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This year, Berkeley Repertory Theatre unwraps a special show for the holidays by giving local families the gift of Ennio. The international origami sensation returns for a limited engagement of only 14 performances from December 20 to December 31 - including a special matinee on Christmas Eve and a 9:00 PM performance on New Year's Eve featuring free champagne (or milk and cookies). Direct from London's Royal Festival Hall, it's a holiday show that features all new seasonal characters created with Ennio's usual outrageous charm. So reserve seats now for this uproarious tour de force, written and performed by Ennio Marchetto and directed by Sosthen Hennekam. Berkeley Rep presents Ennio in association with Glynis Henderson Productions and Jonathan Reinis Productions.

Everyone's favourite bad boy HORRID HENRY hits the West End! Horrid Henry Live and Horrid! is opening at the Trafalgar Studio on 21 November 2008, and is adapted by John Godberfrom is based off of the books by Francesca Simonand.

Theater Wit brings their hit holiday productions to Theatre Building Chicago for the final year (as they move into their new space next door for 2009 productions). Mitchell Fain stars as David Sedaris' surly holiday elf in The Santaland Diaries, and Steve Scott again directs Tom Mula in Mula's original adaptation of Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, running in repertory during the 2008 holiday season.

Parallel Exit, New York's highly acclaimed physical theatre company, returns to Joyce SoHo from November 6-9 with TIME STEP, a brand new work blending tap, rhythm, and physical comedy.

Sesame Street favorites Gordon and Elmo are coming to Montclair High School Auditorium in Montclair, NJ on Saturday November 15th at 11 A.M. for a performance to benefit Luna Stage. Stars Roscoe Orman and Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash are again lending their support to Luna Stage, a New Jersey cultural institution.

F. Paul Wilson, the New York Times bestselling author of The Keep, The Tomb will headline a panel discussion on 'Horror, Mystery and Suspense Genres in the 21st Century' before the Halloween performance of Perfect Crime, the longest-running play in the history of New York theater.

Vital Theatre Company recently announced its family holiday offering, 'THE KLEZMER NUTCRACKER.' Based on the award-winning book The Golden Dreydl by Ellen Kushner, the production features music by Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky, arrangements by Michael McLaughlin and David Harris and performance by The Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, a book by Ellen Kushner, direction by Linda Ames Key, and choreography by Dax Valdes.

Described by the L.A. Times Critics' Choice as, '... perfectly simple -- and simply irresistible,' Charlie Lustman's original pop music operetta about surviving cancer one song at a time has been extended a second time. The new closing date is Saturday, November 29, 2008

The Zipper Factory Theater (336 West 37th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues) presents REANIMATED! The Unlikely Return of Kravitz and Jones, which will be performed on Monday, November 17 at 9:30 p.m.

On Thursday, October 30, at 8:00pm multi-media performance artist Joseph Keckler and cult songstress Carol Lipnik with her band Spookarama will perform their act at Spiegelworld (Pier 17, South Street Seaport at Beekman Street).

Following are the music and theater-related events taking place at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes and Noble in November. Just to remind you, the store is at the corner of W.66th St. and Broadway, with the event space on the third floor; all events are free and open to the public

The Columbia University School of the Arts presents the 2009 M.F.A. Acting class in a Columbia Stages production of Geoffrey Chaucer's THE CANTERBURY TALES, a new adaptation by Ken Kaissar, directed by Yuriy Kordonskiy, running November 13 - 22 at The Riverside Theatre, located in the historic Riverside Church at 91 Claremont Avenue between 120th and 122nd Streets.

Because 'we're all in this together,' local schools have the chance to team up with North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) for a feel good fundraiser that will give them the opportunity to make DISNEY HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 their high school musical. Only the second theater company in the nation to produce DISNEY HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2, NSMT will present this New England Regional Premiere from December 18 to January 11, 2009.

Row Man Productions NYC and LSNelson Productions present the New York premiere of Missa Solemnis or The Play About Henry, written by Roman Feeser and directed by Linda S. Nelson. Performances will run from October 30th to November 22nd, 2008 in a limited engagement at The TBG Theatre, located at 312 West 36th Street (3rd Floor) between 8th & 9th Avenues in NYC. Previews begin October 30th for a November 1st opening.

Steve Silver's BEACH BLANKET BABYLON, the nation's longest running musical revue, rings in 2009 with two special New Year's Eve performances on Wednesday, December 31, 2008. Tickets for these performances go on sale Monday, November 10th.

People opening up the playbills of the Broadway production of MARY POPPINS will find inside a flyer soliciting them for their possible participation in SUPERNANNY, a reality TV show starring Jo Frost that helps parents deal with their tough-to-handle children.

Matthew Bourne's stage adaption of EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, produced by New Adventures, will make its first return to the United Kingdom since its original 2005 London premiere, following a world tour. At the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris through November 2, the production will return to England, making stops at the Hippodrome Theatre in Birmingham, Lowry Theatre in Salford and New Wimbledon Theatre in London before returning to its original home at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre, where it will begin performances on December 2.

MAC winner Amy Wolk and Mamma Mia's Gerard Salvador will host FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS, a benefit performance for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) on October 27 at the Metropolitan Room in New York City.

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene presents the U.S. premiere of 'Gimpel Tam,' a new musical adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's classic story written and directed by Moshe Yassur which opens on December 4.

Broadway's Boy George Euan Morton hosted the 2008 Theatre Museum Awards for Excellence on Tuesday October 21, 2009 at New York City's famed Players Club in Manhattan. Chairman of the Board of Trustees Stewart F. Lane and President Helen Marie Guditis opened the evening with a welcome to the honorees, presenters and guests at this fifth anniversary of The Theatre Museum.