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Lee Mead, who stars in the West End's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, will be on holiday and therefore not performing during the following periods: January 14-26, March 10-15 and May 5-10 2008

Academy Award nominated actor Chazz Palminteri will make his Broadway debut this fall when his acclaimed show A Bronx Tale plays a limited 18 week engagement at The Walter Kerr Theatre

The hit Toronto production of WE WILL ROCK YOU has now extended to November 4, 2007. The new block of tickets will go on sale Saturday August 11, 2007.

Westport Country Playhouse will bring the legendary talents of Stephen Sondheim to its stage with Being Alive, a world premiere musical revue, August 24 through September 9. Sondheim served as an apprentice at the Playhouse in 1950.

Running Subway Productions along with 2-time Tony Award-winning director, Jack O'Brien will bring the critically acclaimed, record-breaking production Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical back to Broadway this holiday season.

Daniel Reichard, who stars as Bob Gaudio in the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys, will appear 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.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company will open the Harman Center for the Arts with a gala celebration on Monday, October 1, 2007

A Broadway musical based on My Man Godfrey may be on the way

Sheldon Epps' Blues in the Night began its exclusive San Francisco engagement at Post Street Theatre (450 Post Street) on August 7; ready for its Opening Night on August 15.

Enter to win two (2) tickets to Daniel Reichard's concert, 'Summer Mix Tape,' at Joe's Pub Sunday, August 12 at either 7:30 or 9:30PM!

My First Time, a new play in the style of The Vagina Monologues, features four actors, reciting hysterical and heartbreaking stories about first sexual experiences, written by real people - just like you.

After several engagements at Sterling's Upstairs in Studio City, Sylvia Brooks is making her debut performance at the Jazz Bakery in Culver City, with two new shows on Thursday August 30 at 8:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m...

Actor/writer Joanna Rush performs her one-woman show, Asking For It, as part of the New York International Fringe Festival from August 14th through August 24th at the Cherry Lane Theatre, located at 38 Commerce Street off of 7th Avenue

There's not enough meat to satisfy the guests of 'Party Come Here,' Daniel Goldfarb and David Kirshenbaum's new musical which recently received its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts

The Storefront will present the world premiere production of The Other Side of Darkness, a new play by Phil Geoffrey Bond

Roundabout Theatre Company's Beyond Glory is heading into the final two weeks of performances! The strict limited concludes on Sunday, August 19th at 2:00 PM.

Jill Whelan, who became a child star in the 1970s with Airplane and 'The Love Boat,' is all grown up, and will return with her musical cabaret act 'Jill Whelan: An Evening in Dry Dock' on Monday, August 13th at the Zipper Factory

This week at Any Wednesday, August 8, we are excited to welcome jazz singer par excellence MARLENE VER PLANCK who will perform selections from her recently reissued album, 'My Impetuous Heart', as well as other great standards in her sensitive and swinging style. Find out why Hugh Martin said 'We know our songs are safe in the hands of Marlene.' Upcoming performers include: Marieann Meringolo (August 15), Nancy Sterns (August 22), Steve Ross (August 29), Milla Ilieva (September 5), Jack Donohue (September 19), Leslie Orofino (September 26), Judy Kuhn (October 3), Linda Kosut (October 17), Cynthia Crane (October 24), Andrea Burns (November 7), Barbara Rosene (October 31), Betsy Ann Faiella (January 2) ANY WEDNESDAY celebrates the best in jazz, cabaret and theater performers in the spacious third floor events space at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes & Noble at 66th and Broadway in New York City. Each performance begins at 6:00 p.m., lasts approximately a half hour and is followed by a signing/meet-and-greet session with the artists. As always, the events remain free and open to all. If you have any questions, comments or require further information, please contact Bart Greenberg at AnyWednesdayBN@aol.com or 212-595-9340.

This Fall, Charles Busch's acclaimed comedy Die Mommie Die! makes its Off-Broadway premiere at New World Stages (340 W. 50th St.). Produced by Daryl Roth and Bob Boyett, and directed by Carl Andress, Die Mommie Die! begins preview performances on Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Joe Quenqua has been tapped to head public relations strategy for Disney Theatrical Group, the Walt Disney Company's live entertainment unit.

Funked Up Fairy Tales, the new hip musical by Kirsten Childs at Barrington Stage Company's Musical Theatre Lab, has been extended through August 18, due to popular demand