With the closing of the Broadway production, the phenomenon that is "Rent" will start to fade, but the work of its composer, Jonathan Larson, will endure.

September 6th marks one year since The Factory performed a secret performance of Hamlet to a small invited audience of Facebook friends.

The documentary film "Every Little Step" will be premiering at the Toronto Film Festival on September 6th at 4:30PM, September 8th at 12:30 PM and September 13th at 9AM.

Northlight Theatre opens its 2008-2009 season with the Chicago Premiere of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, in a fresh adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher, directed by Jessica Thebus. The production runs September 17-October 26, 2008, at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd in Skokie.

Bistro Award-Winning Dane Vannatter will present a new cabaret and jazz show, "Alone Together: A Tony Bennett Album" on four consecutive Saturday evenings in September, beginning September 6th (10PM) at the new york hotspot Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~between 5th & 6th Avenues).

It's five days until I fly to new york for the first time in my life. As a keen lover of theatre- this is how it felt as a kid to see pictures of Disneyland (which, incidentally, I have never been to either!)

Broadway, it seems, has eclipsed Playboy as the place to make Hollywood pay attention.