?Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) kicks off its 2009/10 Subscription Series with Artistic Director Barbara Gaines' staging of Richard III, one of Shakespeare's most enduring successes. Richard, the brilliant hunchback and witty manipulator, seduces and murders his way to the English throne in the Bard's epic history of this most fascinating and engaging villain.

Broadway?s smash-hit 2004 Tony® Award winner for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book returns to Boston. A hilarious show full of heart and hummable tunes, AVENUE Q is about trying to make it in NYC with big dreams and a tiny bank account. Called ?one of the funniest shows you?re ever likely to see? by Entertainment Weekly, AVENUE Q features a cast of people and puppets who tell the story in a smart, risqué and downright entertaining way. Recommended for ages 13 and up. AVENUE Q has not been authorized or approved by The Jim Henson Company or Sesame Workshop, which have no responsibility for its content.

The Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Theatre Company, Inc. production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Harold Prince, returns to ASU Gammage in Tempe beginning October 28 through November 22.

Ilotopie's Water Fools (Fous de Bassin) Chicago Shakespeare Theater's World's Stage Series August 21?22, 2009 at the east end of Navy Pier 9:15 p.m.

The New York Times is reporting that Malcolm Gets and Helen Stenborg will star in the dark comedy Vigil at the DR 2 Theatre, September 20th through November 22nd.

Producers Angelo Fraboni and Daryl Roth have announced that the New York premiere of Vigil, written by Morris Panych and directed by Stephen DiMenna, will begin performances Sunday, September 20, at 3pm at the DR2 Theatre, 103 East 15 Street, east of Union Square. The opening is scheduled for Tuesday, September 29 at 7pm.

The Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Theatre Company, Inc. production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Harold Prince, returns to ASU Gammage in Tempe beginning October 28 through November 22.

Hynes is cast alongside Rachael Stirling in Michael Wynne's play.

Tickets are now on sale for the November, 2009 performances of Hedwig and the Angry Inch!

Minneapolis Musical Theatre today announced the full cast and crew for its area premiere of The Great American Trailer Park Musical, the first production in its "Great, Big, Surprising 10th Anniversary Season."

Olympia Entertainment, in partnership with Magic Arts & Entertainment, presents the 2009-2010 My Foxtown Theater Series, a unique variety of shows that offer something for everyone. This year's series features the premier engagements of ?The 101 Dalmatians Musical' and ?Little House On The Prairie The Musical with Melissa Gilbert as ?Ma'.'

Casting for the West Coast Premiere of CHASING NICOLETTE, the new musical authored by the same team that brought last season's popular new musical STUNT GIRL to the Mainstage, has been announced.

Renowned director Derek Charles Livingston and musical director Richard Berent bring Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's musical thriller SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET to The Production Company's Chandler Studio Theatre in a re-imagining of sheer theatrical lightning beginning September 18th, 2009. This ?Sweeney' is up close and personal!

False Idols Fall Productions will present the world premiere of Michael Hyman's LOVE WILL TEAR US APART at the Hudson Guild Theatre (6539 Santa Monica Blvd.) in Hollywood. Hyman also directs this play about love, loss, and one's immortality, as a young gay man wanders through the memories of his past loves. Performances run October 16 - November 22, 2009, with the official press opening on Saturday, October 17.

THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, the entertaining hit theatre production is being presented by Fellowship for the Performing Arts at Tivoli Theatre, 709 Broad St, Chattanooga, TN on Saturday, November 21st and Sunday, November 22nd. The play has enjoyed sold-out runs in Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. and now makes its way to Chattanooga.

The musical comedy revue "Naked Boys Singing!" comes home to Los Angeles with performances beginning September 17 at the Macha Theatre in West Hollywood. Produced by Macha Theatre/Films-Odalys Nanin and TANK Productions, this international entertainment sensation opens on Friday, September 25 and will run through November 22 only.

Lamb's Players Theatre has extended its run of the popular musical Godspell. The production, currently playing at the Horton Grand Theatre, will now be performed through November 22. Written by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak, the musical is directed by Lamb's Players' Producing Artistic Director, Robert Smyth.

San Francisco's cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater opens its 10th season with Eugène Ionesco's comic masterpiece THE BALD SOPRANO, in a new translation by Cutting Ball Artistic Director Rob Melrose.

Village Theatre produces the West Coast Premiere of CHASING NICOLETTE, a hilarious yet touching new musical that charts the love between a Christian count and a Muslim princess.

Grease, with platinum-selling recording artist and "American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks appearing as "Teen Angel" at select performances, returns by popular demand to Hennepin Theatre Trust's Orpheum Theatre, Nov. 18-22, 2009.

Girls Night: The Musical, the off-Broadway hit, comes to Boston's Club Café for a limited engagement, beginning Tuesday, October 13 and running through Sunday, November 22.

Actors Theater of Minnesota, resident company of the Lowry Theater, will DEER CAMP THE MUSICAL, September 24 ? November 22, 2008.

Guy Fieri, star of three shows on Food Network including Diners, Drive-ins and Dives is taking American food culture to new heights by combining the worlds of food and rock-n-roll.

Diversionary Theatre and ion theatre company are pleased to announce an eagerly-awaited collaboration of the seminal, riveting Holocaust love-story, Bent, co-directed by ion artistic directors, Glenn Paris and Claudio Raygoza.

T. Schreiber Studio (Terry Schreiber, Artistic Director) opens its 2009 - 2010 season with ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, Tom Stoppard's Tony Award-winning play directed by Cat Parker.

In Castillo's season opener, Negro League baseball great Josh Gibson hits yet another towering home run, but as he rounds the bases, he meets Albert Einstein (the genius), Amelia Earhart (the aviator), and Otto René Castillo (the revolutionary poet), all on third base with no way home.

Oprah Winfrey, Scott Sanders and the producing team of the Broadway smash hit THE COLOR PURPLE, The Musical about Love, are proud to announce that Jacksonville will host the first North American Touring production of THE COLOR PURPLE for 8 performances only on November 17 - 22, 2009 at the Times Union Center's Moran Theater.

Dolcissimo, an exciting new vocal group specializing in classical, light opera and Broadway show music will debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall on November 22nd at 7pm performing "STARLIGHT" an evening featuring works by Puccini, Verdi, Bizet, Lehar, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Kern, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Donizetti and Shemer.

Actors Inc announces CHRISTMAS BELLES November 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 20, 22 at The Village In Restaurant 544 Broadway, Dracut MA.

In the Golden Age of Broadway, Ethel Merman was the Queen of Broadway. She sang all the great songs, played all the great plays and knew all the great personalities! Ethel Merman's Broadway recreates a theatrical era filled with charm, wit, personality, and most of all, wonderful music.

August Schulenburg's new play, The Lesser Seductions of History, follows ten characters through each year of the 1960's.

