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On September 20th, the fifth of six free NYMF concerts was presented at the Times Square Virgin Megastore, who is partnering with the New York Musical Theatre Festival to give audiences a sneak peek of shows opening each week of the Festival.

Following a successful first season and its recent sold out production of A Slice O' Minnelli, the Transatlantic Talent series of stylish musical soirées returns to the Theatre Museum featuring established and emerging British and American cabaret artists.

The NYMF show Desperate Measures, which sets Shakespeare's Measure for Measure in the Wild West, opened on September 12 and runs through September 24, 2006 at the 45th Street Theatre

'Travesties,' by Tom Stoppard, has extended its run at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, until October 22.

Broadway veteran Linda Mugleston will star in the West Coast premiere of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens' musical epic Dessa Rose

North Shore Music Theatre's production of Jesus Christ Superstar began yesterday, and will play through October 8.

Gotham Stage Company (GSC) will present its first annual benefit performance, A Night in Gotham, hosted by Paige Davis and directed by Jason Eagan, on October 9th

On Monday, September 18th, Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole, soon to open on Broadway in Grey Gardens, starred in a one-night extravaganza at New World Stages produced for The Actors' Fund of America

On November 20th, Huey Lewis will return to Chicago as Billy Flynn

Jim Burns remembers late actor Edwin C. Owens, whose Broadway credits included the 2003 revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Full casting has been announced for Anne Washburn's The Internationalist, starring previously announced 'Law & Order' star Annie Parisse and Zak Orth

Full casting has been announced for the Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' drama Suddenly Last Summer, starring the previously-announced Blythe Danner and Carla Gugino

As part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival's series of education seminars, 'Crossing Over: Adapting Musicals from Other Media' will be presented on Thursday, September 21, 6:00-7:30pm, at New World Stages

Casting and directors have been announced for The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT)'s 18th Annual Festival of New Musicals, which will be held at New World Stages on Sunday, October 8 and Monday, October 9, 2006

The Daryl Roth Theatre continues with their new Coffee House series Thursday, September 28 in the D-Lounge cabaret space.

White Noise creators Ryan J. Davis and Joe Drymala, and songwriter/star Rick Crom, will appear live on The Joey Reynolds Show tonight at midnight.

A bevy of MGM film greats will gather November 2 in Hollywood to salute stage and cinema veteran June Allyson.

Playwright Mark Schultz is the recipient of The National Arts Club's 2006 Kesselring Prize for Playwriting. The $15,000 prize is awarded annually to a playwright of exceptional promise.

Liza Minnelli will head to Las Vegas for three concerts at the Luxor Theatre this October

An upcoming staged concert of the new musical Frankenstein, based on the Mary Shelley novel about a man and his monster, will star Broadway veterans Ron Bohmer and Davis Gaines