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Award Season has begun at BroadwayWorld. This year, Florida has its own awards! We are waiting for You. Voting for the 2011 BWW FLORIDA Awards is now open.

Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF (OST) continues its 2011-2012 Signature Series with A Tuna Christmas, playing November 30 - December 30, 2011 at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center. In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, the outrageously funny and much loved characters of Tuna, Texas are back just in time for the holiday season.

Stage Aurora Theatrical Company in association with Bethune-Cookman University Theatre Department presents Darryl Reuben Hall's FRAT HOUSE starring Kim Coles and Tony Award Winner Melba Moore 7:30 p.m. on November 14 and 15 at the Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center on the campus of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, FL.

The Waterfront Playhouse will kick off their 72nd Season with 'It Takes Two - An Evening of Duets'- a two night concert that will star over 25 of Key West's best performers. The evening will feature hits from the world of Broadway, pop, standards and even disco, all done as duets. It's an evening chock full of talent, entertainment and double the fun.

Gulfshore Playhouse will perform an exclusive reading of 'Significant Others' by Jason Odell Williams November 14 at Café Lurcat. This is a new twist on the 'reading' idea. Café Lurcat will be serving a specially-designed three-course meal with 5:00, 5:30 or 6:00pm seating times. The reading will start at 7:30 p.m. while patrons relax with their dessert or a glass of wine.

Musical powerhouse Avery Sommers, who just wowed the crowds as Motormouth Maybelle in the Actors' Playhouse production of Hairspray (for which she just received a BWW Florida Award Nomination), is returning to The Colony Hotel for her fifth engagement since making her Royal Room debut in August 2008. She starred on Broadway in the long running, critically acclaimed musicals Ain't Misbehavin' (where she replaced Nell Carter) and Showboat, and in two national tours: Chicago with Joel Grey and Chita Rivera and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret. A frequent co-star of Burt Reynolds (B.L. Stryker, The Man from Left Field), she also starred in Menopause, the Musical and as Bloody Mary in South Pacific. In addition, she produced and co-starred in the film Hiding Victoria with Anita Gillette. At the Monaco International Film Festival last December, Sommers received the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Angel Film Awards.

Kravis Center Announces Postponement of REGIS PHILBIN and Special Guest SUSAN LUCCI Performance was Scheduled for December 30 The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts today announced that the December 30, 2011 performance by TV icons Regis Philbin and special guest Susan Lucci has been postponed.

Award Season has begun at BroadwayWorld. This year, Florida has its own awards! We are waiting for You. Voting for the 2011 BWW FLORIDA Awards is now open.

NETworks is set to present DISNEY'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST- the smash hit Broadway musical coming to Fort Lauderdale's Broward Center for the Performing Arts from NOVEMBER 15 - 27, 2011.

It is 1958 and abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art; a series of murals for New York's famed Four Seasons Restaurant. Raw and provocative, this 2010 Tony Award Winner for Best Play is a searing depiction of the ambition, vulnerability and agony inherent in the art of making art.

Zoetic Stage and The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County proudly present the world premiere of Christopher Demos-Brown's CAPTIVA, a funny dark comedy about weathering family, now through November 20, 2011, in the intimate Carnival Studio Theater (Ziff Ballet Opera House). Following Zoetic Stage's highly acclaimed 2010 debut of South Beach Babylon, this new production launches the company's adventurous 2011-12 season as part of the Arsht Center's Theater Up Close season.

DEATH for SYDNEY BLACK By Leah Nanko Winkle A dark comedic response to cult films such as Heathers and Mean Girls. Join them for an evening of girls, guns, gore, and more. Appropriate for mature audiences only.

Audience response to the sparkling cast and Genie Croft's crisp direction of The Boca Raton Theatre Guild's production of The Tale of the Allergist's Wife has been nothing but enthusiastic. Charles Busch's comedy of manners has Willow Theatre patrons in gales of laughter from the play's opening lines to its final curtain.

The Main Street Players announced the world premiere of For the Love of Money, a one-man show by Daniel Nieves, showing December 2, 3, and 4 at the Main Street Playhouse in Miami Lakes. For the Love of Money follows the rise of Charles 'Lucky' Luciano, one of America's most infamous crime bosses, from his childhood in the hills of Sicily, through his rise to become one of the most powerful organized crime lords in the world, and ending in his imprisonment and eventual exile.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the award-winning worldwide smash hit Broadway musical, is coming to Fort Lauderdale for two weeks only. Produced by NETworks Presentations, this elaborate theatrical production will come to life on stage at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, November 15 - 27. For information on the production, visit www.BeautyAndTheBeastOnTour.com.

Zoetic Stage and The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County proudly present the world premiere of Christopher Demos-Brown's CAPTIVA, a funny dark comedy about weathering family, Now through November 20, 2011, in the intimate Carnival Studio Theater (Ziff Ballet Opera House). Following Zoetic Stage's highly acclaimed 2010 debut of South Beach Babylon, this new production launches the company's adventurous 2011-12 season as part of the Arsht Center's Theater Up Close season.

Mr. Lauria, star of The Wonder Years and the original Broadway production of Lombardi, will also be reading one of the roles. He will be accompanied by Ray Abruzzo, a Hollywood veteran who has appeared on The Sopranos, Dynasty and The Practice-- and who is currently portraying the title character in Lombardi at Mosaic Theatre (Nov 10 through Dec 4). Also joining them is Richard Zavaglia, a well-known actor who also has numerous credits on film, television and the stage.

Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF (OST) and PB&J Theatre Factory present the funny and heart-warming original comedy, SLEIGH, playing December 1-18, 2011 at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center (812 East Rollins Street). This time, the team that brought Central Florida audiences SPORT, SNACK, SPLASH and SHHH! has packed the entire holiday season into one entertaining evening.

The Waterfront Playhouse will kick off their 72nd Season with 'It Takes Two - An Evening of Duets'- a two night concert that will star over 25 of Key West's best performers. The evening will feature hits from the world of Broadway, pop, standards and even disco, all done as duets. It's an evening chock full of talent, entertainment and double the fun.

New American Theater continues their popular cabaret series with Mark Bowers and Joey Panek in 'Two Voices: A Benefit Cabaret for Una Voce: The Florida Men's Chorale' on November 18 & 19, 2011 at 8:00pm. The show will feature songs from Broadway and movies, as well as popular songs by artists such as Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Katy Perry and Michael Buble. The evening also features some improv and audience participation.