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Off Broadway Close Up presents a lively overview of the great legacy of Off-Broadway musicals, including The Fantasticks, Jacques Brel ..., Dames At Sea, Godspell and Little Shop of Horrors as well as more recent shows like The Last Five Years, The Kid and Yank! Hosted by Sean Hartley, this concert celebrates the vibrant, creative world of Off-Broadway-an adventurous, up-close and intimate theater experience and a place to see new artists break new ground and find their voices.

Addison County teens will gather for the ultimate Halloween bash at Middlebury's Town Hall Theater on Friday, October 29. Addison Central Teens hosts the party, providing music, scary stuff, and a prize for the best costume.

During the week of October 19 - 23 a new generation of Austrian jazz musicians will hit the New York scene. For this year's installment of the annual series, the Austrian Cultural Forum has found a new partner in Dizzy's Coca Cola Club. The Festival will showcase Austria's foremost young artists on five consecutive nights, and tap into a unique blend of Austrian and American creativity. This year's Festival kicks off on Tuesday, October 19th at the Austrian Cultural Forum: one of Austria's leading jazz musicians, Wolfgang Puschnig will perform with his American musical partner and free funk bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma. Martin Reiter will also present his new solo program. Join us for some late night jazz sessions at exclusive Jazz Club Dizzy's where Christian Maurer's band Mausi will appear together with Jack Walrath and versatile alto voice Ali Gaggl on Wednesday, October 20th. On Thursday October 21st, the program at Dizzy's continues with young jazz singer Simone Kopmajer, who will perform with talented young musicians from New York. The Austrian-born drummer Gernot Bernroider and his band Oulipians will appear together with the extraordinary vocalist Chanda Rule on Friday the 22nd. The series will conclude with Franz Hackl and his Acoustic Band on Saturday, October 23rd, featuring Kenny Davis and special guest Randy Brecker.

Calling all Halloween fanatics and ‘80s revelers! What do Friday the 13th, Children of the Corn and Nightmare on Elm Street all have in common? They're all scary ‘80s movies (duh)! This year, don't stay in and to watch these awesome 80s flicks. Instead, pay tribute to them at a special Awesome 80s HALLOWEEN Prom!

American Ballet Theatre's 2011 Spring Season at the Metropolitan Opera House, May 16-July 9, was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. Highlights of the season include World Premieres by Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon, the New York Company Premiere of Alexei Ratmansky's The Bright Stream and the U.S. Premiere of a new work by Benjamin Millepied. Principal Dancers for the 2011 Metropolitan Opera Season include Maxim Beloserkovsky, Roberto Bolle, Jose Manuel Carreño, Angel Corella, Herman Cornejo, Irina Dvorovenko, Marcelo Gomes, David Hallberg, Paloma Herrera, Julie Kent, Gillian Murphy, Veronika Part, Xiomara Reyes, Ethan Stiefel, Diana Vishneva and Michele Wiles. Natalia Osipova, a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, and Alina Cojocaru, a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet, will return for the Spring season as guest artists.

Rafael Fru?hbeck de Burgos will conduct the New York Philharmonic in the Overture to Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila; Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, with Leonidas Kavakos as soloist; Debussy's Nocturnes, featuring the Women of the New York Choral Artists; and the Suite from Stravinsky's The Firebird (1919), Friday, November 26, 2010, at 8:00 p.m., Saturday, November 27, at 8:00 p.m. On Tuesday, November 30 at 7:30 p.m., Mr. Fru?hbeck will conduct the Orchestra in Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila Overture; Haydn's Symphony No. 100, Military; Debussy's Noctures; and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite.

Critical praise continues to grow for singer Isabel Rose and her 'one hell of an impressive debut,' ‘Swingin' From the Hip.' Tastemaker press outlet Blogcritics recently weighed in, with veteran writer Jack Goodstein noting, 'Her voice is clean and crisp, and she revels in the kind of originality of phrasing that has marked the classic jazz vocalists from Ella and Frank to Tony Bennett and Sarah Vaughn.' Listen to samples of the jazz/pop/swing/Cabaret hybrid, here: http://isabelrose.com/listen.html

My Chemical Romance releases their new video premiere for NA NA NA (NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA) Thursday, October 14, 2010 live on MTV.com. The clip is currently live on MTV.com and it debuts on MTV, MTV2, MTVu, MTV Hits, AND MTV Tr3s at 11 p.m tonight, Thursday, October 14th.

Kate Clinton The Lady HAHA Tour with Special Guest Roy Zimmerman will be coming to the Colonial on November 13, at 8PM. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased in person at the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street Monday-Friday 10AM-5PM, performance Saturdays 10AM-2PM, by calling (413) 997-4444 or online at www.thecolonialtheatre.org.

