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SocialMiami.com is reporting that director Liv Ullmann and Broadway veteran Desmond Richardson will receive YoungArts Awards granted by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts at the YoungArts Gala on January 16, 2010. The Gala is the culmination in a week long workshop provided by YoungArts that allows young artists to take master classes in the arts.

The Gallery Players have extended their current production of TOP OF THE HEAP until November 15th. Based in 1950s Brooklyn, Top of the Heap follows Like You Like It and Yank! A new musical in The Gallery Players' tradition of championing new, undiscovered hit musicals. TOP OF THE HEAP is making its Brooklyn premiere with this limited engagement.

Songwriter/performer Amanda Green, best known as a Larson Award winner and lyricist for the Broadway musical High Fidelity, will make a special concert appearance at Feinstein's at Loews Regency on November 1st. Green will be joined by Broadway veterans Jenn Coella, Ann Harada, Norm Lewis, and more.

Director Richard Caliban, fresh off his successful run with Mom - A Rock Concert Musical, has joined the theatrical production of THE CUTTING DEN, it was announced today by Barbara Mosinski, the drama's associate producer.

Certain small, old towns of the Northeast are full of time warps. People crossing the street can seem like they sprang from decades past and certain buildings are forgotten relics, unseen and unnoticed. As a boy, playwright/director Jim Farmer saw 'The Sound of Music' in a large, decrepit movie theater in Hawley, PA, near Lake Wallenpaupack. The movie palace's sad and spooky overtones brought back feelings he had as a younger child, when he was taken by his parents to a supper club in Bayonne NJ, his hometown. Surrounded by its scratchy jazz band and eerie, wrinkled comics, Farmer knew that he wasn't experiencing a 'Jack Benny Show' of the past but a David Lynch moment of the future.

Brent Barrett, currently of Broadway's Chicago, will play a two-night concert event at Birdland to celebrate the release of his album 'Christmas Mornings' on December 13th and 14th. The album is produced by Kritzerland Records and is available for purchase now through their website. Albums will ship in the first week of December.

Vanessa Redgrave will join Monica Bellucci, David Strathairn and Rachel Weisz in the upcoming 'The Whistleblower' film. Shooting is expected to begin October 26 in Bucharest, Rumania.

Feinstein's at Lowes Regency, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, continues its star-studded Fall 2009 season with the debut of Tony Award winning actress and vocalist Victoria Clark and Tony Award winning music director, arranger and orchestrator, Ted Sperling in 'The Vicki and Ted Show.' For their engagement at Feinstein's, Ms. Clark and Mr. Sperling celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of a remarkable friendship that began as students at Yale University and inspired some of Broadway's most unforgettable moments, including How to Succeed in Business..., Titanic and The Light in the Piazza. Their acclaimed show - which debuted at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater in Washington DC - will make its New York debut the Regency Hotel. The show is running through Saturday, October 24.

Tony Award nominee Liz Callaway returns to the Metroplitan Room to celebrate the release of her album 'Passage of Time.' Callaway will perform a series of concerts, which began October 20th and runs through October 25th. The album, her first in 8 years, includes music by Stephen Sondheim, James Taylor, Rogers and Hammerstein, Maltby and Shire, Ahrens and Flaherty, Stephen Schwartz, and Carly Simon.

Goodspeed Opera House, the only two time Tony Award winning theatre in the country, is proud to announce the opening of A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. This musical comedy of errors from the director who brought you Goodspeed's On the Twentieth Century and Promises, Promises will run from Oct. 21 - Nov. 29 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn. This production will be sponsored by Bank of America and associate sponsor Connecticut Light and Power.

Neil LaBute's Tony nominated REASONS TO BE PRETTY will make its Southeastern debut presented by GableStage and performed at the Biltmore in Miami. The cast features Amy Elane Anderson, Todd Allen Durkin, Erin Joy Schmidt, and Ricky Waugh. REASONS TO BE PRETTY opens on October 24th and runs though November 22nd.

TANGUERA - THE TANGO MUSICAL comes directly from a New York run to make its West Coast premiere at the Au-Rene Theatre in Ft. Lauderdale. The musical will play October 21st through October 25th.

9-time Tony Award winner Stephen Sondheim will hold an onstage discussion about his life and works at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts on Saturday, October 24th. Sondheim will sit down with host Peter Stein as part of the Copperfield's Books Renowned Speakers Series.

A LIFE IN THE THEATRE starring Tony Award nominee André De Shields will open at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta on October 28th. David Mamet's dark comedy will run through November 15th. The cast also features Ariel Shafir.

A collection of some of Broadway's most well known orchestrators will come together for a series of discussions at the New York Public Library beginning October 19th. The evening will feature Larry Blank, Elliot Lawrence, Sid Ramin, and Jonathan Tunick for the 'Broadway Orchestrations' discussion. Following that, they will be joined by Harold Prince, John Kander and Sheldon Harnick for a discussion entitled 'The Authors and the Creators.'

The Original Broadway Cast of CRIMES OF THE HEART will reunite next Tuesday, October 27th, for a reading of the play at the Fairfield Theatre Company in Fairfield, CT. FTC Board Member and Tony Nominee, Mia Dillon will join original cast members Mary Beth Hurt, Liz McKay, Sharon Ullrick, and Ray Baker for this one night presentation.

Julia Jarcho's new play, AMERICAN TREASURE, will receive its premiere performance by the theatre group 13P beginning on November 21st and running through December 12th at The Paradise Factory. Jarcho will direct the play's initial run and the cast will feature Aaron Landsman and Jenny Seastone Stern.

Sketch group The Three Englishmen return to the Canal Café Theatre this month to kick off the winter leg of their residency, with another hour of outstanding comedy. Carrying on from their last shows, they will be presenting out-of-the-ordinary sketches with sharp physical routines, music, surrealism, and a just a touch of pathos.

Director Ivo van Hove is set to oversee a production of Lillian Hellman's THE LITTLE FOXES in 2010. The production is expected to star Broadway's Elizabeth Marvel, most recently off the revival of Top Girls. THE LITTLE FOXES will be produced in full scale by the New York Theatre Workshop following a reading they presented earlier this year.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced their 2010 season, which will include the Donmar Warehouse's production of Strindberg's CREDITORS, directed by Alan Rickman. The cast will feature Anna Chancellor, Tom Burke and Owen Teale who will remain with the production after the transfer.