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Casting has been announced for Buried Child, the 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Sam Shepard, which will return to New York for an Off-Off-Broadway run

The New York Musical Theatre Festival, in association with Sharon Fallon, Daniel Wallace and Trish Whitehurst, proudly announce the U.S. premiere of Grant Olding's acclaimed London musical Three Sides, which will be presented as part of the third annual New York Musical Theatre Festival

A listing of shows currently running or scheduled to open in the next week.

Tony Award-winner Jason Robert Brown, whose new musical 13 will begin previews at LA's Mark Taper Forum in December, will return to Birdland on September 11th at 7 PM for a concert

In their sophomore season, Obstructed View Productions tackles David Mamet's classic play, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. Despite being too young for the characters the talented cast give fine performances and the play retains its power. * * * ½ (out of five)

The New York Musical Theatre Festival and Rake Theater will present the new musical, Oedipus for Kids!

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming Boston resident production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which starts its run at the Wilbur Theatre on September 26th

Four theatre veterans will take part in a reading of Sybille Pearson's play Next, which will take place at the Barrington Stage Company's Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield, MA on August 28th

Journey to the West, an epic story set to premiere at the New York Musical Theatre Festival this fall, will feature several Cirque du Soleil veterans among its creative team

Following last year's presentation of Silk Stockings, Lost Musicals will again dip into the Cole Porter repertoire for its next show, Fifty Million Frenchmen

Tony Award-winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson will be joined by a number of fellow actors, as well as musicians, for the performance event 'August Wilson and the Blues,' which will be held at Battery Park's Castle Clinton National Monument on Saturday, September 9th at 7 PM

Barbra Streisand has added four new dates to her highly anticipated North American tour, performing for fans in Columbusat the Schottenstein Center on October 6th, Montreal's Bell Centre on October 15th, The Air Canada Centre in Toronto on October 17th and Minneapolis' Xcel Energy Center on October 24th

Nancy Anderson performed a live version of her new album at its Birdland release party.

Culture Project has announced that Terry Kinney will direct Speak Truth To Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark as part of this fall's IMPACT Festival

Deborah Lew, Maureen Brennan, Terry Burrell, Natalie Joy Johnson, Joyce Chittick and more star in North Shore Music Theatre's staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, which runs from August 22nd through September 10th

Rupert Murray, lighting designer and events producer, died Thursday August 17th in Dublin, Ireland

A number of theatre veterans will be among the presenters of the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which will be telecast on NBC on August 27th in a ceremony hosted by Conan O'Brien

Constantine Maroulis, the 'American Idol' finalist also known for his turn as Roger in a non-Equity tour of Rent, has been confirmed to join The Wedding Singer, beginning September 8th

Chita Rivera and Dame Edna recently met up for high tea, and posed for a picture together!

Members of Performance & Cocktails, a young professionals group designed for those seeking a retreat from the usual night out, will be able to see The Wiz at San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse for a discount price