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'As the producer of the 18th annual Toronto Fringe Festival I would like to thank the patrons, performers and volunteers for making this year's Festival a huge hit. The Fringe achieved a record attendance this year and once again presented a great number of quality performances. I'm looking forward to next year's Fringe Festival and the continued success and growth of the independent Toronto theatre community'. Bridget MacIntosh, Producer - The Fringe: Toronto's Theatre Festival

Nilaja Sun opened in her new play on July 16th, and BroadwayWorld was there to catch the opening night festivities!

SHN has announced the world premiere Pre-Broadway debut of the new musical, 'Legally Blonde,' at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre January 23, 2007.

TheatreworksUSA launched its 45th anniversary season with the one-hour musical revue If You Give a Mouse a Cookie & Other Story Books on July 16th

On July 16th, Tony Award-winners Jonathan Pryce and Norbert Leo Butz played their last performance as Broadway's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

What Goes Around…, a new comedy by Jeff Baron, will play Dillons from August 8th through 16th

Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy will take a step back in time with its fourth show of the summer series: The Last Night of Ballyhoo, which runs July 19-30 at the Kennedy Theatre in NC

Actress Carrie Nye, who received a Tony nomination for her work in the 1965 musical Half a Sixpence, passed away in her home at the age of 69

Redux Productions will present Alexander Poe's I Was Tom Cruise, on August 11th - 22th at the Connelly Theatre as part of the New York International Fringe Festival

Mary Testa, John Tartaglia, Kevin Cahoon and Farah Alvin have joined the cast of 'Flopz n' Cutz 3,' which will take place on July 30th

Valarie Pettiford, Tony Award-nominee for Fosse, will make her NYC cabaret debut on Wednesday, July 19th, with shows at 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm at The Metropolitan Room

The Laurie Beechman Cabaret Theatre will present Marty Thomas of Broadway's Wicked in a one-night-only cabaret event, 'Songs I'm NOT Supposed to Sing!,' on Monday, July 24

Camp Broadway, the award-winning theater arts education company, is auditioning and looking for 600 performance-loving kids, ages 11-14, to perform an original opening number--entitled 'Give me A Drum'--live in the Opening Number of the 80th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which will be televised on NBC-TV on November 23 beginning at 9 a.m

The Flea Theatre's 2006-2007 season will include premieres by A.R. Gurney, Charles L. Mee and more

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced its 2006-07 season--the company's twelfth; the season will feature plays by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and mor

A one-block stretch of West 43rd Street will officially be renamed I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change Way on Tuesday, August 1 by the New York City Department of Transportation

Hunter Foster, Terrence Mann, Kaitlin Hopkins and Fyvush Finkel will star in Party Come Here, playing from September 25th through September 28th at the TBG Theatre as one of the 'invited' musicals of the New York Musical Theatre Festival

After dropping out of the line-up to tour with Earth, Wind & Fire, Botti is back on the bill for August 13, 2006

Musical director and producer Brian J. Nash shares the diary that he wrote aboard Rosie's Family Cruise, which featured performances by Audra McDonald, Cyndi Lauper and more!

On his website, Tituss Burgess--currently on Broadway in Jersey Boys--has announced his casting in the La Jolla Playhouse's upcoming revival of The Wiz, which is possibly Broadway-bound.

On Monday, August 21, Sweeney Todd cast members will travel downtown to Bowery Ballroom to perform in concert; Duncan Shiek and Nellie McKay will join them

The Actors' Theatre of Washington is serving up a double act evening of Joe Orton's Ruffian on the Stair and Charles Busch's Vampire Lesbians of Sodom; the effect is of a grandly filling entree after an under-spiced appetizer