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The 33rd annual production of A Christmas Carol at Theatre Memphis is getting a facelift. After more than three decades of performing on the original set (designed Jay Ehrlicher and Elinor Hawkins) the 2010 cast will be scurrying around on a new set that current resident scenic designer at Theatre Memphis, Christopher McCollum, has partnered with returning director Jason Spitzer to re-envision the traditional holiday classic.

The benefit event is a benefit for Krista Langberg, Terry Chance, and their family. Krista, a longtime member of the Minnesota dance community, and her husband Terry are both battling cancer. This event is a 100% volunteer effort, including the generous contribution of the Southern Theater as a venue. All donations go directly to Krista and Terry and their family.

American Repertory Theater presents The American Musical in the 21st Century: A conversation with Diane Paulus and Stephen Schwartz on November 30 at OBERO.

Experience the spirit and wonder of Christmas as the 130-voice RUMC Sanctuary Choir, Celebration Ringers Handbell Choir, RUMC's Youth Choir Outloud, Cheryl Rogers, and renowned organist Tom Alderman present an awe-inspiring concert filled with favorite holiday music. Enjoy the sights and sounds of the season amid the beauty of the candlelit Roswell United Methodist Church Sanctuary as we celebrate the miraculous birth of the Christ Child through scripture and song. Before or after the concert, stroll through the new Charis Gallery to view the art exhibit, Angels Among Us.

Bay Street Theatre is pleased to present an evening of jazz with Broadway veteran TINA FABRIQUE on Saturday, November 27 at 8 pm. Fabrique will perform her treatment of jazz standards, songs from her CD, and by Ella Fitzgerald. Tickets are $35 and $45. Call the box office at 631-725-9500 or log on to www.baystreet.org.

Therepy holds show BROADWAY BROUHAHA featuring Brandon Cutrell with special guests Broadway's Michelle Dowdy, Singer Adam Chander, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show's Travis Morin tonight, Tuesay, Novemner 16th from 11 pm to 12 am located at 348 w52nd St., NYC. Admission is free with no cover and no minimum.

Beginning Saturday, November 20, L.A. Theatre Works' Radio Theatre Series will air The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Annie Abbott, Lorin Dreyfuss, Betty Garrett and Sharon Madden. The broadcast can be heard locally in Southern California on Saturday from 10 pm to midnight on 89.3 KPCC, and can also be streamed on demand at http://www.latw.org/.

Max Schumann cut his teeth in that moment and on that end of the political spectrum, consorting with such critical culture brokers as Bread and Puppet Theater, Paper Tiger Television, The Cheap Art Collective and Printed Matter. It is from this fevered brow that he springs, but as these radical politics are a birthright and second nature there is also another generational layer steeped in critique and Deconstructionism-- -a cool detachment, a ready laugh, a sense of fatalism and an attraction to the knowing cynicism of Punk and the nihilistic gore/bodycount of heavy metal. Schumann's extensive knowledge of the machinations of global power structures breezes past the Logic of Late Capitalism and confronts the reality of Early Doom.

The New Stage Theatre Company (www.newstagetheatre.org) returns to La MaMa December 2 to 19 with 'Mapping Möbius,' a new play directed by Ildiko Nemeth and written by Colm O' Shea, Marie Glancy-O' Shea and Ildiko Nemeth. In the piece, an aging scientist, realizing his inquiries continually return him to a model of his own mind, devises a set of experiments that blur the distinction between his inner and outer worlds. New Stage Theatre Company (NTSC) made an auspicious La MaMa debut last season with 'Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls!,' an evening of the music and dance associated with exotic dancer Anita Berber, who symbolized many the decadence of Weimar era Berlin. 'Mapping Möbius' reunites director Nemeth with the team of that production, notably Julie Atlas Muz (choreography), Federico Restrepo (lighting design), Javier Boné-Carboné (costume design) and actors Peter Schmitz, Chris Tanner and Markus Hirnigel.

This landmark exhibition includes works by many illustrious artists including Gretna Campbell, Paul Georges, Lois Dodd, Robert De Niro, Sr, Rudy Burckhardt, and Robert Henry. Altogether 80 artists are represented who at one time were affiliated with Green Mountain Gallery, Blue Mountain Gallery, or both. Lucien Day opened Green Mountain Gallery on Perry Street in 1968 and it evolved into an artist's cooperative as the Blue Mountain Gallery, now at its home in Chelsea.

