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Abingdon Theatre Company will present a free reading of Camilla Carr's THE BLACK SWAN on Monday, November 17, 2008 at 7:30PM in the June Havoc Theatre, Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor (btwn 8th/9th Avenues.) Admission is FREE, no reservations required.

SHEQUIDA, Americas only Juilliard-trained drag opera diva (and a recent finalist on the NBC-TV show America's Got Talent) presents a limited engagement of HOLLY, JOLLY, JESSYE. Performances of this light-hearted holiday extravaganza by JESSYE NORMOUS, The World's Biggest Opera Diva (a larger-than-life character embodied by the petite Shequida), begin December 5th at The Cutting Room.

For her role on Damages, Ms. Close was honored with the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. The series second season begins January 7th, 2008.

Variety has announced that Clint Eastwood is in talks with DreamWorks to direct the supernatural thriller Hereafter for the company led by Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider. The script is by Frost/Nixon scribe Peter Morgan.

The Coming Up Taller Awards recognize and support outstanding community arts and humanities programs that celebrate the creativity of America's young people, and provide them with new learning opportunities and a chance to contribute to their communities. The awards also highlight the contributions that historians, scholars, librarians and visual and performing arts make to families and communities by mentoring children. More than 320 nominations were received by the program in 2008.

Andrea Marcovicci - the celebrated singer and actress lauded as 'the greatest cabaret star of her generation' by The International Herald Tribune and 'the epitome of elegance and showbiz savvy' by Variety - returns to the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel (59 West 44th Street) for an exclusive seven-week run from November 11 to December 27 with a special new program 'Marcovicci Sings Movies II.' She is joined by Musical Director Shelly Markham on piano and Jered Egan on bass. Please call (212) 419-9331 for reservations.

Previews begin tonight, Friday, November 14th, 2008 for an official opening on Sunday, November 23rd, 2008, and a limited run through Sunday, January 4th, 2009.

Lyndsey Marshal joins James McAvoy and Nigel Harman in Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain, which opens at the Apollo Theatre on Tuesday 10 February 2009 with previews from 30 January.

Off-Broadway's hit sensation THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES celebrated their original cast recording, with a release party and CD signing on Tuesday, November 11th.

John Stamos seems to be hinting rather strongly that he'll be returning to the Broadway stage in the near future. While a guest on both the Today and Howard Stern shows yesterday morning, the multi-talented Stamos mentioned he had a role set in 'something new' that was opening on Broadway in 'late May'. Reports indicate it may be the rumored, but little talked about revival of The Pirates of Penzance, which is slated to begin performances this summer. Other more nebulous information hints that he could be eyeing Sky Masterson in GUYS & DOLLS.

Gurland and Farley return to the Laurie Beechman with their SMASH HIT evening of Rodgers and Hammerstein on Sunday November 16th and Wednesday November 19th at 7 PM

So fans of the production's stars can participate in celebrating the opening night of American Buffalo on Monday, November 17, the show's producers have made tickets for available for the performance, which begins at 6:45pm, at the Belasco Theatre, 111 West 44 Street.

Transport Group, the winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award and a 2007 Obie Award, has announced that its acclaimed production of Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead, directed by Joe Calarco, will be taped for the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Theatre on Film and Tape Archive on Friday, November 21th.

Last night in New York, Thursday 13 November, Stephen Daldry's production of Billy Elliot The Musical opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre to rave reviews. Haydn Gwynne, who created the role on stage in London of Billy Elliot's dance teacher Mrs Wilkinson, made her Broadway debut and playing the title role of Billy Elliot was 13 year old Trent Kowalik from New York.

The Houseman Award honors a profound commitment to the development of classical actors and an audience for the theater. The award this year was given to Theatre Development Fund. The Warburg Award is presented for outstanding philanthropic endeavor. The award was presented to William D. Zabel, Chairman of Human Rights First, by its President, Michael Posner.

On Friday, November 14, John Cudia will return to the U.S. National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera and slip behind the mask as the elusive Phantom who lurks beneath the stage of the Paris Opera House, exercising a reign of terror over all its occupants. The international award-winning musical, directed by Harold Prince, is currently at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center through November 22 before it begins a 6-week holiday engagement at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco.

Whoopi Goldberg and Stage Entertainment have announced that they will produce the Premiere of SISTER ACT, a divine new musical comedy based on the international hit movie. The show will open at the home of family entertainment, the London Palladium, on Tuesday June 2, 2009, with previews from Wednesday May 6th.

New York City Center's 2008-09 Encores! season, running November 19 - 23, will present ON THE TOWN, the first Broadway musical written by Betty Comden andAdolph Green with a score by Leonard Bernstein. The show will be directed by John Rando with music direction by Todd Ellison and choreography by Warren Carlyle. Broadway Beat takes you behind the scenes with a visit into the rehearsal hall as the cast readies for Opening Night!

Whoopi Goldberg revealed a few hints about the upcoming musical adaptation of her movie hit, Sister Act on today's episode of The View. She'll be among the producers of the show, and gave a preview of the production's poster artwork. Whoopi was visibly excited as she discussed the upcoming musical.

TV Land has green lit the new non-scripted original series, 'How'd You Get So Rich?,' produced by Mark Burnett and featuring Joan Rivers.