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The wildly popular cartoon satire 'Family Guy' will soon be hitting the road, performing two shows in Chicago on September 15th

Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich's play ...Double Vision, directed by Ari Laura Kreith, sold out all of its performances on the first weekend of the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival

Diane Van Lente, Executive Producer of the legendary Drury Lane Theatres, died Monday, Aug. 13 at age 57 of ovarian cancer

Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director) has announced the full cast for its world premiere presentation of Till The Break of Dawn, a new play written and directed by Hip-Hop theater icon Danny Hoch

Martin Vidnovic brings his rich and robust baritone to The Metropolitan Room

2007 Tony and Drama Desk nominee Laura Bell Bundy returns to Broadway at Birdland on Monday, August 20th for her final concert celebrating the release of her debut country album entitled 'Longing for a Place Already Gone.'

Jacobsen Entertainment, in association with Lionsgate and Magic Hour Productions has announced the U.S. premiere of the international stage hit Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage by Eleanor Bergstein, writer of the iconic blockbuster movie.

Cirque Jacqueline, Andrea Reese's acclaimed one-woman play that played to Massachusetts audiences in 2005 and 2006, will return to Provincetown in a limited seven-performance engagement from August 25 - September 1, 2007 at The Art House.

Rachel Pickup (as Arabella Schmitz) and Robert Portal (as Richard Hannay) celebrated Alfred Hitchcock's birthday with the wax figure of Alfred Hitchcock at Madam Tussauds as the hit comedy The 39 Steps celebrated a year in London.

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 8/12/2007

The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today the Nominating Committee for the 2007-2008 Broadway season

Daniel Reichard, who stars as Bob Gaudio in the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys, appeared in his own concert entitled 'Summer Mix Tape' at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street) on Sunday, August 12 at 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM.

Idol: The Musical, which began previews on July 7th and opened August 12th at the 45th Street Theatre, has announced its closing notice.

At Hand Theatre Company will present the premiere of Andrea Lepcio's new play One Nation Under, directed by Tye Blue at the Medicine Show Theatre

The Bad Plays Festival will return this fall at the Players Theatre (at 115 MacDougal St. in Greenwich Village) from September 10th through 30th.

Dragonchase Productions is presenting Naked in a Fishbowl as part of the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival

James Macdonald's West End revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross will open at the Apollo Theatre on September 27, 2007, with press night on October 10 and is currently booking until January 12, 2008

Scott Stander and Associates proudly present Shields & Yarnell in a special Los Angeles engagement for the first time in twenty years as part of their final U.S. Farewell tour

Fire Island's The Ice Palace, located within the Grove Hotel in Cherry Grove, will continue 'Brandon and Ray's Broadway at the Beach,' an open-mic musical theatre party on Fire Island featuring Broadway's best. On Monday, August 13th, from 9pm till 11:30pm

On August 13th, the acclaimed 'Monday Nights, New Voices' series, now in its third successful year, will continue at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre.

Some three weeks after opening, the hit film version of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Hairspray remains among the weekend box office top ten.

Sadly, today, Sunday, August 12, 2007, Merv Griffin left us

Entertainment-industry great, Merv Griffin, passed away on August 12, 2007 at the age of 82.