The Metropolitan Opera will premiere its first new production of Verdi's Don Carlo since 1979 on Monday, November 22, with a cast that includes Roberto Alagna, Marina Poplavskaya, Simon Keenlyside, and Ferruccio Furlanetto. The new production of Verdi's monumental work, in which love, war, politics, and religion combine to tell a story that is epic in scale, will be directed by Nicholas Hytner, the artistic director of London's National Theatre, in a staging that 'reminds you it is one of the very greatest of all operas' (Guardian). All performances of Don Carlo will be conducted by Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Designate Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who made a well-regarded Met debut last season with Carmen.

Providing its region with a cultural attraction of world-class quality and scale, the multi-venue Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana - just outside of the state capital of Indianapolis - will open the first of its facilities on January 29, 2011, when it inaugurates its concert hall The Palladium. The Center's other venues, now under construction, will be a 200-seat studio theater (opening in March 2011) and The Tarkington, a 500-seat proscenium theater (August 2011).

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) presents Over The Tavern by Tom Dudzick. This hilarious and poignant production will be performed on the Browning Mainstage of the Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts, 130 Edgar Road (on the campus of Webster University), Webster Groves, December 1-26, 2010.

Ford's Theatre will partner with So Others Might Eat to create a donation drive around the run of A Christmas Carol. During the curtain calls for performances of A Christmas Carol, the cast will collect monetary donations on behalf of the Washington-based So Others Might Eat (SOME). Patrons can also make donations through the Ford's Theatre Box Office. All donation checks should be made payable to 'So Others Might Eat.' A Christmas Carol plays at Ford's Theatre November 20, 2010-January 2, 2011.

Joe's Pub announces schedule for December 16th to December 18th performances including Mike Errico, Tony Trischka, Everett Bradley's Holidelic, Mike Doughty, Grand Soiree Senegalaise w/ Mor Dior Bamba & more.

The Drama Group's production of Shakspeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew' opens on Friday, November 12, and continues Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 through November 27. Tickets are $15.00 at the door. Performances are in Pilling Hall at The First United Methodist Church of Germantown, 6001 Germantown Avenue, between High Street and Walnut Lane. Visit www.thedramagroup.org for details.

November 11, 2010. The Hartt School Community Division presents The Nutcracker Suite, featuring American Ballet Theatre dancer and HCD alumna Meaghan Hinkis as the Sugar Plum Fairy, and live orchestra by the Connecticut Youth Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dan D'Addio, on Saturday, December 18 at 7:00 PM and Sunday, December 19 at 2:00 PM, in Millard Auditorium at the University of Hartford's main campus, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford. Tickets are $25, $15 for seniors and students. For tickets and information, visit the University of Hartford Box Office at Lincoln Theater, call the Box Office at 860.768.4228, or purchase tickets online at http://harttweb.hartford.edu/tickets.aspx. There are no discounts available for this performance, which is entirely funded by ticket sales.

Three major sculptural installations related to Hanukkah will be on view in the contemporary gallery of Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, The Jewish Museum's permanent exhibition, from November 19, 2010 to January 30, 2011. Alice Aycock's Greased Lightning (1984) is a motorized kinetic sculpture featuring an oversized moving dreidel, the small, inscribed top that children play with during the holiday. Miracle (2004) by Lynn Godley is a playful and monumental Hanukkah lamp that uses multiple lights to evoke the cumulative effect of progressively lighting the candles over eight nights. Matthew McCaslin's Bring the Light (2000) fashions metal electrical conduit, light switches and porcelain light fixtures into an innovative and decidedly nontraditional Hanukkah lamp. In addition, a selection from Eleanor Antin's video Vilna Nights (1993-97), a photograph by Mike Mandel entitled Robot Lights the Chanukah Candles (1985), and works on paper by Larry Rivers (1982) and Marc Alan Jacobs (1994) will be included.

Susannah Mars returns with the warmth, charm and authentic humor that audiences know to expect. This year she explores the expectations of what the holiday home is 'supposed to be' - the havoc, the harmony, and the universal challenges the season can mean for each of us. The show is conceived by and features Susannah Mars and special guests, and is directed by Grant Byington. Runs November 16-December 19 at Artists Repertory Theatre, Alder Stage, 1515 SW Morrison. See below for NO SHOW dates when Ms. Mars will be performing with Oregon Ballet Theatre. Tickets are $20-$47 at 503.241.1278; www.artistsrep.org.

God's Trombones returns to the Jubilee Theatre stage later this month as the premier musical production of the 30th Anniversary Season. Created by Jubilee founder Rudy Eastman and composer Douglas Balentine, God's Trombones has entertained audiences since 1990.