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Starting Sunday December 7th, the producers of TREASURE ISLAND starring Keith Allen at the Theatre Royal Haymarket will be introducing Sunday matinees at 3.00pm.

The American Musical Theatre of San Jose has announced that it is ceasing business operations, effective immediately. The sudden action will shutter the theatre's upcoming productions of Tarzan and 42nd Street. Both have been cancelled although the touring production of Chicago will be performed as scheduled and all tickets will be honored. AMTSJ is currently in communication with the producers of Avenue Q, to achieve the same result as Chicago.

The definitive spy-ware performance, Point Blank is a voyeur's paradise. Edit Kaldor invites the 19-year-old Nada to present her incredibly large collection of photographs: specifically 75,000. For years, Nada has been observing people, taking 'spy-photos' of them, capturing their private moments. The core of Nada's obsession is to trace the various life-strategies that people follow. Driven ? perhaps consumed ? by curiosity, she becomes witness to a wide range of ? and at times excessive ? human behavior. Together with the slightly neurotic and quirkily entertaining Nada, the audience autopsies the images, implications and

Splash Bar is proud to present a belting-filled edition of Curtain Call' with Danny Calvert on 12/15!

Patti LuPone reaches #25 on this week's Billboard Heatseekers Chart with the Ghostlight release of 'Patti LuPone at Les Mouches'. This marks the first time in Ms. LuPone's storied career that she's charted on Billboard under her own name, and it marks Ghostlight's highest Heatseeker chart debut-to-date.

Donna Murphy, Marc Kudisch, Andrea Burns, Larry O'Keefe, Jose Llana, Gavin Creel, Dave Clemmons, Erin Dilly, Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich, Geri Mcintyre, Jay Binder Casting, Gerard Alessandrini and the cast of Forbidden Broadway, songwriters Pasek and Paul and a yet to be named Broadway Agent will all be a part of the winter intensives at Making it on Broadway!

The Prince Music Theater celebrates the holidays with the Philadelphia area premiere of Joe Landry's live radio play adaptation of 'It's a Wonderful Life.' Performances begin on December 4 and continue through December 21, 2008, with press opening on Friday evening, December 5, at 8pm.

Beyonce and co-star Adrien Brody were among those at the Los Angeles premiere for their new film 'Cadillac Records.' The film is about Leonard Chess, the legendary founder of the South Side Chicago blues label Chess Records. The period piece follows the rise and fall of Chess Records, which launched the careers of such R&B greats as Muddy Waters, Etta James and Chuck Berry.

The 22nd Annual City Meals-on-Wheels Power Lunch for Women was held at New York City's Rainbow Room on November 21, 2008.

Jim Creighton, David Haig, James Hayes, Doon Mackichan and Javone Prince will join previously announced Matt Di Angelo in Joe Orton's 'Loot', directed by Sean Holmes at the Tricycle Theatre. 'Loot' will run from 11 December until 31 January. Designs are by Anthony Lamble with lighting by Charles Balfour and sound by Greg Clarke. 'Loot' will tour to Newcastle Theatre Royal from 2-7 February after its opening at the Tricycle.

The winners of the 2008 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, the first awards of the UK season have recently been published. The awards took place at a ceremony hosted by Richard Wilson on November 24th, 2008. The Evening Standard Awards are determined by a panel of critics that include Mail on Sunday's Georgina Brown, The London Observer's Susannah Clapp, The Times' Benedict Nightingale, Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer and The Evening Standard's Nicholas de Jongh.

The Tony Award-winning psychological thriller, Sleuth, starring Mark Jacoby from the originals; The Phantom of the Opera, Grand Hotel and Ragtime as well as revivals of Sweet Charity, Man of La Mancha and Sweeney Todd, will be onstage December 2 - 14, 2008 at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Director, Peter Flynn, returns to the Theatre where he won the prestigious 2008 Carbonell Award for 'Best Director' of Man of La Mancha.

La Posada Magica (The Magical Journey) is an enchanting musical play about a young girl's journey through her community on Christmas Eve directed by Octavio Solis and music by Marcos Loya.

South Coast Repertory's popular holiday presentation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol returns to the stage with Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the three Spirits of Christmas. This Jerry Patch adaptation is an Orange County family tradition.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) announces that Jane Anderson's The Quality of Life has received three LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards for its world premiere production at the Geffen Playhouse, including the award for Best Play in an Intimate Theater.

The Conservatory at Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP21) proudly announces their 2-year Professional Musical Theatre Training Program beginning in New York City Fall 2009. This exciting certificate program will offer comprehensive musical theatre training in lieu of a university-based education or more extensive training beyond a bachelor degree. CAP21 offers collaboration and exchange between emerging and accomplished artists, a nurturing support system, and a unique infusion of the traditional with the innovative. Applications are currently being accepted.

Elephant Larry, New York's critically-acclaimed sketch comedy group, is proud to announce the premiere of their all-new sketch comedy show, 'Elephant Larry Presents The Dump,' which will run for three performances ONLY. The show will run Saturdays at 7:00 PM: December 6, 13, 20; at The PIT, 154 W. 29th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues).

POZ's 'Bacharch to the Future' Fundraiser comes to New World Stages in New York on Monday, December 1, 2008, World AIDS Day. Christopher Jackson ('In the Heghts') and Kerry Butler ('Xanadu' and 'Hairspray') will join this landmark New York City Event.

'The Dido Project' takes Henry Purcell's legendary English opera, Dido and 'neas, to new heights by setting it in our current, high-tech, information-driven world. Through a combination of video projections, audio recording and live performance, we will witness Dido's actions and glimpse her inner thoughts and feelings on her journey from untouchable power to absolute ruin. Led by theatre and opera director Pat Diamond, 'The Dido Project' features the creative talents of some of the most original artists in music and theatre today, including the renowned Sybarite Chamber Players and rising opera stars David Adam Moore and Blythe Gaissert. This will be a rare opportunity to see a project of high musical and visual quality as a free, public installation. By bringing together music, visual art, theatre and technology, 'The Dido Project' will carry the beauty, humanity, and emotion of Purcell's opera into the twenty-first Century and make it accessible and relevant to today's audiences.

Following up on the extended musical hit Like You like It, Brooklyn's Premier Off-Off Broadway company rings in the holidays with the affectionate satire of small-town southern life, 'A Tuna Christmas.' Bring the whole family down to The Gallery Players for this limited holiday engagement December 6-21, 2008!