Central Works presents Blastosphere!, a new comedy about the biological imperative written by Aaron Loeb and Geetha Reddy and directed by Molly Aaronson-Gelb. The show runs from October 24 ? November 22. It is a Central Works Method Play developed in collaboration with Molly Aaronson-Gelb, Gary Graves, Gwen Loeb, Mick Mize, Kendra Oberhauser, Cathleen Riddley, Gregory Scharpen & Jan Zvaifler.

Blumenthal Center for Performing Arts made several announcements today regarding upcoming events. They will premier A CHORUS LINE on September 29th and will offer tickets for future acts starting Friday, October 9th. The lineup will include performances by Garrison Keillor, Rockapella, and more.

Trinity Repertory Theatre will open its production of Steven Dietz’s 'Shooting Star' on October 16 with stage couple Kurt Rhoads and Nance Williamson in the lead roles. Fred Sullivan, Jr. directs the production which will run until Nov. 22. An official opening night has been set for Oct. 21 in the Dowling Theatre.

Mustard Seed Theatre presents FIDDLER ON THE ROOF October 30 - November 22, 2009 at the Fontbonne University Black Box Theatre in the Fine Arts Building at 6800 Wydown Boulevard in Clayton. Celebrate the lives of Tevye and his family as they navigate tradition, progress, love and hate. You'll see this well-loved musical in a new light: staged in an intimate setting, focused on the characters and the melodies of their relationships.

What was the Utopian ideal of the Bauhaus School, and how does it apply to contemporary society? This is the subject of a multi-disciplinary theater work now being developed by The Nerve Tank, to debut at The Brooklyn Lyceum October 9 to November 22.

Portland Center Stage invites you meet one of America's unlikeliest Ben Franklin scholars, monologist and fringe theater performer Josh Kornbluth, as he loses some hair and gains a fresh perspective on the costs of independence, the meaning of revolution and the vagaries of Founding Fatherhood in Ben Franklin: Unplugged.

Forum Theatre starts its sixth season next week with its most ambitious production to date, both parts of Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.

Church Basement Ladies is a hilarious musical comedy in celebration of church basement kitchens everywhere and the unsung women who work in them.

This is the tale of the missed opportunities and lost loves of three generations of Dublin men. Kevin, a young man, leaves home for the first time to join friends renting a house.

Theatre Exile invites you to explore your carnal cravings with the Philadelphia premiere of Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's Hunter Gatherers. Directed by co-artistic director Deborah Block, Hunter Gatherers runs October 29th through November 22nd at the Adrienne Theatre (mainstage). Hunter Gatherers is recommended for mature audiences.

Do strangers share memories? "She Turned on the Light," written and directed by Wendy Woodson, performed by Marina Libel, confronts the question through two perspectives: when you are a stranger in a strange land and when your remembrances seem to be carried across generations. The piece is a tour-de-force monologue with physical theater.

The New York Musical Theater Festival will honor TV's NY 1 and Sh-K-Boom at its sixth Anniversary Season Awards Gala on Sunday, November 22nd at The Supper Club (230 West 46th Street). The winners of NYMF 2009 Awards for Excellence, which will be all announced later this month, will also be honored at the gala.

WINNER OF THE 2008 NATIONAL LATINO PLAYWRITING AWARD. Set in the larger-than-life world of professional wrestling, and fueled by vibrant, hip-hop language, CHAD DEITY pits long-time reigning T.H.E. Wrestling champion, Chad Deity, against Vigneshwar Paduar, a trash-talking, India-born athlete recruited from the b-ball courts of Brooklyn. Casting the young upstart as an anti-hero extremist from "over there" who intends to catapult himself to fame by overthrowing the "all-American" Chad Deity, T.H.E. Wrestling's CEO plots to play upon wrestling fans' fear of terrorism and globalization in order to mass market an epic battle of Good vs. Evil. Performance @ 2:00pm. For tickets visit www.interacttheater.org or call (215) 568.8077

As a resident company of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, Dallas Theater Center is proud to announce Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty directs A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, running Oct. 24-Nov. 22, as the inaugural production of the 2009-2010 season in DTC's new home, the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre.

IN THE HEIGHTS, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards® and the 2008 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album, will be making a stop on its national tour at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis from November 10-22.

Fresh from an acclaimed four-city debut tour which garnered New Orleans' Big Easy Awards for Best Comedy and Best Director and included a sold out three-month run in Provincetown, Mass., Shut Up, Sweet Charlotte! comes to the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center located at the Nova Southeastern University campus in Davie. Performances are scheduled for Thursday and Friday, November 19 and 20 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, November 22 at 2 and 7 p.m.

Comedy Works has announced that BRAD UPTON will perform at the Comedy Works Larimer Square November 19 - 22, 2009.

Bay City Players will present the comedy; Charley's Aunt, by Brandon Thomas, November 13-15 and 19-22, 2009 at the Bay City Players, 1214 Columbus Avenue, in Bay City. Performance times are 8:00 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3:00 p.m. on Sunday. Charley's Aunt is directed by Robin Devereaux.

While America's Black churches have been battling racism and poverty for decades, and rightfully so, their newest opponent -- American gay citizens fighting for equal rights and same-sex-unions -- has caused them to inappropriately funnel millions of dollars to wage war on an undeserving enemy; all the while neglecting to focus their attention, energy, and resources on the growing AIDS pandemic that threatens to claim the lives of millions of their children.

Entertainment Events Productions today announced that the Off-Broadway premiere of the smash UK hit GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL, written by Louise Roche and directed by Jack Randle, will now continue through November 22nd only, when it must close.

In Castillo's season opener, Negro League baseball great Josh Gibson hits yet another towering home run, but as he rounds the bases, he meets Albert Einstein (the genius), Amelia Earhart (the aviator), and Otto René Castillo (the revolutionary poet), all on third base with no way home.

Slant Theatre Project will produce MINE, a new play by Bekah Brunstetter, at the Sanford Meisner Theatre, November 12 - 22, 2009. Written by Brunstetter (OOHRAH! at Atlantic Theatre Company), the cast features Lucas Kavner, Amelia McClain (Dance Dance Revolution), and Zach Shaffer (B'way revivals of The Man Who Came to Dinner and A View From the Bridge). Wes Grantom directs.

Boxcar Theatre presents Museum by Tina Howe and directed by Stephanie Renée Maysonave. The show will run from November 2 – November 22, with the opening night performance on November 2. Performances will be held at various locations, which are to be announced via the theatre’s website. The opening night performance is set to be held at the Wax Museum at Fisherman’s Wharf located at 145 Jefferson Street, San Francisco.

MADISON STREET PRODUCTIONS in association with BOO-Arts PRODUCTIONS are pleased to announce their production of the 2008 Midtown International Theatre Festival nominated play, PENANG by James L. Larocca, directed by Donya K. Washington.

PETER GALLAGHER, DON'T GIVE UP ON ME is a new musical play by stage and screen star Peter Gallagher. Featuring great American song selections from "Pal Joey," "Guys and Dolls," and songs by Cy Coleman, Bart Howard, Lyle Lovett, Leon Russell, Burt Bacharach, Dan Penn and others, this new musical play is the story of an actor's apprenticeships with the legends he admires: James Cagney, Jack Lemmon, Peter O'Toole, Stubby Kaye and more and the journey he takes with them.

