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Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will open its 2008-09 season with Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin starring in William Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST, to be directed by Kulick. Performances begin Wednesday, September 3. The official press opening is Thursday, September 18.

Babel Theatre Productions (Geordie Broadwater, Artistic Director, Jeremy Blocker, Producing Director ) presents the world premiere of James Carmichael's Stomp and Shout an' Work it All Out) directed by Geordie Broadwater. Stomp and Shout will begin performances Thursday, May 29 opening Sunday, June 1 and will run through June 21 at Upstairs at the 45th Street Theatre (354 West 45th Street).

THE LEAGUE OF OFF-BROADWAY THEATRES AND PRODUCERS today announced that Julie White, currently on stage in From Up Here at Manhattan Theatre Club, will host THE 23rd ANNUAL LUCILLE LORTEL AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT OFF-BROADWAY, which will be presented on Monday, May 5th at the Union Square Theatre (100 East 17th Street).

The application deadline for The Commercial Theater Institute and the O'Neill Theater Center's new joint program, The CTI-O'Neill Summer Workshop, has been extended until Thursday, May 22nd.

On Tuesday May 6th there will be a special edition of 'The After Party' celebrating the 22nd MAC Awards with special guest Lewis Black.

The final production in Jonathan Kent's Theatre Royal Haymarket Season will be the world premiere of 'Marguerite' a new musical starring Ruthie Henshall, Julian Ovenden, and Alexander Hanson. 'Marguerite' will begin performances on May 7th.

The 22nd ANNUAL EASTER BONNET COMPETITION was a great success with a record-breaking, $3,734,129 being raised this year by the 53 participating Broadway, Off Broadway, and national touring theater companies.

The Official Drama Desk Cocktail Reception honoring this year's Drama Desk Award Nominees will be held Thursday, May 1, 4 to 7 PM at Arte′ Cafe, 106 W. 73rd Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, where nominees will receive their Nomination Certificates.

Spotlighters announces its 2008 - 2009 season of musicals, comedies and dramas - classic and modern!

Starting tomorrow, Wednesday, April 30 at 10AM, Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) will be accepting entries for its popular LIVEforFIVE online lottery for $5 tickets to its next production, the World Premiere of the new musical SAVED. A total of 50 tickets will be available via the online lottery.

PROJECT SHAW, now in its third of four years, continues tackling every play Shaw ever wrote with its 27th presentation. This month, The Devil's Disciple, on Monday, May 19, 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South. David Staller is producer and director

Epic Theatre Ensemble announced today that Teri Lamm, Heather Raffo and Rocco Sisto will comprise the three-person cast of the New York Premiere of Palace of the End, a new drama by Judith Thompson.

Village Theatre announces the cast for AIDA, the exhilarating pop-rock powerhouse by Elton John and Tim Rice, on stage May 14 - July 6, 2008 in Issaquah and July 11 - 27, 2008 in Everett.

BoHo will present a complete reconceptualization of this gothic tale presenting the power of Wildhorn's music and Bricusse's lyrics and book…

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Andrew D. Hamingson, Managing Director) is proud to announce an extension of the New York premiere production of Olivier Award® winning playwright Conor McPherson's play PORT AUTHORITY, directed by Henry Wishcamper and featuring Tony Award® nominee Brian d'Arcy James (Sweet Smell of Success), Tony Award® winner John Gallagher, Jr. (Spring Awakening) and Olivier Award® winner Jim Norton (The Seafarer).

Performance Space 122 and Dublin's Pan Pan Theatre present the New York premiere of Oedipus Loves You, a wickedly funny and wonderfully theatrical take on the Oedipus plays of Sophocles and Seneca and their legacy, Freudian psychology. These performances are part of a highly acclaimed world tour, following the Dublin premiere in 2006 (including to date: the UK - Glasgow and London; Germany - Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Leipzig and Berlin; Canada - Quebec, Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge, Banff; Austria; Switzerland; Finland; and arriving in the US fresh from China - Beijing and Shanghai).

BroadwayWorld.com will be exclusively giving away a trip to Las Vegas to see Bette Midler perform in 'The Showgirl Must Go On'. The winning package includes two tickets to the 7/19 performance, a two night stay in Caesar's Palace from 7/18-7/20, round trip airfare for two from anywhere in the US and a special gift bag filled with show merchandise.

The Castle, a unique theatrical event that presents a searing, first-hand look at the lives of four formerly incarcerated New Yorkers and their re-entry into society, transfered to Off-Broadway after an extended run at its namesake venue.

Soho Think Tank to present 'Me' by Kirk Wood Bromley beginning May 3rd.

Nominations for the 53rd Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this morning at the New York Friars Club by Bebe Neuwirth and Len Cariou, multi-award winning stage, screen and television stars. They were joined for the announcement by William Wolf, Drama Desk President, Barbara Siegel, Chairperson of the Drama Desk Nominating Committee, Robert Blume, Executive Producer of the Drama Desk Awards, and Randie Levine-Miller, Director of Special Events for the Drama Desk.

Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, the critically acclaimed 2007 Olivier Award-winner for Best New Comedy, will transfer to Broadway's Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues), following its smash hit sold out limited engagement at Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre.