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Boiler Room Theatre presents their annual Double Header Holiday with two great holiday shows playing in repertory. Two completely different holiday entertainment experiences! Season Passes include choice of one of the holiday productions. The Last Night of Ballyhoo, a comedy by by Alfred Uhry, will run November 27 through December 20, 2009. A Hard-Boiled Christmas, by Jamey Green and Lewis Kempfer, will run November 29 through December 23, 2009.

Street Theatre Company will bring The Great American Trailer Park Musical to the stage in Nashville from November 13-29. Covering topics from agoraphobia and adultery to hysterical pregnancy and kleptomania with characters that include a toll booth collector and a stripper, the musical is definitely intended for an adult audience.

South Orange Performing Arts Center presents Klea Blackhurst and Billy Stritch in Dreaming Of a Song, The Music of Hoagy Carmichael on Saturday, March 20 at 8pm.

South Orange Performing Arts Center presents Forbidden Broadway on Saturday, February 6 at 8pm.

South Orange Performing Arts Center and Food for Thought Productions presents The Different Shades of Comedy on Friday, December 4 at 8pm.

South Orange Performing Arts Center presents An Evening with Betty Buckley and Kenny Werner on Saturday, November 21 at 8 pm at the Sopac Main Theatre.

As fire crews work on the scene of this morning's fire on 85th street in Greenwood, Taproot Theatre is working on finding an alternative theatre space for the remaining performances of Enchanted April, which is set to close this Saturday to three sold-out performances.

St. Louis' premier classical theatre presents this action-packed seafaring tale at the Lee Auditorium in the Missouri History Museum November 6-15!

The professional dancers of Omaha Theater Ballet will ignite holiday spirit with their production of The Imperial Nutcracker presented at The Orpheum Theatre December 3-6. First premiered in 2007, this ballet features all of the splendor and majesty of imperial Russia.

The Shakespeare Society (Michael Sexton, Artistic Director) will present Marlowe vs. Shakespeare: Rivalry, Imitation, and Influence, featuring John Douglas Thompson who plays the title role in the acclaimed Irish Rep revival of The Emperor Jones in a performance that was called "wondrous" by Ben Brantley in The New York Times; Matthew Rauch who currently stars in Still Life at MCC; and Columbia professor James Shapiro, author of the acclaimed book 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, on Monday, November 9 at 7:00pm at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, East 68 Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues.

From November 6-8, York Dance Works (YDW) and Korhan Basaran will showcase "Present Present Present," three evenings of dance programs at the Merce Cunningham Studio. The weekend-long dance display will feature Korhan Basaran, a Turkish dancer and choreographer whose newest work, "Seeking Beauty," will be making its world premiere.

A mother, a daughter, three possible dads and a trip down the aisle you'll never forget! MAMMA MIA! is making its way back to Boston December 15-27, 2009 at Boston's Colonial Theatre.

Westport Country Playhouse will present a special community open house, 'Our Town, Your Playhouse,' on Saturday, October 24, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., offering FREE activities for children, families, teens and adults throughout the day.

Jubilee plays November 25 - December 13* at the company's home venue in San Francisco's Financial District/Embarcadero, The Eureka Theatre (215 Jackson Street) and is directed by "Moon" Founding Artistic Director Greg MacKellan, with Dave Dobrusky as Musical Director and Tom Segal as Choreographer. * Note: Opening / Press Night is Saturday, November 28, 6pm

The One-Eyed Man is King is a charming modern fable that challenges our views on life and love. Opening Oct. 31 at the Fort Collins Lincoln Center, OpenStage Theatre's production of Carter Lewis' witty play centers on the charismatic Bendalli, a blind thief who struggles to "see" his way into the lives of those he robs, and Lise, a lonely woman trying to cope with the impending loss of her terminally ill husband and the anger of her stepdaughter.

Encore Series, Inc./Peter Nero and the Philly Pops® elected five new members to its Board of Directors at its Annual Meeting on Wednesday, August 19, 2009. D. Walter Cohen, D.D.S., of Philadelphia, PA, began his tenure as chairman of the Board immediately following the Annual Meeting. Salvatore M. DeBunda, shareholder and co-managing partner of Archer & Greiner, P.C., of Blue Bell, PA, was also nominated as vice chairman of the Board.

Scott Evans (One Life to Live), Maya Days (title role in Broadway's Aida) and Marla Schaffel (title role in Broadway's Jane Eyre) will take part in a reading of selections from theater promoter and author Mark Brennan Rosenberg's new novel, Blackouts and Breakdowns, on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 6 PM at The Snapple Theater Center, 210 West 50th Street.

Casting has been announced for the Bickford Theatre's upcoming production of the riotous sex farce, Perfect Wedding. Directed by Eric Hafen, Bickford Theatre's Artistic Director, the production will play the New Jersey venue at the Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Road in Morristown, from Nov. 12 through Dec. 6.?

This year in conjunction with Granger Homestead's Christkindl Market, All Things Art will host a Gingerbread Competition. If you like to create with gingerbread, this is your opportunity to join in on the holiday fun! It is free to enter. There is a category for everyone: Children (under 8), Youth (9 -12), Teen (13 -17), Adult (18 and older), and Professional. You can enter as an individual or as a team or group.

Edo de Waart will conduct Der Rosenkavalier on October 22, replacing Jens Georg Bachmann who is ill. De Waart has conducted the season's previous three performances of the Strauss opera stepping in for James Levine, who underwent surgery for a herniated disk.