The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program will present William Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona at The Old Globe Arena Stage at the James S. Copley Auditorium, San Diego Museum of Art. Directed by Program Director Richard Seer, The Two Gentlemen of Verona will run Nov. 14 - Nov. 22.

The Des Moines Playhouse continues its 91st season with an Iowa and U.S. community theatre premiere of Aaron Sorkin's "The Farnsworth Invention," Nov. 6-22. Tickets may be purchased at The Playhouse ticket office, by phone at 515-277-6261 and online at www.dmplayhouse.com.

Washington National Opera has unveiled its complete schedule of activities for National Opera Week, the nationwide celebration sponsored by OPERA America and the National Endowment for the Arts.

On the heels of the well-received ensemble piece, "Three Tall Women," and the daring and quirky "The Lady from Dubuque," Muddy Waters Theatre Company wraps its 2009 Edward Albee season, Mothers and Other Strangers, with what is probably his best known and most respected play, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The play will run Nov. 6-22 at the Kranzberg Art Center in the Big Brothers Big Sisters Building at Grand and Olive.

Were you around when video killed the radio star? Do you remember when Donkey Kong and Pac Man were the height of video game technology, Molly Ringwald and Rick Astley were, like, totally awesome, and you could buy Michael Jackson's Thriller as a record? If you lived through it or if you want to experience it, Playhouse South invites you this November to the Dayton/Cincinnati area premier of the new musical, Back to the '80's.

August Schulenburg's new play, The Lesser Seductions of History, follows ten characters through each year of the 1960's.

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment in association with the Laguna Playhouse are proud to present the second production of La Mirada Theatre's 2009-2010 season of shows, the critically-acclaimed co-production with The Laguna Playhouse of MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS, written by Ron Hutchinson and directed by Andrew Barnicle.

Amaryllis Theatre Company opens its 2009-2010 season with Samuel Beckett's masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, from November 10 through 22 at Amaryllis Theatre Company's home in The Playground at the Adrienne (2030 Sansom Street).

Part of The Hartford Financial Services Group Broadway Series Tuesday, November 17, 2009 – Sunday, November 22, 2009 Mortensen Hall Tickets: $15.00-$65.00 Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony® Award for Best Play, Steppenwolf's August: Osage County is a grand , gripping new play that tells the story of the Westons, a large extended clan that comes together at their rural Oklahoma homestead when the alcoholic patriarch disappears. Forced to confront unspoken truths and astonishing secrets, the family must also contend with matriarch Violet (played by the Academy Award®-winner Estelle Parsons), a pill-popping, deeply unsettled woman at the center of this storm. Written by Tracy Letts and directed by Anna D. Shapiro, August: Osage County is a rare theatrical event - a large-scale work filled with unforgettable characters, a powerful tale told with unflinching honesty. The New York Times cheers, "August: Osage County is flat-out, without qualification, the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years," and Time Magazine named August: Osage County the "#1 Show of the Year!"

Beowulf Alley Theatre at 11 South 6th Avenue, Downtown Tucson between Broadway and Congress, presents Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire. Sara Falconer makes her directorial debut at Beowulf Alley with this powerful production that earned the 2006 Tony Award for Best New Play and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Tickets are now available for Broadway Theatre League's presentation of the national tour of MAMMA MIA! The show will run for five performances only at the VBC Concert Hall from November 20th to November 22nd.

The “Page to Stage” staged reading series has a Halloween treat that’s sure to keep you on the edge of your seats! A staged reading of Misery will be held at the TheatreWorks New Milford Theatre on Thursday, October 22nd, for an 8 p.m. curtain.

Indianapolis resident Doug King has something in common with Kym Johnson on "Dancing With The Stars." He, too, has performed on stage with Donny Osmond - not as a ballroom dance partner, but rather as part of the National Tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat, which starred Osmond in the title role.

PERSISTANCE OF MEMORY, three one-act plays to benefit the charitable organization Cause Celebre. The night will feature performances by Joan Copeland, Tandy Cronyn, Rose Gregario, Bernie McInerney, Marian Seldes, Michael Citriniti, Talia Castro-Pozo, and Lee Van Bradley. Performances take place November 1 through November 22. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Columbia Psychiatry.

Ric Averill’s Halloween play comes to life under the co-direction of Elizabeth Sullivan and Susanna Pitzer. Don’t miss the OPENING NIGHT PET PARTY on October 22nd with special guests from Pet World, plus homemade Root Beer and Popcorn for everyone immediately following the 7 pm show. (And remember: there’s no school the next day!)

The Glorious Ones, a new musical about the roistering life of the clowns who paved the streets of 16th-century Italy, premieres in Chicago on October 16 at the BoHo Theatre at Heartland Studio. Based on the novel by Francine Prose, the musical tells how the troupe came to be and how it captured the public's adoration with its bawdy comedy, before changing artistic fashion altered its life.

The Alliance Theatre Lab is proud to announce its latest production, the David Mamet contemporary classic Sexual Perversity in Chicago, opening November 5, 2009, and running through November 22, 2009.

A.M.L. Entertainment is proud to present the world premiere of "What Say You?", a new play by Anthony Michael Laura. Performances begin November 18, 2009 at The Royal Theatre at the The Producers Club. The Producers Club is located at 358 W. 44th Street.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) is thrilled to have Brighton's own Two Bins kick off Brits Off Broadway with the US premiere of Matt Wilkinson's RED SEA FISH, directed by Franklyn McCabe.

Kirby THEATER COMPANY will present Alan Ball's Five Women Wearing the Same Dress at Duo Theatre. Previews begin October 29. Opens November 5.

Plays & Players, Center City Philadelphia's longest continually operated theater at 1714 Delancey Place, will present the world premiere of Early in the Mourning, running November 5 - November 22 in the 3rd Floor Skinner Studio.

The Spare Stage production of Lee Blessing's A Body of Water - a Bay Area premiere - opens November 6 and runs through November 22 at EXIT Theatre in San Francisco, with Spare Stage Artistic Director Stephen Drewes at the helm.

South Coast Repertory will present Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business as part of its Theatre for Young Audience series Nov. 6 - 22 on the Julianne Argyros stage. Directed by Casey Stangl, with book, music and lyrics by Joan Cushing, the musical is based on the second in Park's Junie B. Jones series. Low-priced previews are available from Nov. 6 -13. Opening day is Nov. 14.

Talk Like Singing, a groundbreaking production and the first-ever original Japanese musical to have its premiere in the U.S., will have its world premiere in New York City on November 13, 2009 at 8:00 P.M. at New York University's Skirball Center.

