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BCKSEET Productions opened their 2009-10 season with their repertory staging of both parts of Angels in America, Tony Kushner's Tony and Pulitzer-Award winning plays about the impact of AIDS on the national culture. This production coincides with the 20th anniversary of Angels in America, Part I: Perestroika, and marks the first time that a Philadelphia company has produced both parts in repertory, as Kushner intended them to be presented.

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

Continuing to thrive on the success of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood, two stars of the Emmy nominated series, will take their tour of 'The Colin & Brad Show' to Jacksonville for an evening of extraordinary improvisational comedy on November 21 at 8PM.

Composer Paul Scott Goodman will perform Songs and Stories to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS tonight, November 3, at Pace University's downtown campus in the Eddie Layton Student Union.

NYC's musical comedy duo of Vickie & Nickie are returning to the legendary cabaret venue, Don't Tell Mama in NYC on December 2nd and December 5th with their new holiday show...'Tis The Season with Vickie & Nickie. The multi-instrumental, singing suburban housewife sister duo from Minnesota are played by real life sisters, Lori and Lisa Brigantino. Infused with snappy dialogue and audience participation, self-accompanied original songs and cover tunes, Vickie and Nickie will take the audience on a journey and celebration of the holidays as they share their rise to 'fame', family stories and their own special take on the world today. The self-contained musical comedy duo intertwines song and dialogue that delves into the characters lives and comments on current events all while accompanying themselves on many different instruments including acoustic guitars, keyboard, accordion, saxophone, violin, ukuleles and percussion.

The award-winning York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) announces casting for Fables from the Lunar Bin and Boynton Beach Club, the next offerings in its acclaimed Developmental Reading Series this November.

Crystal Field and Theater for the New City (TNC) will present a varied schedule Scratch Night performance program, which offers the opportunity for artists to present work in progress to an audience for one night. Scratch Night started in the United Kingdom in 2000 as a way to show work in progress in an evolution of performances. At TNC, they put their own spin on the idea to best serve the theatre community and New York area audiences.

NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD READINGS SERIES next reading will be 'Soldier Boys' by Lazarre Seymour Simckes on Monday, November 9, at 7pm followed by a wine and cheese reception with the Simckes.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party presents composer Scott Alan at Birdland on Monday, December 7 at 7pm. This event will be part of the ongoing Broadway at Birdland concert series, celebrating performers and creators from The Great White Way.

LA's award-winning supper club Sterling's Upstairs at the legendary Vitello's Restaurant in Studio City, CA, welcomes Broadway Musical Theatre and Nightclub stars Jordan Delp, Alexandra Billings, Korken Alexander and Gina Zollman as its November headliners.

Prologue Theatre presents Sex by Mae West. The original cast of the 1926 show was arrested for 'corrupting the morals of youth,' and Mae West herself was sentenced to ten days in jail.

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

A story of PTSD before it had a name, Home Front, by James Duff is the story of a young Vietnam Veteran returning home to his 'normal' life and the fiasco that results when his family attempts to host a Thanksgiving Dinner.

Jonathan Larson's Tick Tick...BOOM is now playing at the Artisan Theatre in Sacramento until November 14.

In A Life of the Mind, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Sam Shepard depicts the aftermath of a romance torn apart by spousal abuse and the war that breaks out between two families. A Lie of the Mind depicts the many ways that the mind protects the heart.

Open Circle Theater presents MADNESS OUT OF TIME: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, the theater's 8th annual installment of horror from the master of the macabre, H.P. Lovecraft. The production runs now through November 14.

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

Temple Theaters presents the world premiere of an unprecedented original theater event, Shot!, a provocative multimedia docudrama written by Kimmika-Williams Witherspoon. The production is running now through November 13.

Merging local politics with murder and mayhem, the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco, under the direction of Stephanie Lynne Smith, presents Jack Curtis Dubowsky's horror opera Halloween in the Castro, a biting, in-your-face social commentary about what has gone wrong with Castro Halloween.

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