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Leading Ladies, by Ken Ludwig, is set to kick off the winter season at the Abbeville Opera House. Performances run from October 2 - October 10, 2009 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Saturdays at 3 pm.

The Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces four performances of Dos Fallopia starring Lisa Koch and Peggy Platt. Opening October 1, 2009, this show can be seen in the Frank & Katrina Basile Theatre at the Phoenix through October 4, 2009. The show is titled Dos Fallopia: Deja Poo (The undeniably eerie feeling that you?ve seen this crap before?) and features the two talented women who have been writing and performing together since 1990.

Kwame Kwei-Armah has written and will also direct the world premiere of Seize The Day, which runs from 22 October to 17 December with press night on 2 November. Designs are by Rosa Maggiora with lighting by James Farncombe and sound by Tom Lishman.

Paulette Randall will direct the world premiere of Roy Williams? Category B, the opening production in the Tricycle?s Not Black and White season. Running from 8 October until 19 December with press night on 12 October, Category B is designed by Rosa Maggiora, with lighting by James Farncombe and sound by Tom Lishman.

Animal Crackers runs September 18 - October 25, 2009 in the Goodman's Albert Theatre. Tickets are currently available by season subscription - www.ExploreTheGoodman.org or call 312.443.3800. Individual tickets ($25 - $83) are on sale now

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) proudly announces the two honorees for their 8th annual TRU Love Benefit, which will be held on Sunday, November 8, 2009 from noon to 4pm at Caroline's on Broadway, 1626 Broadway at 49th Street, NYC. Elysabeth Kleinhans of 59E59 Theatres will receive the TRU 'Spirit of Theater' Award for her ongoing generosity towards TRU as well as the off-Broadway producing community in general; and Allan Buchman of Culture Project will be acknowledged with the TRU Humanitarian Award for his dedication to bringing politically and socially conscious works to life in New York theater, and successfully using the arts for social change.

Amas Musical Theatre in its 41st year is a multi-ethnic, non-profit performing arts organization dedicated to the development of new musicals and to the training of young performing artists. 30 students will be selected on the basis of talent, potential and ability in the performing arts.

Red Hook, a horror thriller directed by Elizabeth Lucas (Clear Blue Tuesday) premieres October 3, 2009 at the Coney Island Film Festival. Starring Terrence Mann (Broadway: Cats, Les Miserables, Beauty and the Beast, The Rocky Horror Show, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Upcoming: The Addams Family), Christina Brucato (The Diary of Anne Frank, The House of Yes), Alex Brightman (Broadway: currently Boq in Wicked), and Brian J. Smith (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba, TV: Stargate Universe).

Mickey Rooney, whose personal motto is ?Don?t retire, Inspire!? is set to celebrate his 89th Birthday with an international tour of his and wife, Jan Rooney?s, ?Let?s Put on A Show!? with a 13 performance tour of Ontario Canada from September 21-October 6, 2009.

Stephen Sondheim will be visiting Houston and The Katy Visual & Performing Arts Center (KVPAC) cast of Into the Woods has been invited by the Houston Society for the Performing Arts to be the Prelude Performance for their Stephen Sondheim event Sunday, October 25th.

Redwood Theatre kicks of their 26th Season with the Washington state premiere of the acclaimed Thunderbolts and Dunderheads, a new farce by Canadian playwright Todd McGinnis, directed by Roy Arauz. Thunderbolts and Dunderheads plays in Redmond?s Fred W. Meitzer Theater, within the Redmond Civic Campus, from October 9 through October 24, 2009. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 2:00 pm. The Sunday, October 18 2:00 pm performance will be interpreted for the hearing impaired.

The new Broadway production of The Royal Family began previews Tuesday, September 15 and is set to open Thursday, October 8 at MTC?s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street).

John Barrowman (Albin) and Simon Burke (Georges) lead the sparkling new cast at the West End production of La Cage aux Folles at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London.

The Univesity of Montana School of Theatre & Dance presents BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, the classic Neil Simon comedy. The show will run in the Montana Theatre of Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center on campus October 6-10 and 13-17, 2009 at 7:30 PM.

Burning Coal Theatre Company's production of Ragni, Rado and McDermott's HAIR will let its final rays of sunshine in on Sunday, September 27, 2009. The show, which debuted on Broadway in 1968, conjures the essence of peace and love demonstrated by the hippie counterculture movement over 40 years ago.

Christine Andreas, whose career spans 30 years of Broadway brilliance from Oklahoma, On Your Toes and My Fair Lady to The Scarlet Pimpernel, makes a return visit to the Orange County Performing Arts Center November 12 ? 15 in Samueli Theater. Andreas, accompanied by her husband, composer and pianist Martin Silvestri, will perform her new show Two for the Road, which includes beautiful and distinctive renditions from the American Songbook, Broadway gems and original compositions.

The Lincoln Center Theater production of BROKE-OLOGY, a new play by Nathan Louis Jackson, directed by Thomas Kail will open on Monday, October 5, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 W. 65 Street).

The New York Philharmonic and Chicago?s WFMT Radio Network will launch the sixth season of the concert broadcast series, The New York Philharmonic This Week, beginning the week of September 28, 2009. Emmy Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin is the new host of the two-hour radio program, which is broadcast and syndicated nationally 52 weeks a year by the WFMT Radio Network.

No Strings Theatre Company presents 'The Same Life Over' written and directed by Mark Medoff. The play opens Friday, September 25 and runs through Sunday, October 11 at the Black Box Theatre, 430 N Downtown Mall in Las Cruces.

The Providence Performing Arts Center is pleased to announce that critically-acclaimed singer/songwriter BEN FOLDS will be performing with the RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC POPS and conductor Francisco Noya on October 10 at 8 PM as part of the POPS-PHIL-PPAC Series.