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Grammy-Award winning superstar Usher has officially announced his plans for the fall -- a 'ladies only' tour titled, 'One Night Stand.'

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre highlights its 'We Create Art' season campaign with the Emerging Artist Series in Musical Theater Playwriting.

Clay Aiken, currently starring in Monty Python's SPAMALOT, has announced the 'Write Clay's Playbill Biography Contest' winner. The contest offered members of his fan club the chance to write his official Playbill biography.

Actress Katie Holmes, currently appearing on Broadway in ALL MY SONS, will be guest starring on the ABC 'Eli Stone' tonight, October 21st, 2008.

Classic 70s funk infuses pioneering hip hop theater artist Will Power's fierce new coming-of-age tale, debuting October 24 at The Children's Theatre Company (CTC). FIVE FINGERS OF FUNK, created by Power in collaboration with composer Justin Ellington and director Derrick Sanders, runs through November 16 on the Cargill Stage as the first show in the ctc4teens season.

Broadway's Boy George Euan Morton will host the 2008 Theatre Museum Awards for Excellence on Tuesday October 21, 2009 at New York City's famed Players Club located at 16 Gramercy Park. Cocktails and Silent Auction at 6 p.m. Dinner at 7 p.m. Awards Ceremony at 8 p.m.

Outer Critics Circle will host a special evening celebrating the new theatre season with an emphasis on playwrights when they host 'Return of the Playwright' on Wednesday, November 5th (5-7:30PM) at Sardi's Restaurant in the Eugenia Room (234 West 44th Street). For the second year, the event is co-chaired by OCC Executive Committee member Rosalind Friedman and sponsored in part by The Samuel French Company, Inc.

Following rave reviews and near capacity attendance, the producers of 'The Affair in 22B' have decided to extend performances through November 2nd.

Gavin Esham and Christopher Sloan perform their original comic cabaret on October 26, 2008 9:30 PM at the famous Duplex Cabaret Theater entitled Chris and Gavin's Broadway Campaign '08: In Your Heart, You Know Their Right.

Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, has announced additional casting and details for its 2008/2009 Season.

On October 9th, 2008 Olivier-nominee Scarlett Strallen and ADAM FIORENTINO (in their Broadway debuts as Mary Poppins and Bert, respectively), were welcomed to the company of the award-winning musical Mary Poppins at the New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street). After their debuts the two celebrated at Sardi's Restaurant in New York City.

CAPTURE NOW, a new play by Josh Jonas, is currently being given its world premiere Off-Broadway this fall, beginning previews October 10 prior to opening October 22 at The Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street (45 Bleecker Street) in Manhattan. Producers are Kurt Peterson and Jane Bergere. Tickets are on sale now.

THE OPEN BOOK and NUNKIE THEATRE COMPANY are pleased to announce the upcoming production of 'OH, WHISTLE…,' two ghost stories by M R JAMES and performed by R M LLOYD PARRY at the 78th Street Theatre Lab. 'OH, WHISTLE…' plays Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 PM, October 22nd through November 8th. In addition, performances of Lloyd Parry's 2007 M R James show, 'A PLEASING TERROR,' plays 10:00 PM on Friday, October 24th, 31st and November 7th.

SPRING AWAKENING has announced that they will play a special election week schedule.

Critically acclaimed theatre company Circus Theatricals proudly announces that playwright SHEM BITTERMAN has won the 2008 Pen USA Literary Award for Drama for his play HARM'S WAY. Past winners of the award include Sarah Rule, Luis Alfaro, Donald Freed, and Craig Volk.

Landmark on Main Street welcomes back Broadway's Tony Award-winning star Brian Stokes Mitchell to the Jeanne Rimsky Theater on Saturday, November 8, 2008, in a special performance debuting his new show 'Songs I Want to Sing' for Landmark's 14th Annual Spotlight Gala 2008.

Adam Kantor, who made his Broadway debut as the final Mark in Rent, will replace Hunter Parrish in the all-star benefit concert performance of DRIFT with music and lyrics by Jeremy Schonfeld.

The cast, crew, and creative team of the upcoming Broadway production of David Mamet's masterpiece, American Buffalo, are collaborating on a web series, called 'American Buffalo: Backstage,' which presents audiences with a rare view of what really happens backstage, in rehearsal, and outside of rehearsal on a major production

A special revival of God's Trombones by James Weldon Johnson's as part of his Tribute to Black Preachers will be presented on Friday & Saturday, October 24 & 25, 2008 @ 7:30PM at Broadway Advent Church (2504 Broadway @ West 93rd Street) There is a suggested donation of $25.00 per person.

Theatre for a New Audience's Artistic Director, Jeffrey Horowitz and New York Theatre Workshop's Artistic Director James C. Nicola announced that their co-prodocution of THE GRAND INQUISITOR will extend by popular demand through November 30th, 2008.