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Florida Repertory Theatre announced the opening of its 2011-2012 season with Rumors, one of the funniest farces ever written by America's favorite playwright. Neil Simon's comic masterpiece plays Oct. 28 through Nov. 19, with discounted previews on Oct. 25, 26 and 27, and is a laugh-out-loud evening of miscommunication, misunderstanding and gossip-driven hilarity.

Hairspray, Broadway's musical-comedy phenomenon with so much heart and soul that it also inspired a major motion picture. A joyous tribute to the ‘60's, this intelligent and hilarious musical has the most fun Broadway score in recent years. It's 1962, and pleasantly plump Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad has only one desire, to dance on the popular 'Corny Collins Show'. When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star, but she must use her new found power to vanquish the reigning teen queen, win the affections of her heartthrob Link Larkin and integrate a TV network - all without denting her ‘do!

Returning to the Royal Room for her sixth engagement since 2003, Baby Jane Dexter is a 'triple crown winner' in cabaret, having received two Bistro awards from Back Stage, six top vocalist awards from the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) and both the 2009 and 2010 Nightlife Award for top cabaret singer. She will be celebrating the release of her new live CD, The Real World on Quannacut Records. Following a sold out run in New York City, The Real World is a powerful, inspiring and funny potpourri of unique songs and arrangements given Ms. Dexter's one of a kind haunting spin. The eclectic song list includes gems by the likes of Billie Holiday, Janis Ian, Roy Orbison, John Sebastian, Alec Wilder and many more. This new show promises potent musical moments along with the singer's trademark blend of profound and artistically whimsical bon mots. As always, Baby Jane challenges as much as she inspires. That is the hallmark that has sustained her remarkable career. The show's musical director is Ross Patterson.

Together, the performers in the Capitol Steps have worked in a total of 18 Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective experience on House and Senate staffs. Their renditions of our 'favorite' politicians are hilarious and on the cutting edge. Nothing and no one is sacred. Since they began in 1981, the Capitol Steps have recorded over 30 albums and been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS, and can be heard four times year on National Public Radio stations nationwide during the Politics Takes a Holiday radio specials.

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.

Saturday, October 29, 2011, 8 PM: Night of the Dead ~ Zombie Prom The second annual Night of the Drinking Dead Halloween celebration in Delray Beach begins at Arts Garage at 8 PM and includes a Zombie Prom, live music with local band Girlfriend Experience, horror flicks, and gruesome Zombie Art by Brandon Paul. Participating Zombies can then crawl on to DaDa, Delux, Kevro's Art Bar and Pineapple Groove.

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming national tour of THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a new musical based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams. THE ADDAMS FAMILY is scheduled to open the Adrienne Arsht Center's Broadway in Miami 2011-2012 season, with performances from October 25-30, 2011. Tickets start at $27 and may be purchased through the Adrienne Arsht Center box office by calling (305) 949-6722, or online at www.arshtcenter.org.

Florida Repertory Theatre announced its 2011-12 Season, opening Oct. 25 with the farce, Neil Simon's Rumors. Florida Rep's 2011-12 line-up boasts a record ten plays, seven in the Historic Arcade and three in its NEW 85-seat Studio, and features some of the funniest plays from the world's greatest comic minds, plus both the 2009 and 2010 Tony-Winning BEST PLAYS.

72 years ago, audiences were thrilled and horrified by a radio broadcast that took place Halloween night. Aliens were invading. No one was safe. The only thing was - it was all a creation of the brilliant Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre. H.G. Welles' War of the Worlds went down as the most infamous radio drama in history.

Kravis Center Continues 20th Anniversary Season in November with Dave, Huey, Larry & Morticia That's Dave Koz, Huey Lewis & the News, Larry the Cable Guy & THE ADDAMS FAMILY, Plus Guitarist Benise, the Munich Symphony, Connie James, Family Fare & More

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, November 3 - 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.

Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Announces Four New Additions in 2012 + B.B. King (January 2) + KRAVIS UNDER COVER (January 6, February 3 & March 9) + DIVORCE PARTY THE MUSICAL (January 10-February 19) + Bill O'Reilly (April 6)

Arts Garage in Delray Beach has secured several of South Florida's top musical talents for their October 21st and 22nd concerts. On Friday, Emmy Award-winning composer/pianist Jace Vek will present the second in his ‘Jace Vek Experience' series, with virtuoso cellist Jonah Kim as his invited guest. And on Saturday evening, October 22nd, beloved jazz icon Jessie Jones, Jr. will return to Arts Garage to perform his unique blend of jazz, fusion, and funk in the second of this season's Jazz Project series.

Relationships can be murder. THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD & LOEB STORY is a two-character musical drama that is based on the chilling true story of the legendary duo of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, who committed one of the most infamous and heinous crimes of the twentieth century - the senseless murder of a young boy. Focusing on their obsessive relationship and utilizing Leopold's 1958 parole hearing as a framework, THRILL ME explores the series of events in 1924 Chicago that led about-to-be law students Leopold and Loeb to be forever remembered as 'the thrill killers.'

'CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE' A DELICIOUS CONFECTION OF CHARM, SPARKLE AND TALENT BY THE SLEIGHLOAD LIGHTS UP THE BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DECEMBER 27 - JANUARY 1, 2012 CREATED AND DIRECTED BY CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR NEIL GOLDBERG TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW

Florida Repertory Theatre announced the opening of its 2011-2012 season with Rumors, one of the funniest farces ever written by America's favorite playwright. Neil Simon's comic masterpiece plays Oct. 28 through Nov. 19, with discounted previews on Oct. 25, 26 and 27, and is a laugh-out-loud evening of miscommunication, misunderstanding and gossip-driven hilarity.

After the Revolution is the story of the brilliant, promising Emma Joseph who proudly carries the torch of her family's Marxist tradition, devoting her life to the memory of her grandfather, much revered for refusing to 'name names' during the McCarthy hearings.

New Theatre (THE NEW) continues it's 'family' theme season with the National New Play Network's Rolling World Premiere of Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, running Now through October 30, 2011. This timely and controversial work examines the lives of two all but abandoned teens having to create a makeshift family and its values while getting through the pangs of growing up. New Theatre joins the prestigious Humana Festival of New Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, where it had its first production and the Actor's Express in Atlanta, GA to present the National New Play Network's Rolling World Premiere of Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them.

Buffman has had 29 Tony Award nominations, won the New York Drama Critics' award for ‘Best Musical', was awarded the very first Florida Ambassador of the Arts, the Distinguished Achievement Award from Wharton School of Business, ‘Entertainer of the Year' award from the Governor of Louisiana, and Decade Achiever's Award from the National Polo Association. He was the recipient of ‘Man of the Year' in Miami, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Miami Beach, Orlando, Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Palm Beach. He also won ‘Producer of the Year' in Washington, D.C. and Florida (six times).

Tony Award-winning actress, singer, and songwriter Idina Menzel, star of Broadway's Wicked and the original stage production of Rent, will open the 2011-12 Knight Masterworks Season Pops Series at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County on December 3, 2011 at 8 p.m. in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall.