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On November 15th the Catskills come to Brooklyn as NACL Theatre (North American Cultural Laboratory, www.nacl.org) hosts the BORSCHT BASH, a party to benefit the theatre and its NYC premiere of 'THE UNCANNY APPEARANCE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES' this December at HERE Arts Center in Soho. The event will be co-chaired by actors Susan Dey, Judd Hirsch, and Mary Staurt Masterson.

The 92nd Street Y announces casting for the 2009 season of Lyrics & Lyricists™, the Y's legendary American Songbook series. Polly Bergen, Lucie Arnaz, Tom Wopat and Marilyn Maye are among the storied cast members who will sing the songs of Richard Rodgers, Ira Gershwin, Mel Tormé, DeSylva, Brown & Henderson, David Zippel and others. This is the first season curated by new series artistic director DEBORAH GRACE WINER, and her inaugural line-up of guest artistic directors - MARTIN CHARNIN, DAVID ZIPPEL, ROBERT KIMBALL, REX REED, and BILLY STRITCH.

The fourth year of the acclaimed series, Monday Nights, New Voices, will continue on November 17th at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre with special guest host Bobby Steggert (110 in the Shade) and guest composer/lyricist Ryan Scott Oliver.

Four-time Tony Award winner Zoe Caldwell as 'Chief Prompter' and Oscar and Tony Award winner Joel Grey as 'Max Fabian' join the cast of The Actors Fund's highly anticipated all-star reading of ALL ABOUT EVE, the classic backstage drama that is one of the most entertaining and witty films of all time.

Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) Sunday in the Park with George - Connect: The Dot Project www.SundayDots.com won Interactive Advertising Bureau's (IAB) bronze medal MIXX Award for Best Public Service/Not-for-Profit website and Web Marketing Association's (WMA) 2008 WebAward for Best Arts website.

Joe & Sandi Black and The Modern Stage will present the New York premiere of Tom Sime's new comedy MY FAVORITE ANIMAL. Performances will be at the 45th Street Theatre, 354 W. 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues). The opening date is scheduled for Wednesday, Nove

NEVER FORGET, the audience favorite of the 2008 season, will close in London at the end of its current run at the Savoy Theatre on Saturday 15th

Rosalind Ayres directs a cast that includes Andrea Bowen, Matt Gaydos, Simon Templeman, Joanne Whalley and Matt Wolf when L.A. Theatre Works records Tom Stoppard's two-time Tony Award-winning play, The Real Thing, at the Skirball Cultural Center, November 12-16.

To prepare for their roles in Goodspeed Musicals' current production, Big River, adapted from the Mark Twain classic 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' the cast recently went on a tour of The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Conn.

Actors wear wireless microphones that transmit on frequencies soon to be compromised by consumer devices. Without publishing proposed rules and allowing public discourse, the FCC, pressured by leading technology firms, will vote on this issue on November 4, 2008: Election Day.

According to IMDB, the documentary 'Showing Up' by director/producer Riad Galayini will be aiming for a 2010 release.

The Hollywood Reporter is stating that Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire could be penning the screenplay for 'Spider-Main 4'.

Join L.A. Theatre Works for a pre-election day broadcast of a rare and timely revival of 'The Rivalry' by Norman Corwin starring David Strathairn and Paul Giamatti. The LATW-recorded production, which includes an interview with the two stars, is set to air on public radio stations around the country, as well as on XM Satellite radio, throughout the weekend as follows.

Broadway In Chicago encourages all Chicagoans to vote and then celebrate the election of the 44th President by offering theater patrons $44 tickets on Election Day, November 4, 2008, to the international stage hits DIRTY DANCING, JERSEY BOYS and WICKED.

Beginning its 30th year of broadcast, the American Theatre Wing's 'Working in the Theatre' program will feature 'Actors Words, Writers Voice' on CUNY TV on Sunday, November 2 at 5 p.m. The program will repeat on Friday, November 7 at 9 a.m., 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, November 8 at 11 a.m. The program becomes available as streaming video and podcast from www.americantheatrewing.org, as well as iTunes, beginning Wednesday afternoon, November 5.

The Glenn Miller Orchestra will be performing at Westchester Broadway Theatre

Join Democratic Leadership for the 21st Century for their Election Night Bash.

Things To Ruin, an incendiary collection of songs by Joe Iconis returns to play a limited, four-performance run at The Zipper Factory (336 West 37th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).

New Georges (Susan Bernfield, Artistic Director; Sarah Cameron Sunde, Associate Director), the OBIE Award-winning downtown theater company founded in 1992, will present the world premiere of Wendy Weiner's 'HILLARY: A Modern Greek Tragedy With a (Somewhat) Happy Ending,' directed by Julie Kramer. Mia Barron, last seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Tony Award-winning Best Play The Coast of Utopia, and stage and television's Darren Pettie will head up the eight-member cast as Hillary and Bill Clinton.

The world premiere of CAPTURE NOW, a new play by Josh Jonas and directed by Larry Moss, which opened Off-Broadway on October 22 at The Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street (45 Bleecker Street) to enthusiastic reviews will alter its performance schedule to perform Tuesdays through Fridays at 8:00pm, and Saturdays at 3:00pm &8:00pm effective immediately, it has been announced by the play's producers Kurt Peterson and Jane Bergère.