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Broadway star, Tony, Grammy and Golden Globe Award winner, Bernadette Peters will pen a second children's book, Stella is a Star, set for publishing and release in the spring of 2010 by Blue Apple Books. The book, inspired by Peters' dog Stella, will feature illustrations by Liz Murphy. Proceeds will go to Broadway Barks, the charitable organization co-founded by Peters and Mary Tyler Moore over over 10 year ago in support of animal shelters.

Australia's most honored, beloved, (and Tony-winning) housewife, Dame Edna Everage, is proud to welcome producers Robert G. Bartner and the Ambassador Theatre Group on-board her new Broadway extravaganza It's All About Me.

On November 19, 20, 21, and 23 2009, Promethean Theatre Company will present Jane Martin's Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage, at their home base, The Creek, Long Island City.

Whatsonstage.com is reporting that Jason Donovan and Atomic Kitten's Liz McClarnon will topline a new tour of Jeff Wayne's musical adaptation of HG Wells' The War of the Worlds, which will begin in Amsterdam on November 25, 2010 and play stadiums around the Europe. The tour will make stops in Antwerp, Dublin, Belfast, Newcastle, Glasgow, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham, Birmingham, Bournemouth, London, Cardiff, Brighton and Wembley, and will conclude in Germany in January 2011. Specific tour dates are expected to be announced shortly.

'In Fields Where They Lay' by Ricardo Perez Gonzalez, developed by Brad Raimondo, is a new play about the Christmas Truce in World War I. It's a portrait of a squad of front-line British soldiers who, with their German counterparts, shook hands, shared cigarettes and sang Christmas carols together in the brief, precious interruption in fighting that occurred on December 24 and 25, 1914. The Dreamscape Theatre will present the debut production December 11 to January 2 at Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th Street, directed by Dreamscape's Producing Artistic Director, Brad Raimondo.

A few days ago, multiple celebrity gossip news sources were abuzz with the news that Ashlee Simpson is in talks to join the Broadway company of CHICAGO as Roxie Hart, reprising the role which she played in London a few years back. A report from MSNBC last night reveals that the star and recent Melrose Place alum will be headed to the Great White Way in December.

DelanoCelli Productions announced today the Veterans Day performance of Down Range on Wednesday, November 11th will benefit The USO of Metropolitan New York (usonyc.org) with 100% of the ticket and silent auction sales being donated to the organization. The USO, founded in Times Square in 1941 in response to a request by Franklin D. Roosevelt, is an organization dedicated to providing entertainment, recreational and support activities to uniformed military personnel and their families.

STOMP, the international sensation, is currently featured on www.CBS.com's weekly webcast, 'The Tomorrow Show with Mo Rocca.' Mo visits with the company of the long running sensation for a segment on 'the future of noise.'

The ladies are back. After a debut at The Laurie Beechman Theatre in October, Brenda Jean Foley and Audrey-Maeve Hager are back by popular demand and proud to present two more performances of their cabaret Then Comes Marriage, a journey into the joys and aggravations of marriage. The shows take place on November 18th and 19th at 7PM at Don't Tell Mama and feature musical direction by Tracy Stark and direction by Julie Reyburn.

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Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, an artist-directed theatre company now in its 6th Season, has announced staged reading performances of Tennessee Williams' rarely performed A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Crève Cœur is derived from French for 'broken heart'), on Tuesday, November 17 at 7:30 and Saturday, November 21 at 1:00 pm and Sunday, November 22 at 3:00 pm. The performances will be at The Wild Project at 195 East 3rd Street between Avenue A and Avenue B.

No one in the news is safe. The Drama Desk nominated NEWSical the Musical is back lampooning current events, headlines, newsmakers, celebrities, and politicians. With songs and material being updated on a regular basis, composer-lyricist Rick Crom's topical musical comedy is an ever-evolving mockery of all the news that is fit to spoof.

Toronto's The Stratford Shakespeare Festival has revealed revealed additional casting for its 2010 season. The stars include Christopher Plummer, Chilina Kennedy, Juan Chioran, Michael Therriault and Geraint Wyn Davies for the Festival's productions of The Tempest, Evita, Kiss Me Kate, Peter Pan and Do Not Go Gentle. Nikki M. James, who was previously set to star alongside Plummer has withdrawn from the festival due to 'personal reasons.'

According to the Sh-K-Boom website, The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Jason Robert Brown's 13 (originally released in Fall 2008) has now been updated to include enhancements made to the show by Brown with book writers Robert Horn and Dan Elish after its Broadway premiere for upcoming regional and school productions around the world. The new CD will be available in stores from Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records on November 24.

Stage stars Patty Duke and Teal Wicks - currently of the San Francisco company of Wicked -- will join additional Wicked cast members and special guests Lucie Arnaz, Leanne Borghesi, Connie Champagne, RJ Helton, Motown Madness's Top Chef for a One Night Only Holiday Cabaret at J'LaChic Theatre 39 on Pier 39. The benefit will take place on Monday, December 7 at 7:30pm.

Nick Adams, Paul Canaan, Jenn Colella, Blake Daniel, Jenn Gambatese, Tyler Hanes, Lauren Kennedy, Julia Murney, Matt Risch, and Kate Schindle are among the Broadway stars who will participate in the Broadway Dreams Foundation's (BDF) Holiday Benefit Concert on Monday, November 23, 2009 at 7 p.m. at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre at the West Side Y. The star-studded evening of entertainment will benefit the non-profit organization which brings young talent closer to their Broadway dreams regardless of their financial status through intensive week-long Broadway training programs throughout the country.

It is undeniable that Glee is a certified hit. A multi-media mega-hit, in fact, as the show continues to top not only broadcast charts but the iTunes charts, as well. The question on many minds, however, in anticipation of the final numbers tabulating the success of the first Glee album release out on Wednesday, is just how much fans want of the singing troupe.

Tony Award Winner Donna McKechnie and Academy Award, Tony Award, Grammy Award, Golden Globe and Pulitzer Prize Winner Marvin Hamlisch will team up with Tony Award Winner James D. Stern (Hairspray, Stomp, An Education) and Adam Del Deo (So Goes the Nation, The Year of Yao) to discuss the recently released documentary Every Little Step. The presentation, which will take place at Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Triangle, will feature a performance by McKechnie and Hamlisch and include a signing of the DVD for fans. The event will take place on November 12 from 4:30pm -6:15pm.

Cast members from the Denver company of the Broadway blockbuster musical, Wicked, will be on hand tonight, November 9 to perform the National Anthem for the Broncos vs. Steelers game. Wicked is currently playing the Buell Theatre at the Denver Center for the Arts, back by popular demand. The production, which opened on October 7, runs through November 15.

NBC plans to spend the holidays with a new music competition series. Network sources have confirmed 'The Sing-Off,' in which a cappella groups compete for a Sony Recording Contract, will premiere Monday, December 14 at 8:00/7:00c. Additional episodes (all at 8:00/7:00c) will also air Tuesday, December 15 and Wednesday, December 16 with the season finale on Monday, December 21. Each installment will run two hours.