Returning for the third consecutive year to the Suncoast Showroom, Brandon Bennett embodies "The King of Rock and Roll" in ELVIS MY WAY November 20, 21 and 22.

dick clark productions President Orly Adelson announced today that Jay-Z will perform at the 2009 American Music Awards. This marks Jay-Z's second time performing on the American Music Awards. He has been nominated in the Rap/Hip-Hop category six times, including this year's nominations for Favorite Male Artist and Favorite Album. Jay-Z will join the previously announced Alicia Keys in a special collaborative act. They join an already outstanding lineup of artists announced at this week's AMA nominations press conference including The Black Eyed Peas, Jennifer Lopez and Adam Lambert. Additional performers and presenters will be announced in the coming weeks.

Tradition! Rich in historical and ethnic detail, the musical Fiddler on the Roof has touched audiences around the world with its humor, warmth and honesty. The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his family and religious traditions while outside influences encroach upon their lives.

The Colony Theatre Company presents the third production of its 35th anniversary season, the West Coast Premiere of BETTER ANGELS, written by Wayne Peter Liebman and directed by Dan Bonnell. BETTER ANGELS will preview on Wednesday, October 21; Thursday, October 22 and Friday, October 23 at 8:00pm and will open on Saturday, October 24 at 8:00pm and continue through Sunday, November 22 at The Colony Theatre.

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade needs a new Santa Claus and Kris Kringle, a jolly white bearded gentleman, is perfect for the job. When Kringle claims to be the real Santa Claus, he brings about a genuine “Miracle on 34th Street,” convincing a cynical single mother, her somber daughter, and the entire state of New York that Santa Claus is no myth. Celebrating the magic of the holiday season, MIRACLE ON 34th STREET is an inspirational story for the whole family.

York Little Theatre is proud to present Broadway’s classic musical fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast, which will run from November 6 – 22, 2009. The production features the music of Alan Menken with lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton. Beauty and the Beast is based on the 1991 Academy Award winning feature film of the same name and was nominated for 9 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score.

The Four Tops, whose meteoric rise to fame began with their 1964 Motown hit "Baby I Need Your Loving," bring their soulful songs to The Orleans Showroom, November 20, 21 and 22 at 8 p.m. each evening.

TEATRON Toronto Jewish Theatre presents the winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle award for best play, BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, by Neil Simon at the Toronto Centre for the Arts Studio Theatre, 5040 Yonge St., Toronto from November 11 - 22, 2009. A preview matinee performance will be held on November 11.

LeeSaar - the Israeli contemporary choreographers Saar Harari and Lee Sher - who The New York Times called "a gutsy, brainy modern-dance troupe" is back at PS122 with the world premiere of Prima - the company's 4th show at PS122 and the first after its highly acclaimed 2007 show Geisha.

Grease, with platinum-selling recording artist and "American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks appearing as "Teen Angel" at select performances, returns by popular demand to Hennepin Theatre Trust's Orpheum Theatre, Nov. 18-22, 2009.

Michigan Opera Theatre at Detroit Opera House 7:30p michiganopera.org for tickets or Ticketmaster

The University of Texas Department of Theatre and Dance presents Jane Austen's classic novel adapted for the stage, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, November 13 - 22, 2009, at the B. Iden Payne Theatre.

Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum and Allan S. Gordon are pleased to announce that Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal and Gwen Stewart will reprise the roles they originated in RENT: THE BROADWAY TOUR, coming to the Providence Performing Arts Center, November 17 - 22, 2009.

Silver Spring Stage presents Edward Albee's The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? directed by Craig Allen Mummey offering with humor and pathos the most unexpected twists and turns of a family and a husband's surprising love. The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? will perform weekends October 30 to November 22.

Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness, the play most requested for revival at the Irish Classical Theatre Company, will open on Friday, October 30, 2009. Last presented by ICTC at The Calumet in 1994 to great audience and critical acclaim, the play was directed by Fortunato Pezzimenti and starred Vincent O’Neill, Mark Donahue and Richard Wesp.

Crabby but endearing Gustin Novak reflects on the women he has loved over his 88 years in Noah Haidle's latest play, Saturn Returns, which will make its West Coast premiere on South Coast Repertory's Segerstrom Stage Oct. 23 through Nov. 22.

Stage Door producers Derelle Bunn and David Torres brought in Mark Goodman, a Broadway orchestrator who had worked on such shows as "Zorro" with Anthony Quinn, "Mame" with Juliet Prowse, and "Woman of the Year" with Lauren Bacall to recreate the orchestrations and write out the books for the musical parts. Meanwhile, director Dan Kelley painstakingly transcribed lyrics from old recordings.

Florida's West Coast Players presents The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Abridged. Written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield, this three-person cast parody of Shakespeare plays has been seen in London for over nine years, and is presented here by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. Directed by Ashlie Mohney, the WCP production will run November 6-22.

FLORA THE RED MENACE, by the Tony Award winning team of Kander and Ebb, is currently playing at the Rising Action Theatre in Florida. The show will end its current run November 22nd.

FLORA THE RED MENACE, by the Tony Award winning team of Kander and Ebb, is currently playing at the Rising Action Theatre in Florida. The show will end its current run November 22nd.

AMERICAN IDOL stars Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and Daughtry have been added to the schedule of performers for the 37th annual awards, airing live Nov. 22 on ABC. They join fellow ADOL alum Adam Lambert, who was announced earlier as a performer.

Do strangers share memories? "She Turned on the Light," written and directed by Wendy Woodson, performed by Marina Libel, confronts the question through two perspectives: when you are a stranger in a strange land and when your remembrances seem to be carried across generations. The piece is a tour-de-force monologue with physical theater.

Ground Zero Theatre (GZT) and Hit & Myth Productions (H&M) present SPEED-THE-PLOW by David Mamet, a biting Hollywood comedy at The Studio at Vertigo Theatre Centre (115-9th Avenue, Base of the Calgary Tower), November 10-22, 2009.

Award-winning NYC cabaret performer Hector Coris brings his debut solo show Life is Wonderful back to Don't Tell Mama on Sunday, November 22nd at 5:30PM.

Native Voices at the Autry, America's leading Native American theater company, launches its 2009-10 main stage play series with the world premiere of CARBON BLACK by Terry Gomez. The humor-tinged suspenseful psychological drama, directed by Native Voices Founder/Producing Artistic Director Randy Reinholz, runs Saturday, November 7 to Sunday, November 22, 2009 (previews begin Wednesday, November 4). Gripping and enigmatic, the play vividly portrays the relationship between an agoraphobic mother and her precocious son, who claims to have witnessed a horrific murder. The mother's refusal to acknowledge the tale and her crippling dependence on sensationalized media coverage of violence around the globe serve to hold them both hostage and isolated. The award-winning cast includes actress Tonantzín Carmelo, Sheila Tousey, Stephan Wolfert and Michael Drummond.

Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present The Age of Iron, an epic retelling of the Trojan War, drawn from Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida and Thomas Heywood's Iron Age, adapted and directed by Brian Kulick. Previews for The Age of Iron will begin Friday, November 6, with an official opening Sunday, November 22 at Classic Stage Company at 7pm. The Age of Iron will play a limited engagement through December 13 only.

