Amelia, Alex Webb's Civil War love story inspired by a single remark in a journal, gets a free public reading 2 PM Sept. 5 as part of the Kennedy Center's Page to Stage Festival at the Center's Millennium Stage.

Playwrights Edward Albee, Tony Kushner, Vaclav Havel, Lisa Kron, Jon Robin Baitz, Neil LaBute, Julia Cho, Adam Bock, Craig Wright, Heidi Schreck and more will all find homes Off-Broadway between September and December 2010.

We listen to the first-time-on-CD releases of the 1959 Jones Beach cast recording of the Wright & Forrest (& Grieg) Song of Norway and the original London cast album of Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella.

The San Francisco production of the Stephen Schwartz-Winnie Holzman musical Wicked plays its final performance at the Orpheum Theatre Sept. 5.

Tony Award winner Twyla Tharp's latest Broadway venture, Come Fly Away — the dance musical that sets the music of Frank Sinatra into motion — ends its Broadway run Sept. 5 at the Marriot Marquis Theatre.

The Off-Broadway premiere of Aaron Loeb's politically charged comedy, Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party, which officially opened Aug. 11 following previews that began July 27 at Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre, plays its final performance Sept. 5.

London doesn't officially run in seasons — there isn't the Broadway equivalent of the Tony Awards cut-off for eligibility to define one. But after a traditional August lull in the capital, as the arts focus shifts temporarily to the annual Edinburgh Festival, September sees a flurry of new activity in the West End and beyond that doesn't let up till Christmas.

The West End bids farewell to the Broadway company of Hair, who brought the show to the Gielgud Theatre, Sept. 4. The production is not being re-cast as previously anticipated with British actors and will shutter following their final performance.

The headliners of Centerstage's 2010-2011 Cabaret Series will include cabaret star KT Sullivan, Tony Award nominee Euan Morton and Broadway and Centerstage favorites Charlotte Cohn, E. Faye Butler and Kingsley Leggs. The series will take place in Centerstage's Head Theater in Baltimore, MD.

The Kennedy Center's Ninth Annual Page to Stage Festival takes place Sept. 4-6 in Washington, D.C. During the festival, free readings and open rehearsals of new plays and musicals being developed in the D.C. area and nationally will take place throughout the center.

Matthew Lombardo's three-person drama High, starring Tony and Academy Award-nominated actress Kathleen Turner, begins performances at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Sept. 4.

Jonathan Tolins' Secrets of the Trade, starring Tony Award winner John Glover and Noah Robbins, concludes its Off-Broadway run Sept. 4 at 59E59 Theaters.

Long Story Short, former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Colin Quinn's one-man show about 2,000 years of history, closes Off-Broadway Sept. 4 at the Bleecker Street Theatre.

Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, a satirical comedy that was first seen at New York's Playwrights Horizons earlier this year, receives its British premiere at London's Royal Court.

Rachel Moulton and Thomas M. Hammond will star in the classic Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady, which will begin performances Sept. 16 at the Engeman Theater in Northport, Long Island.