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ENRON, written by Lucy Prebble, recently began a six-week run at London's Royal Court Theatre on September 17 and will move to the West End's Noel Coward Theatre on January 16. It will replace the soon-to-close CALENDAR GIRLS. A Broadway transfer is anticipated in 2010.

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) continues its 25th anniversary season of new works celebrating the female playwright with the New York premiere of THE NIGHT WATCHER, written and performed by Charlayne Woodard. A solo play, THE NIGHT WATCHER is directed by Tony Award-winner Daniel Sullivan. Performances begin Tuesday, September 22, 2009 for a limited run through Saturday, October 31, 2009 at Primary Stages. Opening night is Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

Songwriting team Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, creators of pop super group ABBA, and the acclaimed stage musicals Chess and MAMMA MIA! are featured with radio and video segments in advance of the two-night only Carnegie Hall concert presentation of KRISTINA this Wednesday, September 23rd and Thursday, 24th marking the American premiere of the hit Swedish musical in English.

A DVD of 'The Leading Men IV,' a benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS held last May, will be sold at the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Flea Market on Sunday, September 27.

If you have ever experienced the ghastly terror of a night at SCarowinds' Halloween Haunt, be warned, with a NEW sinister maze, a new eerie scare zone, a disturbing new show, and double the monsters, all you fear is here! Sixteen nights of terror await guests during SCarowinds? tenth frightening season at Carowinds.

Estimated Weekend Movie Box Office: September 18 - September 20, 2009

Eating Their Words, producer of unprecedented theatrical and culinary events, will feature Tony nominee Isabel Keating (The Boy from Oz), Christopher Evan Welch (Festen, Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Austin Lysy (An American Plan), and Aya Cash (From Up Here, the upcoming Killers and Other Family) in new short plays by Pulitzer Prize finalist Theresa Rebeck (Mauritius, The Understudy), Jonathan Marc Sherman (Things We Want), and Sam Forman (The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall) at ?The Tocqueville Event?, Monday October 19th at 7PM.

On Tuesday, September 22, 2009, The Broadway League and the Coalition of Broadway Unions and Guilds (COBUG) will present ?Broadway Salutes,? a unique public celebration honoring the myriad of artists who have made Broadway great for decades ? with special recognition for those individuals who have worked 25, 35 and 50 years in their respective theatrical craft.

This week, Live Nation continues All-In, No Service Fee Wednesday with ticket deals on a huge variety of concerts. Beginning on September 23rd at 12:01 a.m., concert fans can buy tickets at the All-In, No Fee Prices of $10, $20 and $30 to shows by such artists as Maxwell, blink-182, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rob Thomas, Colbie Callait, Creed, and many others. A complete list of shows included in this week's promotion can be found at www.LiveNation.com beginning on Wednesday.

The international tour of ?MAMMA MIA!? will play at the Echo Arena Liverpool for 3 weeks only from June 3rd - June 20th 2010, with a gala press night on Thursday 3 June. The tour is coming to Liverpool for the first time, direct from a highly successful engagement in Switzerland.

Following a run in the New York Burlesque Festival, The Vroom! Room launches its third sensational Burlesque-Noir show, with more glimpses into the voyeuristic side of burlesque. Veronica Vroom! and her cohort Kristen Lee continue their emasculation of exasperated host Joey Nova, while they present seven sexy stories of secret seduction.

In November and December, The Sherman Playhouse will stage the world premiere of SEE DICK..., a new comedy by playwright B. Peter Hughes.

Jack Manning, Broadway, film and television star died of natural causes at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes on August 31. He was 93 years old.

With Bad to the Bone up and running and Woodstock soon to be, Shadowbox producers have turned their attention to their annual holiday shows: Holiday Hoopla XVIII.

From the creators of the groundbreaking BROADWAY HIT, CIRQUE DREAMS JUNGLE FANTASY, comes a new holiday musical of season?s dreamings CIRQUE HOLDAZE will light up the season when it performs at The Orpheum beginning Tuesday, Nov.17 through Sunday, Nov. 20 for eight performances only.

Rep Stage, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), continues its 17th season with ?Hysteria,? a farcical re-imagining of an actual 1938 meeting between Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dali ? a year before Freud?s death. Steven Carpenter (?Mrs. Farnsworth,? ?Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted?) returns to Rep Stage to direct two-time Helen Hayes Award-winner Bruce Nelson as Salvador Dali and Jeff Baker as Sigmund Freud. Also featured in the cast are Conrad Feininger and Marni Penning. ?Hysteria? opens October 7 and runs through November 1, 2009 in the Studio Theatre of the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center (HVPA) on the campus of HCC.

Diana Degarmo, star of the Off-Broadway hit The TOXIC AVENGER; will play the title role in a one-night-only, concert presentation of LIBERTY: A NEW MUSICAL. Produced by the New York Musical Theater Festival and Theresa Wozunk, LIBERTY: A NEW MUSICAL will make its premiere at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at Theatre Row?s Acorn Theatre (410 W 42nd Street). Additional casting will be announced shortly.

Musicals Tonight! has announced its 2009-2010 season at the McGinn/Cazale Theater.

Celebrating of the release of 'Marcy and Zina: The Album,' created by Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich, Tony Award winner Alan Cumming, Jill Abramovitz, Stephen Bogardus, and Elena Shaddow will perform in a November 2nd concert at the Birdland.

The American debut of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Alvaeus new musical KRISTINA, will debut next week on September 23rd and 24th at Carnegie Hall in concert. Andersson and Alvaeus of the group ABBA are the masterminds behind the blockbuster musicals MAMMA MIA! and CHESS.