August Schulenburg's new play, The Lesser Seductions of History, follows ten characters through each year of the 1960's.

The Hypochondriac, a contemporary re-imagining of Moliére's last play, The Imaginary Invalid, which satirizes today's pill-popping culture and broken, drug-driven health care system, will have select performances at The Cell Theatre from November 4-22.

Trinity Repertory Theatre opened its production of Steven Dietz’s 'Shooting Star' on October 16 with stage couple Kurt Rhoads and Nance Williamson in the lead roles. Fred Sullivan, Jr. directs the production which will run until Nov. 22.

With the 2009 Summer Classical Repertory Season at a close, The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum broadens its scope to focus on activities such as its year-round educational programs and ongoing development series for playwrights, "Botanicum Seedlings." The program's Fall Playreadings are Laura Shamas' Trapper Joan on Sunday, November 15 and Twigs and Bone by Tiffany Antone on Sunday, November 22. Readings begin at 1 pm, and admission is free.

Cleveland's Karamu House presents the Ohio premiere of Yellowman, an award winning drama that explores racism within the Black community.

Stephen Mallattrat's acclaimed play, The Woman in Black, from the novel by Susan Hill, has been frightening audiences in London's West End for 20 years and is now coming to Orange County to haunt the Costa Mesa Playhouse, October 30 - November 22.

Aaron Sorkin's Broadway hit focuses on a hotshot Navy lawyer who puts military mentality and the Marine code of honor on trial.

LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL, based on the MGM film of the same name, is coming to Ft. Lauderdale from November 10 through November 22, at the Broward Center for Performing Arts

The cast of GLEE will be honored with the "Favorite New Television Cast Ensemble Award" at the 17th annual Diversity Awards on Nov. 22nd at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles.

Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, is proud to announce its new Audience Development Initiative furthering their mission to make classical theatre accessible to audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Auditions- Auditions are November 20-22, 2009 and December 4-6, 2009 5 pm -9 pm on Fridays and Saturdays 2 pm -5 pm on Sundays at Lincoln Theatre Guild 403 E Main St Lincolnton, NC 28092-3305

Tap Sensation Jason Samuels Smith Headlines Fall Fundraiser and COCA Family Theatre Weekend November 20-22

The Black Dahlia Theatre & the Chalk Repertory Theatre Company present the world premiere of Ruth McKee's STRAY.

The Trip to Bountiful is set in 1947 Houston. Forced by circumstances to live her loathsome son and daughter-in-law, Carrie Watts wants nothing more out of life than to return to her home town of Bountiful. Escaping from her family's clutches, Carrie boards a bus to Bountiful, where she makes the acquaintance of young friend.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) has announced that the West Coast premiere of David Mamet's presidential farce November has been extended by popular demand through Sunday, November 22, 2009. Directed by Ron Lagomarsino, November will have six additional performances: 8 p.m. performances Wednesday, November 18, through Saturday, November 21, with 2 p.m. matinees on Saturday, November 21, and Sunday, November 22.

On Sunday, November 22nd, Tony Award winner and Broadway star Andrea Martin will be live in the National Arts Centre Theatre in Ottawa to read aloud Mordecai Richler's classic children's story, "Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang" for one special afternoon. The reading, abridged by David S. Craig and presented in association with TD Canadian Children's Book Week, is part of the NAC English Theatre's Family 3 series. An exciting event for families, as parents will take pleasure as they watch their children enthralled with Ms. Martin exciting reading as young Jacob is brought to life.

Blue Spruce Theatre announced performances of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Black Box Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Services, Inc. The show will run from November 12 through November 22. Previews begin Thursday, November 12, 2009, before the show’s opening on Friday, November 13, 2009.

ubbling Brown Sugar is a musical revue written by Loften Mitchell based on a concept by Rosetta LeNoire and featuring the music of numerous African-American artists who were popular during this period, including Duke Ellington, Eubie Blake, Count Basie, Cab Calloway and Fats Waller. It was nominated for the Tony Award as, "Best Musical." The revue is scheduled through Nov. 22 at Broward Stage Door Theatre, 8036 W. Sample Road, Coral Springs.

Flora the Red Menace will run from now until November 22 at The Rising Action Theatre in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Flora the Red Menace is a musical with a book by David Thompson, music by John Kander, and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The musical starred Liza Minnelli in the title role in her Broadway debut, for which she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. This was the first collaboration between Kander and Ebb, who later wrote Broadway and Hollywood hits such as Cabaret and Chicago.

NYMF has just announced the winners of their Best of Fest awards. Set to perform at this year's gala are the casts of the winning shows, as well as Sh-K-Boom's own Sherie Rene Scott, Alice Ripley, Gavin Creel, and Kelli O'Hara. The event will take place on Sunday, November 22nd, at 6:30pm at the Edison Ballroom.

The Venue Ensemble Theatre will present Yasmina Reza's ART from November 6th through November 22nd. The cast features Steve DuMouchel, Eric Misener, and Mark Myers and is directed Michael Holden. Venue Theatre will donate a portion of each ticket sold to the Creative Clay organization.

Christian Youth Theater (CYT) Kansas City South proudly presents Scrooge, The Musical, November 12-15 and November 19-22, 2009 at The Bell Center, MidAmerica Nazarene University, Olathe.

LeeSaar - the Israeli contemporary choreographers Saar Harari and Lee Sher - who The New York Times called "a gutsy, brainy modern-dance troupe" is back at PS122 with the world premiere of Prima - the company's 4th show at PS122 and the first after its highly acclaimed 2007 show Geisha.

BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS is the story of 15-year-old Eugene Jerome, growing up in Brooklyn in 1937, fantasizing about becoming a baseball star while observing, in his witty, perceptive and funny way, his family's way of living and rising to the challenges that face them with pride, spirit and a marvellous sense of humour.

Washington National Opera has unveiled its complete schedule of activities for National Opera Week, the nationwide celebration sponsored by OPERA America and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Known to millions as Carol Brady, Florence Henderson, a multi-talented actress, talk show host, performer, recording artist, author and Broadway veteran, brings her critically acclaimed one-woman production of All the Lives of Me?A Musical Journey, under the musical direction of Emmy award-winning Composer Glen Roven, to Cabaret at the Castle. A crowd-pleasing evening with ?America?s Favorite TV Mom,? featuring songs from her starring roles in such Broadway hits as Oklahoma, South Pacific, Sound of Music and Annie Get Your Gun. Audiences will be treated to personal anecdotes of a life on the boards of Broadway and the Brady set.

The event will take place on Monday, November 9th and Tuesday, November 10th at 8:00 pm at the The Inner Circle at the Magic Castle, 7001 Franklin Ave., Hollywood, CA 90028.

National Opera Week takes place November 13-22, 2009 and celebrates the vitality of opera in America as a contemporary cultural expression. Chicago Opera Theater (COT), partnering with the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs, are proud to participate in this exciting, week-long celebration with "Pop-up Opera" performances around Chicago, a young professionals' night at Rock Bottom Brewery, and a free double bill of two one-act operas at Preston Bradley Hall in the Chicago Cultural Center.

