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Prospect Theater Company will present a November 5, 2012 one-night-only staged reading of Rob Urbinati's original play Death By Design, a witty and wonderfully mysterious whodunit inspired by Noel Coward and Agatha Christie.

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the full Broadway cast of PICNIC, starring Reed Birney as "Howard Bevans", Maggie Grace as "Madge Owens", Elizabeth Marvel as "Rosemary Sydney", Sebastian Stan as "Hal Carter", Mare Winningham as "Flo Owens" and Ellen Burstyn as "Helen Potts".

Bad Kids Productions announces today that BAD KIDS GO TO HELL, starring Judd Nelson and directed by Matthew Spradlin, will have its theatrical release on December 7th, in select markets nation-wide.

Streisand is currently touring North America, selling out from Brooklyn to LA, and yesterday performed at Montreal's Bell Centre where she performed 'Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again' - the duet arrangement Judy Garland and Streisand made famous on The Judy Garland Show - with her sister, Roslyn Kind.

Producers of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? have announced that the 50th anniversary Broadway revival has been extended, and is now on sale through February 24, 2013. The production, which was originally on sale through January 27, 2013, officially opened on October 13, 2012, at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street), exactly 50 years to the day of the play's original Broadway opening on Saturday, October 13, 1962.

Berlin's Deutsches Theater was to present CLYBOURNE PARK, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, earlier this year - with a white actress in 'experimental makeup' playing the black characters Francine and Lena. Today, Village Voice columnist Michael Musto writes that the production was cancelled after playwright Bruce Norris revoked the rights; in a published letter to the Dramatists Guild, Norris explains his reasoning and condemns the tradition of blackface in German theatres:

Red Branch Theatre Company will host a family friendly production of Bunnicula from October 26th to 28th Drama Learning Center. The weekend will include kid-friendly Halloween fun including a Parents' Night Out Pajama Party on Friday, October 26th, Family Fun ticket packages for Saturday and Sunday matinees, and Halloween costume contests and prizes.

A creative team from London England's West End has been assembled for the Drayton Entertainment production of Disney's and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins, which will launch the new Dunfield Theatre Cambridge next March.

The York Theatre Company will remember legendary Broadway director, Albert "Albie" Marre who passed away at the age of 87 on September 4th, with a memorial service set for Monday evening, October 29th beginning at 7:00 p.m. at The York Theatre at Saint Peter's (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). The event is open to the public with a reservation.

Comic veteran and American Comedy Award winner, John Pinette, will be bringing his award-winning material to the MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods for one hilarious stand-up show on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013 at 8 p.m. Tickets for the highly-anticipated show went on sale on today, Friday, Oct. 18 at 10 a.m. Fans can purchase tickets in advance for $30, $40 and $50.

Following a successful premier at Jobsite Theater in Tampa last May, "Little Tunes" (http://littletunes.org) has been selected for the 2012 United Solo festival -- the world's largest solo theatre festival -- in New York City. Tampa actor/playwright Ned Averill-Snell will perform his one-man play in the heart of Manhattan's theatre district on October 31.

Masterworks Broadway continues to release cast recordings previously unavailable in the CD era. Seventeen (1951 Original Broadway Cast) and Cabaret (1968 Original London Cast) will be available as downloads through all major digital service providers and as disc-on-demand with the original cover art, via Arkivmusic.com and Amazon.com. All releases will be accompanied by new album pages and photos on MasterworksBroadway.com.

From the Lark Play Development Center's BareBones® workshop program that supported Katori Hall's THE MOUNTAINTOP, Rajiv Joseph's BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, and Kristoffer Diaz's WELCOME TO ARROYOS, the Lark announces a BareBones® workshop of THE WAY WEST by Mona Mansour, directed by Linsay Firman. The workshop runs at Lark's BareBones® Studio from November 2 - 11 at 311 West 43rd Street in New York City. Tickets are $10, $12, and $15 and are available at www.larktheatre.org.

The Burt Reynolds Institute for Film and Theatre (BRIFT) announced an all day Halloween fundraiser at California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) on Wednesday, October 31st, from 11:00 am to 10:00 pm. CPK is located in the Gardens Mall Food Court on PGA Boulevard in Palm Beach Gardens.

The Barbara Morrison Center has announced the following upcoming events.

„Ein Stück zum Schmunzeln, aber auch mit leisen Untertönen“, fasste eine Zuschauerin Neil Simons „Das zweite Kapitel“ im Gästebuch zusammen. Nur noch bis zum 21. Oktober sind Herbert Herrmann und Nora von Collande in der romantischen Komödie zu sehen. „Wir haben die Zeit in Berlin unglaublich genossen, waren hier sehr glücklich, haben uns tatsächlich auf jede Vorstellung gefreut, hatten unendlich viele Zuschauer und eine tolle Resonanz auf ´Das zweite Kapitel´“, freut sich die gebürtige Berlinerin Nora von Collande und ist auch ein bisschen wehmütig, dass das Gastspiel in Berlin bald zu Ende ist.

Broadway stars Barbara Walsh (Company) and Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Avenue Q) join Bill Connington, the star of ZOMBIE, in performing in a benefit reading of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest ("A Trivial Comedy for Serious People"). Also in the cast are William Connell (The Coast of Utopia), Vivienne Cleary (Peace Warriors), Annmarie Benedict (Robeson), D.H. Johnson (Dodsworth), and Oliver Houser (Spring Awakening, Virginia Rep).

THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND, Tom Stoppard's witty send-up of every English parlor murder mystery under the sun has charmed audiences for decades with its timeless take on the whodunit. HOUND turns the genre on its ear with Stoppard's irascible sense of irony and gift for literary subversion.

The 2012 BRIDGE SCHOOL CONCERTS will be held this weekend Oct 20th and 21st at The Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA, marking the 26th anniversary of this incredible and historic series. For the past quarter of a century, the biggest and brightest names in music have been drawn to these concerts to pledge their support of The Bridge School, a non-profit, innovative organization educating children with severe speech and physical impairments through the use of augmentative and alternative communication systems and assistive technology.

The X Factor got off to a late start today, pushed back by baseball (and an episode of Ben & Kate, for reasons I still don't fully understand). Tonight, the final 24 are whittled down to just 16 to perform in the live shows; whether you missed the episode or just want to find out who's chosen to continue, read on!