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The Public Theater will open its 2007-2008 season with The Wooster Group's Hamlet, a wildly inventive take on Shakespeare's best-known tragedy. Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, Hamlet marks the debut of the Wooster Group at The Public Theater, opening on Wednesday, October 31.

'Purple Hearts' a new play by Burgess Clark about the real-life events of sailors who survived aboard a sunken battleship post-Pearl Harbor, opens September 8

The York Theatre announced Jeff McCarthy and Emily Skinner among the cast of Joseph Stein's 'Zorba.'

The Red Fern Theatre Company presents 'A Cabaret Fundraiser: An Evening of Personal Stories' on Monday, September 10 at 8PM at the Triad

This September, Upright Cabaret returns to the place it all began for a festival of new generation cabaret. From a Broadway Diva to a Goddess...from a future Fashion Mogul to a Farm Girl. Shane Scheel, Chris Isaascson and Trapper Felides are thrilled to present an eclectic mix of some of the hottest talent in the country...

Chad McCallon will perform his show 'I Can't Say No' at the Duplex (61 Christopher Street, at 7th Ave) on Mondays September 17 & 24 at 9:30PM. Phil Hall is the musical director. There is a $5.00 cover and 2-drink minimum.

Vital Children's Theatre is pleased to announce Extraordinary, the first show in the 2007-2008 season.

Penny Fuller presents 'Friends In Deed' at the Metropolitan Room September 5 through 9 at 7:30PM.

Roundabout Theatre Company announces a new Off-Broadway production of Christopher Durang's comedy The Marriage of Bette and Boo directed by Walter Bobbie, beginning performances June 13, 2008 and opening July 2008 at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. This is a limited engagement through September 7, 2008.

Lincoln Center Theater will present The New Century, four short plays by Paul Rudnick, to be directed by Nicholas Martin, this spring in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Dates, cast and the design team for the production will be announced at a later date.

'Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words,' the acclaimed long-running Los Angeles-based comedy sensation comes to New York for the first time in a special one-night-only 'Best Of' event to benefit The Actors' Fund on Monday, September 10. 'Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words,' where actors interpret the actual words and stories written by the famous and the infamous, will feature two-time Emmy Award winner Kristen Johnston, Richard Kind, Xanadu stars Tony Roberts, Cheyenne Jackson, Jackie Hoffman and Mary Testa, plus Seth Rudetsky (The Ritz), Jack Plotnick ('Reno: 911'), Dayle Reyfel and creator Eugene Pack

The Stolen Chair Theatre Company, in association with Horse Trade, presents the world premiere of Kiran Rikhye's kinky and playful period piece Kinderspiel. Directed by Jon Stancato, previews begin October 4; opening October 6 at Under St. Marks Theater.

Invisible City Theatre Company presents the New York premiere of Purple Hearts, an award-winning new play by Burgess Clark based on real events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor. Previews begin September 5; opening September 8 at the Gene Frankel Theatre.

Hancock Productions presents in repertory the world premiere spy thriller The Brother (through November 18) and Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize winning 'night Mother (September 14 through November 18) at the Theatre Building Chicago.

The Actors Fund announced today that Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell will take to the stage at Carnegie Hall for the very first time as a solo artist on October 15th, 2007.

Legally Blonde's Paul Canaan, Christian Borle and Lindsay Nicole Chambers, plus Broadway's Adam Pelty, Merri Sugarman and Randy Redd will participate in Usdan Center's Second Annual 'The Craft of Broadway' as part of the 'Summer in September' workshops, Saturday and Sunday, September 29 & 30.

There are only four weeks left to catch the summer events at Spiegelworld in downtown Manhattan. Absinthe 2007 and the world premiere of La Vie continues nightly performances at the Spiegeltent through September 30.

Tony Award -winner Linda Lavin kicked-off the fall season of 'Broadway at Birdland' with dual-concerts on September 3 & 4 at 7PM.

The Public Theater will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical with a free concert version of this legendary musical at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park.

Daniel Reichard, who stars as Bob Gaudio in the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys, has been invited back by popular demand to perform 'Summer Mix Tape' at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street) on Saturday, September 8 at 11:45 PM.

Intiman Theatre announces that, due to audience demand and strong ticket sales, its American Cycle production of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, adapted by Christopher Sergel and directed by Fracaswell Hyman, will extend beyond its scheduled closing date of October 28 and will now close on Saturday, November 3 at 8PM.