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Improbable's Phelim McDermott directs the internationally acclaimed duo Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz in Beauty and the Beast, an adult fairy tale like no other. What do you get when a born freak, a former beauty queen and an award-winning maverick Director tell the true story of Beauty and the Beast?

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts continues the FREE AT THE KIMMEL offerings this October and November in the Kimmel Center's campus with live monthly FREE Sittin' In Jam Sessions on Wednesdays and FREE PNC Grow Up Great interactive performances for children. The Business of Making Music, a new three-part FREE seminar provides expert guidance to young musicians seeking a foray into networking and understanding management in the music industry. Free at the Kimmel offerings continue to highlight Philly's hottest up-and-coming talents with musical offerings for all ages and invite the community to engage in the arts on multiple levels.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Chagall: Love, War, and Exile, on view through February 2, 2014, The Jewish Museum is presenting a diverse series of programs from October through January. Highlights include a talk by Bella Meyer, granddaughter of Marc Chagall; historian Kenneth Silver, a Chagall exhibition catalogue essayist; and an impressive selection of contemporary painters including Amy Sillman, Peter Doig, Carroll Dunham, Thomas Eggerer, Charlene von Heyl, and David Salle.

The recent government shutdown has taken many government sanctioned programs such as museums and parks, and the historic Ford Theatre is also suffering because of it. It recently released the statement below:

Carrying forward a repute of showcasing world class events, The National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) is all set for a new collaboration with London's British Museum to add to their popular screenings series. A special film titled Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum based on the eponymous exhibition at the British Museum shall be screened on 6th and 7th October, 2013 at the Godrej Dance Theatre.

According to The Mankato Free Press, Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized version of the Scopes Monkey Trial that pit evolution against creationism. All but one of the students were persuaded to drop out of the play due to it's controversial storyline. The students received many emails and letters objecting the play which assisted in persuading them to drop out. According to The Mankato Free Press, on September 16th, the New Ulm Actors Community Theatre board voted to indefinitely postpone the performance because there wasn't enough time to replace the cast before the October premiere.

FITZ & CO, international arts public relations firm, has partnered with premium theme shop Pixel Union to launch the first-ever art world-specific Tumblr theme for museums, galleries, foundations and non-profit cultural institutions. Titled “Readymade,” the theme offers a tailored experience for the art world. The first to adopt the theme include the esteemed Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA-based non-profit ForYourArt, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, MoMA PS1, Paul Kasmin Gallery, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, creating a new precedent for the art world in the digital media space.

'Seascape With Sharks And Dancer' by Don Nigro will be Produced by Strangers At Home Theatre Company at West End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington Street, Portsmouth, NH

Congratulations to our 34 Adult Elly Winners at tonights ceremony, plus our two LIfetime Achievement Award winners - Connie Mockenjaupt and Rodger Hoopman.

In the eyes of their adoring public, the Landlord and Landlady are perfect. They laugh, they joke, they listen and they drink. But when the bell rings for time and the public have gone home, we see that perfection doesn't exist. A past event that appears at the bottom of every glass needs confronting. Will tonight be that night?

Okay! Those of us that know, the cabaret stages of New York City are as limited in scope as the imagination of producers and performers. And let's face it, in this city, ANYTHING GOES!!! So the NYC Cabaret Festival made sure it had its share of acts beyond the traditional piano /singer standards and revues. With two weeks, three stages and over two hundred performing artist, there truly is something for everyone.

Over 18 years, Ross Petty has created one of the longest-standing theatrical traditions in Ontario with his annual holiday pantomime, a truly unique creation that brings Canadian stars together on stage for a remarkable run of theatrical fun. Marking his 18th consecutive production at the Elgin Theatre, Ross Petty Productions has Toronto awash with excitement to catch THE LITTLE MERMAID live on stage from November 22, 2013 - January 4, 2014, a must-sea this holiday season!

Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage, Fairfield County's Award-Winning Professional Theatre Company, is pleased to announce the 2013/2014 MainStage Season. Between November 2013 and May 2014, MTC MainStage will present three fully-staged professional productions: 'Master Class,' 'God of Carnage' and 'The Fantasticks.' Performances will take place in the one-of-a-kind Off-Broadway-style 50-seat studio, providing the audience with an intimate theatregoing experience, and each performance is followed by a complimentary wine and cheese reception. MTC MainStage is located at 246 Post Road East in Colonial Green (Lower Level) in Westport, CT.

Barry Manilow and his lyrical partner Bruce Sussman are taking a swing at musicals again with Harmony. The show is based on a documentary that follows a Jewish actor in Berin that recruited five singers, 2 Jewish and 3 non-Jewish, to form a musical group that offered a very different and unprecedented live performance. They combined complex 6 part harmonies, vocal imitation of instruments, and even physical comedy onstage. The Comedian Harmonists, is what they called themselves, became a musical sensation in the late 1920s but coincidentally, their rise to fame coincided with Hitler's rise to power along with his restrictions against the Jewish artists in Germany.

Following the trend of Kinky Boots castmembers to become engaged, Stephen Carrasco's fiance Lee Poulin popped the question! Stephen followed a candle lit pathway and was greeted by many of his castmembers and friends who each gave him a single rose. Following Stephen's friends and castmates, Lee got down on one knee and popped the question! Check out the full performance below!

With a little help from his castmates and a very popular Michael Jackson tune, Andy Kelso serenaded and then popped the question to Sheila Coyle on stage right after a performance of Kinky Boots! Check out the full proposal below!

Who would have thought that The Simpsons would ever make their Broadway debut? Many people did not but Anne Washburn shows that it is definitely their time to shine her play, Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play. This dark, out of the box comedy throws us forward about one century and follows a new civilization that is clumsily stumbling into its future...with a little help from Bart Simpson. Mr. Burns is an animated exploration of how the pop culture of one era can slowly but surely evolve into the mythology of another. Anne Washburn's plays have been featured many times, at different festivals. In 2011, her play A Devil at Noon was featured in the Humana Festival of New American Plays and in 2013, her play Sleep Rock Thy Brain was featured in the festival.

The Actors Fund have been hosting special performances that have been 'thrilling audiences for more than 80 years with an electric energy unlike any other night of theatre'. According to The Fund, what makes a special performance so special is that the Broadway companies happily give their time, talent, and an extra performance to benefit The Actors Fund.

Playwright Arthur Laurents lived in a beautiful townhouse on Saint Luke's Place until 2006. According to Curbed, his former home has been on and off the market since the middle of 2012, upon first entering the market it was asking $35000 a month and then it drastically reduced its price to $18,000 a month. According to StreetEasy, the owners are not ready to give up landlording and sell the house. The 4,368 square-foot, 4 bedroom, 5 bathroom home is asking $12 million.

Our second Morning Melodies is coming up next month “Swing Into Spring With the Cottontail Trio & The Supper Club” on Wednesday 9 October 2013 @10.30am