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Actress/singer/songwriter ALICIA WITT will be singing and performing a set of her original songs with piano and full band at the Public Theater's JOE's PUB on Monday, July 28th at 9:30 PM.

Bix Barnaba will play 33rd US President, Harry S Truman in the acclaimed comedy 'GIVE EM HELL HARRY! by Samuel Gallu beginning July 20 at St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street, NYC.

New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America, will present the 12th annual festival from August 8th - 24th, 2008. This year, the festival will offer performances by 202 of the world's best emerging theatre troupes and dance companies.

West London's Gate Theatre will present a 21st-century re-imagining of Henrik Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler.'

Focus on the 70s: The Fabulous Photography of Kenn Duncan is on display in the Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, located at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, from July 30, 2008 through October 25, 2008.

NCTC is proud to present the San Francisco Premiere of 2boys.tv, where the darlings of the Montréal cult cabaret scene deliver a riotous evening of absurd, eclectic, and multimedia drag performance.

Lifeline Theatre inaugurates its 26th anniversary MainStage season with the world premiere adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray,' adapted by Lifeline ensemble member Robert Kauzlaric, directed by Kevin Theis.

Toby Lightman's new independently released album, 'Let Go' produced by Boots Ottestad (Robbie Williams, Tim McGraw, Macy Gray, Jesse McCartney) follows her two Atlantic Records releases, 2004's 'Little Things' and 2006's 'Bird On A Wire'. 'Let Go' will be available on July 15, 2008 on itunes.

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo have announced that Beast, written by Michael Weller and directed by Jo Bonney, will begin performances Friday, August 29 at 8pm, at NYTW, 79 East 4th Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery. Opening night is scheduled for Monday, September 15 at 7pm. The production will run through Sunday, October 12.

UPDATED! The annual festival featuring 10 plays by local playwrights began June 26, and continues through August 31.

Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of In The Heights sent a special musical good luck to the cast of [title of show] on their opening. Click HERE to see the video on You Tube.

ACT-A Contemporary Theatre announces a stellar line-up of local talent performing in the remaining three shows of its 2008 season.

On July 15th two Camp Broadway alumni now starring on Broadway visited camp for lunch to share their experiences on stage, and their transitions from camper to Broadway actor in Tony award winning shows.

The line-up for the 19th Annual Cabaret Convention has been announced. The convention will be held Oct. 29-Nov. 1 at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Propelled by a surge of support on several fronts, the Drama Desk Award-winning National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene is moving this week to new office space in midtown Manhattan.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) has announced the official selections for its 20th Annual Festival of New Musicals to be held in New York City.

From the moment the cast of twelve actor/musicians step out onto Diego Pitarch's atmospheric set, which draws its focus from a central black spiral staircase, and begin to play the strains of Andrew Lloyd Webber's haunting musical prologue for Sunset Boulevard, the audience at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury are drawn into a dark, yet richly evocative world that captivates the mind and thrills the senses throughout.

Barrington Stage Company, under the artistic leadership of Julianne Boyd, presents the Berkshire-area premiere of The Violet Hour, an imaginative and thought-provoking play about love, time and fate, by award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out).

On Tuesday, July 15, during its Annual Meeting at McCaw Hall, Seattle Opera General Director Speight Jenkins announced that the company's Artist of the Year awards went to tenor Lawrence Brownlee, who performed the role of Arturo in Seattle Opera's production of Bellini's I Puritani in May 2008, and to Thomas Lynch, set designer for Seattle Opera's production of Wagner's Flying Dutchman in August 2007 and Seattle Opera's co-production with the Metropolitan Opera of Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris in October 2007.