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This July 4, New Concert Host Jimmy Smits Invites You To A Capitol Fourth: America's Biggest Birthday Party Live From the U.S. Capitol.

Gateway Playhouse, Long Island's premiere professional Equity musical theatre, begins its 59th season with the multiple Tony Award winner, 'The Will Rogers Follies, a life in revue' May 21-June 14.

Rachel York performed at the Metropolitan Room and at the State Theatre of New Jersey Gala.

Seaside Music Theater has announced that it had to cancel its 2008 productions - Les Miserables, Backwards in High Heels, Altar Boyz, and Miss Nelson is Missing.

North Shore Music Theatre presents 'The Producers.'

A team of 12 acclaimed writers have contributed songs - Stephen Bates, Marie Cain, Perry Hart, Shelly Markham, Jim Morgan, David Pevsner, Rayme Sciaroni, Mark Savage, Ben Schaechter, Trance Thompson, Mark Winkler and two-time Emmy Award winner, Bruce Vilanch. The show opens with 'Gratuitous Nudity,' in which the cast throws caution and costumes to the wind, and they never look back. Other numbers include 'Naked Maid,' 'Robert Mitchum,' 'Nothin' But The Radio On,' and 'Perky Little Porn Star.'

Variety reports that Daniel Day-Lewis is in talks to take on the role of Guido Contini in the upcoming Rob Marshall helmed Nine film.

Neil Berg's '100 Years Of Broadway' will be Saturday, May 24th, 2008 at Tarrytown Music Hall.

NYC Department of Corrections Commissioner Martin Horn has invited the cast of the Off-Broadway play, 'The Castle', to give three separate performances on Rikers Island.

Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre announce a $2.85 million gift from the Robina Foundation to establish the Yale Center for New Theatre.

From May 22, Teatro ZinZanni presents 'Hail Caesar' featuring the irrepressible Frank Ferrante in the role of Chef Caesar and one of the most acclaimed stars of the Moulin Rouge in Paris.

PossEble Theater Company presents 'Cinephilia' by Leslye Headland beginning May 29th.

There was a VIP evening at the Burlington Arcade last night, Tuesday 13 May, celebrating the launch of a new partnership between 'The 39 Steps' and Mackintosh and Globe-Trotter.

The award-winning York Theatre Company continues its NEO Spotlight Concert series with Sailing Against the Current: Songs by Robert Bartley and Daniel Whitman.

And the nominees are… North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) recently announced the nominees, including the top 10 productions nominated for Best Musical, for the 3rd annual North Shore Music Theatre Spotlight Awards. The Tony® Award style program is designed to honor the accomplishments of high school students and teachers as well as encourage them to achieve the highest levels of excellence in musical theater.

Join Alec Mapa, 'AMERICA'S GAYSIAN SWEETHEART,' for an uncensored, unbridled evening of hilarity! After a year of traveling around the globe on a gay cruise and shaking things up on Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty and LOGO'S groundbreaking dating show, TransAmerican Love Story, Alec has a delectable tale to tell Gay Pride weekend.

ENO today announces, owing to public demand, the addition of 2 extra performances of Robert Carsen's acclaimed staging of Candide.

DANCENOW/NYC brings yet another original performance to the Pub with their new Annie get Your Gun inspired dance piece, ShowDown while The Paris Review's Philip Gourevitch presents a conversation with acclaimed playwright Sam Shepard.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, will continue the Spring 2008 season with the return engagement of entertainer TONY DANZA from June 3 - 14. His new show 'I Could Have Danced All Night' - featuring his usual mix of music, comedy and dance - includes songs like 'Dancing in The Dark,' 'Let's Face The Music and Dance,' 'The Last Dance' and 'At The Hop.' All shows take place at the Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street).

No election year would be complete without the irascible, irreplaceable and incomparable Jackie Mason - whose 8th and truly final all-new, one-man comedy tour de force, JACKIE MASON - THE ULTIMATE JEW, opened at New World Stages, March 18th to rave reviews and unprecedented demand. And now, for the absolute last time, the show, originally scheduled for only ten weeks, will extend until August 31st.

Following sell out seasons at the Theatre Royal Stratford East and The Barbican 'The Harder They Come' is now moving to the West End's Playhouse Theatre.