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Hamlet directed by Gregory Doran opens tonight at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

On Monday, August 4, 2008 the Friars Club presented DIVA NIGHT! in the Frank Sinatra Dining Room at the Friars Club. The evening was Hosted & Produced by Randie Levine-Miller and starred Christine Andreas, Anna Bergman, Beth Fowler, Alice Frazier, Liz McCartney, Rena Strober, Christianne Tisdale, Deborah Tranelli. Paul Chamlin served as Musical Director for the evening. The theater and cabaret stars performed songs from 'The Broadway Songbook'.

HAIRSPRAY star Nikki Blonsky will be making her NYC Cabaret debut at Feinstein's at Loews Regency this fall.

THE FIRST BREEZE OF SUMMER, the first production of Signature Theatre Company's 2008-2009 season celebrating the historic Negro Ensemble Company (NEC), will begin previews today, August 5th.

The Broadway Workshop, Manhattan's fastest growing acting program for young artists, has teamed up with Broadway's Stephanie Fittro for its first ongoing acting class.

Theater Oobleck's acclaimed production of Mickle Maher's The Strangerer will play its final performance this Thursday, August 7 at the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street).

The new play Six Nights In the Black Belt written by Lowell Williams, directed by Clayton Phillips will have a staged reading at The Theatre at St. Clements, August 12th (423 West 46th street) at 3:30PM

Due to a scheduling conflict Allyce Beasley will not be able to perform in the upcoming Fringe Festival comedy, The Grecian Formula.

Beginning this month, the cast of STOMP will star in a PSA being shown on video screens currently installed most of the city's medallion taxicabs promoting the 'STOMP OUT LITTER' campaign.

THE FIRST BREEZE OF SUMMER, the first production of Signature Theatre Company's (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) 2008-2009 season celebrating the historic Negro Ensemble Company (NEC), will begin previews tomorrow, August 5th. THE FIRST BREEZE OF SUMMER, by Leslie Lee and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, officially opens on Thursday, August 21st and continues through September 28th at the Peter Norton Space located at 555 West 42nd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues).

The YORK THEATRE COMPANY (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) announces casting for its first Fall Mainstage Series show, ENTER LAUGHING: THE MUSICAL.

Broadway favorites and more are at Joe's Pub this August.

For the first time ever, the legendary recordings of the exuberant, tune-filled musicals of Broadway composer-lyricist Jerry Herman are available in a new digital-only collection from Masterworks Broadway.

As the weather cools down, the North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) stage will heat up with more artists added to its 2008 Celebrity Concert Series

Terry Hands' production of Jonathan Lichtenstein's Memory will open at the Pleasance Theatre, Islington on 1 October, after a national tour.

In the last week of its ninth annual successful smash season, the Midtown International Theatre Festival extends you one last invitation to see its Commercial Division shows with an eye on transferring to a life elsewhere after their MITF runs end on August 10!

Dancers Over 40 begins the second season of its popular series of panels and performances by honoring 'Jack Cole, Still Alive and Kicking' on Monday, October 13th at 7:30 pm at The Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space.

Ronald Ribman's powerful, three-character, New York Dramatists Award-winning, comedic drama, COLD STORAGE, directed by Richmond Shepard.

A Scottish-Jewish Musical? Bring in the Music, Bring in the Kilts