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Flamenco Flamen'ka, a new dance show directed and choreographed by Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood, will open for an eight-week season at the West End's Lyric Theatre from 22 September to 15 November 2008 (previews from 18 September).

2008-2009 Public Theater Memberships On Sale July 1.

59E59 Theaters announces the 2008 line up for the 5th annual EAST TO EDINBURGH festival.

San Francisco's cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater continues its 2008 season of critically acclaimed stage-work with Avant GardARAMA! Like Cutting Ball's 2004 edition of Avant GardARAMA!

The Public Theater's Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Mara Manus announced today that the 2008-2009 Season will feature premieres by Mike Daisey, Christopher Durang, John Guare, Danny Hoch, Craig Lucas, Stephen Sondheim, and Tracey Scott Wilson.

Due to popular demand, the Marin Theatre Company (Mill Valley, CA) production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Living in Paris' has been extended through June 22, 2008.

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.

New York City Opera will present a series of concerts, showcases, discussions, screenings, and master classes in 2008-09, designed to bring the company's unique brand of music-making and cultural conversation to all five boroughs of New York City while renovations take place at its home, the New York State Theater.

The cast of Disney's The Lion King will open the 2008 Tony Awards telecast with a performance of 'Circle of Life' to commemorate the Tony Award-winning landmark musical's 10th Anniversary.

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.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey continues its 2008 Season with 'Amadeus' by Peter Shaffer. 'Amadeus' begins performances on May 28th and continues through June 22nd and features Tony Award nominee Robert Cuccioli in the role of Salieri.

The Wilma Theater proudly celebrates its 30th Anniversary with the upcoming 2008-2009 Season. 'We have chosen plays that will be among the most inventive and thrilling ever to grace our stage,' say co-Artistic Directors Blanka Zizka and Jiri Zizka, who staged their first Wilma production in 1979 - an original adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

Company XIV presents the World Premiere of 'The Judgment of Paris', an erotically charged show with a unique fusion of dance, theater and music, choreographed and directed by Austin McCormick beginning May 9th.

Rioult* will present a world premiere work, along with two acclaimed repertory pieces during its 2008 New York season, June 3 - 7, at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

Musicals Tonight Announces 2008-2009 Season to be held at McGinn/Cazale Theatre (2162 Broadway, 3rd Floor) - Broadway between 76th & 77th St.

Past recipients include Ernestine Ray, curator of the Old Dillard Museum in Fort Lauderdale and the President and Founder of Ancestral Legacies, Inc., concert impresario Judy Drucker, and Dalva Duarte, Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Also, arts organization winners have included the Florida Singing Sons Boychoir, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and the Miami City Ballet.

Opera Pacific announces 'Susannah' as the final opera of their 2007-2008 season. Performances begin May 14th.

Company XIV is proud to present the World Premiere of The Judgment of Paris, an erotically charged show with a unique fusion of dance, theater and music, choreographed and directed by Austin McCormick. McCormick currently performs with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet of New York. Performances run May 9 - 31, 2008 in a limited engagement at 303 Bond Street (between Union & Sackett) in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

Veritas Productions proudly presents A Body Without A Head, a theatrical fable written and directed by George R. Carr, April 28 through May 2, 2008 at manhattantheatresource (177 MacDougal Street).

Dreck Productions and the Austrian Cultural Forum are proud to present a NYC revival of Dirt, the European award-winning one-man show written by Robert Schneider, which went on to become a critically acclaimed production at the 2007 NY International Fringe Festival. Dirt is directed by David Robinson and performed by Christopher Domig. Performances run from April 2 - 26, 2008 in a limited engagement at Under St. Marks in NYC. Previews begin April 2 for an April 5 opening. In a review of Dirt at last year's NY Fringe Fest Adam Feldman of TimeOut NY dubbed his performance 'Riveting' and gave the play 4 stars, Back Stage marked it a 'PICK' saying 'Dirt is painful but powerful theatre' and NYTheatre.com declared 'Dirt is a remarkable piece of theatre-deep, emotional, and thought-provoking.'

BroadwayWorld.com has learned the the Jill Santoriello penned A Tale of Two Cities, which played the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida in the Fall of 2007 will open on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on September 18, 2008.

Casting has been announced for the San Francisco engagement of Disney's High School Musical playing the Orpheum Theatre April 15-27, 2008.

The highly anticipated 'ABC World Premiere Movie Event: A Raisin in the Sun' is set to air on February 25th, 2008. BroadwayWorld.com brings you this special closer look video featuring interviews with the cast and creative plus scenes from the screen adaptation!

New York City Opera's acclaimed series VOX 2008: Showcasing American Composers returns for its ninth season on May 10 and 11, presented at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU

Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) has made some revisions in the previously announced 2008 season of productions. Distinguished actor and director Paul Newman will direct the Playhouse's fall production, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck; Timothy Busfield, Emmy Award-winning actor from 'The West Wing,' 'Studio 60' and 'thirtysomething,' will star in the dark comedy Vigil, launching its tri-state area premiere on February 26; and Time of My Life, a comedy by Alan Ayckbourn, reuniting author, director and cast members from one of last season's biggest hits, is newly slated for April production.