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PREVIEWS

Aug. 28: Everybody's favorite mischievous Frenchy is back, this time, on the stage. , a new musical based on the Academy Award-nominated film of the same title, opens at in California. Samantha Barks, who played Eponine in the film adaptation of "Les Miserables," stars as the whimsical mademoiselle.

OPENING

Aug. 27: . The creative team behind the Tony-nominated  reunites for this world-premiere production, and Scott, who co-wrote and starred in Rapture, does the same again. In a case of life imitating art, she plays a celebrity actress who ventures behind the bars of a men's maximum security prison in order to help them tell their stories.  

LAST CHANCE

Aug. 30: , who earned a Tony nomination for his performance as Jean Valjean in the Broadway production of Les Miserables, will finish up his run in the acclaimed production, to be succeeded by .

Aug. 30: It's raucous, it's loud, it's over-the-top: it's . The Off-Broadway staging, full of belly-laughs, will play its last show at St. Luke's.

Aug. 30: Midlife crisis musical comedy , about the joys and tribulations of middle age, concludes its limited engagement Off-Broadway. 

Sept. 6: 's dazzling revival of  will close with in the role of Ivy Smith. Copeland made history a few months ago when she was the first African-American to be appointed as a principal ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Aug. 28: While the evenings are still warm, stay out and make the most of New York City's free outdoor events, like  Lincoln Center's screening of "." TGIF. 

Through Aug. 30: the largest multi-arts festival in North America, kicked off its 19th year Aug. 14 and continues performances through Aug. 30 at 16 different venues in downtown Manhattan. .

Sept. 3-6: Tyler Perry's kicks off a 10-week national run at the Beacon Theatre. Perry, in drag, stars as the notorious Mabel, who is on the run from the authorities and hiding out with her friend, Bam.

Through Oct. 4: Don鈥檛 miss  an exhibition of works by celebrated American painter John Singer Sargent, who created portraits of artists, writers, actors and musicians, many of whom were his friends.