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Robert Evan, Kate Shindle and Brandi Burkhardt will headline a national tour of Jekyll & Hyde--The Concert, which will play a variety of venues around the country from September 10th, 2005 to May 7, 2006

Newsmax.com reports that talk show host Rush Limbaugh will hit Broadway on October 18th for a one night benefit concert to fund relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

The Chicago Sun-Times has reported that director Lonny Price is mulling over the prospect of a Ravinia Festival production of Gypsy starring Patti LuPone

Jeremy Kushnier will star in two readings of the new musical drama Drift on September 19th as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival

A CD with songs from the first Broadway Unplugged concert, which was held at Town Hall in 2004, will be released on September 12th

The cast & crew of Terrence McNally's 'Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams' at Primary Stages at 59E59 Theatres will be taking donations to support the Hurricane Katrina relief effort beginning with tonight's performance (September 2) through next weekend.

With a tremendous amount of buzz, Silence! The Musical delivers the kind of outrageous laughs theatre-goers were hoping for, plus a genuine star performance from Jenn Harris

Known for films such as American Beauty, Birch will play Anina Brandel in the October 2nd reading.

The Tony Award-winning musical AVENUE Q will appear on LIVE WITH REGIS & KELLY on the show's Labor Day telecast Monday, Sept. 5, performing a new song, 'Only in Vegas,' that celebrates the popular musical's opening on Thursday, Sept. 8 at the WYNN LAS VEGAS Resort.

Casting beings for Michael Grandage's production of Evita, Jason Robert Brown does more concerts before a possible Last Five Years production and Joanna Riding does another play

As of last night (September 1st), the producers of THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL have announced that they will donate $15 from each full-price ticket sale to the American Red Cross' Hurricane 2005 Relief Fund, for all performances now thru the end of September.

The Virginia Theater, at 245 West 52nd Street will be renamed the August Wilson Theater on October 17th.

The Public Theater will present two series of readings--New Work Now! and New Work Then!--in celebration of its history of producing new plays; the two series will be held from September 9th to September 18th and from September 2nd to October 3rd

ANA GASTEYER and KATE REINDERS from Chicago's Long-Run Production of WICKED will perform 'For Good' at the Jerry Lewis Telethon Benefiting the Muscular Dystrophy Association

Three-time Tony Award-winner Thomas Meehan will be presented with the first annual 'Helen' Award at a Helen Hayes Theatre Company Gala on September 26th

Austin Pendleton's off-Broadway hit about Orson Welles, Orson's Shadow, will reach its 200th performance off-Broadway on September 4th

In a letter to the community, Paul Libin (President) and Tom Viola (Executive Director) of BC/EFA announced a donation of $100,000 to the Red Cross for the victims of hurricane Katrina.

In My Life, one of this seasons newest musicals will delay its first preview by three days. The tuner with songs by Joe Brooks will begin performances on September 30th and officially open on October 20th.

The revolutionary I-Caption System has gone live at Broadway's smash hit musical MAMMA MIA!

Kenneth Branagh will direct Sean Foley and Hamish McColl's 'comedy spectacular' Ducktastic, which will open in London on October 17th

Orfeh, Leslie Kritzer and Marya Grandy, who star in The Great American Trailer Park Musical, will be the guests at Chatterbox on September 1st