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1. About Face's The Homosexuals has been extended through August 14, for an additional three weeks.

Say hello to The Paper Machete's Julienne Bilker, who is preparing for her Machete debute. Bilker is a theater writer at TimeOut, and a production assistant at Harpo studios.

JONATHAN: They used to call it Hell's Kitchen, but now the substantially-gentrified West Side of midtown Manhattan is called Clinton, and the Puerto Rican vs. Polack gangs of West Side Story are history.

It's easy to take oneself too seriously sometimes. So, Eight Forty-Eight invited Seth Dodson and Kellen Alexander to offer some advice on how to loosen up and relax for the latest installment of The Weekly Guide. The duo performs at places like iO and the Annoyance Theater.

As Kris Vire reported recently, Theater Wit is introducing a monthly pass which enables theatergoers to attend as many shows in the complex as many times as they want.

Kelly KleimanSo you have two choices: in, or out.  Being an air-conditioning girl myself, I'm planning to see Collaboraction's 1001 when it re-opens at the Flatiron Building next week (in fact, the Dueling Critics will debate the re-mount); but if you