by Tony Award nominee Wilson Milam (The Lieutenant of Inishmore), the production will begin previews on Friday, August 22, 2008 with an Opening Night set for Tuesday, September 16. The limited engagement will run through Sunday, September 28 at Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street).

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 6/22/2008

Memories are fragile, powerful and poignant. They recall promises from earlier times, hold the specter of wounds left unhealed, and have the ability to direct the course of one's life, as shown in Stacey Lane's comedy-drama A THOUSAND VARIATIONS ON A LIE TOLD ONCE. Directed by Brad Fryman and presented by the Oberon Theatre Ensemble, A THOUSAND VARIATIONS will begin performances on July 19th at the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, located at 312 West 36th Street, as part of the Ninth Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival.

CREATION NATION: A LIVE TALK SHOW celebrates its fifth anniversary at The Zipper Factory Theater (336 West 37th Street) on Tuesday, at 8:00 p.m.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com, the leading source for exclusive theater information and live-events tickets nationwide, are proud to announce THE TODD LONDAGIN FIVE Monday, July 7, 2008 at 7:00p.m.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) announced that Logan Marshall-Green and Piper Perabo (current star of MCC's production of reasons to be pretty) will join the cast of tonight's special reading of Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street).

The Potomac Theatre Project (PTP) proudly presents its 22nd repertory season (and its second consecutive in NY) that includes Howard Barker's Scenes From An Execution (featuring Broadway star Jan Maxwell in her 3rd collaboration with PTP).

The Philadelphia Theatre Initiative (PTI) today announced $863,000 in grants awarded to seven producing theatres, two performing arts presenting organizations, and three independent theatre performance artists.

Stage 1 Theatre Company is thrilled to join Richmond's stellar array of professional theatres.

Westport Country Playhouse announces playwright-in-residence David Wiltse's 'tour de farce' office comedy, 'Scramble!, will be staged July 9 through 26.

On June 30th, 2008 the Michael Weller Theater, home to many Off Broadway theater companies will close its doors for the last time as management 'looks to offer more office space'. The last show to play in the Michael Weller Theatre was presented by Broken Watch Theatre Company, The Framer by Edward Allan Baker.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company launches its 2008-2009 season, an exploration of the imagination, with the world premiere of Kafka on the Shore, adapted for the stage and directed by ensemble member Frank Galati, based on the work by Haruki Murakami. The production, featuring ensemble members Francis Guinan and Jon Michael Hill with Christine Bunuan, Gerson Dacanay, Mary Ann de la Cruz, Christopher Larkin, Aiko Nakasone, Andrew Pang, David Rhee and Lisa Tejero, runs September 18 - November 16, 2008 in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St.