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Shakespeare's Sister Company is hosting a Pre-Hallows Eve Benefit Bash to raise money for the upcoming 2010 production season. The party is set for Friday, October 23 from 7-11pm in the West Village.

Preceded by Michael Bernardi (son of Broadway legend Herschel Bernardi) who, earlier this month, made his cabaret debut at Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's in Studio City, the venue concludes its festival of October concerts with noted Los Angeles artists Charlotte Ruiz, Lisa Stanley and Jeanne Page.

The Stolen Chair Theatre Company has recently been awarded $20,000 to put its new Community Supported Theatre model in action. Tired of hearing about the economic downturn, one downtown theatre company is taking action by revitalizing the way they create theatre and cultivate audiences, drawing inspiration from the growing popularity of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).

With professional talent from Broadway as well as leading up-and-coming actors from across the region, The Wilton Playshop will present in concert form, the New England premiere and staged reading of the full two-act production of Greenbrier Ghost on Friday, October 23 at 8pm and Saturday, October 24th at 7pm.

Comedy Central's electrifying and gifted comedian, Gabriel Iglesias, known to millions of fans as the "fluffy" comic in a Hawaiian shirt, has announced his 2010 tour, 'Comedy Central Live: Gabriel Iglesias The Fluffy Shop." The Live Nation produced tour kicks off on January 14th with a 50 date trek across North America. Tickets go on sale beginning November 7th at LiveNation.com with a fan club presale beginning November 4th.

Main Street Theater's Autumn Follies Gala was held Friday, October 9 at Main Street Theater - Chelsea Market, 4617 Montrose Blvd. This year's celebrity-studded, one-night-only benefit performance was the original musical send-up Montrose Mia!, with cameo appearances by local celebrities including Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, local actor and former television news anchor Bob Boudreaux, Houston Woman Magazine's Beverly Denver, the Houston Downtown Alliance's Heather Pray, Ernie Manouse, Host of PBS' InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse, Momentum Audi/ Volkswagen General Manager Jared Lang, HoustonPBS' Doug Mueller, and artist Wendy Wagner. Professional actors Christianne Mays and Doris Davis anchored the production.

Nearly 46 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Damocles Productions will present the world premiere of David M. Korn's Acting Alone, the true story of Lee Harvey Oswald, at the ArcLight Theatre. Directed by Lee Gundersheimer (Obie Award-winning Three Seconds in the Key), Acting Alone performs November 5 through 21 with the official press opening on November 6.

The Huntington Theatre Company continues its 28th season - a season of American Stories - with Grammy Award winner, Broadway star, and pop icon Maureen McGovern's world premiere musical memoir A Long and Winding Road, conceived and written by Philip Himberg and Maureen McGovern and presented in cooperation with Arena Stage.

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.

With 'Let It Snow!', the Un-Scripted Theater Company presents an entirely new musical every night, set in an audience member's hometown, based only on an interview and the magic of improv. No songbooks, no choreography, no scripts -- that good old-fashioned Broadway singing and dancing is all made up on the spot. Like snowflakes, no two shows are the same.

Spotlighters Theatre presents The Prevalence of Mrs. Seal, written by Otis Bigelow and directed by Michael Spellman. This production will run from October 23 through November 15; Friday & Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm, with one Thursday performance:November 12, at 8pm.

The New York Philharmonic This Week - a two-hour, national, weekly radio program of concerts by the New York Philharmonic - continues the week of October 19 with a presentation from the Philharmonic's seventh annual residency in Vail, Colorado, as part of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. The concert program, from July 30, 2009, features Music Director Alan Gilbert leading the Orchestra in Mozart's Symphony No. 41, Jupiter, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. The final broadcast in October features a Summertime Classics program from July 7-8, 2009, with conductor Bramwell Tovey: J. Strauss II's Overture to The Gypsy Baron, Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 with soloist Simone Dinnerstein, Brahms's Hungarian Dances Nos. 4 and 10, and R. Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier Suite.

Splash Bar presents a very special edition of 'Scott Nevins' Curtain Call' with singing sensation Kate Pazakis on November 2. Directly following the video madness of 'Musical Mondays', the original host Scott Nevins returns from LA to welcome Kate Pazakis back to 'Curtain Call.'

Witchcraft conjures up laughs and romance in the Actors' NET of Bucks County production of John Van Druten's classic comedy Bell, Book and Candle. Running Oct. 30 - Nov. 15 at the Heritage Center in Morrisville, the stage comedy chronicles events after a sophisticated Manhattan witch casts a spell on a neighbor to make him fall in love with her. Add to the mix the witch's mischievous warlock brother and their ditzy aunt, who is also a witch, and one tipsy author who specializes in exposing the occult, and an evening of sure-fire laughs is on the agenda.

The Booth Playhouse is seeking actors for By Grace The Musical. Auditions are October 24 and 25 from 4-9PM at Eye Opening Entertainment. Actors should bring a prepared two minute monologue, a headshot, bio or resume and two contrasting pieces with sheet music in the correct key. Email mindy_sing@yahoo.com with questions concerning audition music.

Due to unprecedented demand for tickets, Cirque du Soleil has added 3 additional weeks of performances to the San Francisco engagement of OVO. The final OVO performance in San Francisco will be January 24, 2010, under the blue and yellow Grand Chapiteau at the AT&T Park.

Pittsburgh Public Theater continues its 35th season with Lillian Hellman's exquisitely crafted tale of greed and family, The Little Foxes. Directed by Ted Pappas, The Little Foxes runs Nov. 12 - Dec. 13, 2009 at the O'Reilly Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theater's home in the heart of Downtown's Cultural District.

American Stage Theatre Company's 'After Hours' Cabaret series continues with five new productions running in October and November. All performances are 'Pay-What-You-Can' at the door and $10 in advance.

Barbara Ligeti, Andrew Shaifer and Victor Syrmis have revealed the first photo of the conjoined twins from Off-Broadway's most outrageous new comedy, Made In Heaven. Performances begin Thursday, October 22nd at SoHo Playhouse. Opening Night set for Monday, November 2nd at 7:00 p.m.

'Celebrating the world we share' is the theme for the first International Children's Festival to be held at PlayhouseSquare May 3-8, 2010. Presented by the Community Engagement & Education Department, the International Children's Festival will be a fun and interactive experience featuring performances, workshops, exhibits and a Global Village.