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Known as the artist who 'bridged the gap', Dionne Warwick's music transcended race, culture, and musical boundaries and for over four decades, Warwick has established herself as an international musical legend and humanitarian. Spend an evening with the legendary Dionne Warwick on November 13th as she brings her soulful blend of pop, gospel and R&B to the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill, New York.

The critically acclaimed Brits Off Broadway festival, host to the UK's most innovative and provocative theater in New York City, returns this year with a line up of seven productions. Presented by 59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer), Brits Off Broadway launches on Tuesday, November 3 and runs through Sunday, January 3.

Pop star and recent film sensation Queen Latifah will play NYC's Highline Ballroom in a cabaret concert on Tuesday, November 24. At the 8:00pm performance, Latifah will be sampling tracks off of her newest album, Persona.

One day before the first performance of Green Day's American Idiot, Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced that it will extend the show due to record-breaking sales and unprecedented demand for seats. Originally scheduled to close on October 11, this hotly anticipated world premiere has been extended three weeks and will now play through Sunday, November 1.

The Joyce Theater will present the Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company for a one-week engagement from November 10 - 14. Appearing on The Joyce stage for the first time since 1996, the company will present the New York premiere of the critically acclaimed Serenade / The Proposition, one of three pieces created by Bill T. Jones in celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Serenade / The Proposition was commissioned by The Joyce and had its world premiere at the American Dance Festival in 2008.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents Whose Live Anyway, Saturday, November 21, 2009 at The Moore Theatre at 8:00 PM. The cast of the hit TV series 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' returns to The Moore Theatre after a sold-out engagement last September, for a night of unforgettable improvised comedy and song.

Broadway vet Paul Rudd will be starring in 'Dinner for Schmucks,' a new comedy for Paramount, Dreamworks, and Spyglass films alongside Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams, Steve Carell and Zach Galifianakis, according to Variety.

FOX is giving viewers an extra dose of 'So You Think You Can Dance' on Monday, October 26 at 8:00/7:00c.

Academy Award nominated director Spike Lee, the award winning Culture Project, Steve Colman and Jayson Jackson in association with The Public Theater is presenting County of Kings. Written and performed by Lemon Andersen (Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam), and directed by Elise Thoron, County of Kings will open tonight, October 12 at The Public Theater. The show has been in previews since September 29 and will run for a six week limited engagement.

Whatsonstage.com has confirmed that actor Con O'Neill will take over Matt Lucas' role of Kenneth Halliwell in the West End production of Simon Bent's Prick Up Your Ears at the Comedy Theatre on October 22. He will replace Matt Lucas, who left the production last week in the wake of the suicide of his ex-partner, Kevin McGee, as previously reported.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival and Mass Street Productions and Ryan J. Davis have welcomed Bay Bridge Productions, Chris Bensinger, and Deborah Taylor to the Street Lights team of producers. Street Lights is a contemporary musical drama by Joe Drymala featuring a groundbreaking score that uses modern hip hop, R&B, and pop to tell a story in the musical language of today's youth, while creating a bridge to earlier generations by incorporating samples of old civil rights anthems within the modern songs and beats.

Feinstein's at the Loews Regency has announced additions to its fall calendar and the acts include headline engagements by Tony Award winner Jane Krakowski (October 6-17), Tony winners Victoria Clark and Ted Sperling (October 20-24), Mary Cleere Haran (October 29-31, November 5-7), Maude Maggart (November 10-14), and Ronan Tynan (November 27-28).

Estimated Weekend Movie Box Office: October 9 - October 11, 2009

Carrie Fisher, star of Roundabout Theatre Company's Wishful Drinking, will be live in studio, Tuesday, October 13th on NBC's 'Today Show' between 10:00-11:00AM on channel 4.

Native Chicago playwright Alan Gross teams up with director Steven Robman to bring his newest work, High Holidays, to Goodman Theatre. At the center of this four-character drama-inspired by Gross' own life and family experience-is young Billy Roman (Max Zuppa) and the anxiety-riddled preparations for his Bar Mitzvah in 1963 north suburban Chicago.

The Washington Post is reporting that the financially troubled Bethesda Theatre will no longer produce it's own shows and will instead operate only as a rental facility until further notice. The theater has been dark since the close of '3 Blonde Moms' stand-up comedy show in June.

LAByrinth Theater Company (Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell & Yul Vázquez, Artistic Directors and Marieke Gaboury Producing Director) continues its fall season with two annual festivals of free staged readings, the Barn Series (October 6 - October 30, 2009) and Live Nude Plays (October 31 - November 3) the Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street) and is pleased to announce award-winning stage veterans David Morse and Martha Plimpton will appear onstage in readings in October.

TVGuide.com has confirmed that former Broadway babe Lauren Graham will be replacing Maura Tierny on the NBC series, Parenthood, as previously speculated earlier this week. Tierny is leaving the show to tend to breast cancer treatments, according to the report.

Victoria Theatre Association and Leftfield Productions announce the opportunity to sing with Broadway Stars in the first show of the Miami Valley and Good Samaritan Hospitals Broadway Series, Broadway Holiday, December 8-20, 2009 at the historic Victoria Theatre. Auditions must be submitted online via YouTube, MySpace or Facebook. Deadline is Friday, November 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM (EST). Entrants must be age 13 or older.

In a contest that should be predictable even to the non-theater enthusiast - yes, New York came in at number one, with Chicago placing a close second - the list of America's Favorite Theater Cities provided by Travel & Leisure, raises a few eyebrows. Who would have guessed Cleavland would out rank both Las Vegas and Philadelphia?