The Black Butterflies will be performing live at Dreams Thursday, October 14th at 7 PM featuring Mercedes Figuras, Tony Larokko, Levi Barcourt, Nick Gianni, Fred Berryhill, and Bopa 'King' Carre. Admission is $10.

Aurora Theatre Funny Fridays continues club comedy performances on the square in downtown Lawrenceville presenting audience favorite, Mixed Nuts on October 22, at 7:15 & 9:15 PM. The most hilarious comediennes in Atlanta are back by popular demand for an evening of stand-up comedy that can get a little salty but is ultimately very satisfying, Mixed Nuts.

In a daring attempt to rival Moliere's greatest work and single-handedly revive the tradition of Commedia dell'Arte, Stolen Chair presents Commedia dell'Artemisia, a masked farce in rhyming couplets, satirizing the controversial rape trial of Italian Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi. As the teenage virtuosa Artemisia tries to escape the clutches of her miserly father, she becomes entwined with Agostino Tassi, a master painter and criminal who would rather screw than woo. Transforming these complex historical figures into commedia stock characters, Stolen Chair irreverently eviscerates history, hypocrisy, rape, romance, art and artifice. The piece has already played to sold-out houses and critical acclaim at Collective Unconscious, the Brick Theater, CBGB's, and Swarthmore College where it's been praised as 'dizzying and fun' (NYtheatre.com), 'smart, supple, and daring' (Clyde Fitch Report), and 'one of the most exquisite rapes in the history of theatre' (5th St Review).

THE MUSIC MAN, a Broadway treasure, loved by generations, previews November 3rd, opens November 14th, and runs through January 9th, 2011 at the Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire, IL. THE MUSIC MAN stars Bernie Yvon and Johanna McKenzie Miller, directed by Gary Griffin, and choreographed by Matt Raftery.

The 5th Avenue Theatre is proud to have received several nominations this year from Theater Puget Sound's Gregory Awards, an annual event in which members of Seattle's theater community vote on their favorite shows and artists from the past year.

STRAIGHT NO CHASER, the quirky male a cappella group who became a YouTube sensation with their 'The 12 Days of Christmas' video, make their first PlayhouseSquare appearance with a December 15th concert at 8 pm in the State Theatre. Tickets go on sale beginning at 10 am, Friday, Oct. 15th at www.playhousesquare.org, the Ticket Office or at 216-241-6000. Prices will be $35, $30 & $25.

Prescott Fine Arts Association presents its second Mainstage production of the 2010 - 2011 season, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS: THE MUSICAL. Music and Lyrics by David Yasbek, Book by Jeffery Lane, directed by veteran PFAA director, Randy Faulkner, who directed the 2009 - 2010 Mainstage production, Where's Charley?

Cygnet Theatre is delighted to announce the scheduled Wednesday dates of our OUT NIGHT @ CYGNET Series. Established to welcome and thank our LGBT audience members, Cygnet's 2010/2011 Season includes one night per production with a free pre-show mixer including cocktails, appetizers and enter-to-wins. Everyone is welcome to attend, with a distinct focus on the LGBT Community. Remaining OUT NIGHT dates include October 20th (Living Together), December 15th (It's a Wonderful Life), February 16th (The Tragedy of the Commons), April 27th (Cabaret) and July 6th (Our Town). The FREE pre-show mixer begins at 6:30pm and the performance begins at 7:30pm.

So begins this deliciously dark dreamscape about literary sensation and master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. Just in time for Halloween, Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe uses haunting song, poetic storytelling and surreal imagery to explore the events that shaped Poe's career and ignited his lifelong battle with 'visions dark and sinister that never cease.' From Canada's Catalyst Theatre, this bizarrely beautiful production recently completed an extremely successful run at the Barbican in London. For those who fancy 'the ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore,' don't miss the spooky, stylish spectacle that is NEVERMORE!

This hilarious musical tale chronicles the experience of six adolescents vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. Produced by the Middlebury College Musical Players, at Town Hall Theater, November 4 - 6 at 8:00 pm and November 6 at 2:00 pm. Tickets, $10/$8 college and youth, are available through the Middlebury College Box Office by calling 802-443-6433, or online at www.middlebury.edu/arts/tickets.

art your Halloween festivities with a frightening and funny double feature from Southern Rep @ Le Chat Noir with GOODNIGHT by Steve Yockey and Ross Maxwell and THE ISLAND OF DR. FITZMORRIS by Jim Fitzmorris. Then in November, Southern Rep @ Le Chat Noir presents a regional premiere, the hilarious Off Broadway hit comedy, LOVE CHILD by Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton, starring Bob Edes, Jr. and Brian Peterson.