Dance/theater company anna&meredith presents GORMANZEE & Other Stories, an evening of dance, theater, and puppetry with live music. The evening features BILL IT, a kinetic portrait of the restaurant industry, POPULATION: 2, the story of the two remaining residents of a Midwestern ghost town, and GORMANZEE, a macabre puppet comedy exploring ritualistic primate slaughter, premiering at Spoke the Hub, 295 Douglass St., Gowanus, Brooklyn. Performances are November 20, 21, and 22 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $15/$12 students, available at spokethehub.org. Press and Industry tickets are available.

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents the second show of the Fall 2009 Season The Art of Justice Series, which integrates the performing arts and issues on justice, IL FURIOSO: THE BIRTH OF MODERN JUSTICE WITH DRUMS, running from November 18-22, 2009 at 8pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. Admission is $10 (CUNY Students $5). For tickets, call the Communication and Theater Arts department at 212-237-8363.

Philadelphia's Old Academy Players production of Almost, Maine, written by John Cariani, opens November 6 at 8pm.

Point Park University's Conservatory Dance Company presents Pittsburgh Connections Nov. 13 - 15 and 20-22 at the George Rowland White Performance Studio on the downtown campus. The program features the work of Marissa Balzer, Jeffrey Bullock, Patrick Frantz and Kristofer Storey; all four are seasoned artists with Pittsburgh roots.

Snoopy!!! The Musical opens November 6th and runs through November 22nd at Raleigh Little Theatre. Performances will be held in RLT's Gaddy-Goodwin Teaching Theatre.

Producer John Breglio and the Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. will bring Broadway uptown for four weeks only with Dreamgirls at the Apollo Theater, prior to the national tour of the new production of the groundbreaking musical. The national tour of Dreamgirls will kick-off at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater (253 West 125 Street) beginning previews Saturday, November 7, 2009, and opening Sunday, November 22, 2009, for 4 weeks only, through Sunday December, 6, 2009.

Broadway at Birdland Presents THE BROADWAY BOYS with special guest recording artist from Broadway's WICKED, Shoshana Bean, on Sunday, November 22 at 6:30 pm.

Tony Award-winning choreographer and internationally celebrated tap dancer Savion Glover will perform in a series of concerts, Jammin' With the Masters, at The Blue Note in November. He will appear on stage with legendary jazz improvisers McCoy Tyner (November 17), Roy Haynes (November 18), Eddie Palmieri (November 19), and Jack DeJohnette (November 21-22). A co-performer for the November 20 performance has yet to be announced. On each night, the performances will be held at 8pm & 10:30pm.

The Tony Award®-winning Signature Theatre continues the celebration of its 20th anniversary season with a series of cabaret evenings November 17 - 22 spotlighting the exciting Helen Hayes Award-winning actress/singer Natascia Diaz and the acclaimed Scottish singer Euan Morton, whose performances have been called "sensational" by The New York Times.

Bob Boyett and NETworks Presentations are proud to bring the National Tour of The Lincoln Center Theater Production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein's prize-winning musical SOUTH PACIFIC, directed by Bartlett Sher, to Greenville, SC, for an engagement at the Peace Center on November 17 - 22.

Webster University’s Conservatory of Theatre Arts presents William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” Nov. 18-22 in the Browning Theatre of Webster’s Loretto-Hilton Center, 130 Edgar Road.

The Laurie Beechman Theater 407 W.42nd St. NYC November 22,2009 9:30p reservations #212-695-6909. Sunday, November 22 @ 9:30pm $10 cover Tyler Phillips Music, in association with kamelrock productions, presents Southern Charm: Songs and Scenes from Texas and the American South. Texas-born composer/lyricist/librettist Tyler Phillips showcases excerpts from his musicals with the help of an exciting group of NYC vocalists and directors. A live band helps paint a vivid image of the American South through theatrical pieces ranging in style from soul and hip hop to country, rock and modern musical theatre. Southern Charm is the second concert in the new Name’NLights Cabaret Series - a series dedicated to promoting the new works of theatre writers. Visit www.tylerphillipsmusic.com for more info and updates.

Broadway Theatre League & Damson Automotive Group Present: MAMMA MIA! November 20 - 22 VBC Concert Hall Sponsored by: ChandlerMay, Huntsville Laser Center & Knology

On Sun, November 22, 2009 at 7pm - Broadway veteran David Burnham (Broadway: Light in the Piazza, Wicked) brings his new solo show entitled “Mostly Broadway” with Music Director Todd Schroeder to Upright Cabaret on Vermont for one night only.

Spotlight Theatre Productions in Croton Falls, New York, presents Nunsense the Mega Musical Version from November 13 - November 22.

LITTLE LIGHT PRODUCTIONS presents Four Dogs And A Bone Written by John Patrick Shanley Performances run November 17th - November 22nd 2009 at the Bridge Theatre at Shetler Studios

Opens November 6, 2009- See Dorothy whisked away from Kansas in the tornado! See Miss Gulch fly off on her bicycle in the tornado! See the monkeys fly away with Dorothy to the Wicked Witch!

The Mega-Hit Musical for the Whole Family About a Little Orphan Girl, Her Dog & Her Eternal Hope for Tomorrow.

Penumbra Theatre Company, the nation's preeminent African American theatre, announced today that their production of Radio Golf will travel to The August Wilson Center for African American Culture in Pittsburgh, PA to participate in the "Aunt Ester Cycle." The cycle will run November 10 - 22, 2009.

Whether he's cracking jokes every Thursday night on TruTV's hit show "The Smoking Gun Presents" or hosting the red carpet at Hollywood events, Award Winning TV/Radio Personality Scott Nevins has made the move to Los Angeles and is taking showbiz by storm!

HARTFORD CHILDREN'S THEATRE (360 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT) will hold open auditions for CINDERELLA EATS RICE AND BEANS: A SALSA FAIRY TALE, the second production of its 20th Anniversary Season: "The Year of Enchantment," on Friday, November 20 from 6 - 9 p.m. and Sunday, November 22 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

The Sedoctaves, UF's only all-female A Cappella group is set to make their debut performance at the Squitieri Studio Theatre on Thursday, November 19 and Sunday, November 22. The group, established in 2005, is a completely student-run organization that has taken the Gainesville a cappella scene by storm.

Talk Like Singing, a groundbreaking production and the first-ever original Japanese musical to have its premiere in the U.S., will have its world premiere in New York City on November 13, 2009 at 8:00 P.M. at New York University's Skirball Center.

‘The Guy Fieri Road Show' hosts special guests in Nashville, Nov. 22 at TPAC. Performance date: November 22, 2009; Andrew Jackson Hall. Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC), 505 Deaderick Street, Nashville Performance time: 8:00 p.m.

The REP, Point Park University's professional theatre company, presents Normand Chaurette's The Queens, translated by Linda Gaboriau, at Point Park University's Pittsburgh Playhouse Nov. 20-22 and Dec. 3-13 with a preview performance open to the public on Thursday, Nov. 19; it is directed by Sheila McKenna and André Koslowski.

