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Avgust Amonov will sing the title role in this evening's performance of Verdi's Otello, replacing Johan Botha, who is ill.

Unbound Productions Co-Artistic Directors Jonathan Josephson, Paul Millet, and Jeff G. Rack have announced that the 2012 incarnation of the popular horror story adaptation series WICKED LIT will extend its previously announced run at Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery in Altadena, California. The production will now run from October 12 to November 10, 2012 - an addition of 7 performances for audiences to attend.

Disney Theatrical Productions and the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center announced today that tickets for the long-awaited return engagement of Disney's The Lion King will go on sale to the public on Friday, November 30 at 7:00 a.m. The Fox Cities' most eagerly awaited return will once again leap onto the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center's stage on Tuesday, April 9 for a limited engagement of four weeks through Sunday, May 5. The opening night is Thursday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m. The show's six-week premiere engagement in 2007 played a sold-out run at the Fox Cities P.A.C.

Firehouse Theatre Project continues its Stories from the American Inferno season with the Arthur Miller classic, Death of a Salesman, opening Thursday, November 15th. Directed by Richmond Theatre Critics Circle award-winner Rusty Wilson (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 2011; Eurydice, 2009), Death of a Salesman performs at Firehouse Theatre November 15 - December 8.

REBECCA, the new musical based on the classic novel by Daphne Du Maurier novel, was scheduled to begin rehearsals Monday, September 10 prior to an October 30 first preview and November 18 premiere at the Broadhurst Theatre. The show's producer, Ben Sprecher, spoke out on CBS THIS MORNING - view the full interview below.

Charles Simic, one of America's preeminent poets, will give a reading of his poems at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting on Tuesday, October 23 at 7PM. The reading by Simic, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1990 and was named the United States Poet Laureate in 2007, will be appearing as part of the studio's Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series.

The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) and the company of the hit musical Closer Than Ever will join forces to collect donations following each performance through October 21st to benefit The Avon Foundation for Women in conjunction with the Tenth-Annual Avon Walk for Breast Cancer at York Theatre at Saint Peter's (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue).

The Canadian production of the National Theatre of Great Britain's international phenomenon WAR HORSE will conclude its Toronto run on January 6, 2013 at the Princess of Wales Theatre. The production has set a record in Canada as the longest-running professional drama of all time. At the time of closing, the production will have played 368 performances.

The Museum of Modern Art presents Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960s to Now, Part III, November 1 through 25, 2012, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. As in the preceding editions, Mapping Subjectivity looks into the region's largely unknown heritage of auteur, personal, and sometimes experimental film, highlighting kinships in sensibilities, approaches, and poetics across generations and countries. Works selected hail from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Tunisia, and include film and video, shorts and features, documentary and fiction that reflect a diversity and richness of voices and visual languages. The exhibition is organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film, and Rasha Salti, Independent Curator. Presented in association with ArteEast, New York.

After a successful national theatrical release, Kenneth Del Vecchio's AN AFFIRMATIVE ACT - the first-ever courtroom drama about the legalization of gay marriage - is now available on iTunes and DVD. This historic film, released by Screen Media Films and Universal, will be available on VOD beginning December 4, 2012.

The Vagabond Players presents the Baltimore City premiere of Next to Normal, running weekends October 19, through November 25. This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt opened on Broadway in 2009.

Martin Platt, Artistic Director of Olney Theatre Center, and Jason King Jones, Director of National Players, have announced the titles for the 65th anniversary tour of National Players. For the first time this century National Players will tour with three productions, Shakespeare's Macbeth and Comedy of Errors, and Homer's Odyssey.

The Broadway at Birdland concert series has announced that Ashley Brown will make her debut on the historic stage on Monday, November 19 at 7pm.

There has been much speculation about what the song might be, and the film's leading man Hugh Jackman sat down yesterday with The Telegraph to talk details on the addition of the new solo for Jean Valjean.

Spice Girl, singer-songwriter, judge on the ITV1/Andrew Lloyd Webber show SUPERSTAR and now Mary Magdalene in the show's UK arena tour, Melanie C has just released a video of CHESS's 'I Know Him So Well' from her upcoming album, STAGES.

Sirius XM Radio announced today that iconic actor/director/producer/author Henry Winkler will sit down for a wide-ranging Q&A session with a select group of SiriusXM listeners at the SiriusXM studios in New York City.

WAM Theatre's October 12-28 World Premiere production of The Old Mezzo by Susan Dworkin runs Friday, October 19 at 8pm, with a talkback with the beneficiary Shout Out Loud Productions, Saturday, October 20 at 8pm and Sunday, October 21 at 5pm, with a talkback with the playwright, Susan Dworkin. The production also runs the weekend of October 26-28. Presented at the Berkshire Museum at 39 South Street in Pittsfield, MA.

Conductor Ken Lam of the newly-formed Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras and the Enchantment Theatre present Wizards & Wands: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Apprentice at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on November 3 at 11 a.m. Unlocking key scientific concepts, discover the natural versus supernatural and link science, music and magic. Musical delights include John Williams' award-winning music from the Harry Potter films, Paul Dukas' spellbinding Sorcerer's Apprentice, Stravinsky's Firebird and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Please see below for complete program details. This program is suitable for audiences aged 5 years and up.

Ethan Embry (Showtime's Brotherhood), and Johnny Messner (Tears of the Sun, The Whole Ten Yards) have been set to join previously announced Tom Sizemore in The Echo Theater Company's A Family Thing.

Triple-platinum recording artist Aaron Carter, scheduled to complete his run as Matt in The Fantasticks on October 21, 2012, will remain with the production through January 27, 2013. A new block of tickets is now on sale at Ticketmaster.com.