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Two-mur Humor: He's Malignant; She's Benign will premiere at The New York International Fringe Festival - Fringe NYC as a production of The Present Company, running from August 11th- August 25th.

Grey Gardens star Matt Cavenaugh will join the star-studded cast of the Broadway-bound musical A Catered Affair.

The world premiere of Butterflies of Uganda: The Memories of a Child Soldier A Harrowing Story of Abduction, Escape and Reconciliation begins previews September 5th, opens September 8th and runs through October 13th at the Greenway Arts Alliance's The Greenway Court Theatre

On Saturday, September 8th at 8 PM at the Wilshire Theatre, The Actors' Fund will present a one-night-only engagement of Falsettos

Lisa Ling and husband Dr. Paul Song took in a performance of the musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Wednesday night at the Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place.

The world premiere of Surface to Air, a new play by David Epstein, directed by Tony Award-winner James Naughton, at Symphony Space's Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, Broadway at 95th Street has cancelled their 7 pm Sunday evening performances for the reminder of the run

From the creators of the international hit De La Guarda comes a brand new original production, Fuerzabruta ('Brute Force') which lands in New York on October 11, 2007.

The York Theatre Company will present The Day Before Spring, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe

The York Theatre Company will present The Day Before Spring, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe

Ricky Ritzel and Leslie Anderson will play the Metropolitan Room (34 W. 22nd St.) on Saturday, July 28th at 8 PM.

On Sunday, September 23rd, from 5 PM to 7 PM, Millburn, NJ's Paper Mill Playhouse will host a 'Happy Days! Block Party-Sock Hop' that is free and open to the public.

On Tuesday, July 24th, In the Heights filmed a TV commercial on location in Washington Heights to promote its fall Broadway engagement

Legendary nanogenarian director Arthur Laurents - whose production of Gypsy is currently playing as part of Encores! Summer Stars with Patti LuPone and Laura Benanti as stars - will next helm a production of his 1957 classic West Side Story

In November, Kristin Huffman made her Broadway debut as Sarah (flute, piccolo and sax) in John Doyle's production of Company. The actress, with a new series of tales that go inside the making of Company from an actor's perspective, starting at the Cincinnati Playhouse and on to New York, continues her stories about a 15-year career that has led her to the door of the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Manhattan Theatre Club will premiere two new productions in their 2007-08 Off-Broadway season - The Receptionist by Adam Bock and The Four of Us by Itamar Moses - with newly-announced award-winning casts and directors.

Expanding on its 50-year history of developing new plays and cultivating new voices for the American Theater, The Public Theater is now accepting applications for The Emerging Writers Group, a new initiative that seeks to target playwrights at the earliest stages in their careers and nurture their artistic growth by providing necessary resources and support.

New Line Cinema's musical comedy Hairspray continues to draw big crowds in theaters on the heels of its strong opening weekend, with the film grossing $4.5 million on Monday, $4.3 million on Tuesday and $3.8 million on Wednesday to bring its cumulative domestic gross to $40.1 million since its July 20th debut.

The authors and cast of the hit musical I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change will preside over the closing bell at NASDAQ MarketSite Monday, July 30 at 4 p.m

Feinstein's at the Regency will open their Fall 2007 season with the return of Ashford and Simpson from September 12 - 29. Following their 2006 debut at the club, which opened to packed houses, the celebrated songwriters and performers will perform many of their greatest hits including 'I'm Every Woman,' 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough,' 'Solid' and 'Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand.' All shows are at the Regency Hotel

My First Time, which began performances Thursday, July 12th, opens Saturday, July 28th for an open-ended run Off-Broadway at New World Stages/Stage 5

The Flea Theater will present America LoveSexDeath, created and performed by the internationally acclaimed Billy The Mime, beginning performances August 23rd for a limited engagement

John McCormack and J.J. Kandel in association with The Open Book will present 'Summer Shorts,' a festival of new American short plays, at 59E59 Theaters

On August 13th at 9:30 PM, Coleen Sexton - who currently stands by as Elphaba in the Wicked tour - will perform her debut concert at the Metropolitan Room.