IN THE HEIGHTS, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards® and the 2008 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album, is coming to the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis from November 10-22.

The Deconstructive Theatre Project presents The Lower East Sideshow, a fundraising-concert featuring many performances including Passing Strange's Colman Domingo, star of the recent Off-Broadway hit A Boy And His Soul.

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents the second show of the Fall 2009 Season The Art of Justice Series, which integrates the performing arts and issues on justice, IL FURIOSO: THE BIRTH OF MODERN JUSTICE WITH DRUMS, running from November 18-22, 2009 at 8pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. Admission is $10 (CUNY Students $5). For tickets, call the Communication and Theater Arts department at 212-237-8363.

Letters Home brings to life actual letters written by soldiers serving in the Middle East Letters Home puts the current war in Iraq front and center by bringing to life actual letters written by soldiers serving in the Middle East.

Man of La Mancha, Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre's second production of the season presented in association with Michael James, is a "can't miss." It is powerfully reimagined in a contemporary mental facility with the patients sympathetically playing the story of Don Quixote as told by Cervantes. Man of La Mancha’s book is by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh.

Oprah Winfrey Presents THE COLOR PURPLE opens in Jacksonville this coming Tuesday and plays through Sunday evening.

Producer John Breglio and the Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. will bring Broadway uptown for four weeks only with Dreamgirls at the Apollo Theater, prior to the national tour of the new production of the groundbreaking musical. The national tour of Dreamgirls will kick-off at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater (253 West 125 Street) beginning previews Saturday, November 7, 2009, and opening Sunday, November 22, 2009, for 4 weeks only, through Sunday December, 6, 2009.

Young Soloists Recital Sunday, Nov. 22 3 p.m. Free Admission The premier showcase for great chamber music in Northern Virginia. The Concerts at the Alden series is sponsored by the Music Friends of the Fairfax County Public Library and the Alden Theatre at the McLean Community Center. Admission is free.

The Looking Glass Theatre, in conjunction with Darrell Fontenot, Alan & Fran Hirschman, and Aliza Shane, presents ARE YOU THERE, ZEUS? IT'S ME, ELECTRA., written and directed by New York Innovative Theatre Award winner Aliza Shane.

"ISAIAH'S DREAM - A Parade of Poets" performs 2 special pre-Thanksgiving shows ONE DAY ONLY at Shooting Star Theatre in South Street Seaport on Sunday, November 22, at 11 a.m. and again at 1 p.m., courtesy of NY Artists Unlimited and MTP-Montauk Theatre Productions.

Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, an artist-directed theatre company now in its 6th Season, has announced staged reading performances of Tennessee Williams' rarely performed A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Crève Cœur is derived from French for "broken heart"), on Tuesday, November 17 at 7:30 and Saturday, November 21 at 1:00 pm and Sunday, November 22 at 3:00 pm. The performances will be at The Wild Project at 195 East 3rd Street between Avenue A and Avenue B.

Set amidst a Kafkaesque police state, THE PILLOWMAN opens in a stark interrogation room, where the adult Katurian - a slaughterhouse worker beginning to find recognition as a writer of gruesome fairy tales - sits blindfolded, his brother Michal in the adjoining room. Their interrogators, the outrageously profane good-cop-bad-cop duo of Tupolski and Ariel, suspect that Katurian's stories may not be entirely fiction. And in fact, they do bear remarkable resemblance to a series of grisly child murders that the detectives are currently investigating.

Meet Garrison Keillor and help the Center's Education Programs with an exclusive VIP experience when the author and host of "A Prairie Home Companion" comes to the Belk Theater Sunday, November 22 at 7 p.m.

It is hard to imagine that at this point in her career Liza Minnelli would be making her 'premiere' anywhere. But, on Sunday, November 15, the stage legend will in fact be making her HDNet debut, when the channel broadcasts Liza's At The Palace...! This will be the first high def televised broadcast of the show, which played Broadway's Palace Theatre from December 3, 2008 - January 4, 2009.

American Southwest Theater Company will be hosting a book fair at Barnes and Noble at the Mesilla Valley Mall on Saturday, November 21 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, November 22 from 1 to 4 p.m.

Queen Bea Carla Gordon salutes Bea Arthur November 22 5:PM Davenport's 1383 North Milwaukee Avenue Phone: 773) 278-1830

L.A. Theater Works will present Moises Kauffman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wild, from November 18 through November 22. The production, directed by Brendan Fox, will play at the Skirball Center.

"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," the Tony Award-winning Broadway play is being staged by Arts Off Broadway at the California Center for the Arts Escondido, 340 N. Escondido Blvd. on November 20 (7:30pm), November 21 (2:30 & 7:30pm) and November 22 (2:30pm).

It is not too often that fledgling theater companies in their intimate stages get featured in the New York Times. When they do, it usually means something. The Fiasco Theater Company is one such theater troupe that caught the attention of the paper, specifically for its critically hailed production of Cymbeline that ran fall from September 18 through October 2 at Access Theater.

The Mega-Hit Musical for the Whole Family About a Little Orphan Girl, Her Dog & Her Eternal Hope for Tomorrow.

The Providence Performing Arts Center is pleased to announce that there will be a ticket lottery for RENT: THE BROADWAY TOUR; the lottery will take place two hours before each curtain time at the PPAC Box Office, located at 220 Weybosset Street.

Happy Holidays New York! The Tony Award® nominated hit musical Irving Berlin'S WHITE CHRISTMAS, the stage reinvention of the beloved classic film, directed by Walter Bobbie and choreographed by Randy Skinner, with music supervision by Rob Berman, returns to Broadway!

Hot off the heals of Rockers on Broadway, Kathy Deitch (Broadway's "Wicked," "Footloose") takes the stage once again at the Canal Room with ALL HEART, a band who tackles Heart's multi-decade chart-topping hits from "Barracuda" to "Alone." On keys, newcomer Allison Kane rounds out the Wilson Duo. Jake Ezra & Greg Skaff on guitar, Jon Price on bass, Dan Weiner on drums. The performance will take place on November 22nd at the Canal Room.

A Christmas Carol runs November 22 - 29, 2009 Fridays and Saturdays - 8:00 PM Sundays - 2:00 PM Zilkha Hall

ZERO HOUR, Jim Brochu's award-winning play about the life of theatre legend Zero Mostel will make its Off-Broadway premiere at Theatre at Saint Clement's beginning Saturday, November 14th. Produced by Kurt Peterson and Edmund Gaynes in association with The Peccadillo Theater Company, the show will have its Opening Night on Sunday, November 22nd at 7 p.m. The limited engagement of ZERO HOUR will continue through January 31st.

It's Hungerthon season again, and in light of today's tough economic climate, WHY's work to fight hunger and poverty at the grassroots level is more critical than ever.

William Shakespeare's witty, playful and totally magical As You Like It is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden.

