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Rosie O'Donnell, the award-winning comedian; television talk show host; author; and film, television, and stage actress will serve as the KIDS' NIGHT ON BROADWAY National Ambassador for the second year in a row.

B.B. King Blues Club has announced their updated lineup including some recently added and changed performers and performance times.

The opening of the 57th annual BMI Student Composer Awards competition was recently announced by BMI President and CEO Del Bryant and BMI Foundation President Ralph N. Jackson. The competition, which is co-sponsored by BMI and the BMI Foundation, will award $20,000 in prizes.

Splash Bar presents a very special Birthday edition of Scott Nevins' Curtain Call on November 24th.

Broadway In Chicago and producers Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh announced today that tickets for the long-awaited production of MARY POPPINS will go on sale to the public Friday, November 14, 2008 with a special public pre-sale at 8 a.m. at the Cadillac Palace Theatre box office. Telephone ticketing lines, internet (ticketmaster.com), and other box office outlets will have tickets available to the public beginning at 10 a.m. The eagerly anticipated North American National Tour will begin performances at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre March 11, 2009. Original Broadway stars Ashley Brown and Gavin Lee, along with the entire original creative team, will reunite to bring this magical story of the world's most famous nanny to audiences around North America.

On November 29, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Saturday Matinee Broadcasts launches its 78th season of world-class opera heard over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network with the network premiere of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust.

Loretta Greco has chosen Evie's Waltz to make her directorial debut as Artistic Director of the Magic Theatre. Evie's Waltz, written by Carter W. Lewis, marks the second play of Magic Theatre's 2008/09.

Tickets for Seattle Opera's 2009 Ring cycles will go on sale to the general public in an online pre-sale beginning at 10:00 a.m. PST on November 12, and by phone and in person beginning Saturday, November 15 at 10:00 a.m. PST.

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre launches their 32nd season with SHOGUN MACBETH, an adaptation by John R. Briggs from the play by William Shakespeare.

A frozen northern country. Mammoths and walruses. The legendary death of a saintly child. A twisted winter celebration. The Granduncle Quadrilogy is a holiday special for a made-up holiday. Listen to Granduncle, ancient storyteller and veteran of an endless war, as he and his fellow citizens mix folktales, fictional ethnology, and war stories to conjure a mordant yet moving portrait of an imaginary icebound world that curiously mirrors our own.

The Fountain Theatre has announced a special extension of their production of Gem of the Ocean through December 21st, 2008.

Delroy Lindo returns to Berkeley Rep - and to the play that made him a star - with a production of August Wilson's masterpiece, Joe Turner's Come and Gone. The show - which is about African Americans searching for their place in post-slavery America - opens this Wednesday 11/5, the day after this historic election. It runs through December 14.

The Alabama Shakespeare Festival is bringing back a traditional holiday favorite and making it bigger than ever. The Broadway holiday sellout A Christmas Carol: The Musical will play on the Festival stage from November 7 - December 24. A Christmas Carol: The Musical follows in the tradition of successful musical productions like Peter Pan and Disney's Beauty and the Beast, promising a bigger and better Carol than any ever seen before at ASF.

Splash Bar presents a very special edition of 'Scott Nevins' Curtain Call' with NYC's newest belting Diva - Molly Pope.

Pittsburgh Opera recently announced the world premiere of the revised version of 'The Grapes of Wrath,' a new opera based on John Steinbeck's novel, by Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie. Taking place at the Benedum Center for the Peforming Arts, 'The Grapes of Wrath' will be performed on Saturday, November 15 at 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 18 at 7:00 p.m., Friday, November 21 at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, November 23 at 2:00 p.m..

The Joyce Theater is thrilled present the return of Benjamin Millepied Danses Concertantes, a company that features several dancers from American Ballet Theatre.

The Joyce Theater will present a week long season of the Inbal Pinto Dance Company's full evening work, Shaker. A collaboration between Co-Artistic Directors Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak, this engagement will begin on Tuesday, November 11 and run through Sunday, November 16. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue in Chelsea. To purchase tickets, please call JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800 or via the internet at www.Joyce.org.

Luna Stage presents its annual Fall New Moon Play Reading Series on November 15th and 16th 2008. Following the success of last year's festival format, the series will once again take place over one weekend, with two play readings on Nov. 15th - at 3PM and 8PM and two on Nov. 16th - at 3PM and 7:30PM.

LONG STORY SHORT follows the engaging story of socially-inept Charles, an East Coast Jew who falls head-over-heels in love with his polar opposite, feisty Hope, an Asian-American from Los Angeles.

Octaviar Productions recently announce the New York Premiere of the critically acclaimed one-man show, ZERO, directed by Kelly Fiore. ZERO will play a seven-week limited engagement at Off-Broadway's Roy Arias Theatre 2 (616 9th Avenue). Performances begin Thursday, November 13 and continue through Tuesday, December 30. Opening Night is Thursday, November 20 (8:15 p.m.).