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After sold-out runs in Washington DC and Chicago, Political Idol, a hilarious spoof of the upcoming Primary Elections lambastes its way to Off-Broadway's Triad Theatre opening Tuesday, November 6 at 9PM for an eight week run. Produced by the Freedom Toast Company, preview performances begin Tuesday, October 30 at 9PM.

Gretchen Wyler (1932-2007), dancer/singer/actress/activist (Guys and Dolls, Silk Stockings, Damn Yankees, Rumple, Bye Bye Birdie, Sly Fox, Applause) was remembered Tuesday, September 24 in a memorial service at Sardi's in New York City.

Foothills Theatre opens 2007-2008 season with revue of songs by popular Broadway composing duo.

Producer Jeff Gardner announces a reading of his upcoming Broadway production, Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, November 1 & 2 at a studio in the Theatre District. Casting is in progress.

The West Bank Café announces our October, 2007 line-up of live entertainment, to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Fellowship of the Performing Arts Theater Company announces the return engagement of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters off-Broadway at the Theatre at St. Clements October 18 - December 9 with opening night set for November 8.

American Conservatory Theater is proud to present two special productions of classic British comedies: Oscar Wilde's dramatic comedy of identity, The Importance of Being Earnest; and Candida, George Bernard Shaw's comedic comment on class, propriety, and desire. The plays, directed by Ken Ruta and Barbara Oliver, respectively, will be performed by members of the ACT Master of Fine Arts (MFA) class of 2008 and will play in repertory at Zeum Theater October 17 through November 3.

BroadwayWorld.com's New and Updated Who's Who Entries for the Week of 9/25/2007. Updates include: James Anest, Randy Blair, Jonathan Castillo, erin crosby, Kurt Domoney, Michael Duling, Ryan Duncan, Halley Wegryn Gross, Matthew Gumley, Larry Hamilton, Ellen Harvey, Troy Magino, David Weitzer, Darryl Winslow.

Feinstein's at Loews Regency, will continue their Fall 2007 season with the Grammy Award nominated Hawaiian singer Amy Hanaiali'i from October 9 - 13. All shows are at the Regency Hotel.

This season, Playwrights Horizons announced the creation of LIVE for FIVE, a ticketing initiative that makes available $5 tickets for the first preview performance of each Playwrights Horizons production via an online lottery.

Yale Repertory Theatre will present a staged reading of John Austin Connolly's The Boys from Siam, directed by Liz Diamond, on Monday, October 1 at 7:30 PM. The reading will take place in the New Theater, located at 1156 Chapel Street in New Haven. Admission is free.

Hundreds of Broadway, TV and film stars crowded the sidewalks of Shubert Alley at the 21st Annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Flea Market and Grand Auction on Sunday, September 23.

Lee Sankowich proudly returns to Los Angeles' Zephyr Theatre with Deborah Zoe Laufer's critically acclaimed The Last Schwartz.

British farce-master Ray Cooney's latest zany comedy, Tom, Dick and Harry, co-written with his son, Hollywood screenwriter Michael Cooney, will make its West Coast premiere at International City Theatre in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Opening Night is October 19, continuing through November 18; low-priced previews take place October 16, 17 & 18.

Award-winning talents Eartha Kitt, Shuler Hensley, Debra Monk, James Naughton, Bebe Neuwirth, David Hyde Pierce, Ben Vereen and Karen Ziemba honored the late Fred Ebb and John Kander, the Tony Award-winning composer/song-writing team of Chicago, Cabaret and Curtains, on Monday, September 24, at Westport Country Playhouse.

The OBIE, Drama Desk and Lortel Award-winning Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH) is pleased to announce that their 2006 acclaimed production of Waiting for Godot, directed by Christopher McElroen, will be presented in New Orleans by Creative Time and visual artist Paul Chan.

Transport Group, the winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award and a 2007 Obie Award, will present Crossing Brooklyn, a world premiere musical, with music by Jenny Giering and book and lyrics by Laura Harrington, and directed by Artistic Director Jack Cummings III (a Drama Desk nominee for Transport Group's The Audience) beginning performances Friday, October 19, at the Connelly Theatre, 220 East 4th Street, between Avenues A and B. The opening has been scheduled for Sunday, October 28.

Urban Stages is pleased to announce the American Premiere of The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion, the first production of their 2007/2008 season. The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion is a play written by Stephen Massicotte and will be directed by Roger Danforth. Performances will be at 259 West 30th Street (between 7th and 8th). Previews will begin on Saturday, October 13 with the opening date scheduled for Thursday, October 18 and will run through Sunday, November 18. Press is invited beginning on Wednesday, October 17.

Nine years after its Broadway premiere at Lincoln Centre's Vivian Beaumont theatre, the Jason Robert Brown/Alfred Uhry musical Parade finally made its way to the London stage on September 24 when it opened at the Donmar Warehouse. It has been eagerly anticipated by musical theatre afficionados in the UK and Rob Ashford's production, with a slightly revised and improved score, does not disappoint.

The newly formed South Ark Stage Company presents the Off-Broadway premiere of Jenny Lyn Bader's play None of the Above. Previews begin September 25 prior to an official press opening of October 10 at Theatre Row's Lion Theatre (410 West 42nd Street) in Manhattan.

Former 'Sopranos' star Jason Cerbone will appear in Charles Messina's new play Merging that will debut at The Players Theatre in Manhattan in October as part of the theatre's Shortened Attention Span Horror Festival.

On September 24, 2007, the IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, announced the 2007 award recipients at a spectacular evening hosted by Julie Halston. The awards were announced last evening at 7PM in FIT's Haft Auditorium located in Building C of FIT's campus on 27th Street (bwt 7/8 aves) to a standing room only crowd.

The Falcon Theatre is thrilled to present Penny Marshall in the comedy, Sheldon & Mrs. Levine, written by Sam Bobrick and Julie Stein, directed by John Bowab. Marshall, famed actress and director, stars as the overbearing mother, with Desmond Harrington as her put-upon son, in the second production in Falcon Theatre's 2007-2008 all-comedy subscription season.