Entertainment Events Productions today announced that the Off-Broadway premiere of the smash UK hit GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL, written by Louise Roche and directed by Jack Randle, continues through November 22nd only, when it must close.

"ISAIAH'S DREAM - A Parade of Poets" performs 2 special pre-Thanksgiving shows ONE DAY ONLY at Shooting Star Theatre in South Street Seaport on Sunday, November 22, at 11 a.m. and again at 1 p.m., courtesy of NY Artists Unlimited and MTP-Montauk Theatre Productions.

Tmesis Theatre are performing their beautifully reworked first piece, Tmesis in London for 2-nights only at Pleasance Theatre, Islington.

The King and The Thrush: tales of goodness and greed a traditional folk storytelling program created and performed by Tim Jennings and Leanne Ponder. Tickets are $8

"The Unknown" Casting Call- On Sunday, November 22nd, a casting call will be held at the UNC School of the Arts for a student film to be shot December 13-17.

Michael Urie ("Ugly Betty", "The Tempermentals") is headlining a reading of Brian Sloan's "WTC View" on November 22nd at the historic Player's Theatre in Greenwich Village. The play was originally staged as part of the 2003 NY Intl. Fringe Festival , with Urie originating the lead role. It was adapted into a 2006 film, directed by Sloan, a New York-based writer/filmmaker ("Boys Life", "I Think I Do"). Now, the play is back on stage with its eye on a 2011 production in New York City for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

Spotlight Theatre Productions in Croton Falls, New York, presents Nunsense the Mega Musical Version through November 22.

Flora the Red Menace will run from now until November 22 at The Rising Action Theatre in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Flora the Red Menace is a musical with a book by David Thompson, music by John Kander, and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The musical starred Liza Minnelli in the title role in her Broadway debut, for which she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. This was the first collaboration between Kander and Ebb, who later wrote Broadway and Hollywood hits such as Cabaret and Chicago.

Philip Fortenberry, a concert pianist and "Jersey Boys" Associate Conductor, will perform "Broadway, My Way," a solo piano concert in Las Vegas to commemorate the decades he dedicated to performing in Broadway musicals.

The Mega-Hit Musical for the Whole Family About a Little Orphan Girl, Her Dog & Her Eternal Hope for Tomorrow.

Tulsa Community College presents Elektra by Sophocles Friday, November 13 through Sunday, November 22.

Tulsa Area Community Theatre Alliance presents "Born Again Yesterday" by Justin McKean on Sunday, November 15th and Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 at 7:00 pm at the Nightingale Theater.

Letters Home brings to life actual letters written by soldiers serving in the Middle East Letters Home puts the current war in Iraq front and center by bringing to life actual letters written by soldiers serving in the Middle East.

Tickets are now available for Broadway Theatre League's presentation of the national tour of MAMMA MIA! The show will run for five performances only at the VBC Concert Hall from November 20th to November 22nd.

Everything Must Change is the show everyone is talking about sung to soaring perfection by one of cabaret's finest male singers who brings new meaning to soul singing.

Revolution, Norwalk, 1777- Crystal Theatre High School performers Saturday, November 21, 2009 @ 7:30pm & Sunday, November 22, 2009 @ 2:00pm

Sunday, November 22 - 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Long before Kevin Bacon became a movie star and pop culture phenom, and before his older brother Michael became an Emmy award-winning film and television composer, the Philadelphia-based sibling duo had begin their musical collaboration.

The Indianapolis Opera presents La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini on Friday, November 20 at 8 pm and Sunday, November 22 at 2 pm at Clowes Memorial Hall.

IndyArts presents Florence Henderson and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for Friday, November 20 through Sunday, November 22 at the Hilbert Circle Theatre.

The Children's Theatre Institute Presents Vaudville's My Home on Friday, November 20 through Sunday, November 22.

Theater Talk, a weekly expose of world theater, airs on PBS Friday nights (PBS/Thirteen) and 5 times weekly on CUNY TV. This week's shows will feature segments on Idiot Savant, Hamlet, Street Lights, The Royal Family, and more.

COCA Family Theatre Series Weekend with Tap Sensation Jason Samuels Smith November 21 at 3:00p and 5:00p, November 22 at 1:30p and 3:30p

Sunday November 22, 2009 - 2:00 PM ArtsPower Presents THE RAINBOW FISH With her lovely coloring and shimmering scales, the Rainbow Fish is used to being the most beautiful creature in the ocean.

Cirque du Soleil, MSG Entertainment and Base Entertainment welcome back Wintuk, an enchanting winter tale for the whole family, presented exclusively at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden from November 11, 2009 - January 3, 2010.

After playing to SOLD-OUT houses for over two years, Shells, the famed JPMorgan Chase analyst-cum-cabaret sensation, is ending her residency at Joe's Pub with two final performances.

Broadway veteran David Burnham's (Broadway: Light in the Piazza, Wicked) new show "Mostly Broadway" has sold out a week before its initial performance prompting Upright Cabaret producers to add an additional performance on Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:30pm.

Renowned performers Liz Callaway, Charles Strouse, Michael Winther, Benjamin Schrader, Gwen Hollander, Jason Robinson and Gabriella Stravelli will perform at an event benefiting Kaufman Center's Theater Wing.

The Players Club invites AEA, SAG and Dramatist Guild Members to the Robert Vaughn Pipe Night this Sunday, November 22 at a discounted Member price. You must RSVP to attend.

Sunday, November 22, 2009 Time: 6:00pm - 10:00pm Location: The Players NYC 16 Gramercy Park South

In celebration of his critically acclaimed autobiography, "A Fortunate Life", we honor our long-time fellow Player. An Emmy winner and Oscar nominee, Robert Vaughn has pleased audiences for decades with such classic work as THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, BULLITT and THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

Join us for a great night of surprises and a terrific interview of Robert Vaughn by fellow Player Lee Pfeiffer. With: Ben Gazzara, Lee Pfeiffer, Joe Sirola and other special guests.

Black Tie Optional / Business Attire Acceptable

Cocktails: 6pm Dinner: 7pm Program: 8:30pm Players & Equity Members tix: $135 Non-Members tix: $160 ($35 of ticket price is tax-deductible for members and $60 of the ticket price is tax-deductible for non-members.)

RSVP: reservations@theplayersnyc.org Tel. 212-475-6116 Please tell the Players if you are a SAG, AEA or Dramatist Guild Member when you reserve.

New York Musical Theater Festival Announces Sixth Season Awards Gala To Honor NY1 ON STAGE and Sh-K-Boom /Ghostlight Records Sunday, November 22nd

ZERO HOUR, Jim Brochu's award-winning play about the life of theatre legend Zero Mostel made its Off-Broadway premiere at Theatre at Saint Clement's Saturday, November 14th. Produced by Kurt Peterson and Edmund Gaynes in association with The Peccadillo Theater Company, the show will have its Opening Night on Sunday, November 22nd at 7 p.m. The limited engagement of ZERO HOUR will continue through January 31st.