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Signature Theatre Company announced today that their world premiere production of EDWARD ALBEE'S OCCUPANT starring Tony® and Academy Award®-winning actress Mercedes Ruehl and two-time Emmy® winner and Tony® nominee Larry Bryggman has been extended again by popular demand through Sunday, July 13th.

Tonight, 2,200 high school students, teachers and parents from across Washington state packed Benaroya Hall for the sixth annual 5th Avenue High School Musical Theatre Awards

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), Sarah Kane's Crave, and the NY Premiere of Neal Bell's Somewhere in the Pacific.

The world premiere musical revue 'Tonight at Eight: Saluting Sheldon Harnick' will launch Northwestern University's Summer Music Theatre Festival 2008.

The Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko San Francisco today announced plans to present four nationally acclaimed artists beginning mid-June.

LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Co-Artistic Director; John Gould Rubin, Co-Artistic Director & Executive Director) will reunite the original cast of the groundbreaking international hit, 'Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train' by Stephen Adly Guirgis for a one-night only benefit reading at Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street) on Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 7 p.m.

The all-new fully renovated HERE Arts Center proudly reopens its doors this Summer with 'oph3lia', written and directed by Aya Ogawa.

MAGGIE MAES & KIMBERLY VAUGHN will present Four Women & a Waitress, at the ArcLight Theatre, June 10-22, 2008. The two plays, Rosemary with Ginger by Edward Allen Baker & The Stronger by August Strindberg, will be directed by KARL BURY & STEPHEN WADSWORTH, respectively.

Directed by Ed Shea, George Farquhar's comical tale of two young men who seek wives for wealth, runs from July 2nd -26th.

After three years of sold-out shows, performing to an audience of over 2,000,000, WICKED remains the most 'Popular' show in all of Oz and has changed Chicago 'For Good.'

Tony Award winners Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons will return to Broadway to star together in the world premiere of Impressionism, a new American play by Michael Jacobs. The production, which will be directed by Tony Award-winner Jack O'Brien, will come to Broadway in Spring, 2009.

Elizabeth Block of Terracotta Films is proud to present Elizabeth Bove's Crazy For Love.

In their Thursday Night Comedy Café, THE MAGIC MEATHANDS COMMUNITY COMEDY ENSEMBLE brings its unique brand of improvisational comedy to The Spot Café & Lounge.

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 6/8/2008

World Premiere drama YOM KIPPUR, which will begin performances on July 16 at the WorkShop Theater.

America's longest running professional summer theatre, The Cape Playhouse will proudly present the regional debut of Broadway's recent hit musical 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' as their third summer offering with a stable of Broadway talent including Brent Barrett, Dee Hoty ,Perry Ojeda, Stephanie Youell, Heather Parcels and John Scherer.

Redshift Productions' Scientist's Studio will proudly present THREE ON A COUCH by Carl Djerassi.

REVIEW: Spotlighters Theatre presents Polish Joke by David Ives through June 29

CIRQUE DREAMS Jungle Fantasy, a theatrical, acrobatic and musical adventure that has toured the country extensively and become an entertainment sensation with audiences of all ages, will make its Broadway debut Monday, June 16 at the Broadway Theatre for a limited engagement of ten weeks through August 24.

The acclaimed 'Two Men Talking' continues its open engagement at The Barrow Street Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday June 24 and 25, both at 7:30pm.

Sanjeev Bhaskar is to join the cast of the multi award-winning record-breaking Monty Python's SPAMALOT, to be crowned as the new Arthur.

RSC Artistic Director, Michael Boyd today confirms three Shakespeare productions for a winter season at London's Novello Theatre, alongside two new RSC commissions premiering at Wilton's Music Hall.