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On October 27, Hem's original score for the summer's most talked about production will be released on Waveland/Nettwerk Records. The album will feature vocals by the star-studded cast including Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald and Raul Esparza, among others.

terraNOVA Collective announced an open call for submissions to the 7th Annual soloNOVA Arts Festival, taking place at the D?R?2 Theatre & D-Lounge just off Union Square in New York City, May 2010.

The National Theater will debut David Hare's highly anticipated THE POWER OF YES: A Dramatist Seeks to Understand the Financial Crisis at the Lyttelton Theater on Tuesday, 9/29, followed by an October 6 opening.

The first round of auditions for NYMF's Next Broadway sensation took place last Sunday night at New World Stages, with the live audience and the panel of judges, Bailey Hanks, Orfeh (Legally Blonde) and Marc Kudisch (9 to 5) selecting five finalists with a sixth finalist chosen by online voters who were able to see all of the performance at Theatermania.com thanks to DFD TV.

The Town Hall, Broadway?s landmark concert venue, presents the fifth annual Broadway Cabaret Festival, October 16th ? 18th. This three-concert series, created, written and hosted by Scott Siegel, takes place over one weekend and includes A Tribute to David Merrick on Friday, October 16th at 8PM, Linda Eder: All of Me on Saturday, October 17th at 8PM and Broadway Originals on Sunday, October 18th at 3PM. The festival showcases the talents of award-winning Broadway veterans and rising stars in a celebration of the Great White Way.

The Hip-Hop Theater Festival (HHTF) is back stretching from Brooklyn to Manhattan and bringing three culturally-packed weeks of art, dance, and theater. From October 1st-17th the HHTF will celebrate the foundational roots and evolution of Hip-Hop, along with the movement's groundbreaking journey through the arts in a series of shows. Broken into three overarching themes, the festival features the classical elements of hip-hop (music; break dancing; graffiti), family-friendliness (a children?s show; a show for youth, by youth; spoken word performances) and finally women leading the way forward (reading series; women-centric performances). Included in these various performances are fully produced theater works, staged readings, educational panels, dance showcases and workshops - all in celebration of the Hip-Hop movement.

It's that time of year again, when the city officially turns into the NY intelligencia's playground. Yes, I am referring to the New Yorker Festival, which takes place over the October 16 - October 18 weekend. Among the highlights: panel discussions an Q & As with stage and screen stars Stanly Tucci, Christine Baranski and Tilda Swinton, among others.

The Sheldon presents The Sheldon Chorale, 'Folk Songs from Around the World,' Monday, October 19 at 8 p.m. in the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall. Enjoy refined choral repertoire performed by the 25-person chorale, directed by Allen Carl Larson, and accompanied by piano, harp, banjo, flute and strings. The Chorale will sing folk and love songs including the music of Brahms, as well as Irish and American folk favorites.

The Southwark Playhouse will feature four new short horror plays, mixed with 'magic, cabaret and other oddities' to premiere during the Halloween season dubbed the theater's Terror Season. This year features plays by Neil LaBute, Mark Ravenhill, Lucy Kirkwood and Anthony Neilson.

In the inaugural week of its Washington D.C. run, the first stop of a six-city tour, Billy Crystal?s Tony Award-winning Broadway hit 700 Sundays shattered the box office record to become the highest-grossing play ever at Washington D.C.?s National Theatre. For the week ending September 13, 2009, the production grossed $939,578 in only 7 performances, breaking the National Theatre record of $713,258 previously held by Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance! in February, 2003. Mr. Crystal?s 700 Sundays stills holds the record for highest-grossing non-musical production in Broadway history, taking in $1,061,688 for the week ending May 22, 2005 at Broadway?s Broadhurst Theatre.

On Wednesday, September 16, the much anticipated AMERICAN IDIOT premiered at Berkeley Rep's Roda Theatre. Not surprisingly, the (literally) off-beat rock opera has gotten theatergoers and music lovers abuzz. After all, how often is it that one of the country's most famous punk rockbands collaborates with Broadway elite to turn one of the most successful albums of all time into a stage show, without the addition of a single stitch of added dialogue? The first reviews are in, and, naturally, they are impassioned.

Simon Greiff (for SimG Productions) in association with Scott Alan announced today that leading Broadway star Stephanie J Block and West End/Broadway star Frances Ruffelle will be joining Scott Alan in Concert for Just Me ... and Them: The Music of Scott Alan at the Leicester Square Theatre in London on Sunday, October 11th 2009.

Stage and screen actress, as well as runner-up in Cycle 3 of America's Next Top Model, Yaya Dacosta, will take over the recurring role of Wilhelmina's defiant daughter Nico on ABC's 'Ugly Betty' this season.

Performance Network Theatre presents staged readings of new plays from local playwrights at the Fireside Festival of New Works Sunday, September 27 Wednesday, September 30 at 8 pm.

Casting is now complete for the multiple Tony Award-winning Contact, a major new production by Asolo Rep in collaboration with The Sarasota Ballet, running from October 23?November 22 on Asolo Rep?s mainstage. Tickets to Contact are on sale now at the Asolo Rep box office.

Today the New York Philharmonic launches its 168th season and the tenure of Alan Gilbert as its new Music Director. The new era began with a crowd assembled at Avery Fisher Hall to attend the Free Dress Rehearsal, led by Mr. Gilbert and featuring opera star Renée Fleming, in preparation for the evening's Gala Opening Night Concert.

Yum! Family Series Program and Stage One: The Louisville Children?s Theatre kick off the 2009-2010 season of theater for young audiences at the Bomhard Theater, The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts.

Ryan Black's 88's Cabaret will present Rocket Men: Elton & Bernie, a musical tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin on Monday, September 21st at 8:00pm.

Howie Mandel of NBC's 'Deal or No Deal' takes the stage at the St. George Theatre on Saturday, October 17th.

When the DIY Festival hits Ferndale this weekend, Go Comedy! Improv Theater will be on hand to sponsor the event's beer tent and host after parties at the downtown Ferndale theater. The Go Comedy! DIY after parties are free to the public with $2.50 can beer specials.