THIS WEEK IN PICTURES: November 2-8

Whether you've been living under a rock for the past week, or you're just in the mood for a recap of everything theatre, BroadwayWorld's feature, 'This Week in Pictures' is here to satisfy your end of the week fix. Take a look below to catch up on the latest happenings from the Great White Way to The West End (and everywhere in between) with coverage of press events, rehearsals, opening nights and more!

Highlights from this week include a first look into A BED AND A CHAIR, FIRST DATE's recording for CAROL FOR A CURE, as well as pictures from opening night of AFTER MIDNIGHT!

Dule Hill and Fantasia Barrino, Photo Credit: Walter McBride

This week, AFTER MIDNIGHT opened on Broadway, featuring American Idol alum Fantasia Barrino and Dule Hill (The West Wing). Currently playing at the Brooks Atkinson, it opened on November 3rd. The show takes the feeling of the Jazz Age and puts it in front of modern Broadway audiences to enjoy. Using a band hand picked by Wynton Marsalis and Langston Hughes poetry as a background for twenty five performers every night on Broadway. For more pictures from opening night, BroadwayWorld has them here.

Stephen Fry, Paul Chahidi, Mark Rylance, Photo Credit: Joan Marcus

Broadway is getting a sense of Elizabethen Theatre, through the shows TWELFTH NIGHT and RICHARD III. With an all male cast featuring Two Time Tony Award Winner Mark Rylance, the shows will open on November 10th. The shows celebrate the way the plays would have been presented in Shakespearen time, including lighting using candles to light the stage, and Elizabethen musica as well. After the opening, Richard III will play twice a week and Twelfth Night will play six times a week, allowing audiences to see both peformances on Wednesdays and Saturdays. BroadwayWorld has the first look of these peformances here.

Julius Thomas III, Photo Credit: Bruce Kung

ROCKERS ANONYMOUS artists sang this week at the Bowery Electric for it's ninth engagement entitled "Let's '69!" on November 3rd. Performers included Jason Gotay (SPIDER-MAN), Kate Loprest (FIRST DATE), Emma Hunton (SPRING AWAKENING), and more. According to Rockers Anonymous website, the cabaret features the "best of the up and coming rock stars on the musical theatre scene". For more pictures of this week's cabaret, click here.

Bryce Ryness, Sara Chase, Kate Loprest, Zachary Levi, Eric Ankrim, Blake Hammond, Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski

The cast of FIRST DATE gathered together to sing "Go Tell It On The Moutain" for BC/EFA's Carols for a Cure Volume 15. The cast members singing on this track will be Zachary Levi, Kate Loprest, Sara Chase, Eric Ankrim, and Blake Hammond. This annual holiday music CD benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA), one of the nation's leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. For more pictures of a look inside the recording studio, click here.

Helder Guimaraes, Neil Patrick Harris and Derek DelGaudio, Photo Credit: Walter McBride

The highly acclaimed show, NOTHING TO HIDE, opened this week, on November 6th, after a transfer from Los Angeles. The show offers a look at two of the world's most gifted slight-of-hand artists, Helder Guimaraes and Derek DelGaudio. The show will play 56 performances only, through December 8th. DelGaudio and Guimaraes created the show, and Neil Patrick Harris directed the show. For more information on the show and on opening night, click here.

Ben Jacoby, Julia Rose Udine, Mark Campbell, Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski

A spectacular new production of Phantom is launching with the new North American tour, starting in Providence, Rhode Island. The new production includes newly invented staging and stunning scenic design, it will also be peformed by a cast and orchestra of 52, making it one of the largest North American touring productions. Mark Campbell plays the Phantom, Julia Rose Udine plays Christine Daaé, and Ben Jacoby plays Raoul. For more pictures of the cast, click here.

Cast of FRANK & FRIENDS, Photo Credit: Seth Walters

This most recent FRANK & FRIENDS cabaret at the Birdland showcased sixteen years of casts in JEKYLL & HYDE, both on Broadway and on tour. The artists included Teal Wicks, Courtney Markowitz, and Craig Schulman. The concert offered performances of people throughout the years since JEKYLL & HYDE has been written. Tony Nominee Frank Wildhorn was also attendence to accompany the peformances. All profits from the peformance went to "The Actor's Fund". For more pictures from the concert, click here.

Cyrille Aimee, Norm Lewis, Bernadette Peters, Jeremy Jordan, Photo Credit: Joan Marcus

This week, the cast in a concert, A BED AND A CHAIR to feature Steven Sondheim's music was announced. The cast included Bernadette Peters, Norm Lewis, Cyrille Aimee and Jeremy Jordan, and many more. The Encores! event will be directed by John Doyle, frequent Sondheim collaborator. The show will have seven peformances from Wednesday, November 13th to Saturday, November 17th. The program features more than two dozen re-imagined Sondheim to be played at the Lincoln Center Orchestra. For ticket information and a look at the cast, click here.

Blythe Danner, Sarah Jessica Parker. Photo Credit: Joan Marcus

Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of THE COMMONS OF PENSACOLA will open on November 21st for a limited engagement through January 26th, already being extended once. The show will be directed by award-winning director Lynne Meadow. The cast includes Emmy and Tony Blythe Danner, Zoe Levin, Ali Marsh, and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Sarah Jessica Parker. The show follows a family after a woman (Danner) is forced to leave New York City after her husband is caught in a Wall Street scam, and a family questioning the motives. For more information on the play and more pictures from the production, click here.