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Porchlight Music Theatre today announced the return of BEST MUSICAL! A Completely Improvised Musical Comedy in a new Holiday Edition!, conceived by Second City veteran Matthew Loren Cohen, at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. Performances are Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m., November 28 through December 26. Single tickets are $15, student discounts are $12 with group discounts available. All tickets are available at stage773.com, porchlightmusictheatre.org or by phone at 773.327.5252.

Mo Mandel regularly appears on the hit show Chelsea Lately and starred opposite Hank Azaria in an NBC sitcom last fall called Free Agents. Mandel has also made appearances on Modern Family, Happy Endings, Conan, Love Bites and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He has his own highly rated Comedy Central Presents Half Hour Special and has recently released his first CD, "The M Word," which he recorded Live at Comedy Works!

The Theater for the New City presents The New Stage Theatre Company's Garden of Delights, written by Fernando Arrabal and directed by Ildiko Nemeth (NY Innovative Theatre Award nominee), with original music by Jon Gilbert Leavitt (Outmusic Award winner). Garden of Delights runs from November 15 to December 2, 2012 in a limited engagement at Theater for the New City's Johnson Theater, located at 155 First Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets in New York City. Previews begin November 15 for a November 17 opening.

Second Stage Theatre has announced the casting for its upcoming production of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, WATER BY THE SPOONFUL, written by Quiara Alegria Hudes, directed by Davis McCallum. The company will feature LIZA COLÓN-ZAYAS (Second Stage's Living Out, Our Lady of 121st Street), FRANKIE R. FAISON (The Wire, Tony nominee for Fences), ZABRYNA GUEVARA (Chimichangas and Zoloft, Taper's Burn This), BILL HECK (Angels in America), SUE JEAN KIM (Assistance, The Hallway Trilogy), and ARMANDO RIESCO (Elliot in Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue).

British conductor Daniel Harding returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall for the first time since 2004 to lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic in three performances, Friday, October 26, at 11 am, Saturday, October 27, at 8 pm, and Sunday, October 28, at 2 pm. The program opens with Korngold's Violin Concerto featuring one of today's most outstanding violinists, Renaud Capucon, who made a celebrated recording of the piece for Virgin Classics in 2009. The concert closes with Mahler's emotion-filled Fifth Symphony.

Seattle Center Festal: Dia de Muertos - A Mexican Celebration to Remember Our Departed, 12 p.m. - 8 p.m., Oct. 27, and 12 p.m. - 6 p.m., Oct. 28, in Seattle Center Armory/Center House, explores the cultural roots and contemporary influences of Mexico through live performances, spectacular sand paintings, special hands-on activities, foods, face painting and exquisite rituals.

Inlet Dance Theatre presents the globally-focused world premieres of the evening-length work Center of the Earth (Te Pito o te Henua) and a preview of a new work by Creative Fusion international artist Kapila Palihawanda at PlayhouseSquare on Friday, November 16 at 7:30 p.m. All tickets are $10 and may be purchased online at playhousesquare.org, by calling 216-241-6000 or at the PlayhouseSquare Ticket Office (1519 Euclid Ave.).

Boston Playwrights' Theatre continues its 31st season of new plays in Boston with Obie award-nominated playwright Richard Schotter's The Sussman Variations. Broadway composer Charlie Sussman's got it made.

A grown woman relives a tale of childhood terror and gruesome disfigurement. Two schoolgirls are menaced by doggerel-spouting ghouls. And how can you escape when the right answers lead only to pain and madness?

The Chicago Park District's Theater on the Lake: The Chicago Summer Theater Festival at Fullerton Avenue and Lake Michigan announces the new co-artistic curators to select the 2013 season: Halena Kays, artistic director of The Hypocrites, and Joanie Schultz, freelance opera and theater director.

The theatrical event of 2013 will tour Australia! Leading Australian theatre producer John Frost announced has announced that due to an unprecedented demand for tickets, following the Brisbane premiere season of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic play Driving Miss Daisy, the production will tour to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Join us for a special Super Sabado! as we celebrate Mexico's beloved 3,000 year-old tradition commemorating friends and relatives who have passed away. El Museo del Barrio's strives to celebrate the diversity of Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean cultures, has been bringing el Dia de Los Muertos to El Barrio for more than a decade.

The 2nd Annual "Pups on the Runway - Halloween Costume Ball" to benefit Stray From the Heart will be presented in New York City on Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 8pm at The D Pet Hotel.

Profiles in History, run by Joe Maddalena, has announced that the personal correspondence and manuscripts from the world's greatest authors will be included at their December 18 auction, The Property of a Distinguished American Private Collector. Part I of The Property of a Distinguished American Private Collector will take place in Los Angeles and include 300 of the most important manuscripts of the collection.

On October 25th, George De Marco, Frank Evans and Jack Lechner will present a staged reading of the new musical DATE OF A LIFETIME, book and lyrics by Carl Kissin and music by Robert Baumgartner, Jr.

The Guthrie Theater today announced that lifetime Board Director Polly Grose will be on hand at the theater on October 21 following the matinee performances to sign copies of her book Guthrie Theater: The First Fifty Years. A collection of essays selected and compiled by Grose, the book provides compelling first-hand perspectives from luminaries throughout the Guthrie's history and members of the Twin Cities community, spiced through with no-holds-barred opinion and curated by Grose's own affectionate and knowledgeable viewpoint on the Guthrie.

Sundance Institute today announced the four documentary film projects and composers that have been paired together for the tenth Composers + Documentary Lab, October 26 through November 1 at Sundance Resort in Sundance, Utah. The Lab is a joint initiative of the Institute's Documentary Film Program and Fund (DFP) and Film Music Program.

Next 50 Civic Action Month yesterday announced winners of A Story Runs Through It: Neighborhood Film Project at a special Celebration and Awards held at SIFF Cinema Uptown. This concluding event of Next 50 Civic Action Month culminated a multi-month effort to engage and train communities in the art of filmmaking as a means to develop their own future narratives and establish closer ties between Seattle neighborhoods.

Artists at Play has taken on a risky venture by producing A. Rey Pamatmat's award-winning and gay-themed Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them. The play tackles profound issues, including parental abandonment, coming out as a teen and the redefining of family.

The Queen Extravaganza will stop at Hershey Theatre on Wednesday, January 16 at 7:30 p.m.