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Members of BroadwayWorld can now save on tickets to the upcoming holiday sensation Irving Berlin's WHITE CHRISTMAS on Broadway.

DEAR EDWINA, starring Kerry Butler, Terrence Mann, Lynnette Perry, Andrea Burns, Rebecca Luker, Danny Burstein, Jeff Blumenkrantz, and more, will release their cast recording in stores on November 11th, 2008. The album is currently available for purchase online at www.psclassics.com.

Men Are Real, the spicy, savagely-funny monologue show featuring an all-Latino cast returns to Off-Broadway's Theaters at 45 Bleecker Street on Friday, Nov. 7th, after a successful summer run.

Beloved nightclub and Broadway vet Teri Ralston (Company, A Little Night Music) returns to New York's famed Metropolitan Room on Monday, 17 November, at 9pm to reprise the cabaret show she recorded there, live, this past January, and to celebrate the release of the resulting CD: I'VE GOTTA GET BACK TO NEW YORK.

Swimming Upstream, a project incubated and coordinated through the Ashé Cultural Arts Center and V-Day with Eve Ensler, playwright of The Vagina Monologues will play at True Colors Theatre Company from November 5th through 16th at the 14th Street Playhouse. It will feature Jasmine Guy, Shirley Knight, Phylicia Rashad, Kerry Washington and the women of New Orleans.

Broadway performers Shayna Steele (Hairspray) and Gavin Creel (Tony nominee for Thoroughly Modern Millie) will perform in concert with their bands in a double bill at The Zipper Factory Theater (336 West 37th Street/between 8th and 9th Avenues) on Thursday, November 6 @ 8:00 P.M

In November, Electric Theatre Company presents the world premiere of The Men of Mah Jongg by Richard Atkins, directed by Tony Award winner, Mark Medoff. This charming tale of four elderly men, who secretly take up the traditionally female game of mah jongg, will tickle your spirits and touch your heart. From Scranton the production moves directly into New York; a co-production with Queens Theatre in the Park. Pay-What-You-Can previews begin Wednesday, November fifth and opening night is Saturday, November 8th.

Starting Wednesday, November 5 at 10:00 AM, Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) will be accepting entries for its popular LIVEforFIVE online lottery for $5 tickets to its next production, the New York premiere of PRAYER FOR MY ENEMY.

The Broadway League had asked the FCC to refrain from approving new devices that will transmit in the "white space" radio spectrum (currently occupied by wireless microphones) into the public air space. Wireless microphones are an essential tool of the live performance industry, used in the daily operations of countless theatres and non-profit performance venues, sports arenas, and concert halls across the country. On November 4th, the issue was voted on and the FCC voted five to zero to approve opening up the 'white space' frequency to public use.

The Irish Repertory Theater (132 West 22nd Street) will present CONFESSIONS OF AN IRISH PUBLICAN, with Des Keogh in the W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre beginning November 5, 2008 until November 30, 2008.

Renowned Playwright Anna Deavere Smith will present a new piece in Phoenix inspired by Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

This morning, the New York Post is reporting that Gore Vidal's WEEKEND, might be Broadway bound.

Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Artistic Director, Mark W. Jones-Executive Director) will present Paper Mill's premiere of Disney High School Musical. Paper Mill's Artistic Director, Mark S. Hoebee will direct and Denis Jones (Associate Choreographer of Legally Blonde) will choreograph.

Itamar Moses' BACK BACK BACK, the opens at MTC at New York City Center - Stage II (131 West 55th Street) on Tuesday, November 18

Off-Broadway's hit sensation, celebrates original cast recording, released Tuesday, November 11

The Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH), in partnership with The Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, will present a reading of a new work, STEPCHILD: Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln. The reading is part of their new play development series called 'Future Classics.'

Thousands of Live Design Professionals Attend LDI 2008; this year's strong attendance reaffirmed LDI's status as the leading US tradeshow and conference for live design professionals. LDI 2008 was held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, October 20-26, 2008 and featured professional training, new product introductions, and the industry's award presentations.

A new collection from one of America's leading avant-garde playwrights: THE DIFFICULTY OF CROSSING A FIELD: Nine New Plays by Mac Wellman, with a foreward by Helen Shaw is now available from the University of Minnesota Press.

Original SIDE MAN Cast to Reunite for 10th Anniversary Benefit Reading benefiting OPENING ACT.

Village Theatre will produce a brand-new production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the first professional production of this show in the region.