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With a crash of drums and a flash of light, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat returns this fall to Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre. The Bible-based Broadway sensation is live on stage Oct. 8 through Nov. 22.

Open The Dark Door, the indie rock musical by David Lefort Nugent that confronts the modern American justice system, begins it's NYMF run October 8th at the American Theatre of Actors, running through October 17th. Starring in the production at the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival are Broadway's Mary Ellen Ashley (Annie Get Your Gun), Paul Kandel (Tommy, Titanic, Jesus Christ Superstar), Laura Jordan (Cry Baby), and Andrew McGinn (Coast of Utopia). The production features direction from Susanna Gellert (Fugue States at PS 122).

GLAAD Media Award-winning drag sensation Coco Peru returns to NYC with the New York Premiere of MISS COCO PERU IS UNDAUNTED! Directed by Michael Schiralli (Jackie Hoffman's Scraping the Bottom, Varla Jean Merman Loves a Foreign Tongue) performances run November 6-15, Friday-Sunday at 8pm at the Laurie Beechman Theatre (inside West Bank Cafe at 407 West 47th Street -- at Ninth Avenue, accessible from the A,C,E,N,R,V,F,1,2,3 trains at 42nd Street). Tickets are $20 with a $15 food/drink minimum per person, available at www.SpinCycleNYC.com or by calling 212-352-3101.

ZERO HOUR, Jim Brochu's award-winning play about the life of theatre legend Zero Mostel will make its Off-Broadway premiere at Theatre at Saint Clement's beginning Saturday, November 14th. Produced by Kurt Peterson and Edmund Gaynes in association with The Peccadillo Theater Company, the show will have its Opening Night on Sunday, November 22nd at 7 p.m. The limited engagement of ZERO HOUR will continue through January 31st.

InViolet Repertory Theater will present the World Premiere of KISS ME ON THE MOUTH by Melanie Angelina Maras. This new romantic tragicomedy will be directed by Stephen Adly Guirgis at Center Stage (where several of Guirgis' plays were originally staged by LAByrinth Theater Company). Performances of this limited engagement begin previews on November 3rd with opening night slated for Thursday, November 5th.

A book by Broadway theatre veteran Bo Metzler has won a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award. 'What We Do - Working in the Theatre' has won the Gold Medal Award in the Performing Arts / Drama category.

Jarrod Spector, who stars as Frankie Valli in the Broadway production of the Tony®, Grammy® and Olivier® Award-winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, will perform our National Anthem prior to the New Jersey Devils season-opening game vs. the Philadelphia Flyers tomorrow, October 3, at Prudential Center at 7:00 PM.

As previously reported, Tony and Emmy winner Mandy Patinkin is set to start in Yale Repertory Theatre's COMPULSION, in his Yale Rep debut. (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director). Today, the theatre has announced the performance schedule for the production, written by Rinne Groff, directed by Oskar Eustis, and co-produced with The Public Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Today, Thursday 8 October, Andrew Lloyd Webber unveils his brand new production 'LOVE NEVER DIES' at a global launch in London. Andrew Lloyd Webber's long awaited new show will have its World Premiere in London at the Adelphi Theatre on Tuesday 9 March 2010 followed by New York on Thursday 11 November and in Australia in 2011.

Bay City Players will present the comedy; Charley's Aunt, by Brandon Thomas, November 13-15 and 19-22, 2009 at the Bay City Players, 1214 Columbus Avenue, in Bay City. Performance times are 8:00 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3:00 p.m. on Sunday. Charley's Aunt is directed by Robin Devereaux.

Nan Hildebrandt, Geva's Executive Director since 2002, will retire on October 16. She will continue to advise the Theatre on a consultancy basis.

The Dayton Playhouse will present THE MIRACLE WORKER from October 9 - October 18.

Due to overwhelming popular demand, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in association with the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground and supported by Events NSW today announced that a fourth show has been added. The world's most famous spectacular event will now perform four shows on 4, 5, 6 and 7 February 2010 at the Sydney Football Stadium.

Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman, with German pianist Andreas Kern, will perform in Toronto on Saturday, October 17th. Recovering from heart surgery in June, the 32-year old style icon and classical music star is proving she's as fierce as ever. On the cusp of a brand new record release, the singer is kicking off a series of North American concerts in support of AMREF - the African Medical & Research Foundation - a cause close to her heart. An Evening with Measha Brueggergosman is at 5 PM on Saturday, October 17th, 2009 inside Toronto's historic St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (at King and Simcoe), followed by a private reception for 100 guests. This will be Brueggergosman's sole Toronto performance of 2009.

The day after Tito Jackson, Marlon Jackson and Jackie Jackson - three legendary original members of the Jackson 5 group - flew in from the USA to see 'Thriller - Live', the hit West End show today anounces that it is extending its booking period by five months to Sunday May 9, 2010 due to phenomenal public demand.

Marymount Manhattan College Theatre Arts Division (Mary Fleisher, department Chair) will present Girl Gone by Mac William Hopkins from October 21 - October 25. Tickets go on sale today.

Rover Dramawerks opens the regional premiere of Premiere!, a comedy by the late Dale Wasserman on Thursday, October 29. Performances will be at the Cox Building Playhouse, 1517 H Avenue in Plano (next to the Courtyard Theater), continuing through November 21, 2009, with shows on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., and an additional matinee performance on Saturday, November 7 at 2:00 p.m.

The Downtown Cabaret Theatre, a professional, non-profit theatre in Bridgeport, Connecticut will hold open auditions for non-union male and female actors for It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry on Wednesday, October 14 at 6pm at the theatre on Golden Hill Street in Bridgeport.

The Cabaret Downtown Theatre has announced upcoming movies in its Cabaret Movie Nights Series. Included are the classics The Breakfast Club and The Phantom of the Opera.

The Improv Soup Junior Workout is an 8 session workshop that will be taught by experienced Improv Soup members under the guidance of director Christa Crewdson. It will allow budding improvisers to experience the excitement of being part of an improv troupe. Eligible students must be in grades 7-10.